they had against michael flynn and paul manafort. cohen received secret payment to fix talks between the ukrainian president and president trump. the bbc reports the part that creates the jeopardy, cohen not registered as a representative of ukraine as required by law. that meeting took place last june, after the payment. a source also saying they gave him a gift. i ll tell you, msnbc news has not confirmed the bbc story. cohen denies it and giuliani saying maybe there was a discussion of doing this, adding on on neither end was it con sue mated. mimi rocah rejoins. what does this mean for michael cohen? i think there s three
on on neither end was it con sue mated. mimi rocah rejoins. what does this mean for michael cohen? i think there s three different sort of buckets to this story. one is the one you mentioned already, which is a violation or breaking of the foreign registration act law, which is the same law that flynn has been charged with, as you mentioned. and that would be cohen acted essentially as an agent of the ukrainian government without registering as he is required to do so. so you know what i have to do so, you re a lawyer, he s a lawyer, if that s all it is, why didn t he register? well, exactly. i mean, look, the reason for the law is we want to know when foreign governments are having an influence on u.n. u.s. policy buying the president s lawyer? exactly. clearly they didn t want anyone to know that, cohen didn t. do you think he knowingly