Fired back saying this to the judge saying today is one of the most meaningful days of my life. I have been living in a personal and mental incarceration ever since the day that i accepted the offer to work for a real estate mogul whose business acumen that i deeply admired. The father of two then added he was committed to, quote, ensuring that history will not remember me as the villain of his story. Cohen also brought up this recent insult from the president. Hes a weak person and by being weak, unlike other people that you watch, hes a weak person and what hes trying to do is get a reduced sentence. Michael cohen said trump was correct in calling hmm weim, we adding but for a much different reason he was implying. It was because time and time again i felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds. Lets start with carasca oscane. Why three years . Reporter he pleaded guilty in an agreement with the government. They use the math that you get to this number of this range where he was facing between four to five years in prison. You know, cohen and his lawyers said that, you know, he really shouldnt serve any time because hes trying to make amends, hes cooperating with the investigation, with the special counsels office, but the u. S. Attorneys said, hey, hold on, these are serious crimes, this is tax evasion. Youre lying to a bank amid Campaign Finance violations and the judge ultimately agreed with them. He said he wanted to encourage cooperation, which is why we see him serving 36 months, three years, less than the potential four to five years, but he also said given the importance of the special counsels investigation, that Michael Cohen lied to congress, that these crimes needed to be faced with deterrence. He wanted to deter other people from lying in such highprofile events. He said democracy and our Democratic Institutions depended on people cooperating and being truthful when working with the government. He said he committed crimes far on his own that were very serious in and of their own and thats why cohen deserved to serve three years in prison, let it be a message to other people out there, brooke. Three years. He goes to prison in march. Lets take a deep dive in all of this. Attorney general berit berger and you, sir, you called it, three years. Yeah. Lucky guess. I think we saw the perfect en encaps lags of his wirise and fall. I cooperated but kind of, not really. I take full responsibility but everything i did was for the president. It was a bad day for Michael Cohen. It was also a bad day for the president. He got blamed a lot. We call it the empty chair phenomenon, you blame the guy who is not there to defend themselves. That said, all the things that Michael Cohen said reflect badly on the president. The sdny didnt mince words but mueller said he did speak the truth, said he was cooperative, he doesnt go to prison until march. Might he continue to cooperate in that time . He might. Everyone heard cohen was first pleading guilty and was in a cooperative stance. People had high hopes. They say think of the cases he could break open. I think after todays sentencing, in my mind its unlikely that his continued cooperation would be significant. Thats for a few reasons. One, its harder to use a cooperating witness after theyve been sentenced because your leverage over them has been weakened and, two, the Southern District of new york went out pretty far on a limb in saying he had this pattern of deception, that he had been engaged in all of these lies. It is harder to call somebody as a cooperating witness when their history of lying and deception has been highlighted for a court. As you were telling me yesterday, its like sdny, its all or nothing. You fully, fully cooperate or deuces, youre off to prison. We dont play around, yeah. Lawyers for cohen told the judge that cohen thought trump was going to shut down the Mueller Investigation. And so that is whether essentially cohen goes to mueller and is like, whoa, whoa, whoa, ill cooperate. That is significant. So, yes. I would immediately be on the phone with cohens lawyer and say you say he wants to be a good boy and cooperate, lets hear about that. How do you know that . Right. What was being said . That argument didnt ring true for me. If the argument was i, Michael Cohen, believed that the president was about to shut it down so i cooperated, but he didnt fully cooperate. The Southern District made a point of saying he declined to go into certain areas. Are you the hero or not . Bigger picture, as weve learned, as he said he had talked to the white house before talking to congress. We know manafort had talked to the white house as recent as the spring, as he was, quote unquote, what we thought at the time cooperating and it leads one to wonder what was going on. We should also just remind everyone that cohen is still cooperating and the investigation is to the Trump Organization, trump tower meeting and things that would directly impact trump. Cohens lawyers compared this moment to watergate, seeing him as a john dean type. The judge is reminding everyone and we were tacking abolking ab tough this judge is, no, hes not the hero. Is it possible that he could in a sense rewrite history so that he isnt the villain in the end . I think thats definitely what his intent was in doing all of this and he was trying to get in front of all this. I think his position as a lawyer played a really significant role in his sentencing today. When the judge talked about how he is held to a higher standard, Michael Cohen himself talked about how he had this Blind Loyalty to trump. All of which is to say that Blind Loyalty is really the one thing that a lawyer is not supposed to have with their client. There are high ethical and legal guidelines for lawyers as to how theyre supposed to interact with their client. Blind loyalty is not one of them. Youre there to advise and counsel, not to help facilitate criminal plans. We know that cohens lawyers went after trump. The question now is how does trump respond . We saw trump last week saying throw the book at