we fast forward a year october 13th, 2018 - michael cohen acknowledges making the payment to stormy danielsertions he would like to recant on march 6th, daniels, who i now represented by attorne michael avenatti, sues trump and essential consultants ll in california in an attempt to nullify her nda, arguing tha the deal is invalid since trum never signed it. on august 21st of that year, cohen pleads guilty to eight federal charges of tax evasion fraud and campaign finance violations related to th payments to daniels an mcdougal and he later tells a federal court in manhattan that trum directed him to make the payments jumping to august 2019, th office of manhattan district attorney cy vance subpoenas th trump organization for records related to the payments. and a year later, in july 2020 the supreme court sides with vance in a 7 to 2 ruling finding that trump is no immune from the da's subpoena. but it will take until februar 25th of 2021 before vance' office obtains trump's tax returns. on november 2nd of that year alvin bragg is elected as th next manhattan da. and that brings us to this

we will come back to stormy daniels in a moment. at the commercial break. and that is, what was your exposure to this, growing up -- one of the weirdest men in the world -- part of what scent you down the road to study a clinical psychology. >> you know, lawrence, if you were to ask me at the time, i would have said no, which is superficially and structurally in some ways true. however, when i started having to excavate my family history in order to write my first book, which is in large part about the relationship between my grandfather, and his two older sons, i realized that unconsciously, i probably did make the choice to study clinical psychology, because of my experience, not just because my experience in my family, because of certain patterns i recognize. and one of them, continues to this day, and you and congressman schiff alluded to in it, and it's that donald, because of what a week on accomplished person he is, and because of his psychological inability to reckon with any of that, needs to destroy anybody who is superior

, a lawyer, to pay off stormy daniels. and you're looking at the checks. donald trump wrote to michael cohen to cover up that payoff. and you imagine putting your client, donald trump, on the witness stand in manhattan, in his own defense. and then you hear him say to an audience of a few thousand trump fanatics in texas, that wouldn't be the one. meaning, i, donald trump, an expert on donald trump having a an affair, insisted you that's not a person donald trump would have an affair with. and then, as donald trump's criminal defense lawyer, you listen, hoping that your client donald trump can find a way of saying i love my wife. and he's never been under more public pressure in his life to say, i love my wife. and he cannot bring himself to say it. those words do not cross his mind. if you're donald trump's lawyers, and he is indicted in the stormy daniels case in manhattan, you know that your only chance of getting a not guilty with donald trump to put him on the witness stand to try to convince that jury that the only r

well, stormy daniels _ what is the latest now? well, stormy daniels has _ what is the latest now?s has responded, she hadn't responded immediately, but she has tweeted. stormy daniels of course is the porn star at the centre of all of this, saying thank you for all your support and love, i have so many messages coming in that i can't respond, also don't want to spill my champagne. that is what she has been tweeting. the reaction has been coming in constantly from the republicans, from democrats as well. donald trump has accused the democrats of a witch hunt, political persecution, in his narrative constantly. he has even attacked president biden. president biden has not responded to any of this. we knew this indictment was coming down the pipeline and he has decided that his response is silence because i guess there is no blueprint for how a sitting president reacts to his predecessor facing this sort of criminal charge. 50 predecessor facing this sort of criminal charge.— criminal charge. so where exactly do _ criminal charge. so where exactly do you _ criminal charge. so where e

in 2018, when stormy daniels was shopping for a lawyer, she reportedly contacted joe tacopina.tement today to nbc news, joe tacopina said, never matter, never spoke to her, she tried to hire me by calling my office and spoke to a paralegal. but i never spoke to her or took her case. contradicting joe tacopina today on that point is joe tacopina in 2018. >> before being represented by -- stormy approached you about representation. did you get the impression she might have found you under the da in which she afraid of are physical safety? >> of course. i can't really talk about my impressions because there is a client attorney privilege detached evil consultation. >> done in 2018 the criminal defense lawyer seem to defend the theory of the case that trump's payoffs to stormy daniels could be criminal. >> where the money come from? if it leads back to the trump campaign funding, that's a big problem. this is a pandora's box that's going to be opened, and unfortunately it is not going to have any good results for the presidents. >> andrew weissmann is back with us and joining our d

