the agreement is between tomorrow my and ec llc. it says and/or. he was representing the llc.y legal for michael cohen to represents that llc. and entering the agreement. it was a valid agreement and donald trump -- >> why have david dennison name in there. >> it could be a third party beneficiary to every single contract. that's what happens here. michael cohen is acting in the best interests of his client and his client is a third party beneficia beneficiary. >> does he have to tell his that third party, his bieneficiary that he's entering into an agreement. >> no, he does not have to because he's in-house council. he was general council to that organization. >> right, you are saying he's general council for the trump organization so he's there for representing donald trump. >> well, he was representing ec llc., that was created to entering into this dpreeagreeme. there was a quick probe and considerations on both sides and now he's going to break that agreement, okay? >> okay, pardon me, i am not a lawyer so i am not as smart as you guys. if he's entering into an agreement

remember, michael cohen was representing ec, llc. it was ec, llc that entered into this contract. donald trump was a third party beneficiary. >> does that make sense to you? >> it doesn't. donald trump was not a third party beneficiary. under the law of california, he was a signatory to the agreement. what mr. cohen has said is as follows, that he negotiated this on his own, that he undertook all of this effort, and that at no point in time did his close friend and client, donald trump, know anything about it. he didn't know about the negotiation. he didn't know about the agreement. and he didn't know about the payment. i have a very simple question, anderson. if all of that is believable, then why did mr. cohen draft an agreement with a signature line for donald trump? >> very simple -- >> if donald trump was never going to be a party to the agreement and if he didn't want to bother donald trump with the agreement, and if donald trump was too busy campaigning for president to know anything about the agreement, and mr. cohen was going to do this on his own and wasn't going to both

cohen that there was no linkage between ec, llc and the trump organization. mr. trump maintained that he formed that llc on his own. >> that he did it out of loyalty. >> he expects the american people to believe that he spent all this time and energy doing all of this work and the president knew anything about it and no one in the organization knew anything about it. the trump organization e-mails. we now have these documents. the statement that was provided by ms. martin is demonstratively false. the first document that you showed your viewers, it designates ms. martin as a legal representative of ec, llc. >> and she is a full time employee as evidence by the state bar. and so there can be no question that the trump organization was representing ec, llc in connection with this arbitration and we need to remember the focus of the arbitration. the focus of this filing in february was to gag my client, put a muzzle on her and prevent her from speaking and that is why they filed the arbitration to obtain what is called a temporary restraining order. so this idea tha

it lists ec, llc as the party seeing relief. those initials stand for essential consultants, the company created by michael cohen to funnel cash payment of $130,000 to ms. daniels in return for a promise to keep quiet about the reported affair, which ms. daniels claims began in 2006 and lasted through 2007. as more and more comes out about the story, mr. cohen has continued to deny the affair ever happened, but has acknowledged the payment saying just last month, quote, in a private transaction in 2016, i used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to ms. stephanie clifford. neither the trump organization nor the trump campaign was party to the transaction, and neither reimbursed me for the payment either directly or indirectly. the trump organization may not have been a party to that transaction, but it's pretty clear one of its attorneys is involved in this case, and it's certainly not the first time she's defended donald trump. in fact, here she is in october 2016 just after that access hollywood tape surfa

he was representing the llc. it was a valid agreement.d trump -- >> why have david denison's name in there at all? >> because it's third party beneficiary that nobody's talking about. there could be a third party beneficiary to every contract. so michael cohen was act beiing the best interest of his client. >> doesn't he have to tell the third party, his beneficiary that he's entering into an agreement for their benefit? >> he doesn't have to. because he's inside counsel. he was general counsel to that organization. so he could enter -- >> so you're saying, but wait, right, but you're saying he's general counsel for the trump organization, so he's therefore representing donald trump. >> well, he was representing ec, l.l.c. the l.l.c. was created to enter into this agreement. there was a quid pro quo. consideration on both sides, and now she's going to break that agreement, sn agreement, okay? >> pardon me. i'm not a lawyer. i don't understand. if he's entering into this agreement for this llc, why have david denison on there at all. if da