him. In that reuters interview last night, trump said, number one, it wasnt a campaign contribution. If it were, its only civil. And even if its only civil, there is no violation based on what we did. We did. Hes all over the map. He didnt know about it, now he knew about it, now its something we did. Ultimately i think the wagons are circling on the president here. The news that just came out is that the Southern District has immunized ami, which was the vehicle. Were about to get to that. That was the vehicle for one of the payments. If you sort of do the math here, cohen convicted, pled guilty, pecker and weiselberg immunizei, and ami, corporate, who is left in this . The president. The person standing in the middle is the president. Is the Southern District gearing up to indict the president . I doubt it. But this Campaign Financing is a growing problem for the president. Hang with me. You just hit on what were going to be talking about. The other breaking development, the Parent Company of the National Enquirer, ami, reaching a deal with the prosecutors over hush money. Also ahead, british Prime Minister theresa may is really in the fight for her political life. A secret vote to decide whether she will stay or remain is under way right now. We will get the very latest for you live from london. Youre watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. Of that sexy italian boot so this Holiday Season its ancestrydna per tutti order your kit now at ancestry. Com whenshe was pregnant,ter failed, inlaws were coming, a little bit of water, it really it rocked our world. I had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. We called usaa. And they greeted me as they always do. Sergeant baker, how are you . They were on it. It was unbelievable. Having insurance is something everyone needs, but having usaa now thats a privilege. Were the bakers and were usaa members for life. Usaa. Get your insurance quote today. We are back. Youre watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. It is tied to hush money payments. Prosecutors say Michael Cohen coordinated for President Trump, the Parent Company of the National Enquirer has cut a deal, requiring ami to own up to the deal with karen mcdougal, the president s mistress. Brian, first to you. On this American Media, this is the owner of the National Enquirer. He also own as bunch of other magazines like mens fitness and very well known for their protrump position. During the campaign, this magazine was unabashedly antihillary and pro trump and they were working to support trumps candidacy to help him get elected through these catchandkill deals. The magazine denied ever paying someone, buying off a story to pay off someon for donald trump. Most troubling for the president , theyve cooperated, supported Michael Cohens account and they will continue to cooperate in the future. Translation from a lawyer, this cooperation from ami means what . Like you said, its a corporate cooperation agreement. This is a mechanism that a company cant be sent to jail but they can be held accountable. If youre not going to indict a corporation, one way to resolve a case is by a nonprosecution agreement. Usually this will have a Fine Associated with it and terms such as continued cooperation. Here it looks like ami has agreed to provide information. Who are they talking to . Theyre talking to the prosecutors. This is muellers team . Yes. Youll sometimes hash out certain specific terms. Ami admits it makes the 150,000 payment in concert with a candidates president ial campaign and that the principal purpose in making the payment was to suppress the womans story to prevent it from influencing the election. So one more strong piece of evidence, we just saw the president s tweets where he said it wasnt campaign related, on top of cohen and circumstantial evidence, you have the company saying this was for the president and to influence the election. Ami is also saying theyve agreed to be basically more ethical in the future. You have a supermarket tabloid agreeing to terms with the Southern District of new york it will abide by norms involving Campaign Finance in the future. An interesting twist. Most importantly on a personal level, American Media is owned by david pecker, david pecker hangs out with donald trump all the time, going to maralago. There were questions of what other stories might they have covered up over the years . We dont know. But the prosecutors know. A secret vote under way on british Prime Minister theresa may. Richard quest is with me next. And another wild interview with the president , admitting these payments plus calling the fact that 16 of his associates had contact with russia, quote unquote, peanut stuff. Opportunity is everywhere. Like here. Where nothing stands between you and your best friends. Can you feel it theres endless fun with great toys and games for everyone at amazon, with low prices and Free Shipping on millions of items. For everything you need this holiday, visit amazon. But he has plans today. So he took aleve this morning. Hey dad. If hed taken tylenol, hed be stopping for more pills right now. Only aleve has the strength stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. Tylenol cant do that. Aleve. All day strong. All day long. 