Telling the truth. He has no Shadow Hanging over him. The uncertainty is gone. He has stepped up to the line and he has admitted what he did wrong, but he is now liberated to tell the truth. Everything about donald trump that he knows. From this point on youre going to see liberated Michael Cohen speaking truth to power. And we will hear a lot more from cohens lawyer who you just saw there, he is going to be joining morning joe later this morning. After four days of deliberations the jury in the fraud trial of Paul Manafort found President Trumps former Campaign Chairman guilty on eight of the counts against him. The jury has unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the other ten counts manafort faced. His trial marked a critical first stage for Robert Muellers investigation. Pete williams has more. Reporter the jury found Paul Manafort guilty of intentionally dodging taxes on millions of dollars that he earned as a
political consultant for the former president of ukraine well before man
they were concerned that the justice department was that these people or their staffers were using family members phones. in any event the the suspects were sent to apple in 2018 and there was a gag order on apple that it could not disclose the fact that the subpoenas were sent. apple has been able to find the people. it is known as the meta data. we know it happened, you heard adam schiff talk about it. but we now now that the justice department was seeking records of reporters involved in writing the stories from cnn, the new york times, and the washington post. now in the effort to try to find the leakers, it was looking for leaders from members of congress. danny, i m a mere civilian
investigation into this. let s bring in pete williams, also with us legal analyst danny sivalis. we know we heard trump for years, my justice department, my judges, but this really happened? so we think we know the extent of the justice department s hunt for leaks, particularly about communications between trump administration officials and the russians. so according to the people that knew what happened here, the justice department subpoenaed apple for data for use of cell phones by at least 12 people including congressman schiff, and 10 other members of their families and pa minors.
the president if he wants to pardon paul manafort. here is senator mitch mcconnell s deputy, majority whip john cornyn of texas speaking to reporters yesterday. would you have a problem if the president were to pardon manafort? if he was what? were to pardon manafort? that s above my pay grade. that s the president s choice, but i think i think i d like to see the case run its course and i will let the courts do do their job. and in the house speaker paul ryan deflected on the guilty plea of the president s lawyer. a spokesperson told nbc news we are aware of mr. cohen s guilty plea to the serious charges. we will need more information than is currently available at this point. a lot to dive into. for that we want to bring in danny sivalis. great to have you with us because there s so much to get to on both fronts with this one-two punch. let s start with michael cohen here. what level of surprise was there