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
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he has been cooperating, points forwards in telling us that they ve got leverage to secure his additional cooperation. what we don t know is whether his statement and what he has told the investigators for mueller about the business deal has anything to do with russian election meddling. you may remember that the president said he had nothing to do with russia. he said that during the campaign. does this put that statement in a different light given the fact that michael cohen, the president s very close fixer and personal lawyer at the time, was still engaged with russians and trying to get this real estate deal going, a deal that ultimately fizzled out? what does this have to do with russian election medd lichlt ng? we just don t know but it s a plus for the mueller team for getting additional information and cooperation. garrett haake is on capitol
after congress overwhelmingly passes a sanctions bill in response to the u.s. election medd lichlt ng. it now seems, according to him, that will not happen any time soon. those comments come as the u.s. has been ordered to cut staff at diplomatic missions in russia by hundreds. just one way that putin regime is retaliating against this new sanctions bill. let s go straight to our correspondent in moscow, clare sebastian. clare? 755 people, that s the number that president putin says he will cut in russia, in three continents of the country. a big number any way you look at it. we had some clarification from
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