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>> we have viewed at least two nondisclosure agreements, but it's unclear as to which llc, if any llc with them. >> all right. >> and, again -- >> last hour i spoke -- >> again, i want to stress that this is very early on, we have not made a determination as to whether we're going to represent these women. what the next step is. so i want to be very cautious, again, i have preached caution throughout this process in it the last two weeks because i think it's important that we don't get over the tips of our skis and overstate facts and evidence in connection with this. >> just one more question on these other women you say have come forward. can you give a sense of the timing of any of the nondisclosure agreements that they have signed? >> not at this time. >> okay. last hour i spoke to david schwartz, a friend of michael cohen, an attorney of michael cohen in his own right on a separate matter. i want to play part of what mr. schwartz said so you can respond. >> i can guarantee one thing, that michael cohen will not rest, all right, when this is all said and done, michael cohen will n

that's who signed it, him on on behalf of the llc?because the agreement specifically provided for this course of action it had to be d.d. let me also say this. this hasn't been touched on. >> please. >> paragraph 8.6 of the agreement makes it clear that if all parties, all parties d.d., e.c., and ms. daniels, if all parties do not sign the agreement, there is no deal. all parties did not sign the agreement. there is no deal. >> what do you think happens next? do you think we get to see this on "60 minutes" this week? >> i certainly hope so. i believe the american people deserve to hear her out, deserve to know the truth what happened relating to the payment of these monies, where they came from. and i don't understand what is so complicated about this. i don't understand why the president cannot come out and state unequivocally did he know about the agreement, the payment, and did he have anything to do with the payment being made? three very simple questions. you don't need 140 characters on twitter in order to answer those three que

the parties to the contract are ec, llc, and stormy daniels. and certainly -- >> so why is there a line that says dd for donald trump? >> because it gave -- >> just for no reason? >> yes, because it gave the option for donald trump to be a party to the contract. instead, he's not a party. he's a third party beneficiary to this contract. >> in terms of that third party beneficiary, couldn't there have just been a contract between stormy daniels and the limited liability corporation that benefited mr. trump? >> and that's exactly what this is. >> so why have a third line there at all? >> because it gave the option -- >> why do they need that option? >> because michael wanted to have the option. that's why he purposely did it. this was a carefully drafted contract with a rock solid arbitration clause. >> why did he want to have that option from a legal standpoint? >> because when you're in the middle of all of this, you want to have the option. he wanted to give himself the option. he chose not to exercise the option. >> trump wanted to give himse

remember, michael cohen was representing ec, llc. it was ec, llc that entered into this contract. donald trump was a third party beneficiary. >> does that make sense to you? >> it doesn't. donald trump was not a third party beneficiary under the law of california. he was a signatory to the agreement. if donald trump was never going to be a party to the agreement and if he didn't want to bother donald trump with the agreement and if donald trump was too busy campaigning for president to know anything about the agreement and mr. cohen was going to do this on his own and wasn't going to bother mr. trump, then why take the effort to draft the agreement to make donald trump a signatory to the agreement? >> that's painting a fictional picture of the whole scenario. there's an or there. it could be ec, llc -- >> why have a line for donald trump? >> they left it open for either/or. >> what about -- >> ec, llc, entered into the contract. >> no. he's saying if donald trump had nothing to do with this, why have a line -- >> he has everything to do with it. he was a third party beneficiary. y

when he created the llc. i know he says he didn't for this purpose. but whatever. when he created the llc. why did he do this when? >> because this is when it all went down. to create an llc -- >> avenatti says cohen went to here. >> he haavenatti makes no sense. llcs are created every single day for see owes, lawyers, doctors, politicians to enter into ndos to avoid litigation and save the embarrassment for their family. >> who approached -- >> stormy daniels was shopping the best deal she could shop. some call it hush money. i call it legal extortion. when you have a situation from 12 years ago and all of a sudden you want to collect as much money as possible, that's called -- >> motivations aside, are you saying the way this borkd, the timing matters. that cohen didn't close to the election date seek out stormy daniels and say let's quiet this up right now? >> she admitted on "60 minutes," she was shopping the best deal possible and then her lawyer called it, she said it on "60 minute minutes". her lawyer called her and said this is the best deal. they were shop

>> this llc, essential consultants llc was created in delaware. in delaware, that's one of the best places, if you wanted to create secrecy behind the corporate structure of an llc, llcs can mask the owners and directors of companies. the timing is everything. why do that and then again the campaign finance violation issues. you're not supposed to give corporate contributions to a campaign. if you do, you have to know what's going on. we don't know this information. i find it hard to believe that michael cohen took out $130,000 home equity line of credit -- who will do that to pay off a porn star? that doesn't happen. michael cohen, he needs to learn the concept of no comment. he keeps on opening his mouth. he's violating the terms of the nondisclosure agreement and creating more of an alleged paper trail that somebody like mueller, who has been tasked with investigating the 2016 campaign issues, perhaps he will be interested in what michael cohen has to say about this particular payoff. >> maybe michael cohen is generous with his money and likes

