The u. S. President would say a lot to see here, but there is a lot to see stemming from the russia probe. And now for, but there is a ltd ot to see. It comes from two major Court Filings filed on friday, one from Michael Cohen, the other on former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort. First Michael Cohen, in a sentencing mee ining memorandum cohen committed two election related crimes at the direction of donald trump. There were also new revelations about contacts two cohen and a Russian National claiming to be well connected. As for Paul Manafort, mueller says that he lied about five major issues including having recent contacts with the Trump Administration and man forthafo former russian associate. Lets get to the facts first. Reporting of our justice correspondent Jessica Schneider kicks it off. Reporter a flurry of filings related to two men, Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort. Now, when it comes to Michael Cohen, prosecutors out of new york are telling the judge cohen should face
President trumps former attorney general, Michael Cohen, has, quote, gone to significant lengths to assist the special counsels investigation. Mueller goes on to say cohen helped in multiple, quote, significant respects. Okay, so multiple significant respects and in this filing, we learned that there are multiple russia related issues that are core to the investigation. So, let me read to you muellers words here to that effect. This is from page 6 of the sevenpage filing. Cohen provided the sco, the special counsels office, with useful information concerning certain discrete russia related matters core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with Company Executives during the campaign. Matters, plural, core to the investigation. Also, the time frame, something very, very important here, could be changing tonight. Mueller saying to hcohens help including discussing contacts with people connected to the white house as recently as this year, thats 2018, so a
The president , that either a pardon or some kind of protection would be there for him. Our reporting shows he got this impression not long after the Stormy Daniels case broke. Remember, he went to maralago, met with the president at that time. We are unclear about who conveyed that message to Michael Cohen. We know he came away early on thinking, im in a good spot. Ill be protected. We then know that everything kind of fell apart after the raid on his office. First, the president was still supportive of them, but then he went on fox and friends, and the president said, well, he only did a little legal work for me. Then Michael Cohen knew that he would no longer have the president at his back. Evan, whats the response been from the president s legal team . Well, anderson, Rudy Giuliani told pamela brown tonight the president of the United States never indicated anything to michael or anyone else about getting a pardon. The pardons are off the table, he said. It is not a limitation on h
Must fund the wall. Nancy pelosi says dont count on it. Your world starts right now. Welcome. Im charms payne in for neil cavuto. Aside from comey, were watching for the Court Filings in the mueller probe. For to Catherine Herridge with the latest. Catherine . Thanks, charles. As you mentioned, any time this hour we may get Public Comments from the former fbi director as well as the chairman and ranking members of the committee. Theyve have been behind closed doors for six hours during this transcribed under oath interview. The big headline from republicans, theyre not getting questions answer. A government attorney was running interference and shutting down lines of questioning. Heres congressman darrell issa. The attorney from the department of justice has repeatedly id say at his gleeful acceptance instructed that he will not be answering a great many questions that are clearly items at the core of our investigation. Democrats say this is not about finding answers in the email case.
One for the Southern District of new york. The other for the special counsel, the recommendation for cohen is significant jail time about four years and a fine of 500,000. One of the filings from the special counsel does give us an indication of the kind of information cohen offered on russia. And that section of the filing reason part cohen provided the special Counsel Office with useful information concerning certain discreet russia related matters core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with Company Executives during the campaign. He provided relevant information persons connected to the white house during the 20172018 time period. Meantime here on capitol hill a short time ago, the former fbi director james comey wrapped up six hours of testimony and at that point he was ready to speak to reporters. If you read the transcript, you will see we are talking again about Hillary Clintons emails for heavens sake. Im not sure we need to do this at all b