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
Dick cheney is a robot many indisputable proof, big foot spotted in northern california, and mans 174 mile per hour sneeze blows wifes hair off. Over on fox, the feeling was, the interview went pretty well. You and i frayeded a lot of papers ah, and its been a good conversation, thank you, sir. Thank you very much. With that, a friendly reminder, theres always a paper trail on the ridiculis. Thank you, anderson. Well argued. I am chris cuomo, welcome to prime time. The president making the case that he has done nothing wrong. This case seems to be plagued by contradictions. Were going to test them with Kellyanne Conway. And the president s good friend says the president was in the room when the plan was hatched to pay off women who threatened
his campaign. Legal exposure for that . Well take it up in cuomos court. Criminal prosecution is a maybe. Political skrut any, 100 . Specifically if the president is shown to be lying about key issues. How bad could it be . Lots to test, lets get
call from the secretary of state who agreed to investigate what he gave them. he is the gift that keeps giving. i don t know who it s good for. let s take that question to the court in session. cuomo s court, laura coates, jenna ellis. laura coates, let me ask you, giuliani says, yeah, i gave them information the inspector general of the state department is calling a bundle of misinformation about state department officials and the bidens, and the secretary of state said told me that he s going to look into it. is that okay? no. it s almost the opposite of saying it wasn t me. he was saying oh yeah, that was me and that was me, too on things that were obviously inappropriate. it leads you to ask a couple of questions. number one, who does rudy giuliani work for that he is able to tell the secretary of state to go investigate certain claims he has based on propaganda information and information about conspiracy theorys? i thought pompeo served at the pleasure of the president of the
he discussed joe biden in a call with ukraine s president is only adding to democrats case for potential impeachment. and his loyal lawyer today once again didn t seem to help the case. did the president threaten to cut off aid to the ukraine? no. that was a false story. 100%? i can t tell you if it s 100%. there is a game afoot but sometimes this man is just not on his game. it s a false story but you can t say that it s 100% untrue? either he was playing with the aide or he wasn t. let s bring in cuomo s court, asha rangappa, let s cut through to the practicalities. other than this is congress s job, what i don t understand is where does this go?