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The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Ricochetting across the political universe tonight which are the ones that involve appear to involve the president of the United States. That he was directed to make payments in coordination with the candidate and with the campaign of President Donald Trump to two women. One was in one involved a payment to a woman 150,000, believed to be Karen Mcdougal. The second to a payment believed to be Stormy Daniels in october of 2016, rather, for 130,000. And for that payment Michael Cohen told the court...

Silence women who had stories to tell. these women didn't say they were victims of sexual misconduct. in both cases they said they had been involved in consensual affairs with trump. but i do think it's important to step back and recognize that culturally this was -- these were powerful men who were making payoffs to silence women. >> we can make the argument all the publicity around the me too movement has moved the needle, has shifted things. i guess that's the question with donald trump. what moves the needle with him? >> what's going to move the needle, you're going to have michael cohen c...

Statement. today in response to reports that there were at least 12 other audio recordings lanny davis, clinton ally, cohen's new lawyer, tweeted "latest news about michael cohen's tapes of conversations are being released by donald trump and his legal team who own and waived the privilege. will rudy giuliani call these tapes exculpatory again? as i noted before the tapes will speak for themselves. spin can't change facts." let's talk about facts. if you have a tape there of the now president talking to his lawyer fixer michael cohen about making payoffs to silence a person who had a relations...

How do those thoughts inform him today as a politician, as a human being? >> right now everybody that works for him is just glad he's not within five points of hillary clinton, because if he was, this would be i mean just a gigantic story and he would be getting hammered on all sides. >> right. it's gotten very modest coverage -- >> but because of where he is because he's low right now on the polls, this is just going to get washed over. >> and mother jones is a liberal publication and they're the ones that broke the story. >> kudos to them because i think it's important. >> i didn't particula...

Place. likely to ask questions of this full pool of jurors, and the defense and prosecution will submit probably hundreds of questions, and it's up to the judge whether or not she asks them. and once we see this jury pool, we'll start to see how it's starting to unravel. >> interesting to me two business men who face charges related to this have pleaded guilty to making payoffs, and they're admitting to paying kickbacks to the sheriff of nearby parish after winning a project management contract there. nagin was indicted charged with taking gifts of more than $200,000. >> the feds are getting a...