or could this particular grand jury that's been hearing all this testimony concernin stormy daniels,c ran jur returned recommendations for crimes that were perhaps anticipated that don't hav anything to do with stormy daniels? >> in theory, that's possibl though, it would be strange to present two separate grand juries so, that is a possibility, but in all likelihood, let's tal just for a minute about th other prosecution yo mentioned. allen weisselberg. in respect, i'm not sure that' a victory. that was basically a crimina case against a corporation i think the inference to b drawn there is that ther simply wasn't enough evidenc to charge trump, because the would have so, now you are going forwar with a case that was against allen weisselberg, or the ne york, for the new york state attorney general recovered wit 1 million dollars in bonds and convicted accompany, that isn' really, in my mind, a majo victory after the level of investigation. look, i think critical from th beginning of the new york a.g. and the manhattan county district attorney' investigation, because when yo take a

cnn reports tonight communications between stormy daniels and her lawyer, currently defending donald trump are now in the hands of the manhattan da. daniel says, the exchanges between daniels and current trump roller, joe tacopina dates back to 2018 when daniel approached tacopina about representing her. these communications raise the possibility the tacopina could be sidelined, for now, in turn from defending trump. he denies that there is a conflict of interest and says he neither met with, north spoke, with daniels. stay tuned that's it for us tonight now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening lawrence. >> good evening >> of course there's video of him all over the world why drive saying hey it sounds like what michael cohen did was a serious crime with donald trump. i guess that is video that donald trump didn't see before hiring him >> yes exactly. now, alvin bragg has the communications between stormy daniels, and joe tacopina, which could take joe check a peÑa off this case in terms of trump's defense. >> alex during your hour, there is a huge develo

we know that stormy daniels was looking for an attorney did she give tacopina and his law firm? financial information in this case that would give them a leg up in this case, but to could actually impact daniels herself . let's say this goes to trial could any information that she gave them be used against her in a cross examination, so that is what the judge will have to look at and determine when he sees if these communications amount to a conflict of interest? of course. stormy daniels attorney turned these over because he believes that there is confidential information that was shared with tacopina and his firm. and as you noted, tacopina has said that there was no conflict of interest that he never met or spoke to stormy daniels. but then there is the tape where he essentially said that some sort of attorney client privilege had been a stab list. so again. this is in the judge's hands, and that will be the ultimate determination as to whether or not there was a conflict of interest. and if tacopina can continue forward representing trump. thank you. before you go . you've go

the adult film actress stormy daniels was half donald trump's age when she said they met in 2016 at lakeaims that help invite her up to her room and when she got there they just watched sharki] week on tv.'c■ originallyq it was tabloid u not "the new york times" juicy. the first time daniels tried to sell this story was in 2011 upset that jffátrump's story to onv fruition. á was soÑi absurd. it was literally a punch line. >> donald trump has said run for president because ir was running as a joke. >> he's not laughing there.fá plan trump hachdlp with the publisher of the national enquirer that plan went into action. trump's lawyer michael■cohen bought the story, he caught it andi] killedÑiÑi it. .q&%uuu allegedly paid cohen ba for that. you could argue that we would not be where wew3 are right now i'dlp love to know, you know, a we look at the magnitude of what may be oni] deck ahead of us, whether this all begins with a porn star who's angry about not getting a cameo onó[■ ñ3[■"appuq can you take me back to what was happening? how this dynamic was ⌝%q■ worked its way over national enqui