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But just when the u. K. And eu are close to reaching ing ing a agreement to finalize their exit, theresa mays own party move to show her to the door. Shes in contempt of parliament. Her behavior today is contemptuous of this parliament and of this process mr. Speaker, the Prime Ministers appalling behavior needs to be held to account. He couldnt care less about brexit. He wants to bring down the government, create uncertainty, sow division and crash our economy. The biggest threat, the biggest threat to people and to this country isnt leaving the eu, its a corbin government so theresa may needs a majority of her own party to believe she is the right person for the job to hang in there. So lets start here with Cnn International diplomatic editor nic robertson, hes outside 10 downing street where the Prime Minister lives and works. There are three potentially scenarios. Walk me through them. Reporter theres one scenario where she fails in this vote. Theres another scenario where she gets the 159 votes plus a couple more that are required, the 159 is a simple majority. Thats the threshold, that she gets just a few more or she gets 159 plus a lot more, maybe a hundred more, and that would really if that happened, that would really consolidate her as a Prime Minister supported by her party, ready to go back to europe and get more on the deal, not that much more is on offer. If its that second option where its a tiny bit more than the simple majority, then she looks like a very weak leader. That was perhaps why she made that concession before the seek contract ballot saying that she wouldnt lead the party into the next expected general election 2022. The first scenario where i said she loses the vote, then you have a leadership race. That takes weeks to put into place. That delays think aany of the it negotiations on brexit. A new leader will want a new deal. There simply isnt a way to deliver that before you get to the current deadline, 29th of march, britain potentially crashes out with no deal and all the economic consequences which could be quite selfhere if that were to happen, brooke. I know this has been such a headache for so many people where you, nic robertson, perfectly laying out these scenarios. Now for more analysis, richard quest, anchor of quest means business. Two days ago you sat in that chair when she delayed that vote and you said shes totally going to survive. Do you still believe that . Tonight, yeah. I could be proven wrong. The result will come out in an hour and a half from now. Nic sums it up is it a small majority or large majority. A small majority shes a teetering leader and a big majority she can go back to europe and say its time to give me more. I know we had a deal but give me more. What if she is teetering . If she falls, if she falls, the first thing that has to happen is an extension of the a article 50, the deadline. Theres no way can you put everything for the tory party, the British Government and europe all in place. Theres what would happen. I was just watching very closely the question time in parliament. Watching what you just played, Jeremy Bennett and theresa may. I thought yesterday you and i were talking about senator schumer, speaker pelosi, donald trump, mike pence somewhere over there in the background and the way they were going at it in the oval office. This felt reminiscent of that . Completely. For the first time americans saw exactly what british do every week in parliament. And its healthy for each person in power to have somebody else say youre wrong. Its so rare we actually see that in front of cameras around here. Yeah, it was great. Lastly, a bunch of americans. Would it be possible depending what happens with theresa may that brexit couldnt go through . Its happening march 29th, correct . It is but you may delay it, a second referendum. I would say if everything collapsed, if parliament couldnt come to any solution, if there was no other way out, then labor would probably demand and maybe the torys would have to give a peoples vote. Possible, probably, likely perhaps. Ticktock, ticktock, weve got 90 minutes before theresa may learns her fate. Back here at home, the president s former lawyer sentenced to three years in prison. Well show you how widespread the legal jeopardy is for the entire trump orbit. Your insurance rates skyrocket after a scratch so small you could fix it with a pen. How about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead . For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise their rates because of their first accident. Switch and you could save 782 on home and auto insurance. Call for a free quote today. Liberty mutual insurance. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. 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Let me remind you that all of this will run counter to Donald Trumps attempts to cast this as a witch hunt or hoax. Michael cohen over here, three years in jail for what he pleaded guilty to. Thats our news. Remember, george papadopoulos, who started this whole thing by bragging out for drinks with an australian diplomat, by bragging the russian himself dirt on Hillary Clinton way back when, hes already served his jail time. Manafort is going to be sentenced. This may wind up being the longest sentence. Michael flynn and rick gates, Deputy Campaign manager and former National Security adviser, both of these guys are still awaiting their fates as it relates to any prison time, though i will note that bob muellers office, special counsel office, has recommended flynn not serve any time. But this is not what a hoax or a partisan witch hunt looks like. One, two and almost certainly three of these people will be spending time in jail. That is nothing theres nothing fake about that, brooke. All right. So thats on one list. I know you have another list of people who mueller is looking into. I see many more faces. Look, i dont think we can show this list enough because it speaks to just how many people in Donald Trumps close orbit were in some kind of contact with russians. Some more in depth, some less in depth. Don jr. , ivanka trump, jashd kushner. These two people work in the white house. Cohen was his closest adviser for a decade, guy he relied on, fixed his problems. Manafort was the campaign manager, rick gates was the Deputy Campaign manager, jeff sessions, michael flynn, National Security adviser. Time and time again you go through this and think and you and i have talked about this before, this all adds up think of this as smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke. Theres not a fire on here as it relates to donald trump yet, right . My gosh, the smoke is so thick at this point, its hard to see in front of you. I think thats something that donald trump in maybe his more honest moments is coming into realization of. This is