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to roll the dice and gamble. i think the question of a pardon is huge. and intimidating to the whole process here and the president is wise to step back and not do that because the act of that and interesting to see. the mueller team can look at that as destructive conduct. in these circumstances what is best for him and, honestly, the best thing to do is not to plead but to cooperate, as well. reverend al sharpton who is one of the few people that michael cohen has reached out to to discuss where his head is at but right now where his head is at but what about exactly is going to happen. he has come to an agreement with the prosecutors in the southern district of new york. that is not the mueller investigation. we need to figure out what role the mueller investigation is going to have in this agreement. in the end, this all has to be presented to a federal judge,
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meeting with labor leaders this afternoon in the roosevelt room outside of the oval office when this story was breaking. no statement of any kind from the white house. he s scheduled to leave here at about 4:00 to head to a rally in west virginia in support of patrick morsi. the president usually doesn t hold back in these rallies. he may speak to reporters as he leaves the white house. white house not reacting to plea deal from a top associate in michael cohen but the fact that paul manafort jury could come back at any moment. president connected to all of these but so far not commenting. let me turn to my four brilliant people sitting to my right. you have been out front in this cohen reporting. he s going to plead guilty to x, y, and z. what will you be listening for? i think this is really going to be something to listen to because the judge is going to say to cohen i want to hear in your own words what crime y
go ahead, emily. there is a bill being pushed through by latterly that will take out from the salary expenditures that taxpayers pay towards playing that harassment thing. i do think that s a little bit of a shell game. i want to point out, that everybody is talking about the specific intent and that viewers understand that yes, that s what separates a civil and criminal campaign finance violation charge. most important to me is the flynn situation. i think it s a hideous abuse of power to treat any of those kinds of conversations casually and that we can never overestimate the amount of weight the government brings with it every time they just sit down and ask, hey, how are you? for then come up for a comey, to blame it on the disorganized administration, i send a couple of guys over, is a horrible abuse of power regardless what happens with the judge reviewing
Information to the best of his ability. i can tell you that it was unusual to see an individual spending as much time through his attorney spinning as we have seen here. the southern district of new york doesn t cotton to that and that could be one of the reasons why there hasn t as yet perhaps been a meeting of the minds but they ll get to that point eventually given the arithmetic and the number of counts to which we hear a plea will be entered. gentlemen, what if when he s talking with this judge as you point out because you know this district an how this works, specifically when he is talking about the campaign finance violation charge he is going to plead guilty to, again, we don t know yet until it happens but if it involves those payments which would then involve the president, could the president be implicated here? presumably, yes. but that s we go back to the
That these guys are not central, will have information on that june 9th meeting. paul manafort was in that meeting. and her new book the case for impeaching trump set to be released in early october. and chuck rosenberg. thank you. xhnchlthsi coming up, include a campaign finance violation charge. the former fec commissioner joins me next to talk about the timing and the circumstances around the payments involved and what they say about the case.