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Chris Hayes discusses the day's top news.
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Chris Hayes discusses the day's top news.
One of the two people he's pled guilty to, they agreed to pay 150,000 fds they didn't publish, it right? hope hicks, a trump campaign spokesperson at the time, is this is in 2016, said of the agreement with miss mcdougal, we have no knowledge of any of this. she said miss mcdougal's claim of an affair with donald trump is entirely not true. this is what michael cohen is contradicting. >> since then we've seen the president lose confidence in michael cohen. we've seen the changing attitude and tweeting that he has taken on since that time -- it has been report thaed sees cohen as getting weak a...
And we've seen it for months is more energized thanks for joining us republicans as a whole. and independents, you know, who voted for trump have thrown their hands in the air because they hoped for the best and got this. and, yeah, i think it hurts politically a lot. particularly for trump who -- >> can we doing? i think i have this graphic. i want to set you up here. these are all the people and it's sort of that have been about to be locked up or might be locked up. i mean, you hate to use that phrase, but they're the ones that kept using it as a campaign slogan. michael cohen has pled guil...
Now, though, now that he's taken this deal to cooperate, he has pled guilty to, quote, a single count of evading only $50,000 worth of taxes. and if he fulfills the terms of his agreement, he's looking at no jail time at all. just probation. as long as he tells them everything he knows. and that kind of bargain makes it clear why mr. freidman might have taken this deal, why he's cooperating now. but mr. freidman is apparently in all that legal trouble, at least indirectly, stemming from the years that he was in business with michael cohen. and there's a live federal investigation already again...
>> unless -- wait a minute. hold on. i have something right here. hold on. unless you count melania trump funneling $26 million to a firm controlled by winston wolkoff who was not only a close ally but who directly worked for her government office. i guess you have to factor that in. >> ari, it's always about the money. any time we had an opportunity as federal prosecutors to subpoena tax returns, to subpoena financial records, follow the money, that's what we were taught very early on. you can always bring cooperators in, people who -- like flynn, like papadopoulos -- all these guys who have ...