i don't see that happening, stormy daniels isa see that happening, stormy daniels is a tough cookie.strident about continuing to tell her story. she was threatened, according to —— she was put on by michael cohen saying she had to be silent or else. now nothing is stopping her. i don't see anything stopping her. i don't see anything stopping her. i don't see anything stopping her now, especially now these charges have been dropped. thousands of people in nicaragua have taken part in a march through the streets of the capital, managua, demanding the resignation of president daniel 0rtega. similar marches are expected to take place in cities across the country. it comes after months of violence in which up to three hundred and 50 people have died. lebo diseko reports. they came to make their voices heard. thousands of nicaraguans on the streets of the capital, managua, with one message — president daniel 0rtega needs to stand down. translation: i'm here demanding justice, demanding a change. there are too many dead, too many tortured, too many people stifled unjustly only for having ra

now blakely, this lawyer who is representing cohen on the stormy daniels' related matters, he tells cnn exclusively today that avenatti asked cohen and blakely to meet in person in new york to discuss a settlement between daniels and cohen. blakely said a meeting was set for this week but that he subsequently canceled that meeting after avenatti went on tv and said that avenatti and his lawyers were open to settling. >> what is avenatti saying? >> avenatti is denying he asked for a meeting to discuss a settlement, saying blakely's claim is completely false and designed to help cohen get a pardon from mr. trump. now, when we pressed him on the key question, which is whether he or his client stormy daniels would be open to a settlement with michael cohen, here's what avenatti said. he said, quote, we don't do settlements with people who continue to lie to the american people, which is what michael cohen wants to do. he needs to stop playing games in courting a pardon from donald trump and do the right thing. it's important to know that the stormy daniels lawsuit is an entirely separate si

stormy daniels is a tough cookie.interviews where she has been pretty strident about continuing to tell her story. she was, she says, threatened by trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen, and told that she had to be quiet or else. and right now and nothing is stopping her. she is not being quiet, so i don't really see anything stopping herfrom forming either, especially 110w herfrom forming either, especially now that these charges have been dropped. of course, if you want to find out the details about the show in which she was performing, you can of course google it, not always great for a family show like ours. thousands of people in nicaragua have taken part in a march through the streets of the capital, managua, demanding the resignation of president daniel 0rtega. similar marches are expected to take place in cities across the country. it comes after months of violence in which up to 350 people have died. lebo diseko reports. make their voices heard. thousands of nicaraguans on the streets of the capital, managua

stormy daniels, remember, stormy daniels the president's $130,000 friend. stormy daniels had a brush with the law last night. arrested at a strib club in columbus. that's not the trstrip club, that's the police station, arrested allegedly touched the customer undercover police officer. under ohio state law an employee who appears nude or seminude is prohibited from touching patrons on the premesis of a sexually oriented business unless it its a family member. that's law. and just like that state of ohio, shoots past florida in the race for creepiest state. [ cheers and applause ] why the police were even in the club is suspicious. there were three undercover cops present for the performance. according to the come planlt. stormy put both her hands on a female officer's butt and breasts and then pulled the officers face between her breasts at which point the officer said -- but she persisted. stormy's lawyer, said it was a setup. i have to say it does seem suspicious. that there are police there to arrest a stripper in a strip club for stripping. but whatever

i've spoken to you about meeting stormy daniels. i've spoken to you about the karen mcdougal case as well. for the questioning that i want to ask you about, i want to play what i think is the key part of this conversation and then you and i will discuss this, between michael cohen and donald trump. take a listen. >> i spoke to alan weiselberg about how to set the whole thing up with the funding -- yes. and it's all the stuff. because here you never know with that company. correct. so i'm all over that. i spoke to alan about it, when it comes time for the financing. >> what financing? >> we'll have to pay. >> pay cash? >> no, no, no. >> listen, i know you represent stormy daniels. so just as an attorney tell me what you're hearing? >> well, i'm hearing these two coconspirators trying to figure out how they're going to make this payment which appears to not be unusual, frankly, don. you know, i have kind of a different take than some of the people that i've heard comment on this. when michael cohen says financing, i don't think he's r

