A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Matter. The Justice Department guidelines preclude indicting a sitting president. Michael cohen in his own words defying his long time ally. He has said he would take a bullet for President Trump. And now hes publicly saying in court under oath that he committed these crimes in coordination and at the direction of the then candidate. Very specific words. Could cohen still cooperate with the Special Counsel Robert Muellers overall russia probe . As you know, mueller delegated this case to the u. S. Attorney in the Southern District of new york. Reporter thats right, wolf. This investigation began by referral from Robert Mueller. But as part of this Plea Agreement, Michael Cohen is not, you know, coop rating. He is not in Cooperation Deal with the u. S. Attorneys office in manhattan bringing this case. Nothing precludes him from speaking with Robert Muellers investigators or from them reaching out to Michael Cohen. Hes
learn more this morning. what do you expect in the next few days? a couple things. first, the team is looking what the president just wrote in terms of written responses to the mueller questions. soon as you have him in the room, comparing looking not for what they think, what they know. a factual discrepancy between what they heard from cohen got from his documents and what the president wrote. why manafort is so important. we re missing the final piece of the puzzle. did roger stone or somebody else actually accept information of value? that could be a date when wikileaks was going to release stuff. accept information of value that will make the campaign in this broad term, in collusion with the russians or entity that took russian information? that s wikileaks. i m waiting for the final piece from manafort. yeah, well one thing, dana. sure. if manafort s not cooperating anymore and roger stone hasn t been called, jerome corsi won t
the investigation is, we have known. it s become very clear. that the trump campaign colluded with russians in trying to subvert the election. hold on. wait, wait. how can you say that so definitively they ve clud ollud? the fact manafort and trump junior met with russian agents who told them they wanted to give them dirt on hillary clinton s and they said, fine. it s clear the campaign colluded. there s a lot of evidence to that. the question is, was the president involved, did he know about it? and we learned two things this week. one, the president s personal attorney lied to congress about the fact that he was personally involved on behalf of the president in arranging business deals with the russians during the campaign. and, secondly, that the
president s campaign manager was involved with communicating with wikileaks during the spring of 2016 at the time well before they served as the conduit to release the e-mails that the russians had stolen from hillary clinton. hold on a second. i want to ask some questions. you mean roger stone? no. i mean manafort. you re saying that manafort was in direct communication with wikileaks? yes. yes. we learned that this week. and can you connect those dots? what was happening there? you know, are you saying because manafort met, you think, with julian assange? i don t know whether he met with julian assange. we learned he was in touch with wikileaks. the point is, these two developments are two more developments not disspostive but indications that start during the walls closing around trump indicating his personal involvement and we ll see as the
is a long-time republican political operative. worked for ronald reagan and bob dole and so on trying to say i essentially just did what some of the other republican candidates did. and hiring paul manafort. but, wolf, obviously, whether the president said there s no collusion, that this case nothing to do with collusion and a rigged witch hunt, we should point out that the mueller investigation is not yet wrapped up. what you are seeing is the white house fumbling for a response how to handle this avalanche of very negative, troubling legal news for the president. as i was saying, just before the president spoke there, they had other plans. the white house hoped for a favorable outcome in fact manafort trial and use it to pummel the mueller investigation and also planning to talk about the cohen case in terms of the taxi cab business dealings and now his long time fixer pled guilty to conspiracying and being in arrangement with the president to pay off people towards the end of the ca