llc and the trump organization. mr. cohen has maintained that he formed that llc on his own, unbeknownst to mr. trump, unbeknownst to the trump organization. this idea that there is a separation between e.c. llc and donald trump and the trump organization is a complete and utter fiction. >> on that note we bring if our leadoff panel for yet another busy wednesday night. michael crowley, national security editor and senior correspondent for politico. jill colvin's back with us, white house reporter for the associated press, who was with the president on his whirlwind trip to california and the midwest. and returning after his all too brief appearance last night, actually early this morning, because of the breaking news we were covering in pennsylvania, is phil elliot, politics correspondent for "time" magazine. phil, since we used your turn of phrase at the top of the broadcast, you called it through your reporting "season 2" for our only president in the history of our republic with a background in reality television. w

>> oh, the llc that's entered into the settlement agreement was misnamed. it wasn't an actual entity. >> okay. was he part of that llc with the correct name? >> it's difficult to say. i think mr. mead operated in the shadows in some regard, and it was -- and it's difficult to see if he was the owner of that llc. >> further questions, commissioners? no? thank you. >> okay. thank you. >> mr. teague? >> good evening, president fung, commissioners. cory teague for planning department staff. again, the p.o. is for the property at 518 taylor street which is located in the rc-4 zoning district. i think it's important to understand that this letter of determination that's the subject of the appeal is kind of two separate but connected processes, and so the first was the current public health process. so to that end, in december of 2016, and once again in march of 2017, public health staff inspected the subject property and found numerous violations under article 29 of the health code. the property manager, jeffrey polk was present during both inspections and receiv

and they were all llcs.re all shell companies so you couldn't track who was actually buying these properties. i think he was the go between. >> one significant little part of the story that sater was able to confirm was the source of possible funding on the development of trump moscow. take a listen to what he said about that. >> let me make sure i nail this part down. so the people associated with the deal, you said you put the deal together. it wasn't your deal. a developer in russia was looking to vtb for financing. > i had a local developer here and the trump organization here and i was in the middle. the local developer there would have gotten financing from vtb and or another russian bank but vtb was at that point the go-to bank for real estate development. that's why vtb. >> significant because that's a sanctioned russian bank. >> exactly, we were kind of trying to get this answer out of the house intel committee for a number of days. they refused to answer the question of what sanctioned bank this wa

because essentially every development project that the trump organization starts, usually is the own llc. it is something we all learn going through the president's personal financial disclosure. could he get those records without going through the trump organization? could he go through -- subpoena the irs or bank records or is he -- to get those filings he has to go to the trump organization directly. >> he can absolutely get those without going to the trump organization directly. it is something prosecutors do routinely. >> do you assume he's done that. >> i would assume -- that would be the first thing that he did. >> so he probably already has tax returns for every llc and you probable -- and probably already has financial records with deutsche bank, people like that? are those things that he would already likely have and not have to go through the trump organization to get? >> exactly. those are the types of financial records -- financials that prosecutors use to follow the money, chuck. so one facet of this new subpoena request to the trump organization could be possibly to see if

ep michael cohen said he took out a home equity line of credit to put it in an llc account to be ablepay off stormy daniels. why? why is he randomly paying $130,000? now you have a problem. people like the fec is interested. the house judiciary committee sent a letter to michael cohen and two other gentlemen saying you might want to explain why you gave this money and by the way, there might be tax issues because the tax treatment on this money would trigger other violations of federal law. so michael cohen's now opening a huge pandora's box because he keeps on opening his mouth and keeps on trying to give excuses that don't have legal viability in terms of being credible. >> just to make an argument against it, is every aid you give, every contribution to a candidate a campaign contribution? you can say i drive his kids to school or anything that helps him. i helped his wife carry account groceries home. is anything a contribution to the well-being of a candidate a campaign contribution? >> here's the thing. it has to be a reported in kind contribution. there's a certain valuation am

