Point, Michael Cohen had a light bulb go off, and in recent times, tried to behave a little bit better and maybe thats whats reflected in the kinder document thats been filed by the Special Counsel. All right. Thanks so much. Our cnn coverage continues right now. This is cnn breaking news. Im wolf blitzer. We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Were following breaking news. We have just received two major filings involving the former trump lawyer, Michael Cohen. One from the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, and another from federal prosecutors in new york. And were awaiting another mueller filing pertaining to former Trump Campaign chairman, paul manafort. Theres lots of news thats breaking right now, significant
developments. I quickly want to go to our senior justice correspondent, evan perez. Evan, like all of us, youve been going through these filings. Give our viewers the headlines. What are you findin out . Well, wolf, this is a tale of two documents of
continuing to accept responsibility for the false statements contained within it. so that there seem to be making clear that cohen didn t just do this unilaterally, lying to congress. he did it in conjunction with others. and also, there are also other clues sprinkled throughout these documents about the president and how it might relate to him talking about how mueller s team is interested in the contact cohen had with the white house during the 2017/2018 time period. and so that would suggest they re looking into perhaps witness tampering. as you ll recall, we reported last friday that cohen believed for a time that the president would give him a pardon if he was charged, based on what people around the president had been telling him. and so what also sticks out to me in reading this is, we knew prior to this robert mueller was interested in the moscow project. and reading these documents, now we see a little bit more of why he was so interested in this. and he talks about the fa