automatically. and prosecutors are very careful about getting into bed with someone who can help them with respect to other cases if they haven t wholly cleansed themselves. not to keep using those kinds of metaphors. because it s a problematic thing that goes to the integrity of how they do their prosecutions. and could make such a person a difficult witness going forward. now, i haven t seen the manafort document, and that s a separate case. but you see a parallel thing happening there. and even worse for paul manafort. paul manafort had his cooperation agreement ripped up by the special counsel s office. because he continued to lie, too. so you can t just tell some truths. you have to tell the whole truth, all of the time. and nothing but the truth. stay right there. i want to bring back shimon prokupecz to bring us more explanation about what s going on with the other cohen document right now, which has to do with robert mueller. right. shimon, what is robert mueller recommen
it was. everyone, stick around. in addition to hearing from comey any moment, we re also expecting robert mueller to drop key new memos about michael cohen and about paul manafort. we re going to bring that to you as soon as we have it. plus trump s secretary of veterans affairs with praise for the president. the president of the confederacy. that s a cnn exclusive, and it s next. stay with us. i am a family man.
cohen, which could also include any information cohen provided to mueller s team. the next president of the united states cohen, who has meet with mueller s team for more than 70 hours so far, pleaded guilty last week about lying to congress about a potential trump tower in moscow. he s a weak person, and by being weak, unlike other people that you watch, he s a weak person, and what he s trying to do is get a reduced sentence. so he s lying about a project that everybody knew about. cohen is facing up to 63 months in prison and will be sentenced next wednesday. the president has publicly called for cohen to face the maximum penalty. but his cooperation agreement with mueller could substantially reduce his sentence. when everybody sees what s going on in the justice department i always put justice now with quotes. cnn has also learned that after trump fired james comey as fbi director, future attorney general rod rosenstein and senior fbi officials saw trump
so we ll see what happens. do you know anything about rod rosenstein wearing a wire? did that ever come up in any of your discussions? i can t comment on that. enjoy your weekend. [ inaudible question ] we have some breaking news. federal prosecutors in manhattan have filed their sentencing memo on michael cohen. the president s former lawyer and fixer. cnn s shimon prokupecz joins me now. what are they recommending? do they want cohen to go to prison? let s just say, jake, this is not looking good for michael cohen, based on my initial read of this. it s 40 pages. so we re still getting through this. but, yes, they are recommending significant jail time. more importantly, i think, what people need to understand, what this filing says is that they are not filing any kind of cooperation agreement, this 5k1 letter on behalf of michael cohen so he would get a downgrade in this prison
if you believe him, president trump in the part of this having to do with illegal campaign contributions. it has to do with paying off individuals who are claiming to have had affairs with president trump, then candidate trump, so as to keep it out of the public. so the acting u.s. attorney must think cohen knows a lot more about other people, and he s not sharing it, whether it s trump or other people at the trump organization or members of his family. there s that whole taxicab medallion thing. then he s not sharing that information. yeah. i mean, that s what it sounds like from the snippet that evan read aloud on camera. some people like to be selective. and give up the goods on some, and michael cohen has a history of not being a straight forward, truthful person. and you have this odd circumstance in which someone was about was being prosecuted by an office in part for telling lies. and in part for obfuscating things with respect to his boss. all of a sudden, you decide you wa