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reminder, don t miss full circle on facebook. you get to pick some of the stories we cover. you can see it week nights at 6:25 p.m. eastern on facebook.com/anderson cooper full circle. the news continues on this very busy tuesday night. i m going to hand it over to chris. cuomo prime time starts now. thank you. i am chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. we have new information and key players for you in the big breaking story. michael cohen says a candidate for federal office, aka the president, directed him to commit felonies. those hush money payments to women before the election, cohen says they were made at the direction of trump himself, and they were crimes. this is uncharted territory. a president directly implicated in criminal behavior in open court by his lawyer. we re going to have cohen s counsel joining us for what lies ahead. and what does this exposure mean for the president going forward? that s where michael avenatti, the lawyer for stormy daniels, one o ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. inaugural address, which my old boss had colorful language to describe. george w. bush called it some crazy bleep. i was thinking about the line about carnage and i was thinking that the real carnage and it was all in motion when he came that day. the real carnage is the people closest to donald trump. the lives that are being destroyed for crimes they ve committed. i mean, you know, it s not a night to feel sympathy for michael cohen, but the events that are sending him to jail potentially are events put in motion by the things donald trump demanded of the people close to him. it may end up ensnaring his family. but just this idea of wreckage. a source close to michael cohen tonight told me that everything donald trump touches is tainted by his toxic brew of lack of ethics and lack of any adherence to the law. i also thought of something that someone who advises this president said to ....
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with in-depth reporting and investigations. very troublesome for the president here. the fact is if president trump were president right now, he could be indicted for these campaign finance violations, couldn t he? absolutely. when you look at the way the prosecutors have described it, when you look at the way michael cohen described it in court, these documents, it s criminal information, so it s essentially laying everything out. if this was an indictment and trump, donald trump was not the president, we could be looking at an indictment against the president. we could also, you know, if this was an indictment, look at this as the president being an unindicted co-conspirator. think of that, and certainly, the ramifications of that. it s really serious here. we ll see what happens from here. the other thing in these documents that the prosecutors have talked about was that michael cohen, and we don t know who these people ....
A recap of the day s news. A recap of the day s news. as part of his plea deal he agreed to cooperate with mueller s investigation, and then there s dutch lawyer alex van der zwaan who pled guilty to lying to investigators about his discussions with gates. he served 30 days in prison and was deported to the netherlands in june. richard pinedo pled guilty to election fraud running a business selling dummy bank accounts to shadowy buyers including russians to sew discord in american politics. his lawyer said he didn t know the identity of his customers. he cooperated with mueller s investigation as well. fired trump national security adviser michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with former russian ambassador to the u.s. ambassador sergey kislyak and he s been cooperating with the special counsel investigation. his sentencing hearing was delayed for the fourth time today. former trump campaign adviser george papadopoulos pled guilty to maki ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. no comment on cohen who was released on $500,000 bail. his sentencing, interestingly, is scheduled for december 12th. the judge noted that cohen could serve up to 65 years in prison, though we should hasten to add the prosecutes s recommended sentence is something closer to four or six years. manafort is expected to be sentenced to seven to nine years when it s all said and done. he also faces another trial on related charges next month in washington. meanwhile, both men now join rick gates, michael flynn, george papadopoulos on the roster of trump associates who faced criminal charges. on that, let us bring in our expanded leadoff panel for a consequential tuesday evening. nicolle wallace returned to the night shift. the veteran of the bush white house and host of deadline white house. ....