might not finish his term in office. really? i think this thing is enormous. in the russia investigation so far, the new york times points out today that mueller has, quote, issued more than 100 criminal counts against 33 people and three companies. they include cohen, former trump campaign aides, trump s former campaign chairman, dozens of russians and the president s former national security advisor. so far, there have been seven guilty pleas. we should note lobbyist sam paton s charge stemmed from mueller what was brought by prosecutors in washington. we ve asked frank figliuzzi and jeremy bash to remain with us for just a few more minutes to take a few more questions. jeremy, it appears the president will never put pen to paper and sign a bill that protects robert mueller. but do you think mueller has de facto protections of his own now? and are you convinced he already has left an unbreakable and indelible mark on this
investments in russia. it read, quote, for the record, i have zero investments in russia. that was a message that trump worked hard to repeat on the campaign trail. i will tell you right now, zero i have nothing to do with russia. i have no relationship to russia whatsoever. what do i know about the russians? what do i know about the russians? then they said, he borrowed money i don t borrow money from the russians. i promise you, i don t have any deals with russia. i had miss universe there a couple years ago. other than that, no. i have nothing to do michael cohen is to be sentenced in two weeks, december 12. he has already pleaded guilty to a range of other charges including campaign finance violations for his role in paying trump s alleged mistresses for their silence before the presidential election. that guilty plea was with the southern district of new york. here is how the president reacted to today s guilty plea from michael cohen. he s a weak person and what h
very, very understandable legal defenses. cohen cannot be trusted, you know, dershowitz coming forward and saying, none of this is a crime. they don t know what all of what mueller has. they know some of what mueller has, and i would suspect they have to worry about what they don t know. that s chilling. emily jane fox, about this company, people looking to diminish the trump organization always say it s a licensing outfit. it s a real estate. they lend their name. it is not a fortunate 500 company. it has no board or board room. the board room for the apprentice finale was assembled in studio 8 h five stories above us and is still in a prop room somewhere. but that is to say it s a family business. it s a pretty tight circle. talk about cohen s involvement with that family core. you are 100% right about what the trump organization is like. this is a mom and pop shop. it is in the building where president trump, then regular man donald trump lived, where
me has one of the most strikingly peculiar legal strategies that i ve seen at this level. it is why we will invite both of you back, and we ll keep talking about these developments as they get tossed at us. cynthia oxney whose fault it is we re suddenly craving marshmallows, bob bauer, thank you for coming on. appreciate it. what today s developments could mean politically for president trump as the democrats are poise today take control of the house. let s not forget, from the washington post shares his reporting with us after the break. and we re now offering zero expense ratio index funds. that s value you ll only find at fidelity. one thing leads another
but as the new york times points out, quote, that charge conflicts with rudy giuliani s assertion that mr. cohen and mr. trump have now given prosecutors much the same account. giuliani maintains that trump s written answers to the special counsel match what michael cohen told that judge today. cohen s surprise court appearance comes nine days after trump submitted responses to robert mueller. with us to talk about all of it, cynthia auctionny, veteran of the justice department who has worked with robert mueller and bob bauer, former white house counsel to president obama. bob, it s good to have you back on the broadcast after a long absence. i have to start with you with this question. by my account we have in the space of this week seen the president of the united states referred to in court documents twice as individual one. that can t be good, can it? no, of course it s not good.