knowledge. today we learned one more piece of breaking news about another mueller target, and that his former national security advisor, lieutenant general michael flynn. his sentencing has now been delayed for a fourth time. 2017, he pled guilty to lying to the fbi, even though james comey later testified that, in fact, the investigators did not believe that flynn had intentionally lied. again, with his guilty plea, nothing to do with russia. russia, tax returns, fraud, bank applications, taxi medallions, lying to. the fbi. nothing about russia. neither did the guilty plea from the trump campaign volunteer george papadopoulos, whose wife was n on last night. he pled guilty to lying to investigators. his wife, mrs. papadopoulos, now weighing in on his legal options and that he may withdraw directly. withoutth a doubt, let s be straight forward here. it is wrong. there are lessons to learn from today. don t ever knowingly lied to the
it doesn t mean he can never get any aspect of it back. what people complain about is the idea, well, he was told to go into a house and investigate a homicide and ignore the mountain of cocaine on the coffee table. the michael cohen case is the mountain of cocaine on the coffee table, and he farmed that out. if it turns out there s more information about his underlying mandate, he can retrieve that information. but it s interest to be know he farmed this out and there s actually some actual comprehensive charge that might come of it, showing there s some fruit of the labor of the special counsel team. but the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york works very closely with the special counsel, right? exactly. and just because bob mueller farmed out a portion of the investigation to the southern district of new york, perhaps because that portion deals only with taxi medallions, financial crimes that michael cohen may have committed in new york. that doesn t mean bob muel
sources tell fox news that a few minutes ago, this is a straight-up guilty plea. we don t know which charges that he s pleading guilty to. he has been accused of campaign finance violations or investigations for campaign finance violations and loans on taxi medallions. we re told whatever he s pleading to, it s a guilty plea and includes jail time. michael cohen has agreed for three to five years in jail. he will be going away. we don t know if he will be taken this afternoon or if the judge will give him some time to get his affairs together. looks like michael cohen will spent three to five years in jail on a guilty plea on charges
scope of this plea deal. is it a cooperator plea or a straight plea. there are two ways we do plea deals, there s a kind where you do a reduced sentence, and you don t cooperate and go your separate ways. then there s the full cooperation type plea, and it sounds like they have worked out some sort of deal and the scope has expanded from the medallions to the potential payoffs. dana: well, as a former prosecutor said, the mueller team referred, and they don t have anything to do with taxi medallions and all of a sudden it has to do with something for mr. trump, is that a backdoor getting to the mueller investigation? i think those are pretty permeable. the first time was the state cooperator, and i believe that led to the search warrant on michael cohen.
there is a hearing with judge william h polly the third presiding over it, and that s when we expect it will be announced that michael cohen has reached some sort of agreement with the prosecutors in the southern district of new york who have been looking into his personal dealings more specifically with taxi medallions and loans that were is taken out. i ve been told that this is a fast-moving situation and there s a lot of back-and-forth going on. i heard rumors yesterday that he was looking into some sort of plea agreement and things have been going back and forth today. we don t know what kind of plea agreement this may be whether it s a straight out guilty plea on everything that the prosecutors have been looking for, or may be some sort of modified deal, but we should have more detail on that within a couple hours of time. here s the other big thing that people have been talking about. michael cohen has been in a