but you make a key point, on both of these payments, the stormy daniel payments, and this payment, the first payment to karen mcdoogle had been paid, and the conversation was between the president and michael cohen before he was elected president. isfixer, the man who makes problems going away, apparently felt the need to make a recording of this conversation about potential hush money payment. >> for months they have denied stormy daniels, saying they didn't know anything about it. in the past they have denied that the president had an affair with this playboy model and now we're seeing this come out and rudy giuliani, the president's lawyer is on the record here saying that it is a good thing that the president was trying to pay the playboy model through a check rather than sending cash so that it could be properly documented. that defense is, i don't even know the word for it. but we have that there. and also the thing to keep in mind, is that we have reported in the past, that michael cohen had a habit of recording conversations so he would have a record or them. also the question

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that's what happened in the stormy daniels' situation. the case, then the president will -- had an obligation to disclose it in his financial disclosure forms. that's what the office of government ethics has said in the stormy daniels case. he didn't do that here. now, right now rudy giuliani is saying that there wasn't a payment actually made, but we don't know the answer to that yet. >> and that the call is exculpatory is what rudy giuliani said, but you're right, we don't know that. in the filing that you guys did for the stormy daniels' case, you requested an investigation into whether the president knowingly and willfully failed to report that on his financial disclosure report. so is there a potential you could do something in this case? are you in sort of a wait-and-see hold mode? >> we're going to see as the facts develop where they lead. 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

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stormy daniels: "yes."o him?"stormy daniels: "no."anderson cooper/ cnn: "not at all."stormy daniels: "no."the secret recordings may provide an answer to one of the biggest questions facing the president -- just what does cohen have on him?trump's former fixer -- michael cohen/2011: "i protect mr. trump."has sent signals in recent weeks that he is willing to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation -- although it is not clear what kind of evidence cohen will be able to provide in that probe.according to mcdougal tape is the only one of true substance and trump's attorneys do not believe it is a problem for the president. ( marty )that was athena jones reporting. multiple parties are interested in what could be on those tapes. one of them is michael avenatti, the lawyer for stormy daniels... who is suing both cohen and the president. coming up next... for the first time ever... the rugby seven's world cup is in the u-s. we'll see how fans flocked to a-t and t park to root for their

stormy daniels is causing stormy weather. >> porn star stormy daniels claims president trump broke theaw, had her bullied.ng >> does stormy daniels has the president's number? it sure seems that way, he may have met his match. >> how is the stormy weathering ms. ? >> stormy speaks! >> we are hearing quite a bit from stormy daniels. >> stormy, in her own words, isn't going anywhere. >> stormy has a good lawyer. >> stormy daniels was telling the truth. >> stormy daniels is on a tear. >> sean: every second, every day, hysteria, crisis, crisis, hysteria. another way to trash the president and discredit we, smelly walmart people who cling to our gods, guns, religion. we are all irredeemable deplorables. when all else fails, let's go back to russia, russia, russia. almost two years of this nonsense. like a moth drawn to a flame, they cannot help themselves. the past 48 hours or one more example. take another look. as always, the media bolsters this rhetoric by trashing trump, all in an attempt to legitimize their hyperbole. that includes the disgraced fired fbi director, james comey. remembe

we're talking about stormy daniels. we could debate the morality of that and whether you want your president engaged in that behavior -- >> stormy daniels is from the southern district of new york. these are two separate investigations we're talking about here. >> right. yes, but they're under the same umbrella. they're under a federal prosecutor who was brought in to do one thing and now is investigating the president's liaison, potential liaison with a porn star and his payment to her to keep quiet. rudy is right. that might not be illegal. it would be illegal if it was campaign finance violation, but we don't know it was. this is where the public, i think, looks at this and throws their hands in the air and says these folks are all crooked, they're all fighting. >> what chuck knows and what every lawyer knows is that, you know, when you're investigating and you come across what might be evidence of a crime, that you're obligated to pursue that. that's what -- that is what mueller has done and mueller appropriately pa

