Business news and analysis. Violations. It could land him in prison from 35 years. Mercedes, that issue will come up whether mr. Cohen has decided to do this to get at this out of the way and hope and pray for a pardon down the road. Certainly what our calling is done as wonder if they are going to get cooperation. Frankly, they could have a discussion with mueller later on and find out what he knew. Whether President Trump knew of the meeting and what the meeting was taking place. And the payment to Stormy Daniels. Whether the president knew about either of them. And, of course he has come forward and said, look, i think you did know. The backandforth can whether there are some continuation of discussion with mueller is left to be seen. He is without a doubt looking at
something down the road. No lawyer wants to sit, even with that, no lawyer wants to sit in 35 years. That is a significant amount of time. Neil the former doj prosecutor, still better than what he could have made. The p
rudy giuliani told me that his experience as a former district attorney for new york, if you are signing a cooperation deal, you leave the idea of a sentence open, because you want to have the maximum hammer in your hand in case the witness decides not to cooperate. the fact that they have agreed in advance to describe a 3-5 year sentence to cohen, is, is indication that at least in normal rules he has decided not to cooperate, and not ineffective. he might be completing plead ga campaign violation and what impact that might have on the president s case as it would seem to link the the trump camn was some sort of illegal activity. rudy giuliani told him that cohen s problem that he has had on many occasions that the president had no knowledge of the stormy daniels payment ahead of the election. and had only learned about it afterwards. rudy giuliani is on the record saying that the president has paid cohen back to $130,000.
cooperate before he gets sentence appeared we are not seeing the full pitcher even when we get the plea letter. neil: would he be sentence as soonest today? no, it is very rare that a person leaves guilty and gets sentence on the same day. neil: would he be considered a flight risk? the judge has that option. i would say, generally speaking, in a white-collar case where a client walks in the court voluntarily and is not trying to evade justice in any way, most likely they walked back out. there might be some conditions and restrictions, but it does not ring like the type of case where cohen will be going out the exit instead of going out to his car. neil: it would not be a paul manafort situation, regardless of how this issue works out for him, it is the first wave of indictments we have seen on 18 different counts. even if he were to survive them all, he has to wait and do for the second wave that comes later
violations. it could land him in prison from 3-5 years. mercedes, that issue will come up whether mr. cohen has decided to do this to get at this out of the way and hope and pray for a pardon down the road. certainly what our calling is done as wonder if they are going to get cooperation. frankly, they could have a discussion with mueller later on and find out what he knew. whether president trump knew of the meeting and what the meeting was taking place. and the payment to stormy daniels. whether the president knew about either of them. and, of course he has come forward and said, look, i think you did know. the back-and-forth can whether there are some continuation of discussion with mueller is left to be seen. he is without a doubt looking at