Time. You fight until we can continue to achieve what is right and just for everyone of all backgrounds, all religions and all genders, and ways of life. Thats what the great people like Nelson Mandela stood for. We cant just choose to be good. We must aspire to try and be great. That does it for me. Thanks for watching. Ill see you back here tomorrow at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Up next, the beat with my friend ari melber. Bob mueller revealing Michael Cohens crimes, as well as new details on his ties to russia with federal prosecutors in new york dropping the hammer and calling for substantial prison time. Lets get right to it, two major Court Filings out tonight, one from bob mueller who says that Michael Cohen has been helpful in his russia investigation and, from these prosecutors up in new
york who say cohen still deserves years in jail for a criminal mindset that allowed him to basically commit a host of crimes. All of this is a week before a judge will sentence cohen for all the abov
that he was not already pleading guilty to, and that should bring us right back around to the trump organization investigation that they re still conducting. nancy, i m thrilled we have the benefit of your expertise tonight because this is now going right into judge lane. how does a judge take these two very different recommendations? mueller saying basically he lied but he helped, you figure it out. and the sdny saying this is a bad dude. he is a criminal, he s a liar, he thinks he s, quote, above the law and should get about four years. what does the judge do? the judge will have two alternatives. on the one hand, this is going to be driven by this is a train driven by the prosecution. because it s the mueller part that is the big question mark. right, if it were just the sdny part, then, you know,
information to other parts of the probe. then because they knew what they were doing when they asked him questions in the moscow project, quote, he later provided false answers in an effort to not contradict his congressional testimony, which we know was perjury. what does that tell you about the way they gathered and squeezed michael cohen and why are they revealing it now? i think they re revealing it so we know what we re dealing with, and they have the advantage to press him to tell the truth by taking his tape recordings and all of his letters and e-mails and the other witnesses they had to talk about him and to confirm what he had to say. also in there they say that we have, by other means, confirmed what he s tilling us, and they were helped and he made some corrections even as he was talking to them about matters, which gave him credibility as a cooperating witness ain the special counsel investigation. i think that s substantial.
and so that s interesting. they also say on a couple of occasions that he said something, and then when he was confronted with the fact he changed it. we can t ignore he is at the same time sending information back to the trump team as to what he s being questioned about in this investigation. so you have him lying, and you have obstruction and cooperation with the west wing s team representing trump. that s significant. that s such a significant point you raise because there s been a lot of this that s boiled down to black and white where people wrongfully think, well, do you go after a sitting present for obstruction or not if that s the only thing and where does that go? but, in fact, as you eludegh bo into the record and into court, the two keep people, the campaign chair and the long-time personal lawyer, both actively came in and lied to him. one of them got blown up over
prosecutors say there were things hidden from the american public by michael cohen s acts. certainly some of the incriminating information about donald trump s lifestyle was out there. then in the manafort filing which we are just die jegting, some of it i ll hold up because it ll remind viewers what we ve been doing all week, some of the hottest stuff is redacted. what s not redacted for your analysis, i know you re doing it live with us, is the idea there s an obstruction conspiracy mueller s term, between kplilimnik and manafort. manafort provided different information about a different investigation. so mueller is saying here s a trump witness going to maybe help us with something else and then mueller changed his story with that and finally what s