you all will remember stormy daniels, the adult film star who said trump invited her t his home pilgrimor dinner, and sex in 2006. and for michael cohen, trump's former personal attorney and fixer, whose sentenced to thre years in prison, after he pled guilty to nine criminal counts including one count related to a 130,000 dollar hush mone payment made to stormy daniels which he has said that trump told him to pay. -- i wanna bring back john here late into an, alan john, you are transporting >> now you just pretend yo don't know how to use, thing because it moving around in shot, we've had some phylactery's i'll, talk to me about the state of the race, and how everybody reacts to that because van and i have bee talking a little bit about rhonda santos's reaction, mike pence's reaction these are all guys who love to see donald trump go down but they are not gonna cross him o his people for now >> i mean absolutely not, think the expectation is tha in the short term, this is really gonna help trump, as he tries to get the republica nomination you, know what remains is th question of wheth

and, the stormy daniels investigation by federal prosecutors.tomorrow's daily news may have the headline of a similar spirit to convey the news that david pecker testified today to the manhattan -- donald trump's involvement in the stormy daniels payout. because reporters are staking out the manhattan courthouse, they can usually see who is coming and going at the grand jury room, but they have no idea -- gregory room actually is. david pecker was reported as having testified to the grand jury in january, and in a moment we will be joined by a former manhattan district attorney, assistant district attorney, who will share his valuable insights into what could bring a witness like that back. to the grand jury. after michael cohen pleaded guilty to federal crimes the payoff he arranged to stephanie clifford, the actress noted stormy daniels, he testified to the -- national enquirer had what he called a treasure trove, a treasure trove of documents about stories that the national enquirer killed qassem trump. >> you also mentioned that the presiden

with stormy daniels. and michael cohen began hi public involvement in th stormy daniels case by denying that there was ever a trum payoffs to stormy daniels. but in record-breaking time fo the young unraveling of such a conspiracy, michael cohen wa in federal court in 2018 pleading guilty to arranging the payoffs to stormy daniel that he used to deny happen. arranging them himself and pleading guilty to the fac that those payments were i violation of federal campaig finance law because the mone was used to purchase storm daniels silence and in the las weeks of the presidentia campaign, so that what she had to say about donald trump' sexual moment with her would not hurt donald trump' campaign here is what michael cohen tol nicole wallace today about the grand jury he testified to >> tell me what you can abou the level of engagement from the -- i heard you answer a questio as you are walking away that each of the grand jurors asked you questions. did we hear that right >> almost each of the gran jurors the

that would be stormy daniels herself.have here in just the last couple minutes statements on twitter from not only stormy daniels, but her attorney. you can see in the attorney's statement he said, at the request of the manhattan d.a.'s office stormy daniels and i met with prosecutors today she responded to questions and has agreed to make herself available as a witness stormy daniels tweeted, thank you to my amazing attorney for helpingme in our continuing fight for truth and justice. michael cohen, he met with prosecutors for -- in 20 different instances before he went in front of the grand jury. with the impanelment of this grand jury, this is the district attorney's opportunity to bring forward evidence and testimony before these jurors to make his -- essentially a one-sided case donald trump does have until tomorrow to go before the grand jury and make his own case so far his attorneys suggested he's not going to do that. this is his opportunity. if this latest meeting with stormy daniels and her attorney today would

to cover up their very brie sexual encounter, according to stormy daniels that's where we are tonight. this being trump world patience is always rewarded. and so tonight, we can wonder, exactly how much patience will it take to wait for the da when the trump lawyer who' defending donald trump on msnb tonight will be the trum lawyer who is accusing donal trump of something criminal in the future thereby, suggest subjectin tonight's trump lawyer to bein attacked by the next trump lawyer, and will this cycle go on for the rest of donald trum 's life? the cycle of trump lawye defends trump vehemently on tv followed by trump lawyer turns against trump, followed by tha trump lawyer is attacked by new trump lawyer, who then eventually turns against trump and so on and so on and so the astonishing thing, about the trump lawyer tonight o msnbc attacking the former trump lawyer, is that now, bot of those lawyers have publicly defended donald trump in the stormy daniels case. here is michael cohen, vehemently defending donal trump against the accusation that donald trump had a very brief sexual

