and see how you can have an even better x1 experience. simple. easy. awesome. breaking news tonight. michael cohen has offered up up in information on the trump family business to federal prosecutors. according to a report from the new york times, the president s former lawyer, who worked at the trump org for years, spoke about possible irregularities within the president s family business and about a donor to the inaugural committee according to people familiar with the matter. specifically, about insurance claims the company had filed over the years. cohen will testify at three separate hearings in d.c. next week. behind closed doors, before both the house and senate intelligence committee, and publicly before the house oversight committee in just five days. to walk us through exactly what has taken place here, i m joined on the phone by one of the reporters who broke the new york times story, senior writer, william rashbaum.
absolutely make this report public. everybody should have an opportunity to review the full report. we ve spent $40 million on this report so far. let s see what it says. you can t have it both ways. i think this report is going to show there was no collusion, no cooperation, no coordination between the trump campaign and the russians and the only campaign that coordinated was the clinton campaign. no one wants to talk about that. and if there was russian interference in the 2016 election, why is it that barack obama and comey and clapper aren t held responsible? because they were the ones in charge of the government at the time. you don t sound like someone who is confident that this report is going to clear you. you sound like someone who wants to change the subject. no, i don t. i m very certain there is no collusion because i was there. let s talk about the subject we you re talking about other stuff. i m talking about the mueller report and i m saying i hope you agree wi
had or saw the in-elevator video before it was publicly shown. still mueller blasts the league for what he calls a limited investigation that ignored substantial information that suggested it should have done much more. now at the time, there were others who argued the report wasn t a satisfying resolution. while mueller s assignment was different, in 2015, we should note he also used the report to reveal some nfl mistakes that people could then learn from, even though they weren t allegedly criminal. he also criticized the nfl for not being thorough in the investigation that they did, and he also wrote, had the league done so, it may have uncovered additional information about the whole incident that was so disturbing. and that passage from the mueller report shows he can detail a structural failure, even if it falls short of a crime. today he s dealing with a whole different probe and the power of the full federal government behind him. mueller has indicted several trump aides al
comes in we ll be asking you about that the moment we get it. when you look at this all together, michael cohen dishes on new information in new york. paul manafort s sentencing. roger stone issued a warning if he messes up again, he s going to be messing up in jail. bill barr chooses to come out and say what he du not need to. tell us what s on your mind because we re all trying to make sense of this. well, it is very unusual, as you said, to announce anything that the special counsel is doing or not doing unless they felt great pressure to correct the record and there s been so much reporting that the report is coming next week, i think they felt some obligation to set the record straight. but in light of of the also things that are happening with roger stone, paul manafort, michael cohen, and some other loose ends. remember, there is this matter where there was a subpoena to a foreign-owned corporation that has not yet been resolved. it seems likely that they know there are a few
eager for the report to come out. you know the nice part? there was no collusion, there was no obstruction, there was no anything. so that s a nice part. there was no phone calls, no nothing. so i look forward to seeing the report. if it s an honest report, it will say that. you catch the no phone calls part there. no phone calls. a little weird. while we may not get to see the final mueller report in the immediate future, we will get to see a key document in the case against the president s campaign manager, paul manafort. in fact, we re expecting it any minute now. tonight is the deadline for mueller s prosecutors to file a sentencing memo in washington, d.c., where manafort pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy involving his work in ukraine. previous court filings held tantalizing clues about what mueller knows and where he s going. you might remember, we learned by a redaction fail from manafort s own lawyers that his client had shared polled data during the 2016 campaig