This is real life. This is stranger than fiction. Im going to hand it off to my friend chris jansing. Wow its a deluge of news. I am chris jansing. We have more on that bombshell news in the Mueller Investigation. Right now in manhattan federal court, President Trumps former personal attorney and self proclaimed fixer, Michael Cohen, entering a new plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. He is Pleading Guilty to lying to congress in closed door testimony about his contacts with the russians during the president ial campaign. Remember, this is a man who was once who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. And now hes given more than 70 hours of testimony to the mueller team. It would be tough to overstate the significance of cohens cooperation because for more
than a decade, there was, perhaps, no man closer to donald trump and his businesses outside the family. This Breaking News after another dizzying day of developments in the Robert Mueller investigation and as Pre
this courthouse in new york, southern district reporters we got a heads up at approximately 8:30 this morning that there would be a significant proceeding in usa versus john dou doe. we didn t even know it was going to be michael cohen. when we got in the courtroom we recognized a number of people from the special counsel s team, prosecutors. approximately 8:50, 9:00 a.m., mi michael cohen strolled into the courtroom and very clearly and very calmly stepped up and said that he made these false statements and pled to the single count of making false statements. he directly, right from the beginning, named the president who is identified as individual one when we get the paperwork. and that he pled guilty to lying to congress. the scene this summer, michael cohen was, admittedly, nervous. he talked about wanting to have a stiff drink at that point.