now, the question here is what is the value of stormy daniels' testimony. testify number one perhaps she had an affair with the former president. number two, that she received this $130,000 payment. that's useful testimony to establishing this record of money being transferred possibly for that campaign finance violation. now, the question is all going to come down to what they can prove about the former president's intent and whether cohen is the witness that can provide that or someone or some thing, some other documents will remain to be seen. >> what potentially could all this mean for trump's effort to get himself elected for the 2024 presidential campaign? >> it certainly poses a challenge. look, at the end of the day if you're a republican voter this is another reminder of the chaos and allegations of wrongdoing that constantly surround the former president and the first time truly since 2016 there's been legitimate alternatives and other folks that could emerge as viable candidates. i think the timing is very challenging for him. you're going to see

trump involving hush money payments to stormy daniels has been simmering for months today mr. trump set it to a boil. in an early morning social media post he announced that from media leaks he has seen, he believes he will be arrested this coming tuesday his allies came to his defense, criticizing the new york city based case as purely political. others fear the part of his announcement calling on his followers to protest was too reminiscent of calls before january 6th. there is still no official word that any indictment really is forthcoming, but we have new reporting on how law enforcement agencies in new york are preparing for just that we have all of this covered tonight and we begin with garrett haake at mar-a-lago. >> reporter: donald trump tonight predicting his own arrest next tuesday, calling on his millions of followers to protest on his behalf and, quote, take our nation back in the face of what could be an historic first, the indictment of a former president. mr. trump making his claim on social media, citing what he called, quote, illegal leaks from a highly poli

cnn reports tonight that communications between stormy daniels and her lawyer, currently defending donald hands of the manhattan da. daniel side says the exchanges between daniels and current trump lawyer, joe tacopina dates back to 2018 when daniel approached tacopina about representing her. these communications raise the possibility the tacopina could be sidelined, for now, in turn from defending trump. tacopina denies that there is a conflict of interest and says he neither -- stormy daniels. that's it for us. tonight stay tuned for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >>

was indicted for his role in allegedly approving an illegal hush money payment to adult star stormy danielsefore the 2016 election. daniels, whose real name is stephanie clifford, alleged in a 60 minutes interview that she'd had an affair with trump in 2006 just months after his wife melania had given birth to their son, baron. did you mention his wife or child at all in this? i asked , and he brushed it aside. said oh, yeah, yeah. you know, don't worry about that. we don't even we have separate rooms and stuff. it was a payment. trump initially said he knew nothing about. former president's one time fixer and lawyer, testified that he made the payment to daniel's at trump's direction to silence her before the election. trump's legal team now acknowledges the payment but says trump was trying to protect his family, not his campaign. trump maintains he didn't have an affair with daniels and that he did nothing wrong. the heart of this case is this $130,000 in hush money payments made to stormy daniels before the 2016 election, and actually hush money came in standing alone. are not illegal,

payment to stormy daniels-_ stormy daniels.aniels. that was the more | salacious element, what we can only speculate, we don't know what the 34 accounts are. there was a pattern of expenditure and income, it caused concern among authorities about the accuracy of reporting. this could be accuracy of reporting. this could be a part of a larger question around financial activity which falls under campaign finance laws and other rules. what is interesting is that in the muller report, that came out many years ago, there is a paragraph saying that then covered unusual activity that required further investigation, by manhattan authorities. that particular report, was published many years ago, so we will see where it takes us next week. ~ . . , will see where it takes us next week. ~ . ., , , week. we certainly will. the courts are iuite week. we certainly will. the courts are quite busy _ week. we certainly will. the courts are quite busy with _ week. we certainly will. the courts are quite busy with other— week. we certainly will. t

_ payment of hush money to stormy daniels. rump organisation basically falsified this reimbursement saying it was— falsified this reimbursement saying it was for— falsified this reimbursement saying it was for legal fees when it was really— it was for legal fees when it was really not — it was for legal fees when it was really not. that is a misdemeanor. mr meanar— really not. that is a misdemeanor. mr meaner is — really not. that is a misdemeanor. mr meaner is a crime that is punishable by less than one year. the question is, can he tie it to another— the question is, can he tie it to another crime? the question is, can he tie it to anothercrime? in the question is, can he tie it to another crime? in other words, the question is, can he tie it to another crime? in otherwords, if the falsification is done to commit or conceai— the falsification is done to commit or conceal another crime it becomes a felony _ or conceal another crime it becomes a felony we — or conceal another crime it becomes a felony. we can talk about what he

