After ex-president Donald Trump allegedly violated the court imposed gag order four times over the last three days, yet another order to show cause to hold him…
that decision is not made lightly by prosecutors. they would have to have a comprehensive view of all information that was available where they said, you know what, i m going to foreclose my opportunity to prosecute you knowing full well cohen pled guilty to something you agreed to orchestrate in some way and we found that criminal and asked for jail time. it s odd. gloria, the president calling cohen a liar, yeah, of course, cohen s a liar. that s rich. so, i guess, so is the president. and so are a whole lot of people who the president and citizen donald trump has surrounded himself with. i mean, look, there are a handful of people who worked for donald trump who have lied to the special counsel that we now know about. and, you know, i think that the special counsel is now telling us today that michael cohen is somebody that that office deems
resolve in case he was hit by a bus, for example. right, they were talk bing abo about getting all of it away from david pecker. they were worried if david peck e as trump said, hit by a bus, who knows where the files would end up? all of the stuff doesn t include simply one particular payment to karen mcdougal. you can obviously david pecker also has immunity to discuss things as part of ami as well, so you can look at this scenario and think to yourself, well, obviously tip of the iceberg includes all the information that ami would have provided to the team and sdny that would incentivize them to not prosecute ultimately. that decision is not made lightly by prosecutors. they would have to have a comprehensive view of all information that was available where they said, you know mwhat i m going to foreclose my opportunity to prosecute you knowing full well cohen pled guilty to something you agreed to orchestrate in some way and we found that criminal and asked for jail time. it
media and attorneys and three dozen of his family and friends. his voice broke a couple times in the almost ten minutes when he spoke to the court. he arrived with his wife and son an daughter using a crutch there were many tears shed by the family after the court was adjusted. his lawyer asked for leniencying saying he offered evidence against the most powerful person in the country calling cohen a man of integrity. he said in regard to donald trump, blind loyalty to this man led me to choose darkness over light and said time and again i felt it necessary to cover up for his dirty deeds rather than listen to my own moral compass. at the end, shep, his victory broke when he said he knew he let his family down. his goal now is to become the best version of himself. shepard? shepard: rick, prosecutors
campaign for president. the president immediately lashing out, calling cohen, quote, weak and a liar. the president saying he had every right to pursue his business interests during the campaign. tonight, what has michael cohen told robert mueller already, after spending more than 70 hours answering questions from mueller s team. abc s chief justice correspondent pierre thomas leading us off tonight. reporter: michael cohen, the president s former personal attorney and fixer, swarmed today outside of federal court in lower manhattan, after pleading guilty as part of his bombshell plea deal with special counsel robert mueller. mr. cohen has cooperated, mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. reporter: sources tell abc news cohen has already spent more than 70 hours talking to mueller s investigators about the 2016 campaign and president trump s business ties to russia. today, he pleaded guilty to lying to congress about plans to build a trump tower in moscow.