>> davidson and cohen had worked together on the stormy daniels agreement. they also dealt with each other on the karen mcdougal agreement. she was the playmate who had a $150,000 hush payment from the parent of the "national enquirer" that was both in 2016. so when bechard came to davidson, he called cohen because he knew cohen might know broidy and cohen was like yeah, i know him. and as we reported, cohen called up broidy and said hey, it's your lucky day, you have a big problem, there's a former playmate who says got her pregnant and i can help you fix it. that's how it went down. cohen was paid $250,000. and you were asking an earlier guest about the $62,500 payment. that was a quarter of cohen's fee that went to him. the $200,000 payment were eight installments that were paid to bechard. >> so he's now cutting off smera bechard has gotten a new lawyer. keith davidson has been sued by one of his former clients in stormy daniels for his representation. presumably -- maybe shera bechard will just walk away from $1.2 million but that seems unlikely. it see

he said he would not really discuss what went on with stormy daniels. michael cohen's public -- public responses to the stormy daniels situation have varied a great deal over time. first he said he paid the money out of his own pocket out of the goodness of his heart. something that no lawyer in the history of american law has ever done. that -- that explanation has since been -- you know, revised when rudy giuliani said well, there was a reimbursement formula with the president where he repaid a certain amount per month, i don't think we know really what went on with the stormy daniels payment. all of that is -- i think very much in flux. we'll see if the documents that the fbi seized shed some light on it. but that is something that obviously would be of a great deal of interest to federal prosecutors -- >> jeffrey toobin, we have to leave it there. we're out of time. thank you both. >> thank you. >>> happening overnight, a landslide victory for mexico's next president, andres manuel obrador. >> viva mexico. >> the left wing former mayor of mexico cit

ilia: stormy daniels fue detenida y liberada horas que uÉs.luye una reuniÓncon la primera ministra y algunos empresarios. tambiÉn sostendrÁ un encuentro con la reina isabel ii y viajarÁ a escocia. jorge: mientras el presidente compartiÓ en twitter una carta que le enviÓ el gobernante de corea del norte, en la carta el lÍder norcoreano dijo que aprecia los esfuerzos extraordinarios realizados por trump para mejorar la relaciÓn entre ambos paÍses. en un tweet, seÑala que ambos estÁn haciendo gran progreso. ilia: el agente del fbi que criticÓ a donald trump, testificÓ hoy en la cÁmara de representantes. dijo que habÍa enviado los correos porque se sintiÓ asqueado por los ataques de trump hacia la familia --. reportera: el lÍder republicano del comitÉ judicial de la cÁmara baja, amenazÓ al testigo con acusarlo de desacato al congreso. desatÓ una pelea en una audiencia sobre la investigaciÓn de la trama rusa . " estoy aquÍ voluntariamente" dijo el agente que por primera vez se presentÓ en pÚblico. por indicaciÓn de sus abogados, rehusaba a contesta

he is saying about stormy daniels, that whole case. he said he did it on his own with his own money. now he is basically -- i want to answer that question, one day i will, right now i can't. is that changing his tune? is he just not talking about it? >> he is just not talking about it. it feels like it might be a change in tune because there's no reason to not talk about it if you say the same thing. the problem is that the stormy daniels thing doesn't make sense. president didn't know. he didn't tell him to do it. he decided to go and take out a home loan. it seems crazy. the president did say he reimbursed him through -- it was unclear through payments that were part of his retainer. none is clear. what's clear now is that he has something else to say. we don't know what it is. i think the assumption people are making is the right one. we will see going forward. >> mark, when cohen told george stephanopoulos he didn't like the term witch hunt, that stuck out to me in the regard is, why do you think that he went there? he could have g