>> is stormy daniels a lawyer? >> yeah. >> a lawyer? >> is stormy daniels a lawyer? >> i don't think she is a lawyer i don't think her lawyer was lawyer either, but stormy daniels is not a lawyer. daniels is not a lawyer. that is established. you saw in real time trump's current attorney concede that obvious fact now, it matters because some of this may add heat. if the d.a. proves that trump lied to authorities about where that money went. trump has been caught lying in public already about all of this the current defense by his lawyer argues the money was a legal fee because it went to then-lawyer michael cohen. >> so she is not a lawyer and these payments are made and they were, according to federal filings, classified on the trump side as legal services that was false, wasn't it? >> the payments were made to a lawyer, not to stormy daniels. the payments were made to donald trump's lawyer which would be considered legal fees. >> that lawyer was michael cohen who went to prison and was back testifying to the grand jury today. which nicole and i just discussed and h

to pay off stormy daniels. he pled guilty to paying off stormy daniels himself with his own personal funds, which amounted to $130,000 contribution, by michael cohen, to the trump campaign. and a contribution that size is in violation of campaign finance contribution limits, of course, the contribution was never reported as a contribution to the trump campaign, which is also a violation of campaign finance law. that michael cohen pled guilty to. when michael cohen finally made public copies of the checks that he received to reimburse him, some of those checks were drawn on donald trump's personal checking account. we don't know whether donald trump then took a tax deduction on his personal income tax return for those checks. but the first checks that michael cohen received, as reimbursement for his payoff to stormy daniels, came from the trump business. they were trump organization checks. and they were recorded in the trump business falsely. as legal fees to michael cohen. that is some of what the manhattan gr

in exchange for not repeating that claim in public, trump sent stormy daniels a check. was that legal? well, we can answer that question. because there was a campaign in progress at the time, officials at the federal election commission later examined the transaction between trump and stormy daniels. federal investigators concluded that nothing criminal had taken place and, in fact, settlements like this, whatever you think of them, are common both among famous people, celebrities and in corporate america. the result is usually called nda, nondisclosure agreement. paying people to talk about things, hush money, is ordinary in modern america. according to the ftc, there was no need for donald trump to report his payments to stormy daniels nor was the money he sent her through his attorney subject to campaign finance limitations. the fec determined the entire thing was a personal expenditure. it clearly was, so what is the crime here? well, the media don't seem very interested in finding out. this is donald trump. he's a criminal. everything he does is a crime. watch. >>

they're going to go on cohen, on stormy daniels.od to allege, wait a minute, i'm the victim here. this was an extortion attempt. you're charging the wrong people. look at avenatti has already gone to prison. this is going to get absolutely crazy if an indictment comes down. but look, that is something that i am confident that the d.a. and the court system and the security around there will take into account, and they will judge whether or not to seek an indictment based on the facts and the law and not all the extraneous matters. you have to follow the rule of law and deal with the consequences of what that may entail. >> i'm going to do a quick lightning round. yes or no, would you try to move this case out of manhattan, renato? >> absolutely not. you gave the percentages. it's a great place for a prosecutor to pick a jury from in this particular case. >> charles coleman jr., would you move it? >> not a chance i move it as a prosecutor. not a chance i don't try to move it as a defense attorney. >> wow. there you go. thank you. this

