he s taking this action on today. a lot of the amount of misinformation that s out there, some of which has been disseminated by mr. cohn and others she believes it s important the public learn the truth what happened. trump s long time personal lawyer michael cohen has previously said trump denies the allegations and sarah huckabee sanders reiterated that point earlier today. let s hear her. the president has addressed these directly and made very well clear none of these allegations are true. this case has already been won in arbitration and anything beyond that, i would refer you to the president s outside counsel. well, the civil suit a copy of which first obtained by nbc news says daniels had a relationship with president trump from 2006 to 2007. it then alleges years later during the 2016 presidential campaign, mr. trump and his personal lawyer michael cohen
times. the times is reporting president trump spoke to witnesses about matters they discussed with special counsel robert mueller. they reported the special counsel in the russian investigation has learned of two conversations in recent months in which president trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators, according to three people familiar with the encounters. the first vold don mcgahn and the second reince priebus. as the times reports, legal experts says trump s contact with those men most likely did not rise to the level of witness tampering but potentially a problem and shared them with mr. mueller. we re joined by new york times reporter mike it will schmidt who broke the story. this is odd in the sense that i do you as a nonlawyer that this looks like the wrong thing to do. you shouldn t be talking to people who have just talked to the prosecutor because it
nationalist like peter navarro seemed to be on the rice in the white house. in june of 2016 is, he appeared on hardball along with alf cole president richard trumka where he offered this bizarre defense of his candidate donald trump. let s watch. donald trump is has a platform that you guys are dreaming about. he is taking every step. he s a fraud. the afl-cio has recommended for a president to take. he s a fraud. that may be but we re going to find out. that may be. your workers don t believe he s a fraud. they believe that he is the guy. you just said it may be that trump s a fraud. what did you mean by that? here s what i mean. trump says he s a fraud. i say we ll find out. my view is your workers don t think he s a fraud. i don t think he s a fraud which is why i m supporting him. that was a strange ashley, that was a strange defense of your candidate saying he may be
pressured her that would be stormy daniels, into signing a nondisclosure agreement or hush agreement for $130,000 and a guarantee that she would not share any texts, photos or information about the alleged relationship. mr. cohen previously said he used his own personal funds to an fail tate the payment to daniels and neither the trump organization or campaign of trump s was party to the transaction. a copy of the agreement appears as evidence in the lawsuit. while president trump is not named in the document, the suit alleges stormy and trump entered into the agreement under pseudonyms daniels as peggy peterson, trump as catch this name, david dennison. the signature line for denison you can see there is blank. he didn t sign it. michael cohen has not responded to a request for comment on the lawsuit. yawn dowd we know him has declined to comment.
the influence of foreign money on trump s activities and askinging if george nader funneled money from the emirates to the president s political efforts. perhaps more significant is nader might shed new light on a meeting he attended in the seychelles a remote chain of islands in the indian ocean just before trump s inauguration in january of 2017. it was there that erik prince, the founder of the private security company blackwater and informal adviser to the trump transition met with nidder and the crown prince of the uae and joined bid a russian oligarch who they saw as a conduit to the russian government. prince said the meeting was not related to business. but the new york times reports emirati officials had a very different impression. at the meeting the officials believed mr. prince was speaking for the trump transition team