Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. No collusion, which i knew anyway. No coordination, no nothing. No nothing, he says. No collusion. His response to the revelation his closest Campaign Adviser sought dirt on hillary clinton. His response after the house and Senate Intelligence committees re released their reports on russian interference. His response to nearly any question the president has ever gotten, no collusion. If not the two foundational words of his entire administration, then at least the linchpin of his defense that is until our reporting that his former lawyer and confidante is now willing to tie the president directly to that meeting with russians during the campaign. Now that Michael Cohens apparently ready to say that Candidate Trump knew in advance about what amounts to at best an attempted collusion or intended collusion or unrequited collusion. The line of defense has a new wrinkle, moving from never happened
what the full scope of the evidence. when it comes to flip, we still don t know fully who he has cooperated against, how many people he is cooperating against, what his information. so it is like an iceberg where you only see the tip. and it s not until the cases are brought and tried that the public will get to see all the information. and garrett, you also make the moan point we don t know if mueller is done with manafort, whether he ll bring additional charges, whether there will be any plea deal. how much do you think we ll learn from manafort s trial which as anne said starts tomorrow in virginia? we re going learn a lot. and the other thing is paul manafort is going to learn a lot. i mean, he s almost 70 years old. he is already in jail for witness tampering during the course of the trial preparation, staring at potentially as many as 300 years in federal prison. it s not going take a lot for him to be staring down a life sentence if this trial begins to go poorly. so i think