is stormy daniels a lawyer >> is stormy daniels a lawyer? >> yeah. >> a lawyer? >> yeah, is stormy daniels a lawyer. >> i thought you asked if she's a liar i don't think she's a lawyer i don't think her lawyer is a lawyer, either. >> so, she's not a lawyer, and these payment were made, and they were according to federal filings classify on the trump side as legal services. >> mm-hmm. >> that was false, wasn't it >> the payments were made to a lawyer, not stormy daniels the payments were made to donald trump's lawyer, which would be considered legal fees. m michael cohen, regardless of what we know of him now, liar, convicted, inside trump world, was his lawyer at the time and advised him this was the proper way to do this to protect himself and misfamily from embarrassment. >> that money, just to be clear on this point did go to stort l fees, it was a payment. >> it went to stormy daniels from michael cohen this is how cohen structured this he decided he was going to do it this way and ask for the reimbursement for what we billed legal fees that is not a crime. i

even stormy daniels, stephanie clifford has come| daniels, stephanie clifford has come out and said that but now, as we know this of course is going forward and if there wasn't a case, we doubt the manhattan district attorney would move forward and try and prosecuted. sorry, becky just one moment. they would say that nobody is above the law including the president.— the president. that's true. including _ the president. that's true. including the _ the president. that's true. including the district - the president. that's true. - including the district attorney. so, what you're looking for, if i'm understanding you correctly and peace correct me if i'm wrong. you're looking for an investigation into the manhattan district attorney? if need be. he wasn't acting like any district attorney i would have voted for. he would believe that the grand jury has decided there is evidence to move forward with this particular case. let's talk about your politics. we saw mike pence speaking there about our approach about what happened. does that mean warm you to mike pence in any way? ijust does that m

the first former us president to face criminal charges — over money paid to a former porn star, stormy danielsit's alleged mr trump paid hush money to ms daniels over an affair but recorded it as a business expense. mr trump denies wrongdoing, and the affair, saying the indictment is "political persecution". he's due to appear in court on tuesday. also on the programme: charges of racism are upheld against five former players at yorkshire cricket club, but ex—england captain michael vaughan is cleared. sewage was discharged into our waterways at the equivalent of 800 times a day last year, according to environment agency figures. and plans to create and protect up to 100 wild flower meadows to mark the king's coronation. and coming up on the bbc news channel — wimbledon later we'll have sportsday on the bbc news channel, we will have the and key interviews on the day's talking points all from the bbc sport centre. good evening. donald trump will be the first former us president to face criminal charges after a grand jury indicted him over money paid to the former porn star stormy daniels. the

but it's one thing for stormy daniels, michael cohen, to speak out publicly. it seems a little different even you're a private citizen that you had to nonpublic information previously. do you think that this opens a new avenue to a trump defense in in an in an inevitable prosecution. do you think that he'll single out your book as a way to protect himself? look may talk about book but the question legally and ethically whether talking about these things in the book made it substantially more for him to get a fair trial if he's indicted and if there is a prosecution bearing in that. when i wrote the book there was no prosecution and there still is no prosecution but should there be a prosecution? and the issue was raised. does the book somehow prosecution him more difficult? i to say, given literally the oceans ink that have been spilled about donald trump over the number of years given thousands of hours that have been spent on every network everywhere in the world, talking about donald trump. to me, the notion that of all the stories that have been written an

we heard a lot about stormy daniels. she in my smestimation is a less important witness. it's about the criminal deal michael cohen and donald trump struck together and that michael cohen then implemented at the direction of and for the benefit of donald trump. the other important data point is the prosecutors invited donald trump to appear before the grand jury they couldn't subpoena him because he's the target of the investigation, and he obviously has a fifth amendment right against self-incrimination, but they invited him, as we often do in the larger white collar cases to give the target of the grand jury investigation an opportunity to explain how, you know what, the prosecutors have it all wrong, i really committed no crimes. not surprisingly, donald trump did not accept that invitation so i think the next step is really for alvin bragg to move toward asking the grand jury to return an indictment >> glenn, let's talk about georgia where we're now hearing about this previously unknown call we're still awaiting the

