Manager, respectively. We are waiting to hear from the lawyers. But we can tell you at this point, the president is off to West Virginia to continue doing what he does. As president of the United States, a town in economic recovery. We will leave it up to that. The five is not. Welcome to the five. We are covering three breaking new stories this out. Guilty of 8 of 18 counts in his child. Have Major Developers with Michael Cohen. President trumps lawyer reaching a plea deal. In a News Conference in iowa after missing College StudentMollie Tibbetts has been found. We will bring you there live as soon as heavens. We will head to chief National Correspondent ed henry for latest on the cohen plea deal. First, live in alexandria, virginia, for the verdict of Paul Manafort. Just in the last 45 or 60
seconds, we watch as kathleen mena fort, all metal parts wife exits surrounded by cameras and reporters asking how she thinks and how she feels. She did not respond. Now we wait for manaforts Defense Attorney to exit. They have been very confident the last 2. 5 days. They thought that the longer that the deliberations went on, the better that buzz for them. As it turns out, on eight counts, their client, Paul Manafort did wind up being found guilty by the jury of his peers. The other ten counts in the 18 count indictment, which were part of the Special Counsels long list of allegations against Paul Manafort, the jury could not come to an agreement. Eight guilty verdicts, ten were declared a mistrial. And then came at the decided
that, thats it. He sent the jury home. The sent them home and thank them for the service. The Defense Attorney for Paul Manafort said that they were zealot in their representation of their side. The judge did ask the jurors if they wanted their identities to remain private, and they all concurred that they did. After a few days of concern about their names potentially getting out because of safety concerns, the names are going to remain confidential. All mena fort has been found guilty in alexandria and eight counts out of 18. Juan peter, thank you so much. We have a fox news alert. In iowa, the missing College Student, Mollie Tibbetts. Her body has been found. The news comes a little more than a month after the 20yearolds disappearance from her hometown, brooklyn iowa. We have confirmed with Homeland Security investigations that he is an illegal alien, and
we believe he has been in this area now for 47 years. How did you come into contact with him . During the investigation, we reached out to the public, as you well know. During our neighborhood canvas, we came across an individual that had security cameras. We took those cameras, he was kind enough to give us the footage from it. To that, he we are able to identify a vehicle that we believed belongs to mr. Rivera. It was a black malibu. From that, we were able to track his pattern and the route in which he took. We were also able to find Mollie Running on this video, and able to determine that he is one of the last ones to have seen Mollie Running based on the video that we were able to see from the general public. Im sorry. What you believe he did . Again, we were able to pull
him in during the investigation. We conducted an interview with mr. Rivera. During the interview, he says that he sees Mollie Running and was able to come upon her, approached her. While he was interfacing with her, he actually felt as if he ran along beside her or around here. I want point, he tells him that mollie grabbed a hold of her phone and said you need to leave me alone, we need to call the police. He took she took Off Running Ae chased her down. At some point in time, he told us that he blacked out. He comes to near an intersection in which we believe he then im sorry. 385th street in brooklyn, outside of brooklyn in the rural rural county just outside of brooklyn iowa. In the general area . Juan lets head over to ed henry no. He has all the details on Michael Cohens plea deal. Specifically on other things he is Pleading Guilty to Campaign Finance violations saying that essentially the money he pay to women as the president s personal attorney was paid as hush money and did it under the direction of the client. This is the first time you see anyone in the president s orbit Pleading Guilty to charges that directly involved with the case. It has nothing to do with russian collusion or directly with the campaign. Michael cohen, we are told will get jail time in the neighborhood of 35 years after Pleading Guilty, not just to those Campaign Finance charges that we mention came about bank fraud, tax evasion as well. The Campaign Finance violations that mentioned that could be
problematic to the president , number one, cohen could be offering cooperation on the road, we dont know that for sure. We dont want to speculate. But it could open the door to that. Number two, the vulnerability to the president as the Campaign Finance issue involves payment to those two women who alleged affairs which he has denied. Stormy daniels and karen mcdougall. Third potential problem for the president , remember, this development really contradicts what his new personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani told sean hannity back in may. Remember that Rudy Giuliani said back then that the president made 130,000 payment the Stormy Daniels, but insisted that it did not break any Campaign Finance laws. For context, watch the sound bite. Having something to do with paying some Stormy Daniels woman 130,000 which turns out to be perfectly legal. That money was not campaign
money. Sorry, i am giving you a fact now that you dont know. It is not campaign money. No Campaign Finance violation. They followed it through the law firm . Some went through the law firm, and the president repaid it. Some say that had nothing to do with the president s campaig campaign. In new york city, the broke damping finance was that we need is to so get more details. The other thing to watch here is that Stormy Daniels attorney, Michael Avenatti is tweeting out that he believes that the guilty pleas now from Michael Cohen will open the door for a separate civil suit against the president to be lifted. Meaning, that Michael Avenatti believes, at least and we will have to fact check in. He will get quick deposition from the president of the United States in the Stormy Daniels case. His legal team will be trying to
A roundtable ensemble discusses and debates the days news. President trump, or candidate trumpet it is someone who is tied to trump world. He is tied to all of that. Then you have the president s former personal attorney, Pleading Guilty to eight counts, bank fraud, tax fraud, Campaign Fraud Violations i just heard from ed henry on the same day within a few hours. In the Michael Cohen situation, its exponentially more explosive when it comes to direct ties to the president , specifically on the Campaign Finance issue. Juan i think people are going to wonder, what is the president s next move . Let me ask you that. How does the president respond to Michael Cohen, Rudy Giuliani, his lawyer, would expect to hear . I dont know. I think you would expect some of the same terminology that you heard from Rudy Giuliani, before they are going to parse that this was not Campaign Finance violation, but when you have Michael Cohen leading guilty to
