point with rudy giuliani as well as other lawyers advising president trump. cnn asked davis to square that with cohen s testimony, he claims cohen was referring to the time after his joint defense agreement with president trump s attorneys collapsed. so what is next for cohen? the president s former lawyer begins a three year prison term on may 6. former trump campaign chairman paul manafort will be sentenced today in virginia federal court. manafort was found guilty of defrauding banks and failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars he earned as a political consultant in ukraine. prosecutors have asked for up to 25 years in prison, potentially a life sentence for the 69-year-old. and tens of millions in financial penalties. the case was the first brought to trial by robert mueller as part of his russia investigation. democrats are divided over controversial remarks made by freshman congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota and that is testing nancy pelosi s ability to unify her party.
you may answer that question. there were several changes made including how we were going to handle that message. which was were you finished? the message of course being the length of time that the trump tower moscow project stayed and remained alive. reporter: that was a subject of discussion in the long day of testimony. cohen provided documents to that committee showing edits that were made by trump s attorneys. the question is what were those edits. we don t know all the specifics quite yet, but there were some edits to try to further explain what he meant. all right. thank you. according to the new york times at least some of the edits appeared to play down ivanka trump s knowledge about the trump tower moscow project. and two sources tell cnn white house lawyers had no indication cohen s original testimony was
according to the new york times, at least some of the edits appeared to play down ivanka trump s knowledge about the trump tower moscow project and two sources tell cnn white house lawyers had no indication cohen s original testimony was even wrong. the second big reveal wednesday, cnn has learned cohen himself authored the false line in his 2017 testimony to congress, that means it was not a change made by president trump s lawyers. and the washington post reports that cohen says he personally discussed the subject of a pardon with jay sekulow and rudy giuliani. that doesn t mean that he asked for one, but did discuss one. sekulow denies that. giuliani tells cnn he has been asked about pardons by attorneys but would not comment specifically. but now lanny davis seeming to contradict the washington post and his own client. michael cohen said this last
to the false statement cohen made before congress in 2017. cohen handed over the new documents to help explain his public testimony last week. he told lawmakers one of mr. trump s lawyers had a hand in editing that false statement. these and other rev layings could give ammunition to republicans attacking his credibili credibility. manu raju has more. reporter: michael cohen delivering a second day of testimony. and the big question democrats had going into the hearing was whether the president s attorneys were involved in editing that false statement that he delivered to congress back in 2017. back then in a classified setting he lied and later acknowledged lying to the committee about the pursuit of the trump tower moscow project. and he also said that trump s attorneys edited that statement. there were changes made, additions. jay sekulow for one. were there changes about the timing? the gentleman s time has expired.
good to see you, sir. i can t help but think of the aforementioned alex trebek who we can just close our eyes and we trusted that these were going to be the facts. but with this trump and cohen and lanny davis and rudy giuliani thing, it is just lying upon lying. everyone is lying here. we can just trust that no one is telling the truth. so it comes down to documents. it comes down to actual evidence. what do you is the biggest takeaway from the last 24 hours? i think the biggest takeaway is that republicans are going to seize on the idea that michael cohen maybe misled congress, definitely in their words they believe that he did. while democrats will seize on the fact that the president was talking about pardons with a convicted felon who is about to testify against him. that is test case type of obstruction of justice in the eyes of several democrats who are already putting out several requests for documents to build a case of obstruction of justice and many other cases against the