Key Updates

• Within minutes of each other Tuesday, longtime Trump fixer Michael Cohen told a judge that Trump ordered him to pay hush money, a campaign finance violation, and the president's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was found guilty of felony bank and tax fraud violations.
• The allegation that the president not only knew about but directed criminal activity harkens back to the Nixon days.
• Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, points to lack of an indictment directly against the president as the good news.
• One of the president’s earliest endorsers, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., was indicted on federal charges that he violated campaign finance law.