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Of other defendants related to this case, particularly those who may be charged as a result of the defendant s cooperation. that all happened today. and that doesn t even get into the fact that also today, something was filed in the michael cohen case, which was filed under seal, and they didn t screw it up. and in his case, the court noted that that file was placed in vault. [ laughter ] which means today we all learned that there s a vault at the federal courthouse in new york that s hearing the cohen case, and they have some cohen stuff in the vault. even though he s already been sentenced to three years in federal prison, there are more sealed documents being filed with the court in conjunction with michael cohen, including one filed today. we have no idea what it is, but we know they locked it up as soon as they got it. so stay sober. keep your laces tied. we apparently are still really in the middle of this. we ll be right back. ....
Court in an unredacted form. and i guess the court realized or prosecutors realized what they had done ultimately and quickly took it down. but while that document was up for that short period of time, report spencer shuh at the washington post was able to screen shot it, at least the first page of it, of this document. again, that was supposed to be sealed. but let me just read you what it said. the united states of america, under seal, and this is just the few first sentences. that s not a legal term of art in this case, they literally ....
Case where that person is going to go to trial before a jury. so a gag order can prevent the jury pool for that jury trial from being tainted, because the jury will have heard public comments about the case. for maria butina, she just pled guilty. there s not going to be a jury that has to be selected to rule on her guilt or innocence. she pled guilty. so why would you still need the gag order, what s the justification for it? that s what we just got from the prosecutors in her case tonight, and this is interesting. first of all, they say there s a chance that maria butina s plea deal might fall apart, which they would put her on trial. ....
she s testifying to a grand jury? so, again, this was not supposed to be posted in a way the public could see it, but it was. and washington post reporter spencer shuh was able to grab it, and we learned that one of the things that happened since she pled guilty, is that already she s not just talking to prosecutors, but already they ve got her being transported from jail to testify in person before a grand jury in what the prosecutors described as ongoing criminal investigations. remember, she was charged as basically undeclared secret agent of the russian government operating in this country to influence our politics, specifically the republican party through the nra, what might she know about, might she have evidence about that they ve got her providing evidence to the grand jury about? i don t know. but since that document was posted by accident, and then quickly unposted this weekend, there s been a little more back and forth in the case. ....
so, basically robert mueller does know at least roughly, unofficially, what roger stone s testimony was. that closed door testimony that he gave in the fall of 2017. but you can t bring an unofficial transcript to the grand jury if you want that grand jury to give you an indictment based, in part, on that evidence. you need the official record of his remark it is you re going to bring it to the grand jury for the purposes of indicting him. i did not know that. getting the official transcript turns out in this case kind of takes a village. it takes the committee to agree to hand it over. but the washington post reports tonight that they are going to have to deal with this tomorrow. ....