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All they have to do is submit the bank statements, provide the bank statements on this account for 16 or 18 months. >> let's say that michael cohen is marketing himself as a business consultant. he told the court in the sdny case that he has business consulting clients. and let's just say he is good at talking people into giving him money. yeah, sure i can help you out with your tax problems. i can help you out with your regulatory issues, and he is a good salesman, and he is convincing these companies to hire him because he is a business consultant who can solve their problems. doesn't that j...

Work for the rt. that's how he's repaying -- that's how he's repaying it. >> in other words, it's not that president trump told him. it's not that michael cohen said, hey, rudy, here's the way it happened, but, rather, it occurred to him. your reaction? >> first of all, it's not a defense. it actually is worse. first of all, basically changing what was called a gift into a loan does not get you out of campaign finance problems. it trips additional wires. you then have reporting problems, tax problems. also questions about past statements. so it doesn't help. and what was really curious about t...

I wasn't. i knew how much money donald trump put into that campaign. i said $130,000? he can do a couple of checks for $130,000. when i heard cohen's retainer of $35,000 when he was doing no work for the president, i said that's how he's repaying it. >> in other words, professor, it's not that president trump told him, not that michael cohen said, hey, rudy, here's the way it happened, but, rather, it occurred to him. your reaction? >> well, first of all, it's not a defense, it actually is worse. you know, first of all, basically changing what was called a gift into a loan does not get you out...

To fill the jobs at this sort of rate. but for the time being, it's good going. >> the unemployment rate remains at 1.6%. the president backs the environmental chief scott pruitt as he takes even more heat to ties with a washington lobbyist. he demoted an epa official after tax problems on the right.

Document that was necessary to know all the main problems of the u.s. tax problems, the problems of gays, sexual minorities, weapons. and that's a strategy you can say was laid out in great detail friday. well, right now, matthew, you had a chance to look around the building. tell us what you found there. >> reporter: i have. in fact, we came here earlier today to st. peters burg expecting to see it all closed up because it was supposed to be moved on and shut down because of all the attention. but that's not what we found. there were office workers taking cigarette breaks and things like that...