This is cnn blakicnn break im wolf blitzer in the situation room. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Were following Breaking News on the president s former fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the russia investigation. Two Court Filings just released, one by the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, the other by prosecutors in new york, and theres new information about cohens cooperation. What it could mean for President Trump and for Michael Cohen as the feds in new york argue he should get substantial prison time. Right now, Robert Mueller also is set to file a secret document on Paul Manafort, the former Trump Campaign chairman, and why prosecutors believe manafort lied. Theres lots of news to unfold right now. I want to go first to our
political correspondent sara murray. Sara, muellers document makes it clear that Michael Cohen was cooperating but hes not necessarily suggesting he shouldnt get a substantial prison sentence. No, i think theres
congressional testimony, which was a lie, was circulated with the administration. in the manafort filing we have him lying about his contacs with the administration. this is coming against the backdrop of all of these people that we know who have been in to see the special counsel. cnn broke the news today that john kelly had been in and been questioned. you know, john kelly hasn t been in the white house all that long. he certainly wasn t in the white house or in the campaign when they were worried about russian influence. we also know not just don mcgahn but members of john mcgahn s staff who were helping to facilitate congressional testimony have been questioned by mueller s team and of course john mcgahn participated in to 30 hours of interviews. it makes you wonder where the obstruction investigation extends and whether there may have been other people in the administration besides donald trump who knew michael cohen was going out there and lying or having conversations with paul
news outlets have correctly reported, it strains credulity and just isn t true that john kelly hasn t been losing power within trump s west wing and hasn t been in increasingly varying degrees of thin ice with the president. i m not saying that means john kelly is incredibly short for this trump world, but it does point to his current standing. and also back to what my colleague and i reported today, i would be remiss if i didn t point out that there is a little bit of a he said/he said element to the story we reported. john kelly has talked to other white house officials about the phone call with james comey. and what kelly has told other people in the administration take this for what you will, it is your viewers decisions which side of this want to believe but they have said that kelly has said that the phone call was about a minute long and the gist
allegations. we have the rob porter situation and then as well immigration. certainly, john kelly hasn t done himself any favors when it comes to the comments he has made about immigration, about dreamers being too lazy. some of them to apply for daca. and if you recall the other issue where he said the president has evolved on the wall and the president had to combat him on that. fran cheska chambers, chris whipe will join us next hour and eugene sct. defending former staffers against allegations, we hear from a woman who accused the president himself of misconduct. do stay with us.
bombastic, not hyper bol ilk, but this is the second time he has sounded a real warning. and what s really interesting about this, he sees them as he was describing them basically if you could shorthand it as the grownups standing between, you know, preventing chaos from taking over national security policy. but the fact is that they haven t been able to prevent it, that john kelly hasn t been able to stop the tweetsz. the tweet on sunday morning that was so disoh nent, just hours after tillerson landed at 3:27 a.m. on a sunday morning from a flight from beijing to have the president in two tweets disagree with what the secretary just described, this back channel which could lead to talks with north korea. he said they were probing. he didn t say they were talking already, but he was slammed by his own president. and that so undercuts him that people like nick burns and in