Hope Hicks, formerly one of President Donald Trump's closest aides, repeatedly declined to answer questions on Wednesday in an interview with U. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen will tell the US Congress on Wednesday that Trump is a "racist," a "conman" and a "cheat" who knew in advance about a release of emails by the Wikileaks website aimed at hurting his Democratic presidential rival. Cohen, Trump's longtime fixer who is set to go to prison for three years after pleading guilty to campaign finance and other crimes, will speak to senators behind closed doors, two sources familiar with congressional plans told Reuters. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was not concerned that he could be impeached and that hush payment made ahead of the election by his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to two women did not violate campaign finance laws. Trump directed his personal lawyer to make illegal hush payments to two women ahead of the election, US prosecutors said on Friday. No further details were immediately available, but police spokesman Jeff Lee said Avenatti was in the process of being formally booked. A US judge on Monday dismissed adult film actress Stormy Daniels's defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump and ordered her to pay his attorney's fees, saying a tweet the president had written referring to her was protected by free-speech laws.

A week and a half before the election, Donald Trump's personal attorney paid a porn star named Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged relationship with the Republican candidate for president. Today, that arrangement is well on its way to becoming the most talked-about "hush agreement" in history, with potential legal and political implications for the president. Through his spokesman, Mr. But that didn't stop her from coming on 60 Minutes.

The controversy over an alleged affair between adult film star Stormy Daniels and US President Donald Trump has provided a deluge of troublesome headlines for the White House. But Mr Trump and his legal team have made apparently contradictory statements about the payment, raising questions about how much the president knew about it. So from denials to confessions - here's what the key players have said about the saga so far. She alleged that the pair had sex in his hotel room at Lake Tahoe, a resort area between California and Nevada, and had an "ongoing" relationship after this encounter. Mr Trump denied the allegations.