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
russia s military intelligence service, the gru, exposed. once we have his name, we were able to get his identity, documents, had a photograph of his obviously, the same person. reporter: uk investigative bernie madof group, belling cat, alexander mishkin, publishing what appears to be a passport scam and more. huge amount of information about him confirming his identity. reporter: it s the newest in a series of embarrassing public black eyes for the g.r.u. last week, the netherlands revealing a busted russian plot to spy on the world chemical weapons watchdog, and the u.s. indicting seven alleged g.r.u. spies. while russian officials publicly laughed the allegations off, even on state-run tv, evidence that not everyone is buying the official line. an opposition figure attacking the host for cozying up to the
accusing russians of organizing a series of global cyber plots involving agents from one of russia s gru. s it russia s most shadowy secret service, a military intelligence agency now suspected of a global campaign. from eastern ukraine to the latest revelations of gru spies. hacking sports anti-doping agencies, the nuclear energy company, investigation into the downing of a malaiysian airline and the global chemical wreps watch dog opcw. translator: the opcw was a target of undermining by the vu russian military intelligence service. the mivd stopped a cyber involve
whether they re going to sanction some of the russian gru spies, the russian spy agencies. all of those individuals who came out of the mueller investigation, and we pressed those individuals from the white house, how can this be a witch hunt when the mueller investigation are finding out these individuals who are attacking our country? so it was a wild day even in trump world. the president says manafort verdict is proof of a witch hunt because none of it has anything to do with russian collusion or him. what s your argument? my argument is these were indications of illegal activities that mr. manafort involved with frankly ukrainians and others. the question will be as we move into this next trial, will mr. manafort start to cooperate with mr. mueller? and i can only imagine there s a lot of questions to be answered there. i don t know what that