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,
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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
if anything, they re going to do with it. and then we go back to the issue that i know you have talked about a lot on this program, which is can a sitting president be indicted or not? does mueller believe a sitting president can be indicted? and now do the attorneys in the southern district of new york believe an individual can be indicted who is president? one of the reasons i needed your help tonight is in looking at what would ordinarily be the indictment, the charging document they call it the information when you cut a plea deal in the southern district they don t use trump s name anywhere. they also don t use the parent company of the national enquirer. they don t use the national enquirer. we don t see david pecker s name in here. why? and why did michael cohen say a candidate for federal office? why ignore the obvious? because normally if you have an unindicted co-conspirator at a stage like this and that s what donald trump is. he s an unindicted co-conspirator,
does mueller believe a sitting president can be indicted? and now do the attorneys in the southern district of new york believe an individual can be indicted who is president? one of the reasons i needed your help tonight is in looking at what would ordinarily be the indictment, the charging document they call it the information when you cut a plea deal in the southern district they don t use trump s name anywhere. they also don t use the parent company of the national enquirer. they don t use the national enquirer. we don t see david pecker s name in here. why? and why did michael cohen say a candidate for federal office? why ignore the obvious? because normally if you have an unindicted co-conspirator at a stage like this and that s what donald trump is. he s an unindicted co-conspirator, make no mistake about it based on this plea agreement, you won t necessarily insert their name into the document. but we all know that the candidate is donald trump just like we all kn