The fallout continues from Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort. New York opens another line of

investigation into President Trump, and President Trump leaps into the South Africa situation.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

See, normally they call up the summer doldrums because not a lot happened.

But then there was the Trump administration, and stuff happens all the time. We're going to jump into all of it in just one second.

But first, let's talk a little bit about our national debt.

It's $21 trillion in counting.

That is, at least a large chunk, money we owe other countries or to our unfunded liabilities.

It's greater than the entire economic output of the United States.

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Cohen, it turns out, is the greater threat to the President of the United States than

is Paul Manafort.

To recap, Michael Cohen pled guilty to campaign finance violations, and he suggested that

the president had informed him and told him to commit these campaign finance violations.

He'd instructed him to

create all these shell corporations and avoid going through normal disclosure routes in order to pay off

two separate women, Karen McDougall and Stormy Daniels, with whom he had once had sex, just before

the election in order to impact the election. Now, there are a couple of cases today as to why this

is not actually legal violation. One of those cases being made by Bradley Smith. I discussed this over the last couple of cases today as to why this is not actually legal violation. One of those

cases being made by Bradley Smith. I discussed this over the last couple of days. He's a former

chairman of the Federal Election Commission. He has a piece over at the Washington Post about

this. And what he basically argues is that it is not a campaign expenditure when you are

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