Telling the truth. He has no Shadow Hanging over him. The uncertainty is gone. He has stepped up to the line and he has admitted what he did wrong, but he is now liberated to tell the truth. Everything about donald trump that he knows. From this point on youre going to see liberated Michael Cohen speaking truth to power. And we will hear a lot more from cohens lawyer who you just saw there, he is going to be joining morning joe later this morning. After four days of deliberations the jury in the fraud trial of Paul Manafort found President Trumps former Campaign Chairman guilty on eight of the counts against him. The jury has unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the other ten counts manafort faced. His trial marked a critical first stage for Robert Muellers investigation. Pete williams has more. Reporter the jury found Paul Manafort guilty of intentionally dodging taxes on millions of dollars that he earned as a
political consultant for the former president of ukraine well before man
Point, Michael Cohen had a light bulb go off, and in recent times, tried to behave a little bit better and maybe thats whats reflected in the kinder document thats been filed by the Special Counsel. All right. Thanks so much. Our cnn coverage continues right now. This is cnn breaking news. Im wolf blitzer. We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Were following breaking news. We have just received two major filings involving the former trump lawyer, Michael Cohen. One from the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, and another from federal prosecutors in new york. And were awaiting another mueller filing pertaining to former Trump Campaign chairman, paul manafort. Theres lots of news thats breaking right now, significant
developments. I quickly want to go to our senior justice correspondent, evan perez. Evan, like all of us, youve been going through these filings. Give our viewers the headlines. What are you findin out . Well, wolf, this is a tale of two documents of
we were not expecting a hearing until august 28th, but it is going to happen by the end of the week, and submissions are due by the end of today at 3:00 p.m. and a new trump ally has gone to speak to the special counsel, and talking about bernie keric who has ties to rudy giuliani. yes, they met with the special counsel s team for five hours yesterday. and keric the former new york city commissioner and he worked with rudy giuliani after the 2020 election, and he has a lot of knowledge about rudy giuliani s efforts to find fraud in election and it is critical, because he is named as co-conspirator in the election, and uncharged in the indictment. it is clearly showing that the investigation continues, and more people including rudy giuliani could get charged, and of course, we are seeing the
we are further going to say that if indicted, he is going the trial. if convicted, he will appeal. this is not a case where there s any plea bargaining in the future. reporter: so with this case with donald trump in the system, there are conspirators uncharged including his elections attorney john eastman, and if there were charges to material oize. we don t have other names in this case or future cases, and it is a long road to the trial, and we expect donald trump to plead not guilty and get the case started today to head toward trial. we can hear also the commotion that is building up around, and for more of that and the fpreparations for security, we go to shimon prokupiez, and you can hear people gathering
convictions the person shall be prohibited from holding office. so i have to admit i was a little disappointed, but i agree with joyce that what jack smith has setout here is so compelling that it s really hard to envision donald trump mounting any kind of persuasive defense. and the only thing i find curious is i know he wanted to stream line it charging donald trump and hopefully giving donald trump a right to a speedy trial before the 2024 election. you have six other coconspirators named in this indictment but uncharged in this indictment. which raises lots of questions about the status of those six individuals. frank, what do you see in the 45 pages? i see a chilling tale how close we came all of us as joyce