someone who claims to be friends wit her who says she actually want to be called stormy daniels. now, i always say stephani clifford, also known as stormy daniels because i'm trying t be respectful of what is right for her her name appears wit stephanie clifford in a lot of this legal material. so we will be's annette name a a certain point. first question for stormy when she shows up is which name issue for four or four testes. >> to change it for a reason she picked stormy daniels sh wants to name a color anything she wants. but i hope she call me to come on the rachel maddow show. >> i think the message has bee delivered. thank you rachel laid off our discussion tonight, andrew weissmann a former fb general counsel and former chief of the eastern division, is professor practice that and why you high all school. also with, us dan harless, former manhattan distric attorney also with karen freeman, another forme manhattan chief assistan district attorney, and catherine christine is with us a former manhattan distric attorney, let me begin wit former assistant distric attorney chr

this is the stormy daniels case. many republicans including jim, yesterday on balance of power spoke about it as a matter of fact. that he paid off a point star with hush money. those are still allegations to be clear and even michael cohen's lawyer told us a couple of days ago and indictment does not mean guilt. he will still have to go through the phases of the case and he could still beat this. as i mentioned, there are several other cases waiting for him as well. haidi: these charges even a conviction would not prevent him from continuing to run for the presidency or even serving as president. >> that's true he can run for whatever he wants. in terms of holding office should he be convicted as you said, that gets to be a little bit more complicated but you can run for office from jail. it is been done before. it's not a very good look. at some point when we get beyond the initial stages of a partisan primary cycle, this is going to look and feel very different. that same poll still has joe biden two points above

cnn's k file, just revealing more controversial comments from trump's attorney in the stormy daniels hush money case, joe tacopina. now we've told you about some of the comments tacopina made in 2018 defending michael cohen's credibility and calling the daniel situation of pandora's box that would have bad results for trump. but the famed defense attorney also suggested that he believed trump had the affair with daniels, which, of course, trump repeatedly denies. we haven't seen them send a tweet or anything which is unusual. and by the way to me, it means you know it's true right because he has a threat to sue. right out front. now the senior editor of cnn's k file, andrew kaczynski, of k file, all right, so i mean , it's amazing when you took the time to go through and so much that you found this was not the only time that we just played there that you found tacopina, saying that he believed trump had an affair with stormy daniels, which, of course, is at the heart of trump, saying nothing happened here because he's saying he didn't have an affair and what's interesting is you know

if competent for sending money to stormy daniels will, you'll be watching the abusive law enforcement and you know, carlson texan communications from the post election period have been a subject of a lot of media coverage recently because those materials came out during the discovery process and the dominion lawsuit and they revealed that cross it had been bad mounting trump when he wasn't on air. it appears now though at least that karl saying and other folks and fox are going to be able to pull right back into the pattern. depending trump. yeah, they better not put my president in prison. he represents 74000000 americans. and if he's the nominee, you're putting 74000000 votes in prison over the last years. so fox has tried to move away from trump. they tended to focus more on the broader conservative movement and particularly on potential or active conservative presidential candidates. the problem for them is that an awful lot of trump supporters are also fox viewers. and they're very interested in this story. and so the fox anchors and the porters are in a challenging situation. if

fox has gone on the dominion stores on the stormy daniels case, and the indictment not so much that you know, i don't want to live in a world where, you know, pay porn actress. it's hush money is considered a crime section. right? no one is quite time show this week. tucker carlson, offered a staunch defense of donald trump, arguing that there is not really a legal case here if competent for sending money to stormy daniels will, you'll be watching the abuse of law enforcement power in you know, carlson's texan communications from the post election period. i have been a subject of a lot of media coverage recently because those materials came out during the discovery process on the dominion lawsuit and they revealed that carlson had been bad. now think trump, when he wasn't on air, it appears now though at least that karl sand and other folks on fox are going to be able to pull right back into the pattern of defending from. yeah, they better not put my president in prison. he represents 74000000 american, and if he's the nominee, you're putting 74000000 votes in prison over the last year