michael avenatti, stormy daniels's lawyer has been speaking out. donald trump hasn't been silent either, rudy giuliani, his lawyers. you can think about michael cohen looking around and saying i have a family to protect, i also need to fight back and say something although it's not specific. >> forgive me to ask a cynical question here. there are a lot of lawyers using the air waves to make cases for their clients. could he be floating a pardon request saying listen i could flip on you. >> i think m.j. is right. he doesn't need to float a pardon through the public air waves. his lawyer could call the president's lawyer. that's how you would do it through a more direct route. we have to wait and see. it's still early for him to come in to cooperate with the southern district. he doesn't yet know what he is facing. we are going to wait until there are charges on the table or at least his lawyers have been told what he is facing. he can't make the final decision until he knows that. >> l.e. i imagine you know some of the prosecutors involved here and

that's where stormy daniels filed all of the other cases. ey argue that daniels is venue shopping, forum shopping, because the california judge put a hold on the california case because of the on-going criminal investigation into michael cohen in the southern district of new york. so trump's lawyers are saying look, they only filed in new york to try to keep this case going. this case really belongs with other related cases, substantially similar cases in california and combining or transferring there would be in the interest of judicial economy and in the interest of justice and there would be consistent rulings by one court and not inconsistent rulings by two courts on two ends of the country. >> athena, thank you. >>> just ahead, getting details now of major blunder that tipped the trump administration's hand after a controversial environmental decision. why were some facts hidden? my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish. but those days are over. now, i take metamucil every day. it naturally traps and removes the waste that weigh

maybe yes and maybe no for stormy daniels.in this one -- >> that's about a fine. >> i'm having trouble -- >> that's interesting. no one actually really said that. >> you don't want to dismiss all of this as hey, no big deal. you look at it and say, how does this hurt. it helps. there's a real disconnect. i heard this morning on "fox and friends" one of the guests said the media has become so hostile. it's not the mainstream media any longer. >> to me it's a real question what happened in helsinki between president putin and president trump. i'm not going there to say let's talk about that. i think that's a real issue. there's a question of collusion, what happened with the 12 russian generals. those are real questions that i care about as a patriot, passionately. these issues with stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, much less important, i think politically and hopefully legally. >> to the campaign dollars issue, i thought it was interesting in what we found out today in reporting that the president apparently wanted this on the

trump's role in the hush money payoff to stormy daniels. is hour i'll talk with daniels' lawyer michael avenatti. our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first to jeff zeleny. the president is promising to reveal his high court pick next week. and it could very well be a woman, it sounds like. >> that certainly is one possibility. i'm told by people close to the process that the president is increasingly intrigued at the idea of appointing what he believes would be the first truly conservative female supreme court justice. he did reveal today that he interviewed four people here at the white house in secret. this morning he plans to interview more later this week. but the idea of picking a woman i'm told he is intrigued by. he believes it would be a conservative answer to what liberals are calling the year of the woman. >> i think the person that is chosen will be outstanding. >> reporter: president trump closing in tonight on a selection for the supreme court. with the big reveal one week away. >> i interviewed and met with fo

reward is being offered for any information leading to an arrest . >>> word that adult film star stormy daniels has been arrested in ohio. according to her lawyer, daniels was at an event in columbus and was taken into custody for allowing a patron to touch her while on stage which is apparently against ohio law. he said the touching was not of sexual nature and the charge would be a misdemeanor. stormy daniels whose real name is stephanie clifford is known for her alleged affair with president trump back in 2006 and her attorney said she's expected to be released on bail shortly. >>> some people in san francisco had a rude awakening when atf agents -- avenue apartments wednesday morning. >> alfonso torres says he's in san mateo visiting his father and around 6 am atf agents knocked on the door to there apartment and law men forced the door open with torres on the other side. he said they didn't explain the reason behind the search and said the rough treatment left marks. >> they told me to get on the floor and put their foot on my face. >> reporter: neighbors say a pregnant woman visiting from

kasie hunt, nbc news, the>>e ar porn star stormy daniels in the midst of her legal battle with president trump. daniels' charge after a strip performance a police officer said went too far. but just hours later those charges have already been dropped and her lawyer says she was set up. here's nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: it's not the glamor pic that propelled stormy daniels to porn prominence. this mug shot taken overnight, the adult film star booked after allegedly fondling female customers and pressing three under cover vice detectives into her chest at this ohio strip club. topless and wearing a g-string grabbing heads, two of them women before she began smacking their face with bare breasts. it can be illegal for dancers to touch patrons. they were at theman trafficking institution. >> my attorney and i are committed to making sure everyone finds out the truth. >> reporter: daniels is locked in a legal battle over the hush money she received during the campaign for her alleged sexual encounter with donald trump, allegations he's denied. daniels' attorney blasting her arrest as