exploit star to playmate. That is where we have gone to in this country. Youre right. When that all came out and when Rudy Giuliani went on hannitys show and said the prosecution has just started speaking. We will listen to them. The irs. Also, the prosecutors from the United StatesAttorneys Office from the Southern District of new york who prosecuted, i will have a Brief Statement and will not be taking any questions. Today, as you heard, Michael Cohen pled guilty to eight felony charges. Five of those dealt with tax evasion for the years 2012 20, he failed to report 1. 4 million in part in income. Approximately 2. 5 million that money was from Interest Payments from Personal Loan that he failed to report, 1. 3 million
of that money was from the operation of that medallion business. 100,000 of that money was from brokerage commissions, over 200,000 was from consulting fees. That is over 4. 3 million, over a fiveyear period which translates into a loss to the Nicest Treasury of approximately 1. 3 million. In addition, in count six, mr. Cohen pled guilty to false statements from a Financial Institution in connection with an application for a Home Equity Line of credit. In that application, he failed to disclose more than 14 million in debts that he had, and as a result of that concealment, he has gained that 5,000 line of credit, which he would not have been entitled to, had he been candid and honest. In addition, mr. Cohen pled
simply a means to obtain reimbursement for the Unlawful Campaign contribution. A couple of points that i would like to make. First, thieves are very serious charges and reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over an extended period of time. They are significant in their own right, they are particularly significant when done by a lawyer. A lawyer, who through training and conditioning, understands what it means to be a lawyer and to be honest and fair dealings in adherence with civil law. Mr. Seven disregarded that training and decided that he was above the law appeared for thate is going to pay a very, very serious price. With respect to the Campaign Finance violation, the Campaign Finance are designed to prevent use of illegal monies in elections to maintain the integrity of those elections. Mr. Cohen made guilty pleas for
those campaign violations. Those are four violations. What he did was, he reminds us that it is illegal for corporations to make contributions to candidates. And it is illegal to make contributions in excess of the amount that congress set for individuals. That is a strong message today, and we will not fear prosecuting additional Campaign Finance cases. Lastly, and perhaps most important, this case is unique in many ways. Witnessing the gathering of all of you today. In other ways, it is unique as well. And really important ways, this case is not unlike many cases that my office, the United StatesAttorney Office brings, the entire Department Of Justice brings, and the Law Enforcement cases do as
well, including the fbi and the irs. This case has more in common with all of those cases, because they all share the same message. That message is that the rule of law applies. For Law Enforcement, all of whom are gathered here, it is our commitment that we will pursue and vindicate those who choose to break the law and vindicate the majority people who live lawabiding lives in an honest and fair dealings and live lives of lawful behavior. The message is that we are here. Prosecutors are here, Law Enforcement is here, the Department Of Justice is here, Law Enforcement agencies are here. We are a nation of laws, and the essence of this case is about justice. That is an equal Playing Field for all persons in the eyes of the law law and that is a lessn
that mr. Cohen learned today. It is a very harsh one for him. Thank you, very much. Who is that candidate that you are talking about . One other thing. I would also like to introduce im sorry, my fault. I really want to think mr. Sweeney, and james rogner of the fbi and the irs, and ages who work for them. We do many, many paces for them. Their determination and their fair dealing, and their vigor with which they pursue their cases is really inspirational to the prosecutors and my office. I cannot express the gratitude for the hard work that they did in this case. That is United States attorneys Adria Griswold and Rachel Maiman and tom mckay, as well as the deputy chief of the public corruption unit, and russell capone, the chief of the public corruption unit paid for all of these people, i could go on and
on about their many virtues and talents. But the one important thing is that they all are satisfied with simply being known as public servants, prosecutors and Law Enforcement agents who are doing your job. Thank you, very much. All right, that was robert. He was the lead prosecutor against michael cullen. I believe we still have bret baier. Im sorry that we interrupted you twice. From the message from the lawyers. This is one for the record books. I will let you comment on what you heard there from that. We are a nation of laws and they follow the case to its logical conclusion. The tax fraud, the case fraud, none of which had to do with President Trump, candidate trunk, his ties to candidate trunk, or donald j. Trump, in general. The Campaign Finance violation, because of the way he phrased it that he was directed by the candidate to do that, and submitted that money to be repaid by the trump organization, that is a direct
liability. I can already see the battle lines being drawn here legally. I just got an email saying that the fact that he pays guilty does not mean that this went to trial. We have people like former chairman Bradley Smith saying that that payment is not a violation, which is what Rudy Giuliani was saying in his interview earlier. That, you can already begin to see the trump lawyers, and others making a case that this would not be a violation. Obviously, the prosecutor is saying that it is. Michael cohen is on the hook for it right now. We have not heard from dan yet. It has been a busy news day. Good to see the speed of the news cycle. It is about 710 seconds long these days. They have an expression in Corporate America on quarterly filings. You take a bath. Put all the bad news in on one filing. This all came out today. Your perspective, i mean, it is their lasting political damage from this question work a lot of
this was baked into the cake with Trump Supporters. On the jesse Manafort Casee Ulterior motives for the prosecution going after that. Is there a real political lasting damage for this . I dont think we note the answer to that. I think it is the beginning of an effort to really put the squeeze on some of these people and potentially, where does that lead . We dont know. We do know that the mueller team seems to be moving a little quicker on a number of fronts. The goal, as we are hearing here in washington, is to get some kind of interim report out before the midterms, possibly by early september. If that is the case, all of these little pieces to the puzzle lead you to that, and we could be in for many other days like this where it is all breaking like this. The jesse manafort stuff, e right. It is not tied to collusion. It is not tied there. But, it is a win for the special
counsel even though it does not deal with what he was mandated to do at the beginning. Dana we will head over and out to iowa where a man in the United States