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all right? cohen intentionally committed a crime and is going to prison. and by the way, if the president wants to compare his campaign to obama's, this is why i popped this up. trump's team also got in trouble in 2016 for improperly handling campaign contributions. about 1,100 donations were made to trump's campaign in violation of campaign finance laws including donations that exceeded the allowable limit in a year. so not only did obama not do what trump did, but yes, trump did do what obama's campaign did. now, cohen paying his peccadillos, for his peccadillos. him saying he didn't know. the real problem here is lying. so first trump said i know nothing about these women, i know nothing about what cohen did. then he said, well, all right, i know a little something but i didn't know anything before, i only knew after. that's what he's saying today. but we know about the tape.
once in a tweet and then this. >> they didn't come out of the campaign. they came from me. and i tweeted about it. i don't know if you know. but i tweeted about the payments. but they didn't come out of campaign. in fact, my first question when i heard about it was did they come out of the campaign? because that could be a little dicey. and they didn't come out of the campaign. and that's fake. but they weren't -- that's not -- 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. >> here we don't just listen. we test. first off, the only thing that trump is right about is that there was a violation involving the obama campaign, a big one. you've got to remember, every conspiracy theory, like every lie, they're all fed by a kernel of truth. but this story that he's telling
they failed to report 1300 contributions within 48 hours as required by law. and that campaign received some contributions that also exceeded allowable limits. in total, the contributions amounted about $2 million. so the campaign paid a percentage. $375,000 in fines. it sounds like a lot and it was, but relatively, in the words of one election attorney, obama was the first billion presidential campaign, so proportionally, iefltsz not that out of line. regardless, it was still wrong. trump and anyone else who says this type of violation is nothing needs to remember how little control we have on campaign contributions in the first place. so reporting counts. now, what happened here in the cohen case is a different animal entirely. this has nothing to do with the campaign apparatus and everything to do with trump, his
trouble in 2016 for improperly handling denations. about 11,000 donations were made, including donations that exceeded the allowable limit in a year. so not only did obama not only do what trump did but yes, trump did do what obama's campaign did. now, cohen paying for his pieck dillos -- he said i know a little something but i didn't know anything before. i only knew after. that's what he's saying today. we know about the tape. the tape that we got here on this show that makes it clear that a at a time before cohen made a payment, trump clearly knew and was directing him.
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deaf. all right. we knew president trump wouldn't admit to what his former lawyer michael cohen made clear in court that trump directed cohen to commit crimes. we knew he was going to go bad personally. there's another line of attack that may be his weakest yet. remember, we played you the tape on this show that made it clear that trump was aware of what cohen was doing before he did it. so -- and he's lieings about that. the new line is this: obama did the same thing. in fact, he likes this excuse so much, so nice, he used it twice. once in a tweet and then this. >> they didn't come out of the campaign. they came from me. i tweeted about it. i put -- i don't know if you now, but we tweeted about the
all your private information? >> no, they can't. and it's kind of surprising that people did for so long. the amount of things that you volunteer on the internet over the years. i looked back. i gave them way more information. now i'm a little more savvy. mark zuckerberg, though, is the subject of this criticism because he upset democrats. that's what i think is unfortunate about this conversation is that this conversation didn't happen in 2012 from barack obama was able to down -- his campaign was able to download so much personal information. back then, it was called genius. they had a media for obama for america. even said that facebook came over to them after the election and said if they had allowed them to do that when other people had not been allowed to do that, they'd be happy with that. >> sandra: it's a great point. we can't rule out -- nobody can rule out there aren't more cambridge analyticas out there,
especially on facebook a couple years ago when facebook's own policies were different, is that, you know, even if you never downloaded one of these apps, somebody in your friend's contact list -- we know we friended like our high school friends, right? they might have done that. the app developers had access to your information. we don't really know what they did with it. there were some pollties and the policies became tighter a couple years lawyer. what happened the things happening in 2013 when a lot of us were on them and we just don't really know what happened to our data? many people would like to -- >> trace: even 2012 in the obama campaign when they said look, facebook knew that the obama campaign was taking these people signing up for obama for america, these young people and doing the same thing. they had access to their friends lists. the next thing you know, they contacted these young people
position a month earlier than expected. mccabe temporarily ran the agency for an interim period following president trump's firing of former director james comey. his resignation follows months of attacks by the president, and it also comes at an intense moment between the white house and the intelligence agencies, but we should note there's at this point been no indication at this time mccabe was forced out. for more i'm joined by the chairman of organizing for action and former campaign manager for obama for america, dana milbank is with me from "the washington post," and michael steele, former adviser for jeb bush and john boehner as well. first of all we'll start here with you, gentlemen. what can we make of this mccabe departure a month earlier than expected? is this just a guy taking advantage of some built-up leave? >> we don't know yet why he's stepping down earlier than expected. fairly or not he's become a lightning rod in this