stormy daniels: "yes.""you were 27 and he was 60, were you physically attracted to him?"stormy daniels: "no."anderson cooper/ cnn: "not at all."stormy daniels: "no."the secret recordings may provide an answer to one of the biggest questions facing the president -- just what does cohen have on him?trump's former fixer -- michael cohen/2011: "i protect mr. trump."has sent signals in recent weeks that he is willing to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation -- although it is not clear what kind of evidence cohen will be able to provide in that probe.according to giuliani, the mcdougal tape is the only one of true substance and trump's attorneys do not believe it is a problem for the president. (justine) (justine) multiple parties are interested in what could be on those tapes. one of them is michael avenatti, the lawyer for stormy daniels who is suing both cohen and trump. (grant) police say a florida man was shot and killed -- all over a parking space. the incident in clearwater w

is this in your case information about stormy daniels and the money that was paid to stormy daniels tot or do you feel michael cohen haas other information prosecutors might be interested in. >> i think he has a host of information including relating to the payment to my client as well as a number of other issues and there's nothing stopping them from disclosing that publicly. >> you can see how visibility as it pertains to the stormy daniels case but do you know for sure there are other issues michael cohen has information on or is this just the type of thing we've been seeing in the papers? >> john, i know this isn't rampant speculation and i'll remind you that i was the one that released the information relating to the payments fr. >> you were, so what areas specifically do you think federal prosecutors -- again, because you see more of this than we do, might be interested when it comes to possible connections between michael cohen and the president? >> i think there's a number of areas including payments to other women. i think there are issues relating to other business dealings t

stormy daniels: "yes."anderson cooper/ cnn: "you were 27 and he was 60, were you physically attracted to him?"stormy daniels: "no."anderson cooper/ cnn: "not at all."stormy daniels: "no."the secret recordings may provide an answer to one of the biggest questions facinghe president -- just what does cohen have on him?trump's former fixer -- michael cohen/2011: "i protect mr. trump."has sent signals in recent weeks that he is willing to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation -- although it is not clear what kind of evidence cohen will be able to provide in that probe.according to giuliani, the mcdougal tape is the only one of true substance and trump's attorneys do not believe it is a problem for the president. (grant)(gnt) that was athena jones reporting. multiple parties are interested in what could be on those tapes. one of them is michael avenatti, the lawyer for stormy daniels...who is suing both cohen and trump. (vicki) a microsoft executive says russian intelligence operat

athena, thank you very much on stormy daniels. >>> more news here on this surprise announcement fromirst daughter. ivanka trump has just announced she's shutting down her clothing and accessory business and focusing her washington -- on her washington career in public policy. trump released this statement. i'll read it for you. when we first started this brand, no one could have predicted the success that we would achieve. after 17 months in washington, i do not know when or if i will ever return to the business, but i do know that my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work i am doing here in washington. so making this decision now is the only fair outcome for my team and my partners. so walter chavez is up with me. he's the former director of the office of government ethics. walter, question number one, what -- help us understand the limitations on her job in the white house that would have prevented her to keep running the limitations as a result of the company that would have prevented her to keep her job in the white house. >> well, she had some pretty significant limit

stormy daniels arrested at a strip club in ohio. michael avenatti tweeting his client taken into custody for allowing a customer to touch her on stage which is a sigh legislation of -- violation of an ohio law. cnn has reached out to the columbus police department for additional information. >>> china vows retaliation of the u.s. tariffs. looking to hit back. the trump administration drew up a new list of $200 billion of chinese goods. slapping 10% tariffs on thousands of items. china plans to hit back, but doesn't buy enough from the u.s. to match dollar for dollar. about $130 billion of u.s. goods. beijing will use qualitative measures. that could be bad news. china is a huge market for many american markets. it means stricter inspections and hold ups at customs. consumer boycotts or the chinese government could block expansion plans. walmart and gm have plans to grow in china. tesla announced it is building a factory there. china could hit the u.s. economy by selling u.s. treasury bonds. china holds $1.2 trillion in american debt

