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
read on the eighth charges that the jury came to a unanimous verdict on. ten of them, still outstanding. we will hear what the judge wants to do with those. neil: peter, thank you very, very much. we are following the situation on michael cohen who bled guilty, we are told, on what would put him behind bars from 3-5 years. potentially, involving payments that were made on donald trump campaign with stormy daniels. we don t know for sure, but that seems to be the senator prior to entering the courthouse. robert, thank you for taking the time. nice to be with you, neil. neil: and the robert metaphor situation, 18 counts, if they reach agreement on ten, if they can, we don t know which of the ten or which of the eight. your thoughts? the option for the court is
counts. again, information comes out of the courtroom as fast as somebody from our team can write it down and run it out. the first think that we got was word that there is a verdict, again in eight counts out of 18. we have long understood since the trial began that wants the jury determined that they came to a verdict, there would be about a 10-15 minute wait and that is because paul manafort is being held in solitary confinement somewhere in the courthouse. they have to go and get him. we saw his wife walk in with the manafort lawyer. they have their prosecutors in the courtroom already. if things are going according to the plan that was laid out a few days ago, right now, they are going to get mr. manafort and bring him to the courtroom so that he could have a verdict
own course were unrelated of the mueller investigation. today seems to be two things. it disconnected from the russia collusion investigation, and second, michael cohen it is not, or at least not yet. neil: so, when you say it is a separate issue, the financial part of it, the financial dealings, not rigging boats or trying to gain advantages? it looks like potential campaign violations. all of those sorts of things. again, not all that unlike what we have seen already in the paul manafort case. neil: you saw going after bill clinton, wildly in courts, right? it veered wildly off course. along the way, there were applications made to the special division to expand that mandate. if it is warranted we can
excessive campaign contributions, we don t know all of the details of that. he did not and does not appear to observe do you think that when they were negotiating this that they were trying to negotiate this that they were trying to get that? i think the issue came up as to what michael cohen might have been an position to say about what the president s knowledge was during the campaign. that would be relevant, of course. neil: all all right hang on. on the issue of whether or not there was illegal neil: more coming out of that room behind him there. we have at least one guilty count. peter, why can you tell us? neil, the jury said they had a verdict on eight of the 18 charges and on count 1, the jury has a great unanimous decision that paul manafort is guilty of filing fake tax returns. i m getting handed sheets that have the word guilty on it