The Department of Justice's Decline to Charge Michael Cohen With a Federal Campaign Finance Violation

Rick Perry: It doesn't have to be Trump's crime it's just any other crime. He says that the falsification of business records was an attempt to hide Michael Cohen's federal campaign finance violation. The DOJ very much thinks that these or similar actions i.e. not reporting as a campaign expenditure hush money payments basically is in fact a campaign finance violation, he said. Rick Perry: I took it in the totality of the circumstances including the failure of the john Edwards prosecution and the declining to prosecute all of those things together said to me this is a tough case  not that it's no case at all.