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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...

Under enough cooperation. i don't think he'll ever plead guilty to anything approaching 5 or 6 years without a cooperation agreement. >> let me bring natasha bertrand in from the atlantic. she was in the manafort courtroom today. what do you think happens with that? we have to remember, manafort has a whole 'nother trial coming up. the sense was regardless of what happens in this trial, the government continues to be able to put more pressure on him. do you think he heads into that other trial given what happened today, or do you think he starts to think of either figuring out whether he's get...

Evidence that might be considered exonerating. it's a rule. if the prosecution doesn't do it, then they have committed what is called a brady violation, and the trial must be reversed, and a new trial given. the tennis shoe situation, the blue shirt and bloody coveralls were all brady violations. and we put on evidence as to all of those. judge huff rejected it. >> kevin cooper was running out of time. so his defense team reached out to a new potential advocate. san francisco chronicle columnist debra saunders. >> as a supporter of the death penalty, i wouldn't want to see an innocent man exec...

It, then they have committed what is called a brady violation, and the trial must be reversed, and a new trial given. the tennis shoe situation, the bloody coveralls were all brady violation. and we put on evidence as to all of those. judge huff rejected it. >> kevin cooper was running out of time. so his defense team reached out to a new potential advocate. san francisco chronicle columnist debra saunders. >> as a supporter of the death penalty, i wouldn't want to see an innocent man executed, would i? so if there's a hint that somebody might not be guilty, i want to write about it. my editor...

Committed the murder. he was a convicted murder, he had strangled to death a young woman and threw her body into a canal. >> but san bernardino police waited 11 months before questioning lee. and when they did, they never asked him about his missing ax. they also seemed to accept fur row's word that he didn't own any coveralls. tom parker thinks he knows why. >> the coveralls, in fact, had been destroyed. a deputy got rid of them because it was unfounded that they were connected to the case. of course, there had never been any blood test or whatever to come to that conclusion. >> hile now rais...