we re digging deeper on today s breaking news. president trump s former attorney and fixer michael cohen pleading guilty in special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation. cohen now admits he lied to the u.s. congress about a failed project to build a trump tower in moscow. cnn s brian todd has been looking into the trump administration s many attempts to do business in russia over the years. brian, what are you finding out? we ve learned that there were at least two attempts by donald trump to build trump towers in moscow in recent years, but his dreams of scoring big real estate deals in russia go back decades. the swagger, the sheer capitalist ambition were impressive. but success in real estate in russia eluded donald trump. the potential trump tower deal
became the presumptive republican nominee and just one month before the convention. cohen saying he told congress the deal, dubbed the moscow project, ended before the iowa caucus and the very first primary in hopes of limiting the ongoing russia investigations. cohen s revelations in court showed he discussed the status of the moscow project with donald trump on mohr than three occasions and briefed trump s family members, plus, despite previously denying any contact with moscow related to the project, cohen now admits he talked directly with somebody in vladimir putin s press secretary s office for 20 minutes in january 2016. i don t know putin. i ve never met him, but if this deal was going forward, i certainly would have started working the phones. reporter: cohen also worked with felix sater, a russian american businessman to discuss the deal and cohen even contemplated that cohen would
knows a lot more than he s telling us right now and that he would not accept michael cohen s word for anything unless he had an awful lot of corroboration. a well-placed source tells me that mueller knows everything. it s very interesting that t michelle kosinski is reporting, getting it from a source familiar with a a source familiar with what s going on, that white house officials prepping the president for the g-20 summit in argentina, the president s on his way there right now, they say that president trump is, quote, in a terrible mood, spooked and completely distracted. that s pretty extraordinary going into a high level series of meet and pretty understandable and what i ve been focusing on is russia s reaction, and i can tell you that as of this morning russia media had been reporting
special counsel. tonight the president s former fixer michael cohen once again flipping on the president in federal court, revealing trump while campaigning to become president of the united states knew more about a deal to build a trump tower in moscow than cohen has previously acknowledged. mr. cohen has cooperated. mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. cohen pled guilty in federal court today admitting to misleading congressional investigators saying he lied to be consistent with the president s political messaging and out of loyalty to the president. cohen has already met with investigators seven times since august, the most recent meeting just last week. one source saying the details about trump tower moscow were just one of the many topics involving the president that cohen divulged in more than 70 hours of questioning. there s no relationship. cohen told the house and senate intelligence committees last year that all talks around the deal were done by january to 16, but
and what threat could all of that pose to president trump? it s an ultimate threat, perhaps right now the biggest threat to the president, to the trump organization and to members of the president s inner circle and family, the now, the fact that he s spent same time and development in this entire investigation because for some time, we weren t even show if the special counsel was going to find any cred nablt what michael cohen is saying. clearly now we have a very different story, and it s clear that the special counsel is taking what michael cohen is saying seriously and is going to continue to take what he s saying seriously because according to michael cohen s lawyer he s continuing to cooperate. he said as much when he left court. a lot of people should be worried about what michael cohen knows, the trump organization