a lot of contact to have with a foreign entity. We know because the Intelligence Community told us was actively interfering in an election to help donald trump and hurt Hillary Clinton. Lets go back to Michael Cohen. His attorney in court compared the russia probe to watergate. Lets delve into that as someone who will know. He was a Watergate Special prosecutor and hes now a cnn legal analyst. Richa richa richa richard, welcome. They were comparing Michael Cohen to john dean. Well, john dean well to jail, remember, and he pleaded guilty and that was a condition of his being a cooperator in watergate. So notwithstanding everything that john dean had to offer by way of cooperation, he also pleaded to a felony and did jail time. So what were looking at with cohen, i think, is rule 35 of the federal rules of criminal procedure, which allows for a convicted and sentenced defendant to make a motion for reduction of sentence based on if he continues to cooperation. Based on substantial cooperation with the government. So thats still open to cohen. In the Southern District, you cant go halfway. You can say youre going to cooperate fully and not do it, and he did not. There are all kinds of things. Hes got a lifetime in his professional life full of stuff, tax evasion, a variety of different scams unfortunately that have come home to roost and were uncovered by the Southern Districts search warrant of his office, hotel and so forth. And so that information did him in. Then came the very significant cooperation that he has offered to special counsel mueller. And that will continue, in my opinion, and he will have the opportunity to get another bite at the apple, as it were, on his sentencing. So today is a reflection of the ethos of the Southern District. If youre going to cooperate, cooperate 100 . You cant do it halfway. Theres no kind of sort of cooperating with the sdny as weve all learned. So he will continue cooperating, at least we know that for sure with regard to the Trump Organization. Well wait to see if rule 35 comes into effect. Let me ask you about this. Cohens lawyers went after trump. And so the question is how will trump respond, right . So last week we know trump had said throw the book at him. And then in this interview with reuters last night trump said, quoting, number one, it wasnt a campaign contribution. If it were, its only civil. And if it were only civil, there was no violation based on what we did. We did. Yeah. So every time the president opens his mouth to opine on some aspect of the investigation, he only digs himself deeper into a hole. And this is why should this be any exception to the trump rule of making everything worse possible . So what i look for in the next phase of the Mueller Investigation is the financial piece of this. And i think there is information not only that mr. Trump will hear from cohen, but also from the Trump Organization and the individuals who are cooperating with the special counsel from the Trump Organization. And the question in my mind is whether there is information that suggests that the russians directly or indirectly have provided assistance over the years to mr. Trump that then can be used to compromise mr. Trump and may explain some of the very unusual behaviors that we have observed toward russia. If youre trumps lawyers, have you pulled all your hair out by now . If you had any to start with, you probably did. Richard benveniste, i kid, sort of. Thank you very much. As we continue to follow that, protests are erupting in michigan as republicans move to weaken the power of the incoming democrats. We will take you there live. Si passione. The new fragrance. Giorgio armani. 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This comes as of course the white house has fought furiously to try to deny, reject that bill at all costs as theyve aligned themselves with saudi arabia and with that war effort in yemen. This comes the same date that the senate is moving on a similar plan to pull back u. S. Support in yemen. It was expected to hit the floor in the next hour or so, but because of the houses efforts, theres virtually no chance this is going to land on the president s desk before the end of the year, essentially confronting him on this issue. Brooke, this is all part of a larger effort in congress to try to figure out how to respond to the murder of jamal khashoggi, the americanbased journalist who of course was killed in october in the saudi consulate in istanbul, but some republicans dont want to go the way that some democrats and some other republicans want to go, which is to try to pull back from the saudi war in yemen. Theyre looking at placing the blame directly on the crown prince of saudi arabia for his role allegedly in that murder. But this one effort here involving with trying to cut u. S. Assistance to the saudiled war in yemen appears to essentially fall by the wayside because Republican Leaders are opposed to it and they inserted that measure into an unrelated provision, rule, denying that from going forward. Right now theyre at a stalemate in the house, the senate trying to move forward on its own plan. Well see what happens later today, brooke. Got it. Thank you on that. Also up on capitol hill just now, cnn has learned a deal has finally been reached over this long stalled legislation regarding how congress handles internal Sexual Harassment complaints. Remember we talked about this a number of months ago . Sunlen serfaty is live with me here on this update. Have they done it . Whats in this compromise bill . Reporter a deal has been struck. This is a significant step forward to Congress Getting its own house in order and the way it handles Sexual Harassment complaints and who foots the bill when and if settlements are paid out. House and Senate Negotiators have been working on one bill that can pass in both chambers to reform the process up here on capitol hill. And they have indeed reached that conclusion. Theyve reached an agreement. And the feeling is a bill could pass by the end of the year. Now, importantly here, it for the first