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he has a secret llc. for porn stars. what other secrets does he have in violation of federal law. that's just the beginning of it. this is typical of the way things have been done in this administration. a lot of secrets and side deals and whether it is porn stars or russians or what ever else, a lot of people lied about it but i will say once again i don't think mr. cohen ought to be surprised that he's not getting paid. he's got to get in line with everybody else that donald trump owns money to. richard, i appreciate your time. >> hollywood getting political at the oscars, we'll bring you will all the moments. and the creator of oscar so white joining us. you won't see these folks at the post office they have businesses to run they have passions to pursue how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters ship packages all the amazing services of the post office right on your computer get a 4 week trial plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again >>> the 90th oscar ceremony has come and gone

michael cohen said he took out a home equity line of credit to put it in an llc account to be able to off stormy daniels. why? why is he randomly paying $130,000? now you have a problem. people like the fec is interested. the house judiciary committee sent a letter to michael cohen and two other gentlemen saying you might want to explain why you gave this money and by the way, there might be tax issues because the tax treatment on this money would trigger other violations of federal law. so michael cohen's now opening a huge pandora's box because he keeps on opening his mouth and keeps on trying to give excuses that don't have legal viability in terms of being credible. >> just to make an argument against it, is every aid you give, every contribution to a candidate a campaign contribution? you can say i drive his kids to school or anything that helps him. i helped his wife carry account groceries home. is anything a contribution to the well-being of a candidate a campaign contribution? >> here's the thing. it has to be a reported in kind contribution. there's a certain valuation amoun

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llc.here you see her signature. so what does this mean now? >> it makes michael cohen's explanation much less plausible. it begs the question of why are so many people connected to such a weird payment based on a relationship that she is claiming to have with donald trump. people in trump's orbit tan general challengely confirm that it has been dealt with legally. the more people that come into this, the more it raises legal questions for what this means in terms of trump's potential liability. if they were supposed to be paid back with campaign funds. it is a much less convenient excuse, that i'm not sure people were buying anyway. >> at the end of the day, who cares. maybe there was a violation. maybe there wasn't. it won't impact any way on the president. >> people care about that. >> do you think his voters care about any of this? if we're talking about the broader population of voters, do you think this is what's going to color their perception of president trump? >> i don't know. an

do we have a motion to approve the contract for renne law group, llc. great. moved by commissioner ronen, seconded by commissioner pollock, so approve the contract for the renne law group, llc as our law group. madam clerk, can you please call item ten. >> item ten is public comment. >> supervisor fewer: this is the time for members of the public to address items on the panel's jurisdiction and not on the agenda. are there any members of the public that would like to speak. >> yes. eric brooks. this time i'll speak on behalf of our city, san francisco and the san francisco green party. as you move forward and start working on affordable housing, there's a desperate issue that's not being addressed in san francisco and that is small businesses, local small businesses. they are going out of business as if there's a wildfire going through the city. the costa hawkins repeal bill and ballot measures that are in planning are not going to solve the problem. in my neighborhood, we've lost micano's possibly the best greek restaurant in the united states. polk street pr

central consultants llc. we are consultants focusing on essential... we're paying off a porn star." bombshell news is that "after mr. trump's victory, mr. cohen complained to friends that he had yet to be reimbursed for the payment to miss clifford." well, mr. cohen, maybe now you'll sympathize with stormy daniels, because donald trump has screwed you both. ( cheers and applause ) yesterday-- ( applause ). >> stephen: yes! we have a healthy, healthy sex-positive audience here tonight. ( laughter ) yesterday-- yesterday? yesterday was primary day in texas, and the democrats are pumped. dem turnout topped one million in a midterm primary for the first time since 2002, and amon ( cheers and applause ) amongst-- the winners was democrat beto o'rourke, who is now set to take on republican senator ted cruz. now, you may not have heard of beto o'rourke, but no candidate gets voters more excited than "not ted cruz." ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) and i hear not ted cruz-- i hear not ted cruz is not strong this year. and texas might be feeling the beto-mentum, because so far this year,

you talked about the llc. i want to read how new york magazine put this.en claims he paid the money out of his own pocket which make him the perpetrator. there's document showing the payment was sent to cohen at his trump tower location and communicated through his official trump organization e-mail. that strongly indicates and perhaps even proves cohen was making the payment on trump's behalf. do you agree with that? >> it may be that he was giving the money on trump's behalf but the money was sent to him through, perhaps, the campaign. perhaps the -- some other person, maybe trump. we don't think so. this is a possibility but it appears he said that he fronted that money. even if it was a loan that he made and reimbursed, that is manager that was given to influence the campaign. >> thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. >>> daniels and mcdougal, only the latest to allege sexual conduct by then businessman trump. although the two claim their encounters were consensual. many claim varying level of nonconsensual assault. alleged groping to this.

