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
precedent and the attorneys say that they re not doing that for me. they re doing that for the office of the president so we re talking about the future. yes, go ahead. [ inaudible question ] financial records we disagree with that ruling. it s crazy because you look at it. this never happened to any other president. they re trying to get a redo. trying to get what we used to call in school a do-over and if you look, you know, we had no collusion, we had no obstruction. we had no nothing. the democrats were very upset with the mueller report as perhaps they should be, but, i mean the country is very happy about it because there was never anything like that. they re trying to get a do-over or redo. you can t do that as far as the financials are concerned it s totally the wrong decision by obviously an obama appointed judge. he was a recent obama appointed
this is an important precedent, he says, for the office of the president. looking down the road, the future president, what did you make of his argument? i don t think he knows h history but was around for the watergate investigation if i remember who was the white house counsel during that period of time. yeah, howard dean. i m sorry. i blew that one. but, yes, he was and he came and testified before congress. and i would expect that that would be the case going forward now that we would see the white house counsel who does not work for the president but rather works for the office of the presidency to come to the congress and to testify. it s an important thing. he was a major part of the mueller report on the obstruction of justice question and that is surely a legitimate issue for the congress to investigate. should the house of representatives move forward with a vote to hold both don mcgahn and for that matter the
in the house intelligence committee to get information on what s being described as the counterintelligence portion of the mueller probe which wasn t included in the final mueller report, the 450 pages. is that something members of congress should be privy to? well, it s a difficult analysis that you have to go through in terms of what you discussed with congress but historically we at the bureau and in the justice department have apprised the intelligence committees and sometimes other leaders of congress about sensitive intelligence matters, so i think the answer is yes, that s why those committees were created in the first place in the 70s. you urged the country to come together because this threat from russia potentialally is still out there going into the 2020 elections. is that right? it s huge and we need to stop this rancor and make sure we re protecting and honoring our country and those who went before us to give us the freedoms we have. are you concerned that the ru
this but advances the dialogue and raises the same question we re asking about don mcgahn as we re noting as a private citizen could testify. willing to talk to mueller and has gone so far not to say ex post facto that he will willing to exonerate the president. is it to the public to give them a full understanding into the incidents he was involved. kind of the same question everyone is facing after this report, where do they place their highest obligation and is it ultimately to the republican party or to the country overall? remember, don mcgahn, though, initially did not want to work alongside, with and cooperate with the mueller investigation as we ve heard from reporting, it was ultimately because he thought that he was going to be thrown under the bus by this administration that he finally relented and agreed to speak with mueller. we got word from don mcgahn s lawyer that he will not be testifying tomorrow morning before the house judiciary committee. everybody, stick aroun