Its simple. Easy. Awesome. Click, call or visit a store today. This is cnn tonight. Breaking news about President Trumps former fixer Michael Cohen who just pleaded guilty to lying to congress. Sources tell cnn cohen was under the impression that trump would offer him a pardon if he stayed on message in support of the president when talking to federal prosecutors. It was an impression that he got after he a visit to mar lag xwoe in march of this year. Weeks after that, cohens office was raided by the fbi. In the midst of one Big Development after another in the investigation, Mitch Mcconnell says theres no need for a bill to protect mueller. Thats in spite of the president s could be stant criticism of the special counsels investigation and previous attempts to fire mueller. Also new tonight, acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker, another vocal critic of muellers work will testify before the House Judiciary Committee sometime in january. So theres lots to discuss tonight about matt
G20 in argentina was that of individual 1. That is the legal code name used to describe court in Court Documents prepared this week by Robert Mueller. According to those documents, trump was kept informed as Key Associates made efforts to reach out to wikileaks and into the highest levels of the kremlin. The Washington Post puts it investigator have now put trump as a central figure during the campaign campaign. In a draft plea agreement for trump ally jerome corsi, alleging he lied about contacts with wikileaks in 2016, he actually mentions trump by name. Former fbi assistance director for counterintelligence says of reference to trump in two separate documents involving lying are more than a coincidence. Theres a reason why were seeing the president referred to as individual number one. Its because hes soon to become defendant number one. Multiple people cannot lie simultaneously about the same thing without central coordination. The investigation seems to be weighing on trump. The n