mr. trump. he directed me to make the payments. he directed me to become involved in these matters. including the one with mcdougal. i just reviewed the documents. in order to protect him. i want to pause here for one moment. not only does mueller s filing say cohen has provided information that is credible and consistent with other evidence that proves cohen s telling the truth, we re talking things like tapes, e-mails, those sorts of things. you don t have to take cohen s word for it. mueller has it another way too. but michael cohen is referring to his former boss as mr. trump. does anyone think that a guy who s going to jail for someone, who calls his boss mister, who s paying off women hundreds of thousands of dollars without his boss say-so? come on, it s ridiculous. sara murray is outfront live in washington and sara, what happened in this big mystery court appearance today? shutting down an entire floor for over an hour because of someone so important. reporter: well, er
york who say cohen still deserves years in jail for a criminal mindset that allowed him to basically commit a host of crimes. all of this is a week before a judge will sentence cohen for all the above. let s look at the latest in the mueller which i was just discussing with our own chuck todd, because bob mueller said he s not taking any position on how much time michael cohen should serve, but he does note that cohen first came into his office, to bob mueller s investigators and lied to him, and lied specifically about money that we know cohen, trump and felix sater were trying to make in russia. mueller said in the new filing that cohen has now taken steps to mitigate those lies and other crimes. he gave crucial information about the trump campaign in russia, this was after he started lying he started telling the truth, mueller said, and he told the truth about russian attempts to reach the trump campaign dating back to 2015,
and we ll watch you on sunday. chuck todd nice to see you tonight. thank you, sir. we have the breaking news that i was discussing with chuck. bob mueller revealing michael cohen s crimes as well as new details on his ties to russia with federal prosecutors in new york dropping the hammer and calling for substantial prison time. let s get right to it. two major court filings out tonight, one from bob mueller who said michael cohen has been helpful in his russia investigation and one from the prosecutors in new york who say cohen still deserves years in jail farce criminal mind-set that allowed him to basically commit a host of crimes. all of this is a week before a judge sentences cohen for all the above. let s look at the latest in the mueller filing which i was discussing with chuck todd. bob mueller says he s not taking position on how much time michael cohen should serve but he does note that cohen first came into his office, to bob mueller s investigators, and
to the president of russia and the president certainly didn t hear anything about this but we will keep chasing it down because certainly if that were the case they would have had an entirely new dimension to the story. john roberts traveling live, thank you very much. a timeline at the center of the controversy involving michael cohen. whether the president s answers regarding those line up with his former attorney. katherine herridge is here with that part of the story. good evening, katherine. reporter: really giuliani confirmed the special counsel asked about the moscow real estate proposal and there s, quote, no contradiction between the president answer answers for mueller and cohen s. the congressional testimony paved the way for today. when the former personal
email, about his ties to vladimir putin, quote, our boy can become president of the usa and we can engineer it, i will manage this process, there s no one on this planet who wants donald elected more than i do. the moscow real estate deal was never sealed. we were thinking about building a building. it was an option. don t know what you would call it. we decided, i decided ultimately not to do it. there would have been nothing wrong if i did do it. the negotiations with moscow continued well into the presidential campaign and during the same month of the controversial gin of 2016 trump tower meeting. legal expert say cohen may be problematic for the special counsel in the future. bob moller might call michael cohen as a witness, this is a guy you indicted for making false statements to congress and at the same time now holding him