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Boss. he thinks like a mob boss and he's been thinking like a mob boss. that's what we've got for president. that's the bottom line. this situation with michael cohen was serious. it's a campaign violation. it's a felony. similar to what jon edwards was tried for. edwards was not convicted. it was a hung jury because of some complications with that trial. i have to say, though, this situation with cohen is only the beginning. the russia investigation is really where the action is here. that's the real danger to our country, that our president and his campaign collaborated with the russians, ha...

Such, he is a fixer for donald trump. but when you fix things that could otherwise cost you votes in the course of an election that becomes a federal crime? >> one of the biggest problems that drops just right in your lap here is the campaign finance law violation. it's illegal to make contributions that either exceed a certain amount or that end up being unreported. and so this is really very much what jon edwards was prosecuted unsuccessfully by the justice department for. and that prosecution failed because the department was unable to prove a linkage between payments that were made to edwa...

The 1998 star report was filed. so the big issue is this enough relevance to so-called russia investigation to find its way into the mueller interview of president trump and if it does, what is president trump have to say about it? >> in regard to that, i want to be clear, that has nothing to do with russia. it would show a predisposition towards behaving in a certain manner. >>concealment. it might be a separate issue, michael cohen's payment, $130,000 pay did go to the benefit of the trump campaign. was it an undisclosed campaign contribution? that issue didn't go far with the jury in the jo...

With america just about the sex, it means being 100% truthful about the relationship, threats, intimidation, agreement, $130,000 payment and coverup. that is what it means. joining me, former federal prosecutor and former u.s. attorney kendall coffee. let's get to it. your reaction to this new tweet this morning from michael avenatti, how do you interpret it? >> he's trying to get reaction from trump and trump's legal team. obviously trump's legal team doesn't want to talk about this but the real question is whether the special counsel team is playing attention. $130,000 for a coverup is that ...

She came from new york. she went to simmons college. she came from a large family. that was very important to her. her father was a minister, an ame minister. but gwen had a very big career before she came to tv. i knew her in the late '90s when we shared an office at nbc. but she was a newspaper reporter. she worked at the baltimore sun, she worked at "the new york times." and she brought those reporting skills with her. to watch her prepare for an interview -- >> gloria was saying the debate -- >> to watch her when she did the debate with former vice president dick cheney and jon edwards, sh...