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$4 million. filing false statements to a bank in order to obtain a loan, and the real stunner, two counts of campaign finance violations. the reasons those were such a stunner, because michael cohen detailed in a little bit exactly what those campaign finance violations were. one, $150,000 payment to the ceo of a media company for a contract which we know from our previous reporting has to do with karen mcdougal, who accuses president trump of an affair, which he, of course, has denied. and then the second, $130,000 payment, which he facilitated, which we know again from previous reporting has to do with stormy daniels, a porn star that alleges an affair with the president. again, their names not mentioned in court, but we know who they were talking about, and then we got a little bit more detail when the u.s. deputy attorney came out of court after these guilty pleas and talked about all of the charges in general. take a listen real quickly. A look at breaking news, politics ....
him. again, i am not going to get into the back and forth details. as the president estatesed on numerous occasions, he did nothing wrong. the president did nothing wrong. and there are no charges against him. he did nothing wrong. there are no charges against him. the president has done nothing wrong. no charges against him. there is no collusion. well, rudy giuliani told robert costa of washington post that he had spoken to the president about yesterday s events. this is rudy talk. hard to believe. one source close to president trump told john roberts of fox news, remember, the president can t be indicted. seth waxon, barbara mcquade. Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. trump tweeted michael cohen pled guilty to two counts of campaign violations. during an interview with fox he seemed to confess to campaign violation while denying it. did you learn about the payments? later on, i knew. you have to under ....
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. dicey, and they didn t come out of the campaign and that s big. if but it s not even a campaign violation. if you look at president obama, he had a massive campaign violation, but he had a different attorney general and they viewed it a lot differently. sean: while the media want you to believe that michael cohen, a central player in all things trump, the president at a much different take. let s listen to him. michael cohen. tell me about your relationship with him. he was a lawyer for me for one of many the lawyer and then they like to add the fixer. i don t know where that term came from. didn t do big deals, did small deals. not somebody that was with me they make it sound like i didn t live without him. i understood him very well. it turned out he wasn t a very good lawyer, frankly. but he was somebody that was probably with me for about ten years. and i would see him sometimes. sean: michael cohen s ....
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. in other words so that they will sing or compose to either prosecute or impeach the president of the united states. and if so, how is that not political, selective, persecution and not prosecution? i don t care if you are liberal or conservative we better look at where the country is today. we learned lessons. pay your taxes, don t lie on a loan application, don t lie to the f.b.i. but this is it? robert mueller, are you proud of this? did we need you for 500 days for this? how did we go from russia collusion to this? now todd the president reacted to mueller s ongoing witch now today, the president reacted to mueller s ongoing witch hunt. take a look. president trump: i feel badly for him. manafort is a good man. with ronald reagan. with a lot of people over the years. i feel sad about that. it doesn t involve me but i still feel, you know, it s a very sad thing that happened. it has nothing to do with russian co ....
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. yeah. i think that s a good point. on paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman convicted yesterday on eight felony counts, bank fraud, tax fraud, stealing literally millions of dollars from american taxpayers, not reporting income on tens of millions of dollars, is there a chance he ll still cooperate with the special counsel paul manafort? he has another trial coming up next month. right. look. if you re paul manafort, i mean, you re looking at possibly some serious jail time. there is an incentive. but i think what you are seeing is the president telegraphing directly to paul manafort, if you stay put, if you do not as he said, if you refuse to break, if you see that tweet that he he contrasts paul manafort with michael cohen it s very clear that he s telegraphing to paul manafort that if he doesn t break with him that perhaps there s a pardon in the offing and you can see, also, by the way ....