Have to worry about the sentencing guidelines. So i hear you on that. Let me bounce this to you, garber, because wheres the there there . There is no case. I get the sentencing guidelines, but we dont even have charges. So what is there to flip on, and what would he have to flip with . Yeah. So heres the problem. Ive represented a lot of folks under investigation, and the problem is before you even get to the sentencing guidelines, theres the investigation. I mean think of Michael Cohen. Think of being him and having your office raided, reading about yourself every day in the newspaper, having your career taken away from you, everything, and potentially losing your livelihood, everything, everything, everything. And that, that notion alone, focuses the mind. All right. And many of us in the media, we talk to Michael Cohen. I certainly do. This has been difficult for him, but we still dont know what the case is about, so we really dont know where the sympathies should lie. Another point
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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The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. The elements of a crime. I had cases trying to plead guilty and he said what you said is not a crime, i am not accepting your plea. Yesterday, heard what Michael Cohen said, said that is a crime, i accept your guilty plea. When they say he wasnt implicated in the cohen plea deal, john, is that a lie . Well, actually the president was not named in the indictment or in the plea agreement. Michael cohen did an audible during his allocution, said the president directed me to do it, not in the documents that were signed. That came as a big surprise. The bottom line is Michael Cohen admitted to a crime, rather than take a bullet for the president , he shot a seering missile. Right now, the white house is not articulating a defense. Rule one. Dont allow your client to speak. The more President Trump speaks, the worse it gets. What do you make of his defense . It is not a valid defense. Three defenses the white house has to make.
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
the democrats thought they could win an election like this, i think they hurt themselves very badly for 2020. tucker: mall, the mood was widely shared on twitter, donald trump jr. called the hearing a great win, and asked this, serious question, hasn t mueller even heard of mueller? donald trump joins us for his first interview since the hearing and scrape your thanks a lot for coming on. so, what was f i mean, i think that tweet sums it up pretty well but elaborate on what you thought of it. well, listen. i really think it does speak for itself. i mean, i m watching a guy that led an investigation, was that of the fbi, was a former prosecutor, spent two years and almost $50 million investigating it and a congressman asked, let s talk about fusion gps. i ve never heard of it appear to me, that be like a builder talking about not understanding what a foundation is. dodo not even have a finite understanding of how this all