Manafort faces. The judge told them to get back to work though. So could it mean we are any closer to a verdict. But we start with some Breaking News. An nbc news exclusive. Former trump personal Attorney Michael Cohen is discussing a plea deal with federal prosecutors. One that could come as early as this afternoon. Thats according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke with nbc news. Tom winter is the nbc news investigations reporter who helped break the story. Our guest is a former u. S. District attorney for the Southern District of new york which is conducting the cohen investigation. Let me begin with you, tom, lay this out. What else did the sources say . How close the possibility of seeing some kind of deal emerge today . Sure. So ayman, as ellie can probably well tell you, no prosecutor counts their chickens and counts a plea deal until they have it. Then insigned. And the person is in court. I think were still a little a ways away from that, based upon
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the que the background is the question will he, won t he. should we be prepared for donald trump 2024? my crystal ball is a bit foggy. i think it s very possible. what we should look at if we want to tea leaf read is what s happening. what we re seeing is the griping, the election has been stolen, and a lot of lies. if we see a focus in the platform that might be an early flag that his calculus is changing. if these endorsements he s making end up being less punitive, well, this person is anti-abortion, we like them, oh, they re pro lowering the debt ceiling, we like that. i think it will be maybe an early clue that it s less about trump on a rampage and more finally advisers are getting into his ear. he has a ton of baggage that might not land well the second time around. democrats believe they know what they re doing when they have
that would suggest that it is possible democrats might have to sue to force him to come in and that just takes a long time. but there is no short cut to justice. and i know that they want mueller and they want somebody to give them the summary. we still need the witnesses. so i would hope that we re not going to spend the next several weeks debating will mueller testify, won t he, will it be behind closed door, in open session. what we should focus on is the fact that the administration is blocking people from testifying, having no lawful right do it. fair enough. but if you are now bob mueller, a private citizen now, never really a trump administration official. what happens if he sends him a subpoena? he complies. and once he raises that oath, he may have to go beyond the four corners of the 448 page report unless he is asked something
as to how this may start to wrap up soon? is that too close to call? i think it s so hard to say. it s a impressive amount of moving pieces. there is a hot of happening. i thufrpg it s hard to read into it too much. dana: okay. nicole, thank you for being here. we love your expertise. thank you. thank you. dana: let s bring in fox news editor and editor of half time report. you can imagine trump supporters upset today. michael cohen getting three years in prison that didn t necessarily have to do with him except for the campaign finance violation that has nothing to do with russia collusion. i tell you what, he will pay the cost won t he. it adds a interesting degree of credibility to the unbelievable, literally unbelievable michael cohen. this guy is going to prison. he s not going to the worst prison. he s not going to the best prison. he s not going to the country
i think it a really interesting thing is the interview with mueller, as well as the interview he had with the house intelligence committee. you know, the interview he had with the house intelligence committee has not been released, and we re trying to figure out what dana is trying to hide. why won t he demand why it s released. we have a footnote that said he met with two russian spies and he knew they were russian spies. your opponen accused you of saying you want to i m peach president trump and so i m wondering where you stand on that. do you think there is evidence that suggestions this president should be impeached? dana will say anything. i ve been very specific all along that we need to make sure that mueller has the time to do the breath and depth his investigation deserves and paying off and we just look at the number of indictments that have come down. so i believe we need to wait and see that investigation come to conclusion, let s see what it