i don t know what the document is but there is documentation. this is what i ll say about cohen. he s pled guilty to lying about things. there have been things in the past he s lied about publicly. cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress. he is that is part of the reason he s going to prison in march. it would seem incomprehensible to me and against any better judgment for him to go to congress again and lie. he s already going to prison for this. so this is the kind of thing, this document and what he is saying about the president directing him or the president s knowledge of this payment ahead of time is the exact thing i m sure he ll be asked about on february 7th. this is the reason he s going. there are things in the mueller probe cohen won t be allowed to talk about. there will be things totally off the table. this seems to me squarely in line with what he s going to be asked about and allowed to talk about and that s why this hearing will be so important.
that s what prosecutors do. there s this view in the public that everything that people bring forward in court to prove a charge or an allegation is something that they found out through a wiretap or through a search or going through someone s garbage. people s public statements matter also. people s public statements often tell exactly what s going on in the person s mind. i don t think you could make a case in this circumstance and in many circumstances purely from the public comments of someone unless they are in the essence of a complete confession. public comments and indications of the president s state of mind through tweets and other interviews he has given combined with testimony from other people about what the thinking was and what the reasons were for engaging in various bits of conduct, like firing jim comey and other things, those in combination paint a powerful picture, i think, that prosecutors don t want to give up. the president s former attorney, michael cohen, i
judge calls a smarorgasbord of fraudulent conduct and will have to report to prison in march. his one-time personal confidant and personal attorney who now says, quote, it was my duty to cover up his dirty deed. cnn s gloria borger traces cohen s gold-made journey from fixer to flipper. gloria ana no, one could have predicted this story. the president s former lawyer and enforcer michael cohen turns on his boss, decides to fess up to his own crimes and is sentenc sentenced to priss op. it s been a long and winding road. the words the media should be using to describe mr. trump are generous. he wauls the ultimate loyali. kind, humble, honest and genuine. the true defender. the trump fixer who said he would take a bullet for his idol, his boss. and they say i m mr. trump s pit bull, that i am his right-hand man. i mean, there s i ve been
headache, the russia investigation. cohen has already met with special counsel robert mueller s office for more than 70 hours, offering them information about his contacts with russians and conversations with people close to the white house. the special counsel did say that you were doing your best to tell the truth about everything related to their investigation, everything related to russia. do you think president trump is telling the truth about that? no. that s a big statement. and he says he s not done talking. if they want me, i m here. and i m willing to answer whatever additional questions that they may have for me. cohen says the person in the white house now is not the trump he once admired. i think the pressure of the job is much more than what he thought it was going to be. cohen reports to prison in march, and will pay more than $1 million in restitution. stunning fall from grace for a man who says he was loyal to trump for too long. the man doesn t tell
against that president and thereby influence the election. they did it to influence the election. who knows what else the company has already or will soon tell prosecutors. this all comes after the president s former lawyer, his fixer, his right-hand man was sentenced to three years in prison for campaign finance crimes or other felonies. cohen felt the court he felt it was his duty to cover up the president s dirty deeds. both the house and senate intelligence committees want to talk to michael cohen again, and it appears he s willing to tell his story before he goes to prison in march. president trump publically silent on the cohen sentence, but privately we are told he is seething. also, the president had just three words to say about cohen. he s a liar. after the sentencing, though, rudy giuliani did have more to say. he tells yahoo! news our strategy is to do everything we can to try to convince mueller to wrap the damn thing up, and if he s got anything, show us.