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.
Ro Aram reports.
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.
Cohen added he was instructed by Trump to commit the crimes.
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.
However, on Wednesday, the White House pushed back against those claims.

"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."

Sanders however declined to answer questions on when Trump knew about the payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
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.
Cohen's guilty plea came at almost the same time that Trump's ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted of separate financial crimes.
Although Trump is mostly immune from indictment while he is president, he is at risk of being impeached.
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.
Cohen's lawyer has said his client is ready to tell everything he knows about Trump to help Mueller's investigation.
Ro Aram, Arirang News.