Reminder, dont miss full circle on facebook. You get to pick some of the stories we cover. You can see it week nights at 6 25 p. M. Eastern on facebook. Com Anderson Cooper full circle. The news continues on this very busy tuesday night. Im going to hand it over to chris. Cuomo prime time starts now. Thank you. I am chris cuomo. Welcome to prime time. We have new information and key players for you in the big breaking story. Michael cohen says a candidate for federal office, aka the president , directed him to commit felonies. Those Hush Money Payments to women before the election, cohen says they were made at the direction of trump himself, and they were crimes. This is uncharted territory. A president directly implicated in criminal behavior In Open Court by his lawyer. Were going to have cohens counsel joining us for what lies ahead. And what does this exposure mean for the president Going Forward . Thats where Michael Avenatti,
the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, one of the recipients o
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Prosecutors. Theres no reason why they would have entered into this Plea Agreement that they did were he not cooperating. Michael cohen has a lot of information. So you dont need a Cooperation Deal to be cooperating . Exactly. I think that point that you just made is critical. You dont have to have it in writing in the documents in order to have an agreement in place. Im highly confident in fact, i know Michael Cohens been providing information. Prosecutors in sdny are expecting him to continue to cooperate because if he doesnt, they have the ultimate hammer, and that is at the sentencing stage, which for Michael Cohen is going to take place in december, they can ask for either an upward departure or the maximum. They have a significant hammer in their toolbox in the event Michael Cohen does not cooperate. Same with manafort . Same with manafort. But let me say this. You know, its one thing its a mul
The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Associate independent counsel for the Watergate Investigation and the clintons, and former ethics czar, belongs to a Watchdog Organization that filed multiple lawsuits against the trump administration, and also with us cnn legal and political commentator, former Virginia Attorney general. Ill start with you. The president in his own words admits to making the payment. Your reaction . Kim or ken . Kim, go ahead. Ken, well go to you next. All right. Sorry, i misheard. Go ahead, ken. Who do you want to start . I think this is going to come down to whether or not this is deemed campaign efforts. The president long before his campaign had been in negotiation periodically with a couple of these women without keeping
as you talk about credibility though, you do bring up a good point. Michael cohen has said a lot of Different Things about this payment. But i also want you to take what we just heard from the president admitting he
Joke. He threatens and backs off and then i will reevaluate in two woks. Like iran. Absolutely. And remember this is something thats very centered of why he thinks he got elected and why he thinks he can get reelected. What is though, the words . He hasnt actually done anything. Immigration is worse. No question. But its better the words. And he has to convince the people who voted for him last time to do so again even though hes not delivered on his that wraps up the hour for me. Deadline white house with promises of immigration. Nicolle wallace starts right youre right, the problem has now. Only grown worse. Hi, everyone, its 4 00 in and theres a healthy debate whether on asylum things need to new york. There is a stench. Those are the powerful words be changed. Written to describe the there could be performance humanitarian crisis at the necessary but there shouldnt be border. Now resulting in the suffering a debate about the conditions these children have experienced of children an
why didn t he do this 3 years ago? that were thinned with the american public on this issue. and everybody talks about the border crisis that is happened on biden s watch. he orchestrated it. he reversed some 90s trump executive orders dealing with the border and has basically just started to weigh people into the country. this is an example now of him trying in a political season realizing how underwater they are with this issue with the american people to try and get right. nobody is confused by it. it s too much, too little, too late. honestly, all the executive orders right now that he puts in place don t matter, because nobody believes they will be followed up on. that is the problem this president has pretty has a credibility issue on his southern border. 362 people on the terrorist watch list. and just the last year, 80 times the number of chinese nationals they came in the year before.