Chris Wallace on Cohen Plea Deal: ‘It Certainly Doesn’t Look Good’

‘People talk about now and the White House talk about Michael Cohen as if he was this very much a subsidiary figure and not very important’

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SMITH: "What is your take on yesterdays's developments with Russia? I didn’t get to talk to you yesterday."

WALLACE: "Look, it certainly doesn’t look good. Here’s the President of the United States as a candidate in 2016. People talk about now and the White House talk about Michael Cohen as if he was this very much a subsidiary figure and not very important. He was the President’s fixer. The fact that he was negotiating about the Trump Tower in Moscow, the fact that he was dealing with hush payments to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels gives an indication of how important he was in terms of being a fixer for the President in some messy business. Having said that, there’s nothing illegal with the President, may seem politically foolish, but nothing illegal at all with the President as a candidate to — he was running the Trump Organization, to be floating this idea of a Trump Tower in Moscow at the same time he was running for the presidency of the United States. On the other hand, it obviously raises questions about whether there were financial obligations, connections we did know about. Between this and also the information that we got this week that Jerome Corsi, a friend of Roger Stone, another adviser to the President, was in touch with Wikileaks and getting information for them at the same time that Stone was talking to the President, it just draws some connections. There’s no illegality here. It’s all smoke. But there’s more smoke this week."

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