well, one of the happy coincidences or silver linings, rather, of the piece being anonymous is that the problem is if the piece had been openly written by a specific trump official who came forward, we would all right now be picking apart that official and we would be talking about whether that person is credible anyway. and the president would be destroying the credibility. we just got breaking news. we are learning george papadopoulos who donald trump has called low-level george has been sentenced in the mueller probe. he s been sentenced to 14 days in jail and one year of supervised tell me what you read, did george turnout to be helpful to mr. mueller? it s not clear that s what drove the sentence. it s a light sentence, of course, but the judge is a fairly light sentencer.
by mueller, and that if the president is now stitched up in that, we have sort of a two different conspiracies he d have to fight. in general there are brush fires breaking out everywhere. on cohen, i think the key here, it is an odd procedural posture, but he has a very fine lawyer who is the former criminal division chief in sdny. and i think both parties wanted to lock this down quickly for different reasons, and they basically have a good faith understanding that they can reach given the credibility that guy petrillo has that he will, in fact he, cohen, in fact, will be cooperating both with sdny and with mueller and, in fact, he needs to do so because otherwise the crimes he pleaded to yesterday he just gets the full sheet and he s in front of a tough sentencer of five or six years. so i think we can expect a formal cooperation agreement
what do you think is the fair sentencer and. i m not going to speculate. i want to see the justice system play out. i don t feel comfortable on commenting. it s not up to me at the end of the day, it s up to the judge. it doesn t matter what i think or what i don t think. do you think the way he suffered under the under terrorists in afghanistan, in the tribal area, that that should play into the consideration of how he is sentenced? i mean, he did it on his own, so, i mean, again, that s not for me to decide. that s up for the judge. he pled guilty. he s going to be sentenced next monday and i guess we ll see if that plays a part or doesn t play a part. you know his assertion was he left he left the outpost because he wanted to report what he felt was a critical problem in his chain of command. that s what prompted that dust one, the status whereabouts unknown and mobilized everybody certainly to considerable risk. have you heard anything from him
robbery and sentence but delayed penance. five others with him got no time or significantly less time. was he sentenced so harshly because so many believe he got away with two murders? i have no idea. my understanding of the sentencing judge and from i heard about her, she was a tough sentencer, that she was a fair judge. if nothing else, he s the mastermind of this whole thing. even though others have gotten less time he s certainly a major player, a prince pal in this kidnapping case. nine years of a 33 year sentence, it wouldn t happen in california. in california if he got 33 year he d do 30 or at least 28. florida as well. a number of state where is that s the case. yeah.
that any sentencer would want to though. there were horrible crimes committed like this when once jurors hear this kind of evidence, they will occasionally not oppose the death penalty. they ll impose life sentences and i think this case is on a collision course between mr. roof s six member right to represent himself and never had existence in the capital proceeding and the eighth amendment right to the jury to hear all the information it can. good or bad before it makes its extraordinary decision. thank you, sir. thank you. appreciate your insight. republicans blasting intelligence agencies for what they say is a refusal to brief congress on the russian hacking scandal. i ll talk to a member of the committee next. three years after pulled tanks from europe, they re back. we ll tell you why.