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that's serious stuff. >> it raises the same question the stormy daniels payment raises. let's listen to something the president said yesterday before this tape was aired right here on cnn that's really germane to this conversation. here's what he said about what the american people should and shouldn't believe. >> and just remember what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening. just stick with us. don't believe the crap you see from these people. >> john avlon? i mean he's saying -- this is before he even knew the tape was out there because his team found out about 6:00 p.m. yesterday, it aired here at 9:00 p.m. eastern. he says don't believe anything that you are seeing or reading. >> it makes you wonder if that's almost a prevent defense. because essentially what his team is saying about the tapes that were released last night on cuomo prime are, don't believe your lying eyes or ears, listen to me. that kind of rhetoric from a president is jarring, even from this president who's had such a litany of lies. that language is really closely mirroring l

so he's going to know a lot about what was happeningot just in the campaign but in s w stormy daniels case, and to go back to the perjury issue, let's remember that the civil cases also present a problem for trump. he can be deposed in all of those cases -- >> only if he testifies and he's not going to do that. he's not going to make the mistake that bill clinton made. he's learned that lesson. nobody, no decent lawyer is ever going to allow the president to testify in a civil case. it will be resolved in another way. the problem cohen poses is not about the past because you can't prosecute a president while he's sitting and you can't impeach him for business dealings in the past that cohen may know about even if there isn't a crime. cohen poses a problem because if the president were to testify, cohen could contradict him. then you have a current perjury prosecution which is an impeachable offense. >> that's one concern. final question though. if indeed there is some charge related to the stormy daniels case and the president is implicated in that, that was in service -- that would b

because this is the first shark week since we learned that in an attempt to seduce stormy daniels, trump invited her to watch two-and-a-half hours of shark week. ( laughter ) or as the kids call it, netflix and krill. ( laughter ) before you @ me on twitter, several species of sharks eat krill! ( laughter ) have some joy in your life! now, to celebrate the first night of shark week, bring out the fin-orah! ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) with this ceremonial rolled-up "forbes" magazine, i light the first candle of the finorah. blessed art thou, kings of the sea, who maketh donald trump strangely randy. ( laughter ) i think the finorah can go now. thank you very much. thank you. ( cheers and applause ) speaking of stormy daniels, it's time for tonight's edition of "stormy watch"! ( cheers and applause ) karen mcdougall edition! that's right. mcdougal is the former playboy playmate who allegedly had a year-long affair with donald trump, beginning just three months after the birth of his and melania's son, roughly the same time as he slept with stormy daniels. that's dan

he's due in court this afternoon. >>> new details about the arrest of adult star stormy daniels at a video of daniels being taken io the police station, booked on misdemeanor charges. the police report says daniels touched patrons with her breasts. that is technically against ohio haugh. here's the mugshot of daniels just released. her lawyer claims the arrest was a politically motivated setup. daniels is out on bail. she made headlines for claiming that she had an affair with donald trump. >>> 4:30. let's get an update on weather and traffic where you live. let's check in with mike nicco. >> hey, jessica. hey everybody. this is last night. you can see the thunderstorms that were just around yosemite. they fell apart overnight. but that energy is coming our way. that's why we're going to have a chance of thunderstorms later this evening into the overnight hours. for the morning, you can see the marine layer is back cloud cover is hanging around. 57 to 63. it is a touch warmer than it was yesterday. we'll stay in the 60s at the coast. mainly 70s around the bay. we'll wrap it up by 7:0

