sentencing in order to organize everything and tie everything up into a nice neat bow. prosecutors will simply delay the sentencing as long as they need to in order to secure the level of cooperation that they want from this particular cooperating witness. you just mentioned big fish. do one of those big fish be michael cohen, especially when you have lanny davis on with rachel maddow saying he might have some information about the president here that could include topics of crime, computer crime of hacking, whether or not the president knew ahead of time about the crime or even cheered it on, could that be it? that was a mind blowing revelation to me because that was the first inkling or first suggestion that the computer hacking might be part of the bundle of things that donald trump is being implicated in or not too subtly implicated in as he was yesterday in court. when lanny davis said that that was the first time any of us yesterday really hearth computer hacking. i think man
cooperate. no, i m not because i did nothing wrong. reporter: cohen will not have to go to trial, but faces three and a half to five years in prison. he will be sentenced in december. he can go to jail for a number of years and so he still has an incentive to help the government, but if he wants to avoid jail, the more information the more truthful information he provides, the better off he will be. reporter: it s a stunning development for two men whose relationship dates back a decade. cohen once memorable blee said he would take a bullet for the president, but this summer signs of a split when cohen declared his family and country come first. now a flip for a former loyalist and perhaps to the president a betrayal. if he s still your friend i always liked michael cohen. i haven t spoken to michael in a long time. is he still your lawyer. no, he is not my lawyer. your personal lawyer. but i always liked michael. thanks to hallie jackson for that report. we sho
doing, more a political one because of the adjudication could be in the hands of congress, not a jury. even on that front, some people are skeptical of that strategy. the president s lawyer rudy giuliani saying there s nothing in this recording that in any way, shape or form is damaging to him. landy davis, attorney for michael cohen, sees it very difficult. both sides saying it s beneficial to them. near the president s golf course in bedminster, new jersey. the white house is keeping quiet. moscow on the other hand is talking giving its view of what happened when putin spoke one on one with trump. following the meeting russian foreign minister sergey lavrov said the trump bsh putootrump-p waes bet was better than super. i mentioned, in the dark and some senior administration
rigid, where he is asked questions about what are your views on this as opposed to 2007. interesting how he treated samantha guthrie and sean hannity. tonight s question do you think rand paul s strategy of personally attacking hillary clinton will work? our new system, you go to pulse.msnbc.com/ed. you cast your vote there. we ll bring you the results later on in the show. for more, let me bring in landy davis and ann gearing and a conservative strategist and chairman of conservativehq.com. i can t wait. is it ted cruz or rand paul early on? well they re kind of tied in terms of appeal to the conservative base. one of the things ed that most
hillary clinton. here we go. minutes after his campaign announcement yesterday, rand paul sat down with politico. he immediately attacked hillary clinton over the use of her private e-mail. i think clearly hillary clinton by all appearances seemed to be evading the law. she s asking us to trust us that she sorted out government from nongovernment e-mail after she didn t obey the rules to begin with. you need to trust me even though i broke the rules and maybe the law to begin with. and i just destroyed the server so you really have to trust me. i think a lot of americans are going to say that doesn t pass the smell test. if you re keeping score between rand paul and ted cruz, he s out front as far as bashing the clinton. the senator hinted there s plenty of material he could use to go after hillary clinton. when you combine that with the shenanigans that have been going on at the clinton foundation and this trail of money that s going round about to government to foun