Telling the truth. He has no Shadow Hanging over him. The uncertainty is gone. He has stepped up to the line and he has admitted what he did wrong, but he is now liberated to tell the truth. Everything about donald trump that he knows. From this point on youre going to see liberated Michael Cohen speaking truth to power. And we will hear a lot more from cohens lawyer who you just saw there, he is going to be joining morning joe later this morning. After four days of deliberations the jury in the fraud trial of Paul Manafort found President Trumps former Campaign Chairman guilty on eight of the counts against him. The jury has unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the other ten counts manafort faced. His trial marked a critical first stage for Robert Muellers investigation. Pete williams has more. Reporter the jury found Paul Manafort guilty of intentionally dodging taxes on millions of dollars that he earned as a
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that was at his rally in west virginia, comparing his view of international diplomatic relations to how great his mom s cooking is. it comes as we are getting new reaction from overseas to the michael cohen guilty plea and the paul manafort verdict. for that we want to go live to london to somebody who knows a thing or two about cooking turkeys, nbc news international correspondent it was too easy, cal. it was too easy. let s talk about the reaction overseas to all of the legal woes that are unfolding here. has it been muted or how are you seeing it play out? it s a tsunami. so the bbc, right, the self declared last bastion of all things that protects foreign news led today donald trump the top two stories, the third story was a million people displaced by indian flooding. that i was go us an idea how donald trump is blocking out all foreign news. let s go through the british broadcasters. itn, quote, trump directed payment of hush money to influence election. the daily mail got
the red wings. and also didn t talk about the earthquake. 7.0 magnitude earthquake. absolutely right. something about the trump presidency sucking the oxygen from our ability to cover other important stories. the daily telegraph has an explainer an the sfro eation on. what happens if president trump is impeached and who will be the next president. what happens if this goes all the way. appreciate the insight. that, glad we got the headlines in there, too. and still to come a look at this morning s one big thing with axios. and michael cohen starts a plea deal with federal prosecutors. lanny davis will discuss the information he has cohen has that should be of interest to robert mueller. plus more on the conviction
looking for this, but we ve talked a lot how they could take the house. and look for impeachment records being written on day one. and yesterday from federal court michael cohen saying the president directed him to participate in a federal crime, gervin everything that happened yesterday, all of the moving pieces, what are insiders telling you as axios about the president s mind-set following specifically michael cohen s guilty plea? from the mood inside the white house, from folks we spoke to who work in the trump administration, more buoyant have taken on a dark and somber tone. a historian referred to the broader sensitive incident as an inflection point, drawing watergate parallels. interesting, not a good sense of president trump s mood himself. didn t talk about it very much on his way to west virginia,
given that he made this agreement, this plea, without necessarily a cooperation nl agreement that we know of where he didn t need to implicate the president. my level of surprise on a ten scale is a one. it was a foregone ten being the most. this was a foregone conclusion in my mind inevitably michael cohen was going to plead. when you look at the potential sentencing guidelines in any economic crime with losses approaching a million or more, you are looking at a very, very high sentencing level. the only way to drag that sentencing range down is, first, acceptance of responsibility, you plead guilty, and, two, a 5k 1 motion, substantial assistance cooperation with prosecutors. i just want to stress the fact that there s no evidence that he s cooperating now doesn t mean that he s not cooperating behind the scenes and it doesn t mean that he might not cooperate in the future. you know, the federal rules allow for cooperation to happen