time if passed and indeed it likely will, it will hold lawmakers, members of Congress Personally responsible that they would foot the bill if they are held responsible for any settlement for Sexual Harassment and harassment in general. That has never been done before. We talked late last year in the wake of the me too movement, this revelation that lawmakers were using taxpayer money to pay out the Sexual Harassment settlements. That when this bill passes will no longer happen. The lawmakers if responsible will have to pay that themselves. Were still waiting on the bill to pass. All negotiators tell me theyre confident theyll be able to pass it before the end of the year. A new day a year in the making after the me too movement on capitol hill. Slush fund no more. Sunlen serfaty, thank you very much. Protests have broke out in michigan. We will take you in the thick of it live. And just as the president s longtime lawyer has been sentenced to prison, the Parent Company of the National Enquirer have reached a deal over a hush money payment. Big development there. Well discuss. Like here. Where you can explore the world knowing you can always find your way home. Theres no excuse for what they did to you. Its a hate crime. Its a miracle he survived. [ gasps ] i got your back. Based on an inspirational true story. Are these your drawings . I was a hell of a good artist. Now i can barely write my name. So, i created a world where i can be anyone i want. Hey, hey. 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Its hard to make a generalized statement to say all this good or all is bad. What are these protesters telling you . Reporter they are extraordinarily unhappy with the amount of legislation, not only changing voter initiatives that were approved by the michigan votes are but also passing new legislation they say will tie the hands of those Incoming Democratic officials. They took over the capitol here. Had is the House Chamber in the michigan capitol where lawmakers and lobbyists often meet. Its the exact place that protesters wanted their voice heard. One is this niera sharif, you came in from flint. Why so important to come here today and have your voice heard . Well, this power grab is like reminiscent for me of 2012 where they replaced the Emergency Management law after voters voted the law down in early november. If we did not have a replacement m Emergency Management there, we wouldnt have had the water crisis. There is a whole raft these bills. Many of them have slowed down in the progress area. Do you think your voice is being heard in these halls . I really dont because our lame duck has been hijacked by corporations and special interests. And they have, like, usurped the democracy of our state legislature, which should be accountable to the people who elected them and theyre beholden to special interests right now. Reporter and i take it youre not going away. No, im not. Reporter thank you very much. The legislature was supposed to wrap up today. It looks like it will go into next week. Some of the most controversial provisions theyre considering may be considered then. Brooke . Well talk then. Miguel marquez, thank you very much in lancing. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. We continue on. Youre watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. President trumps attorney Michael Cohen had his day in court and ran with it going right after the president. Cohen ripped trump just before being sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay more than 1 million in restitution. So far this is the most severe outcome in this russia investigation. And it all comes after cohen pleaded guilty to committing nine federal crimes, some of which, so say cohen and prosecutors, were committed out of loyalty to donald trump. Now the man who once famously said hed take a bullet for him fired back against husband boss of tenplus years saying to the judge, quote, today is one of the most meaningful days of my life, Michael Cohen says, i have been living in a personal and mental incarceration ever since the day i accepted the offer to work for a real estate mogul whose business acumen i deeply admired. The father of two added he was committed to ensuring that, quote, history will not remember me as the villain of his story and he brought up this recent insult from the president himself. Hes a weak person and by being weak, unlike other people that you watch, hes a weak person and what hes trying to do is get a reduced sentence. Michael cohen said trump was correct in calling him weak, adding, quote, but for a much different reason hes implying, it was because time and time again i felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds. Karascann oscannell, you say it very emotional . Reporter yes, it was very emotional. When it came to talking about his family, he got very emotional, his voice cracked and he was choking and he also apologized to the American People and at that moment he got fairly emotional saying the American Public needs to know the truth. And the judge started talking to mon Michael Cohen that he wants people to cooperate but at the same time he committed serious crimes and he said because of the need to have deterrence for these crimes that the sentence needs to be amplified. The judge said the range cohen was facing was between four and five years. He decided to give him three months in prison. After that moment you really could sense the emotional drain in the courtroom. Cohens father and mother were there, his inlaws, his sibling, cousins, wife and two children. There was a lot of emotion. His children were crying, husband wife was crying. At the end of the hearing when the judge had left the bench, all of the family members came up to cohen, hugged him, patted him on the back. There were long embraces between cohen and his family who were taking a moment having the sentence and seriousness of this offense really sink in on them, brooke. So three years, goes to prison in march. Pam, to you. Any white house
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