believes that the cooperation has reached substantial assistance, the government may move and ask the court to reduce the sentence already imposed. he could continue to earn a reduction by providing information even after his sentencing. would the government only do that, would they only move to reduce a sentence or ask the judge to reduce the sentence if that information in fact contributed to meaningfully to a new investigation or prosecution? would it have to actually go somewhere or be a good try? yeah, it has to actually go somewhere. substantial assistance is a term of art and has a definition and means providing assistance in the investigation or prosecution of others. many times people would come in and try to provide substantial assistance and it didn t pan out. it wasn t good information or you could not corroborate it. it has to arise to that level in order for michael cohen to receive that credit. he has an incentive to provide good information. barbara mcquaid, forme
after your sentencing, a defendant still can have his sentence reduced for substantial assistance on motion of the government. so only if the government believes that the cooperation has reached substantial assi assistan assistance, the government may move and ask the court to reduce the sentence already imposed. he could continue to earn a reduction by providing information even after his sentencing. would the government only do that, would they only move to reduce a sentence or ask the judge to reduce the sentence if that information in fact contributed to meaningfully to a new investigation or prosecution? would it have to actually go somewhere or be a good try? yeah, it has to actually go somewhere. substantial assistance is a term of art and has a definition and means providing assistance in the investigation or prosecution of others. many times people would come in and try to provide substantial assistance and it didn t pan out. it wasn t good information or you could not cor
with julian assange. as i ve said, roger told me that they were going to release information about the clinton foundation my initial initially, i said to him, well, does he have any new information about benghazi and i would point to the fact that assange didn t release anything related to either one, so at that so, did i believe him initially when he told me? i didn t have any reason not to believe him, but when it didn t pan out and roger started making these public statements, i thought that this was just another, you know, dangerous but publicity-type sinking stunt by roger to stay relevant within the campaign and within the public sphere of the campaign. all right jill winebanks. sam, i would like to ask you because i think people would like to know, the evidence now gathered and presented in this indictment is so strong against roger. right. and he s still saying i m not going to plead guilty, i am going to stand firm. when is someone going to get to
right now it s media coverage by speculation and guy pointed out many stories about this whole investigation you hear a big bombshell headline, or you read a big bombshell headline and a couple days later you don t hear anything about it. all the more reason why mueller needs to wrap up the investigation and then we will know what facts and allegations and charges he may have 2% against the president. shannon: it sounds like the white house is not interested in giving the president any real effort at going to sit down with the mueller team especially with regard to follow-up questions are things about the obstruction of justice charges. this is a whole other can of worms, we should do a piece that looks at all the stories that grabbed headlines and cost a lot of gasping here in washington and didn t pan out. there may be more of that before we get the mueller report. in the meantime, thank you all very much.
just to be clear, because there s also political data that s indicative, beyond the affidavits, you re saying this is typically a democratic leaning district for those absentee ballots, but it s an outlier in how it went republican. that s part of the evidence they re considering, right? that s exactly at least as far as i m concerned, yes, it is part of the evidence that we re considering in trying to build this case to understand whether or not this happened by accident or whether this is part of a systemic problem that s occurring. as i look at it, it s part of the systemic problem, and obviously, that state board which has members from across the political aisle on it, they thought it was worthy enough of an investigation. i wouldn t be surprised if in fact there is a new election. that s remarkable. a lot of allegations unfounded about voter fraud, including by the president. didn t pan out. this one seems to be this is election fraud, not