Into what cohen has told the special counsel in the ongoing probe of potential collusion with russia. According to the filing from muellers office, cohen not only provided information about the moscow real estate problem, trump tower over there, that trump pursued during the election, but also provide information about attempts by other Russian Nationals to reach the Trump Campaign. According to the memo, quote, cohen spoke with a Russian National who claimed to be a trusted person in the Russian Federation who could offer the campaign heres a phrase political synergy, working together, trump and russia against hillary. Prosecutors say cohen provided useful information providing certain disskreetd russiarelated matters according to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with Company Executives. That was Trump Company executives. Thats how cohen got the information he has been using to try to save himself. And cohen also provided relevant and useful informat
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Mental incars naticeration of w for donald trump. The only weakness was a Blind Loyalty to donald trump. Outside of the federal courthouse where all of this is playing out. Cohen asked for leniency. About to hear from the judge. The judge has started speaking. Im just going over some notes here from the judge and basically thats whats going on. The judge is addressing the court. Hes addressing Michael Cohen and just to give you some idea of what hes saying, hes saying that somewhere along the way, mr. Cohen appears to have lost his moral compass. I think what were expecting to see here more as this hour goes on, we may have a sense here, the judge may impose this sentence at any moment. It looks like the judge is moving through the sentence and hearing. Hes reading his statement now, addressing the different crimes that Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to and things are moving much faster here, certainly than we expected and know how much jail time exactly Michael Cohen is going to be
Weve all been talking about this story. Its the buzzfeed story that came out thursday night that said President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to congress. With a clearcut Impeachable Offense being alleged, the story went everywhere within a matter of minutes. But then on friday night Robert Mueller did something incredibly rare. Something his Office Almost never does. His Office Issued a lawyerly response seemingly knocking down the story saying buzzfeeds description description of specific statements to the special counsels office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office are not accurate. Lets go back to the story. Did the president tell cohen to lie . Whos accurate . Here for their first sitdown interview, Anthony Cormier and editorinchief ben smith. Thank you for having us on. Were happy to talk about this story. Im glad you began with the question of the truth of the allegations because ultimately, this is a media show, were here to talk about p
Uncomfortable on tv. Anyway, youre probably aware of that about me and my failures as a tv host. That said, i also think that gives me a little bit of an insight as to why some things take off and others dont. I will tell you ever since that the new yorker piece was published in march of 2017, that unbelievable article in the new yorker, i have truly believed as a prude that part of the reason it didnt take off, part of the reason it didnt become one of the things that Everybody Knows about Donald Trumps Business History and his potentially serious trouble in that Business History, i think one of the reasons that story has stayed kind of obscure instead of becoming part of a, you know, trump legal trouble pan theon that everybody talks about, i think part of the trouble with that one is because this is what that hotel looks like that is the subject of that business storer in the new yorker from two years ago. And honestly i mean its just i think this is part of it. I know were safe to