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From the president and the white house. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> why did michael cohen make this. >> the president denied the allegations, i don't have anything further to add. >> reporter: a source tells cnn cohen was just doing his job, protecting his client. meanwhile, stormy daniels' lawyer michael avenatti says this is all further vindication that he and his client were right. all of this happening as cohen is meeting with various investigators and awaits sentencing in december. mj lee, cnn, new york. >> let's talk more about this with greg b...

And acting attorney general who already is kind of the subject of a lot of speculation about whether he is going to be providing political cover for president trump or whether he is an honest broker, and this falls squarely into the middle of all of these debates as we move forward now, if in fact there's a chance that this would constitute an actual violation of election law, is that something that this jaults department now would pursue. >> greg, this is a con vvergenc of so many investigations, the mueller probe, the southern district of new york probe, and potentially the elections committ...

Trump's role without naming him in the cohen indictment. greg, what kind of potential legal road do you see for the president? we have heard it time and time again, you can't indict a sitting president, but we're talking about alleged activity before he was president. does it matter, does it make a difference? >> right. good morning, fred. no big surprise here. i think this confirms what most observers thought when the story first broke several months ago. i don't think anyone really believed that the president had nothing to do with this or knew nothing about it. this pattern of conduct, if t...

Willingness for the candidate to have participated in the hush money, so as to allegedly protect his reputation. >> yeah. and this also -- >> go ahead, greg. >> what house democrats will likely focus on or be inclined to focus on is that if it is clear the president has lied about this, even if not under oath, but repeatedly to the media and to the american people, i think there will be some subset of house members who will see that that constitutes high crimes and misdemeanors under the constitution and i am impeachment proceedings would be in order. i'm getting a little ahead of where we are...

Russian investigation. >> i do not consider myself an angry democrat. >> are you a democrat? are you a democrat? >> no, i am not. >> i am not a democrat and i am not angry. >> the white house pushing back on accusations the president's allies are trying to give him cover. >> they're acting as the president's political fixers. >> i don't think they're undermining the investigation. i think there's frustration on-going for 18 months, no evidence of russian collusion, so of course there's frustration of wanting to wrap it up. >> joining me, greg brour, former u.s. attorney for the office of congr...