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
All eyes will be on that department of Justice Press conference and the one and only Robert Mueller will be speaking. That wraps it up for me in this exciting news hour. I am now turning over to my friend, Chris Jansing who picks up coverage. 10 00 on the east coast im Chris Jansing in for hallie jackson. What a huge breaking news story were following for you at the top of the hour. Robert mueller the Special Counsel in charge of the investigation is coming out at the department of justice. He is scheduled to make a statement on his investigation at the top of the next hour. His first Public Comments on the probe since he started as Special Counsel more than two years ago. A full team of reporters and experts who have been following this investigation throughout. Let me start with ken delaney in
our washington bureau. Ken, this is someone throughout the investigation did a remarkable job of keeping things under wrap and stopping any leaks from coming out. We have not seen him. He is so
Saying the president has gone too far. The latest in a string of moves the president has made, firing Alexander Vindman, gordon sondland, withdrawing nomination for jessie lieu whose office worked on cases. Publicly criticizing government lawyers that prosecuted stone and judges overseeing the case, and demanding the Justice Department call for lesser sentence for his long time friend, attorney general bill barr has not commented publicly on any of this so far, but he has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee where he will be asked about all of this. Heres the problem. That will not happen until march 31st. Thats more than six weeks from now. And in news cycles, thats a lifetime. I want to bring in ken delaney that covers intelligence and national security. Bill barr will have to answer on these questions, but it is not until the end of march, and what are the consequences . Good question. This could be one of the most important oversight hearings featuring an attorney
Next two critical weeks. Early voting ends tomorrow. On wednesday the las vegas debate. Saturday, five days from now the nevada caucuses. 12 days until the South Carolina primary. 15 days until interest tuesday. Bernie sanders is going into nevada with some moment temperature. This weekend he had more than 1,000 people in carson city, more than 11,000. Joe biden seven points behind, but sanders not taking anything for granted, as he launched his two final tv ads there today ahead of the caucuses. And while Michael Bloomberg has not yet qualified for wednesdays dday, he still could, and his name looms large after dumping hundreds of millions into super tuesday states and a flurry of advertisements, he faces a barrage of attacks. Will he be able to take the heat whoever he does go head to head with his democratic opponents . Lets go to or road warriors, andi vitaly. Mike memoli, and Josh Letterman joins us with the latest on Michael Bloombergs campaign. Josh, the big question surrounding
Rating. Hes polling the highest. Contentious clash to date. I know all polls are snapshots more hits per minute than vegas in time. He has built a movement, not heavyweight fight. Just throwing money around, not newcomer Michael Bloomberg just trying to buy it but going taking most of the punches with state to state to state talking to people, understanding their senator Elizabeth Warren not holding back and leading the needs. No, they shouldnt be afraid of charge against the former new york mayor. A billionaire who calls women it. As senator sanders pointed out fat broads and horse faced lesbians. When the reverend dr. Martin no, im not talking about donald trump, im talking about mayor luther king condemned bloomberg. Militarism, materialism and are you willing to release all poverty. As we know before he was of those women from those assassinated he was bringing together working class people, nondisclosure agreements . Poor people, the poor peoples they signed those agreements and w