He will actually appear in Court Next Week on december 12. Charles . Charles david lee miller, thanks. Michael cohen not cooperating the way we thought he was. The five starts now. Hello, everybody. 5 oclock in New York City and this is the five. Fox news alert. We are monitoring 3 huge news stories. Prosecutors made their bombshell filing in the case against extrump lawyer Michael Cohen recommending substantial prison time. We are awaiting specials Robert Muellers memos on Paul Manafort after james comey just finished speaking to reporters following his closed door testimony to the
house judiciary and oversight committees. Chief intelligence Correspondent Catherine will break it all down. A lot of Breaking News in the last halfhour. One step at a time. On the filing for Michael Cohen, the recommendation is substantial jail time and a fine of 500,000. I want to read about the payments to women on behalf of donald trump. They said Cohen Aranged for the payment through a Media Company an
so i still think at the end of the day whether it is february 7th or not, cohen will be talking about all he knows about donald trump s russian connections. and there was a very interesting line. i think you and you talked about it. in the mueller sentencing memo about cohen that came out a month ago or so. can i go through this quickly? cohen provided the special counsel with useful information concerning discreet russian related matters core to the investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with company executives during the campaign. executives. yes. plural. that is donald trump and who knows, donald trump jr., who else works with the trump organization? so there is still more to the trump-russia story that michael cohen can tell us and whether it comes out on february 7th or not, i believe democrats and the house will get it and eventually the public will learn about it. what do you think, david,
because as dana is laying out, his information is credible. the information he s given them is substantial. do you i guess you don t need to trust him. do you see him as credible? well, listen, let me put my fbi hat on for a minute. what they used cohen for is to corroborate other information. remember, the guy that hasn t been talked about who has been cooperating i think since july is wisal brg, who is the chief financial officer to the trump organization. he s been cooperating with the special counsel since then. what we have now and what i found really interesting in cohen s sentencing, and i think the campaign finance issue is a side show to where i think the special counsel is going. and what they said, this is really important, they said he gave substantial information and corroboration to discreet russian activities and had contacts with the trump executive operation. if you think about that, that s a pretty small group of people. so that tells me that their
suggested synergy on a government level between russia and the trump campaign. correct. but again the memo admits that cohen didn t take the meeting. suggested a meeting between trump and putin and that never took place. that s not really an earth-shattering bit of information here. well, no, especially not. remember, we waited the whole week, all of the trump critics saying this was going to be a momentous day that we re going to learn about the collusion. there certainly doesn t seem to be anything in the memos, the documents would suggest that s the case. cohen provided information concerning certain discreet russian related matters core to the investigation from the regular contact that cohen had with trump campaign officials. there s again no details. that could suggest there s more information to be revealed but again, not in this memo. no. we re going to have to continue to wait, as we ve been doing now for months and months, for the
false answers during their first meeting. cohen later admitted that he was pursuing the trump tower deal longer than he first disclosed and filling in the president along the way. but the special counsel has said that cohen provided substantial information including about his own contacts about russian interests, and also telling mueller s team about attempts by russian nationals dating back to 2015. and he gave mueller s office useful information as they put it concerning discreet russian related matters core to the investigation. no real elaboration from the special counsel on that point. but its clear that michael cohen has given mueller a lot of information that we have yet to see when it comes to the russia probe. and finally paul manafort, a late filing mostly under seal, but we re learning that prosecutors are accusing him of lying on five different subjects