they say will you meet us? we will give you dirt on hillary clinton. it just basically fizzles out in 15 minutes. michael cohen says we have synergy that we re offering politically and he doesn t even follow up on it. each of these suspicious moments they don t amount to anything. bret: in the mountain of paperwork what s the most troubling thing in these documents if you are the trump administration? for monday manafort, i would definitely be looking at that last part of the filing where they talk about direct contact or approved made by manafort to the white house. that could be a serious obstruction claim. for cohen i would be concerned about the fact you don t have a 5 k 1.1 letter. in other words, you are going nowhere for five years, maybe four. unless you get that letter. bret: explain that. they say cohen declined
russia has been front page for more than a year and yet his indictment did come as a surprise because facts aren t in fashion. some americans hear these stories and skip to the president should be impeached and others hear the same stories and write them off as fake news. the president hasn t been impeached but there s nothing fake about tb stories. the indictment tells a clear and well documented story. the same one we have been uncovering one bit at a time for months. but the indictment also does something else. something that reporters can t and shouldn t do. it labels manafort s actions as being criminal. now here come the lawyers on monday manafort s attorney came out to talk to the press and start laying out manafort s defense. there is no evidence that mr. manafort or the trump campaign colluded with the russian government. that s a pretty bold statement at this point. but listen to what he said next.