white house correspondent kristen welker, national security analyst, frank, and msnbc contributor jill, wat watergate special prosecutor. kristen, let s talk about the president. denial, denial on twitter today. no collusion, we ve heard that before but it does seem from these filings on friday that both on the manafort side and the michael cohen side, these connections are all circling the president. reporter: it does and the documents say that president trump directed two felonies. now, president trump in trying to dispute that says, look, these are nothing more than private contributions, but this is certainly significant and you see that, the extent to which it s really getting under the president s skin and concerning to him. the president lashing out on twitter, re-upping some of the similar arguments we ve heard in
cooperating and negotiating a plea agreement, and there are good reasons why he would want to do that and why bob mueller would want to do that, then we re looking down the road toward a pardon and we have to wonder what kind of conversations paul manafort s lawyers have had with jewel yaeny and trump s lawyers pursuant to what s called their agreement where they can share information about the investigation. well, that s the other news that broke tonight, dan. walk us through that. rudy giuliani revealing for the first time that they are in cahoots, that they are sharing confidential information between the manafort side and the trump side, that they even spoke after manafort s guilty conviction because while joint defense agreements can be fairly common one with a president of these circumstances is dramatic. and it was sort of foreshadowed or signaled, ari, right around the time the first manafort trial started. because that was around the time
this came from the manafort side, that this is manafort trying to send the signal to trump. they want me to either plead guilty or cooperate, and i m at least entertaining that idea. i need some assurance from you. really quickly, we only have 15 seconds left, but tomorrow, i think, is the deadline where they have to decide whether or not to try paul manafort on the ten counts where the jury was deadlocked. what do you think is going to happen? i have to guess they will dismiss those counts. you don t need to try this guy three times. okay, thank you to both of you. before this year and everything going on with the muler trial, most americans had no idea who stormy daniels was. but now she s a regular presence in national headlines who has talked to prosecutors in the michael cohen criminal investigation. in the new interview now with vogue, daniels, real name stephanie clifford, discussed how her life has changed following the alleged affair with the president.
figure out how we can spend our money to influence them. no, if people are going to be elected to public office then by golly they re supposed to be working in the public interest, not in the interest of people who can pay a half million dollars for lobbyists. over on the manafort side, can i just say on that one, my bill says let s take the worst parts of lobbying and make them flatly illeg illegal. foreign countries and foreign actors should not be able to hire americans to lobby the united states government. if they want to influence the united states government, use your consul, that s what it s about. i want to get one last question in here because it s a very important story in the news, meteorolonew news, mollie tibbetts, the young woman murdered in iowa. the person who allegedly murdered her is an undocumented
the judge is going to want to make sure he hears from michael cohen himself. absolutely. he s not going to hear through the lawyer. he s going to ask cohen, the defendant, what did you do and he has to through his admissions indicate to the judge that he committed the crime he s pleading guilty with and only then does the court accept the plea. on the issue of sentencing, that s not going to happen. you won t see a commitment from the court on that today. that will get put off to a future type after more reports are done on cohen s background for the court. jennifer, over to you. as a former federal prosecutor, how big of a day is this? it s a huge day. i mean, if you take michael cohen on one hand and paul manafort jury reaching agreement on most of the counts, it s an enormous day. there s a lot to be said about it. i don t want to count my chickens on the manafort side, but to me this is a huge day for