and to the $130,000 payment that cohen made to stormy daniels. in may "the new york times" reported that weisselberg has known since last year the details of how mr. cohen was being reimbursed. all of that of course might be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what there is to be learned to a man that knows where the financial bodies are buried. robert mueller and his team are scrutinizing tweets as they look to build an obstruction case. telling nbc that mueller has almost everything he needs between the lester holt interview and the tweets, trump puts them on the five-yard line. what this could mean for the president, political analyst is david corn. and natasha. >> i think you are right, he does speak to the two hush money payments that we know, already know about involving stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, the playboy model and he can address the core question. keeping these women quiet because of the election. in order to help donald trump's election chances. and they were and that was explicit, then they get into an area of campaign fi

he closed it and set up another to pay your client stormy daniels. is the very act of opening these shell companies, done with the knowledge of the president, is that evidence of a conspiracy to you? >> i think it is evidence of a conspiracy. it may also provide evidence of money laundering or bank fraud. if you're setting up these dummy llcs so make payments. you don't just set them up. you set up bank accounts to go with it. we disclosed information relating to the bank account set up for essential consultants to make the $130,000 payment. i want to get back to basics here. you don't set up single purpose llcs and bogus bank accounts to make payments that are legitimate. you just don't do that. you don't go to all this effort and all of these shenanigans to do thing that are on board. period >> rudy giuliani is saying it doesn't make sense to use cash. especially through a corporation. that sort of negates the thing he was acting like a mobster and wanted to pay karen mcdougal in cash. >> rudy giuliani will say anything to protect the president. da

kasie hunt, nbc news, the capitol.> turn now to the arrest of porn star stormy daniels in the midst of her legal battle with president trump. daniels charged after that police officers said went too far. l but just houer those charges have already been dropped and her lawyer says she was set up. here's nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: it's not th glamour pic that propelled stormy daniels to porn prominence. this mug shot taken overnight. the adult film star booked after allegedly fondling female customers d pressing three undercover vice detectives into her chest at this columbus, ohio strip club according to police, daniels, topless and wearing a g-string, ctrabbed each of the deteives' heads, two of them women, before she ben smacking their face with her bare breasts. in ohio it can be illegal at a strip club for dancers to touch patrons. police say they were at the club investigating allegations of human trafficking and prostitution. >> my attorney and i are committed to making sure that everyone finds out the truth. >> reporter: daniels is locked in a legal battle over the hush

. >> the charges against stormy daniels have now been dismissed. she was arrested at an ohio strip club. >> accused of letting people touch her on stage. >> she feels targeted, and i think rightfully so. >> the founder and chairman of papa john's is stepping down. >> following allegations he used the "n" word during a conference call. >> flash flooding in the grand canyon has caused campground evacuations. >> fire in the hole! >> historic launch towers at cape canaveral were demolished. >> first used in 1957 to launch a satellite. >> enormous lines for pay-your- age day. >> the crowds were so big, the company build-a-bear pulled the plug. >> that's insanity for a stupid stuffed bear. >> worth the wait? >> absolutely. >> glor: this is our western edition. good evening, i'm jeff glor. we begin tonight with peter strzok, under oath and under fire on capitol hill. strzok is the agent who sent a stream of anti-trump text messages to a f.b.i. colleague during the 2016 presidential campaign. at a chaotic hearing that is still going on, republicans got the

raising questions as to whether porn actress - stormy daniels - was targeted ... she was arrested earlier this month in columbus- ohio. daniels was performing at a strip club ... when she allegedly violated a no-touch law. (ken) up to now, columbus police maintained daniels was caught up in a larger operation targeting human trafficking and prostitution.tom bosco explains the new information that may dispute that claim. newly uncovered columbus vice officers just prior to and right after the arrest of porn star and presidential paramour stormy daniels are raising questions about whether the arrest of the woman, whose real name is stephanie clifford, was politically motivated.the emails are from officers to other officers, and in one case from one officer to herself. they feature photos of clifford, a map to the club where she was performing, and a photo of clifford with the president. clifford was arrested along with two other performers for inappropriately touching patrons at sirens, a strip club in north columbus. the charges were dropped against all three women

