you have a lot of redacted information in both the manafort part of it and some things that are not redacted by being blacked out but are redacted because of being so vague as to what other information cohen has provided to mueller. it also is interesting because there are really three cohens. there s the cohen that the southern district saw. there s the cohen that the special counsel saw. but there s also the cohen that his lawyer presented in his earlier filing in his request that there be no jail time except for time served. and i have to say i fell for that. i felt sympathy for cohen as portrayed in his lawyers document. and it s a good thing you always wait until you hear the full evidence before you jump to conclusions, a lesson that i hope whitaker is paying attention to since he already formed a conclusion about evidence.
made a decision to plead guilty and i think the filings lasted about three days. the mueller plea came in less than two weeks. so things can move really quickly, but i don t have any indication from my reporting there could any kind of change. that s not to say there won t be. thank you for being here, emily. much appreciated. thank you. that does it for us tonight. see you again i don t know in five minutes. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. and it s fascinating to see these two different cohens in these two different cases, the two different pleadings. and if you read all the documents, they actually make sense. i mean, when i was just hearing the first reports of this across the television this afternoon, i said, wow, it was such a different interpretation of this guy from the two different sets of prosecutors but he behaved very differently with each set of prosecutors.
past anything that stands in its way. .well almost anything. leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. in robert mueller s offices filing today in the case of michael cohen, we ve got a brief document. it s only seven pages in total. the bottom line, the purpose of this document in terms of the cohen case is for mueller and his prosecutors to advocate to the judge in cohen s case that cohen not do any additional prison time for the one felony that they persuaded him to plead guilty to, but in the course of making that case we learn a lot from mueller and from how cohen s about how cohen s case fits into the overall scandal.
the oval office introduced in evidence against his coconspirators. and this is a very dramatic and big day. this is the linkage between donald trump and russia in crimes. that s what this means, and there could be much more because you have a lot of redacted information in both the manafort part of it and some things that are not redacted by being blacked out but are redacted because of being so vague as to what other information cohen has provided to mueller. it also is interesting because there are really three cohens. there s the cohen that the southern district saw. there s the cohen that the special counsel saw. but there s also the cohen that his lawyer presented in his earlier filing in his request that there be no jail time except for time served.
cohen s is similar to the sentencing memo we got tuesday from michael flynn, where it s going to outline the criminal conduct that he committed but also his cooperation both with the special counsel s office and with other offices including the southern district. anything that s ongoing is going to be redacted, so any investigation that he s helped with that s ongoing and since nobody has really been charged and we haven t learned whether people are going to be charged or not, it s almost everything that he s cooperated on, so i would expect a lot of that to be redacted. paul manafort on the other hand is a submission to outline his lies that are the reason why the government says he breached his agreement. so if that s redacted, that means it relates to an ongoing investigation, which means the government believed that he lied about something that is ongoing, likely the russia investigation, and likely because he minimized his own involvement in that. if it s not redacted, then of cou