the llc did not have the right or the ability and in legal terms it's called standing to proceed with the arbitration. first of all you the wrong party. second of all mr. cohen was required by the bar rules to of california to be a licensed attorney in california or to have a licensed attorney as what is called local council. he did neither. that's a misdemeanor under the law. >> so he isn't licensed to practice law in california? >> there's nothing indicating that he is. we haven't been able to find any record of him being licensed in california. if he wasn't licensed in california it's a misdemeanor to be practicing law. it's no different if i came to new york or washington d.c. and attempted to practice law. i'm not licensed if those jurisdictions. that's the second problem with the arbitration. >> we have to take a break but i want to ask you that the bank itself, when they received $130,000 that was going to be movered t moved, they raised a red flag. it is a suspicious activity report. again, the question is where did this money come from? the conversation continues and later a

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the money is coming from. >> let's say you own an apartment building and sell three units to the an llc. someone finds out that was owned by a company that was owned by a company own bid a criminal who was using that purchase to launder some money. something a prosecutor would want to know is, did you know who that was, did you know where the source of the money was. from some amazing reporting andrea did, we know donald trump jr. and ivanka openly in e-mails talked about how they knew that a real estate deal they were involved in was criminal but they weren't worried because nobody would find out about it. these are people we know, don junior's e-mails saying i love. >> i forgot about that. >> these are people who say things in e-mails you really should not say in e-mails. >> you remind me of that reporting. >> the story is in the trump soho which was an apartment tower or condo, hotel tower in downtown manhattan where there was -- it was very hard to sell. and there was a criminal case, a two-year criminal investigation into don junior and ivanka, and whether they had knowingly commit

as the lawyer representing essential consultants llc.ll company cohen created to funnel money to daniels. the filing lists martin's work dress as one trump drive in rancho pal owes verdict he is, home of the trump golf course. >> the focus of the filing in february was to gag my client, put a muzzle on her, prevent her from speaking. that's why they filed the arbitration. to obtain what's called a temporary restraining order. so this idea that there's separation between ecllc and donald trump and the trump organization is a complete and utter fiction. >> reporter: cohen previously said he acted without the knowledge of the president or his company and in a statement to cnn, the trump organization denied martin was acting in her official capacity. as previously reported, lawrence rosen, a new york attorney, is representing ec, llc. the trump organization is not representing anyone, and with the exception of one of its california based attorneys in her individual capacity, facilitating the initial filing, the company has no statement, part

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they name jill martin representing ec llc.essential consultant, the company michael cohen set up for the $130,000 payment. assistant general counsel at the trump organization. you might remember she spoke on behalf of candidate trump during the 2016 election. this would make her the second employee at the trump organization who now has a direct involvement in the stormy daniels related legal matters. jill martin put out a statement and i also talked to her on the phone yesterday. she insists she did this in her private capacity and with the exception of herself, the trump organization is not involved in stormy daniels' related matters. it raises questions about michael cohen's previous statements that he acted entirely on his own. two other things to quickly mention, first of all, stormy daniels's lawyer michael avenatti is saying there are other women who might be considering taking legal action against president trump. we'll try to find out what he is talking about. we have a new friend of stormy daniels speaking out. he say

my name's bob olaris and i'm an attorney here with skate park llc as well as many other members of thetate park, including jeremy. we're filming a documentary about our efforts on the island, as well as josh. i just want to introduce ourselves and talk a little bit about our project. what we are, we're a nonprofit all volunteer organization, and we're trying to build in essence kind of like what's like the community garden version of a skate park. so skate boarding is obviously, you know, it's become this huge global phenomenon at this point. it's in the olympics and it has this really great community around it, and the type of skate park we're trying to build where everyone comes together, we pitch in, we raise money together. we kind of fund it, we plan it, we do everything together as a community really kind of represents the core and kind of like what's best about kaskate boarding, and when you talk to skate boarders everywhere, the best skate parks everywhere and well regarded are these community skate parks where people come together and build them together and then to share with

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at first they deny the payment, then they said they made it through the llc, now there's arbitration. the white house has dodged the questions repeatedly, have said literally nothing. we've repeatedly sought answers on what happened here. i think sarah sanders yesterday was trying to say that the president and his lawyer had won in a court in california. i'm not sure if that made it better. i don't know how else to defend this at the podium. what is a better recourse for her? >> the issue is, it appears to be the truth that the president is somehow involved in this lawsuit, in this legal action. the problem with the truth is it would make the president more connected to this issue than the white house has said to this point. molly ball, mark sanford, congressman from south carolina, former governor from south carolina, an interesting figure to be commenting on the scandal, yet his comment is fascinating on this. hush money is a big deal, particularly if it's not ancient history. talking about a payment in october of 2016. that's not a long time ago. talking about money exchanged in th