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Indictments or plea agreements or cooperation deals or anything else we may hear about. and on top of that, there is the freaking unbelievably weird story about the president's long-time personal lawyer michael cohen, which broke this morning in the "wall street journal." did you see this? did you see this? in one of the surreal things about this presidency, no matter what else is going on and happens in any given day in the news, in the back of our minds, we all know somewhere that this president, whatever he's doing, good or bad, you know, exciting or embarrassing, whatever it is, this presi...

Investigators playing with your thumbs or talking about the weather. i know he was not a official cooperating witness in the district of new york but it's my understanding he was fairly, if not fully corporative and that the investigations that we have known about publicly. >> is it your impression, my last question for you on this, it is your impression what the wall street journal is describing and cohen is not denying and there may or may not be documentation of backing up his assertion this was at the die rekrection of the president it your assertion this is the campaign related expenditur...

>> i don't know what the document is but there is documentation. this is what i'll say about cohen. he's pled guilty to lying about things. there have been things in the past he's lied about publicly. cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress. he is -- that is part of the reason he's going to prison in march. it would seem incomprehensible to me and against any better judgment for him to go to congress again and lie. he's already going to prison for this. so this is the kind of thing, this document and what he is saying about the president directing him or the president's knowledge of this pay...

Charges. most notable were charges of campaign finance violations stemming from payments cohen made to playboy play mate karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. aim of preventing the payment of learning of extramarital ateff s affairs. payment cohen said the president directed him to make implicated the commander in chief in a crime. cohen asked for leniency. he hoped for no prison time but the judge refused that request in part because cohen denied to fully cooperate. at this point the extent of what he did and did not tell law enforcement remains unknown. in a statement release, his lawyer promis...

Silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the 2016 campaign and to the candidate and the campaign. >> reporter: that includes $130,000 payment cohen made just days before the election to porn star stormy daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affair with the president which he denies. michael avenatti represents daniels. >> she feels very vindicated. she believes that she has fought the good fight and she's going to continue to fight the good fight. >> reporter: the president has said he didn't know about the payment at the time. >> did you know about t...