Right now the judge is reading the charges after mr. Cohen told the court, i am truly sorry and i promises to do better. He Apologize Nod country. And the defense team is asking for full consideration of mercy and telling the judge that the client came forward to offer evidence against the most p powerful man in the country not knowing the result. The prosecutors are responding forcefully and saying that powerful and privileged individuals cannot violate laws without impunity, and back with me, this tremendous panel, Danny Cevallos, Ken Delainian, and elliott and jill winebank. And jill, what do you make of what we have heard so far in this robust apology that we have heard from Michael Cohen saying that he was acting out of Blind Loyalty to donald trump. Of course, the phrase Blind Loyalty to donald trump reminds
me of the book by john dean Blind Ambition and there is some similarity between the two of them where they were basically blinded by the power of the president. But you can o
with implications for the president, and former personal attorney sentenced to 36 months behind bars. and it is going to be harder given what the judge said in court, and hard forewhite house and the judge to say it is a minor civil thing, because this is not some minor civil thing, and these are femalonies and ta evasion, and campaign finance violation, and the judge incorporating that from the new york sentencing, and the presentencing documents, and that is going to have soming weight. thank you so much, kristen welker, for the breaking news, and joining us now is msnbc legal analyst and attorney for the suffolk district of new york, mimi rocah and ken delainian as well. and so what do you think about what the sentence is and what the judge said? yes, cohen got a sentence that many of us predicted because of what he was facing and the fact that he would and should get some credit for the
just about everything. i have said that he is a an olympic swimmer and we are dog paddling, and he knows that obviously not only the false testimony was circulateed on what saw it, and how would he know that? almost inevitably an electronic record of that and who resieve received the e-mails and who opened them, and that is my presumption that bob mueller knows. and dan goldman, you had some thoughts about the different defense counsels, and by the way, lanny davis has pointed out at the bottom of the statement said that he is no longer now that michael cohen has been sentenced, no longer acting as an attorney, but communications advi adviser, and pete alexander said that he is a john dean kind of character, and think they is wishful thinking if you want to try to create that atmosphere, but john dean actually he did not have a lot of support from all of the fellow conspirators inside of the with white house in the nixon team.
sorry to interrupt you and quickly, we are hearing that he was sentenced. michael cohen, the president s former attorney and personal fixer was sentenced to 36 months of prison time. danny cevallos, let me have you respond to this breaking news. again, he is is responded to 36 month, and we don t have but elliott, 36 months. so the probation department recommended 42 months, and that is a substantial sentence, because he going to jail for three year, and the judge clearly considered and this is the point that i was making in spite of his loyalty to trump having led him to do these bad acts, he benefited tremendously from his proximity to the president, and from his proximity to power and all across, and you know, between the president of the united states frankly, mr. cohen and a number of these individuals connected to this, and that is all about ambition and greed and lying to enrich one s self and lying to get one s self ahead is
sympathize with them. often a client comes to the attorney and says, i am paying you all of this money and you better fight to get me zero time in jail, and the attorneys have to make that shoot the moon type argument that long shot argument for no jail time when the more realistic argument is probably something in the range of 20 to 40 months, at a least statistically. and so that is probably what we can expect in the reasonable range given the national downward trend of sentences for similarly situated defendants. elliott, let me bring you in now, and reflect if you would on with what we have heard so far from inside of that courtroom. and again, this is from wnbc s jonathan dienst and these are not exact quotes, but i want to read a few more for the viewers to give them a sense of the tone of the comment s ths that he ma daimt he said that i blame myself for the conduct that has