a key figure in all this is attorney michael avenatti who represents adult film star stormy daniels, who also said she had an affair with donald trump, which he also denies. michael avenatti joins me now. so michael, only one of these 12 tapes include a conversation between president trump and michael cohen that we know about. you said yesterday that you know there are more tapes of president trump that michael cohen recorded, that there are in fact multiple tapes of the president. are you absolutely 100% sure on that? how do you know that? >> well, i don't know which 12 tapes have now been turned over. i believe that there are recordings beyond 12, anderson, and i know for a fact that there is more than one recording between michael cohen and donald trump. as i sit here right now, i don't know which specific 12 we're talking about or the press is reporting on. so i can't comment as to whether within those 12 there is more than one with the president's voice on it. >> do you know are there ones -- you said you know there are other ones with the president. it was reported there were o

you know him, stormy daniels' attorney. he joins us on the phone. you took to twitter talking about cohen and his lawyer. quote, mr. davis is a good lawyer but his client mr. cohen is not innocent nor is he a victim. he is a co-conspirator, dishonest thug who continues to refuse to come clean and do the right thing. they are playing you and aiming for a pardon. where is the rest of the evidence and tapes? now, davis says cohen is not seeking a pardon, and you don't buy that. michael, i got to walk through a few things. a, give you credit because you said there's not one tape, there's tapes. you were right. but a week ago, didn't you go out to dinner with michael cohen? they said you ran into him in a restaurant. i have to tell you, we got 14,000 restaurants in new york city. i personally don't buy that you just ran into one another. and i think you said that you could actually see yourself working with cohen at some point. so let's get through the noise and tell us what's really going on here. >> well, stephanie, i happened to run into michael cohen

so does michael avenatti who represents stormy daniels. so the reality is there may be more to come that's embarrassing, or the other wild card is to what extent does michael cohen cooperate with robert mueller, the prosecutor in the russian investigation? does he have anything to add there. we don't know the answer to that but this will certainly poke at donald trump. >> you heard the way michael avenatti talks. he opens the conversation with "our friend david." that's like a ripoff of "godfather ii," to be sure. then avenatti goes on to michael cohen to talk about all the stuff, indicating there is more here. and david brings up the possibility that maybe michael cohen has more. if you're making a public case, either a pr case or a legal case, don't you lead with your best, biggest stuff first? wouldn't you imagine this is the best biggest stuff that cohen has and he's trying to embarrass the president? >> potentially. it depends on what cohen's angle is. cohen may be trying to get a pardon here. don't forget, if he's really trying to co

of course, there is mueller interest and payments of adult actress stormy daniels. cohen has denied any and all doing. let's bring in our national security and justice reporter, julia ainsley. and danny. good to see you all of you. michael cohen having his name dragged through the mud and into this federal investigation. i want to remind people what he said then. >> it is not comfortable but i am okay with it personally because it benefits mr. trump and i will do anything to protect mr. trump, the family and now vice president-elect pence. >> of course, the difference now is he's facing the real possibility of an indictment and possibly being separated from his family. different message now. it is. >> i actually don't think the message is directed at the president. i think it is directed at everyone else in the universe. prosecutors and law enforcement and the public and everyone the press. what michael cohen is saying and it is a smart strategy. in reality, i am a family man and i respect this country and i are respect the law. that's an important message to law en

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players kneeling during the national anthem. >>> new details about the arrest of the adult star stormy daniels as a strip club in ohio. daniels lawyer says all charges against the porn actress have now been dismissed. police reports say daniels touch touched patrons with hir breast, that's technically against ohio law. her lawyer claims the arrest was a politically motivated setup. and here's daniels leaving the jail this morning. >>> president trump wants to make another major change this time to air force one. the new look he's going for. >>> the weather window on santa cruz and you can see it's a gorgeous day out at the coast. the clouds are starting to open up. and if you're thinking about doing anything near the coast or exercising, just watch out for that strong sunshine. and it's going to be possibly an >>> did you see that? you could definitely hear it. a colorado man captured some incredible video. look as we slowed it down, you can see the lightening strike the top of the stree and ark all the way down to the trunk and then it went into the ground and probably branched off from there