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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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I left trump land and that i m serious about doing things. because stephanopoulos who he met with and hosting and also comes out of the clinton political world. and me who has marched on donald trump, you couldn t send more of a message to both sides than that. let s go to tom winter outside the federal court now. he has been covering this since it broke. tom, we re getting new details on the 4:00 p.m. michael cohen hearing. what do you know? ali, my understanding is this will last an hour, perhaps an hour and a half. michael cohen will say exactly what it is that he did and what he is pleading guilty to today. that is kind of our basic understanding at this point. obviously, once we get inside of the courthouse and the courtroom, which is going to be held on the 20th floor of the building right behind me here, we ll get a little bit of a better sense of kind of the run