The White House insists that the admission by President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen.... that he broke campaign finance laws does not mean the president is implicated.<br />Ro Aram reports. <br /> On Tuesday, Cohen pleaded guilty to violating finance laws during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign by paying hush money to two of the president's alleged mistresses.<br />Cohen added he was instructed by Trump to commit the crimes.<br />This is significant because the admission has come from someone who was known to be Trump's so-called "fix it" lawyer for more than a decade. <br />However, on Wednesday, the White House pushed back against those claims.<br /><br /> "As the president has stated on numerous occasions, he did nothing wrong. There are no charges against him in this. And just because Michael Cohen made a plea deal, doesn't mean that that implicates the president on anything."<br /><br /> Sanders however declined to answer questions on when Trump knew about the payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.<br />President Trump lashed out at his former lawyer on Wednesday, accusing him of making up stories in order to get a deal from federal prosecutors. <br />Cohen's guilty plea came at almost the same time that Trump's ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted of separate financial crimes.<br />Although Trump is mostly immune from indictment while he is president, he is at risk of being impeached. <br /> The whole ordeal is a result of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia - which Trump again denounced as a "witch hunt" in a tweet on Wednesday.<br /> Cohen's lawyer has said his client is ready to tell everything he knows about Trump to help Mueller's investigation.<br />Ro Aram, Arirang News. <br />
