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Certainly if we get a sense that there is -- that there was another payment, absolutely that should be the subject of an investigation. i should also say that even if there wasn't a payment, that doesn't necessarily get the president off the hook because we know that this company, ami, did pay karen mcdougal and that -- if it looks like that was to help the president's campaign, that could be a campaign contribution, which also should have been reported but wasn't. and the fact that the president and cohen were talking about it and apparently talking about how it helped his campaign sure start...

Would essentially reimburse them for their payment to mcdougal. what's interesting about this, one, that the story has changed, but two, how do you then square that with the fact that when "the wall street journal" broke the story that this arrangement was made, they said they didn't know anything about it. how can you be on tape talking about making payments to a woman and making arrangements and maybe buying the rights to a story that you know nothing about when reporters come and ask about it. that's the minimum. >> and then you say it doesn't hurt us, in fact it helps us. >> and then you s...

President trump is about to escape washington after a week of negative headlines and intense criticism over his meeting with russian president vladimir putin, including taking his side at the press conference, then the walk-back, then walking that back. of course there was his plan to let the russians question americans. now a second meeting with putin in d.c. in the fall. and the news that just broke that there's a recording of trump talking to his former fixer, michael cohen, about a payment to a former playboy model. so the president, scheduled to leave the white house just a few minutes fr...

Former personal attorney recorded president trump discussing a hush payment to a playboy model who alleged she had an affair with him. could the president be in more hot water for leaving the payment, if it was made, off his financial disclosure report? you're watching msnbc.

And i just want to play a sampling of what the president, his advisers and his lawyers have said, just about the payments to stormy daniels. >> the president has denied the allegations against him, and again this case has already been won in arbitration. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> do you know where he got the money to make that payment? >> no, i don't know. >> that money was not campaign money. sorry, i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know. it's not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. >> this was information that the president didn...