to prevent the use of illegal money in elections and to maintain the integrity of those elections mr cowen made guilty pleas for those campaign violations and those are core violations and what he did was he hid these cli's remind us that it is illegal for corporations to make contributions to candidates and it is illegal to make contributions in excess of the about that congress set for individuals and that is a strong message today and we will not be. we will not fear of prosecuting additional court corporation finding campaign finance cases lastly and perhaps most importantly this case. is unique in many ways this witness the gathering of all of you here today and in other ways it's unique as well but in the really important ways this case is not unlike many cases that my office the united states attorney's office brings that the entire department of justice brings and that the law enforcement agencies do as well clued in the f.b.i. and the i.r.s. this case has more in common with all those cases because they all share the same message and that message is that the rule of law applies an

very serious charges and reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over the extended period of time mr cowen decided that he was above the law and for that he was going to pay a very very serious. and of course if there was not your original mission please put. something back there still nothing new and presumably we continue to work on thank you. they do the right here which we got to halt the count. where is the closure you know they're still looking for coercion there is to come out here find some comfort here we want to find the coverage and. also coming up tonight presidential problems of a different color line turkish president richard tell you fair to one one the election on a promise of prosperity it is a promise that he cannot keep it but this is simply a five page an extra city gas someone to bounce that wouldn't be much left over everything's become so expensive. we begin the day with a man who once said he'd take a bullet for donald trump and now he's putting a knife in donald trump's back michael cohen the u.s. president's former attorney yesterday surrendered to the f.b.i. and

very serious charges that reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over the extended period of time mr cowen decided that he was above the law and for that he is going to pay a very very serious. matter for to.