declined t comment on those claims, which stem from an investigation int a hush money payment to stormy danielsbut nbc news has obtained an email sent by da alvin bragg telling staff they will not be intimidated. if indicted, donald trump woul be the first former u.s. president to face criminal charges, and early today democratic lot makers ar stressing that significance. >> no one is above the law that is a defining principle o the republic, and has been the case for 247 years >> it i outrageous there is no thing to low the sky cannot reach every time yo think he's reached, it he goes even further >> also that he is ver typical of the forme president. he attacks the person who is leading this investigation i new york, rather tha addressing the underlyin conduct issue here >> but as trump faces possible legal peril, he is finding support within the republica party, from allies and eve some rivals. today, a number of prominent republicans appearing to defen the former president >> it jus feels like a politically-charged prosecution, here and for my part i jus feel like it is just not wit the ame

are the indictment related to the stormy daniels payment? alleged payment of hash money legal. i'm maybe alice line says that a possible conviction of from could actually have the way him to be nominated for next year's president who election. i am astonished. people have said without a doubt, even his most ardent political detractors at this case stinks. it is ridiculous. it's a waste of time, and then surprise, surprise, he's indicted. what they are alleging is that through some kind of of machination that this payment that was made to store me daniels, a former entertainer that this somehow subverted campaign laws. will he have to show up and be fingerprinted? yes. will he be monk shadid? yes. well that picture become probably the the most important mean to photo in the history of humankind. most probably it'll, it'll slip up. it's meant to embarrass but the but the thing in which is so interesting is that what will this do to him? politically, many people believe that this is going to elevate him, that this will ensure that he gets, it seems counterintuitive, but that this

the payment made to stormy daniels in the weeks before the 2016 election. prosecutors have claimed it was to keep daniels quiet about a sexual encounter she said she had with trump. what we are learning about the indictment, and his expected arraignment, reported communications already between the trump team and the secret service about how to bring the former president back to new york to face these charges and the reaction tonight, what former president trump told our reporter just a short time ago. nine soldiers killed in kentucky, two black hawk helicopters crashed in a residential area during a nighttime training mission. the deadliest loss for our military in a single incident since 13 troops were killed by a suicide bomber in kabul in 2021. what we are learning about the moments before the crash and what witnesses say they saw and heard. martha raddatz with late reporting. in russia tonight a u.s. journalist charged with espionage, the first time since the cold war. the kremlin claiming he was caught "red-handed," "the wall street journal" reporter o

following that insurrection in washington, there's a lot to get to this story, starting with a stormy daniel case. when one considers all of the crimes, donald trump has been accused of inciting an insurrection on capitol hill. donald trump could place criminal proceedings over the capsule, wyatt, and i'm trying to have the 2020 election results overturned in georgia, warmer president trucks and efforts to get georgia state officials to overturn his election defeat taking and then refusal to hand back classified us government documents in the investigation and to donald trump over those classified documents found at mar lago. the 1st and he is expected to face of all things is over hush might have to an adult film. star, stormy daniel former president trump could be criminal charges over his alleged role in a payment of harsh money. given the ways this former person has tested american democracy, that $130000.00 payment seems like small change. an odd place for the indictments to start. so this payment happened 6 and a half years ago. you learned about it more than 5 years ago. and obviously

first is stormy daniels back in 2006 adult film start stormy daniels claims he met with trump at his hotel, where they had an affair from has repeatedly denied having an affair with daniel. so years later, daniels was poised to give an interview detailing the affair with inc, taught for $15000.00. that interview never happen. daniels claims she wasn't. they were paid like next is michael coy quiz from's, former lawyer with the right of de knows going probably coin had daniels sign a non disclosure agreement. several months later, coin pursued reimbursement from the prompts organization for hundreds of thousands of dollars. in january 2013 daniels then tap lawyer micro. i'm in 90 in the quest to notify the non disclosure agreement from quickly denied knowledge of the exchange between coin and daniel. the f. b i rated calling home and office in april 2018 by august coin plead guilty to multiple charges, including a campaign finance violation in august 2018. then manhattan district attorney cyrus vance comments an investigation into the trump organization. his office will be not the trum