next one and is cooperating now with the special counsel. after pleading guilty to a series of criminal charges, president trump s former personal attorney michael cohen is also cooperating with mueller s investigators. abc news reports that he has cooperated with multiple interview sessions lasting for hours. former trump campaign adviser george papadopoulos was sentenced to prison for lying to the fbi about contacts with russian intermediaries during the 2016 election. all told, 35 people or business entities are facing 191 criminal charges. despite what you may hear from the president and his allies claiming there is some unfounded witch hunt, robert mueller s investigation is producing results. look at your screen. there they are right there. but how close is he to wrapping this up? let s discuss now. former fortunately prosecutor laura coates is here. also chris swecker.
the special counsel s office is reportedly talking to him about is specifically russia, trump and russia and trump and russia and money. from the abc report tonight, quote, president donald trump s formal personal attorney michael cohen has participated over the past month in multiple interview sessions lasting for hours with investigators from the office of special counsel robert mueller. the special counsel s questioning of cohen is focused primarily on all aspects of trump s dealings with russia, including financial and business dealings. and the investigation into alleged collusion with russia by the trump campaign and its surrogates to influence the out come of the 2016 election. the abc report goes on to say that the special counsel s office has asked cohen about whether trump offered to pardon him, and they say cohen is also cooperating. in addition to the federal cooperation he s offering, he s also cooperating with new york state authorities and their active investigations int
accurate, he s not talking to them only about campaign finance violations and the other stuff he has already plead guilty to. what they re talking to him with what the special counsel s office is reportedly talking about is russia, trump and russia, and trump and russia and money. from the abc report tonight, quote, president donald trump s former personal attorney michael cohen has participated over the past month in multiple interview sessions lasting for hours with investigators from the office of special counsel robert mueller. the special counsel s questioning of cohen is focused primarily on all aspects of trump s dealings with russia, including financial and business dealings, and the investigation into alleged kohl collusion with russia by the trump campaign and its surrogates to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. the abc report goes on the say that the special counsel s office has also asked cohen about what president trump offered to pardon him, and they say cohen
today, he would be trying to underminus the way they always wanted to undermine us. it would be like making me president, an old intelligence guy. i d want to be carrying out operations left and right. he is a career kgb officer. granted, he got out, went out and liquidated the soviet assets in st. petersburg and became a multi-billionaire but it s the strategic goals of aligning themselves and making russia go from a third rate super power to take on, challenge and lead around by the nose ring a president they installed. that is a very old soviet objective. you know, there were movies and fiction about that. it s happened now. let s talk about today, right now. robert mueller appears to be closing in on the president himself. abc news today is reporting that michael cohen has participated in multiple interview sessions lasting for hours with investigators from the office of special counsel. specifically, the special
it can t be overstated. the alabama rally was for many people, hey, we have something here. it was huge. sessions played a big part. there were 20,000 people who showed up to this rally, this is right after he went after john mccain. his campaign is totally dead. we showed up at this rally, 20,000 people were there, it was raining, really hot. we didn t know this was going to happen. jeff sessions gets on stage and puts on this happen. donald trump s whole immigration plan was based around jeff sessions ideas on immigration and stephen miller who was jeff sessions aid who went on to work in the white house and donald trump s campaign. apparently donald trump has weighed in on this. let s go to hans nichols who jumped in front of a camera for us. hans, what have you heard? the president told bloomberg news in an interview sessions is safe until the midterm elections in november. i m going to speak a little loudly here because that s marine one i believe taking off. we re here,