it. we know from our previous reporting that the taxi medallions that he owned and his involvement in that had been under scrutiny as part of this search warrant that we heard about a couple of weeks ago. now we have somebody who is stated on the record, everybody aga evgeny friedman stated michael cohen is a client of his, that they have a business relationship. and yesterday we get to the point you were making before, a tremendous plea deal that he was able to get to avoid significant jail time. why do investigators, kim, make that sort of or why do prosecutors make that sort of plea deal? he was facing multiple charges. now it is just one charge. what would they get in return for reducing it that way? well, one charge and no jail time. he only gets probation. in exchange, he is going to get cooperation that is if he knows anything about mr. cohen or any or wrongdoing by other people, he is going to tell law enforcement and prosecutors. then they can use that information to the
but i m sure people you talk to are telling you the same thing they re telling me, which is if this if there was a real huge counterintelligence problem in with jared kushner in mueller s shop, that that would make it harder to get clearances, too. so that coupled with the news that the lawyer for jared kushner said today that he s now that kushner s now met twice with the office of special counsel for several hours and given interviews and is in full cooperation. again, if you re in team kushner, this is a good news day for you. matt, stick with us for a moment. kim, does this mean that whatever mueller had been looking into with jared kushner is not a big deal? i mean by him getting this sort of security clearance, does that mean that he s got a kind of maybe a clean bill from mueller? i think that s probably a stretch. i agree that this is very good news for him and it is interesting that we have an fbi that passed gave him the background check in this