Reminder, dont miss full circle on facebook. You get to pick some of the stories we cover. You can see it week nights at 6 25 p. M. Eastern on facebook. Com Anderson Cooper full circle. The news continues on this very busy tuesday night. Im going to hand it over to chris. Cuomo prime time starts now. Thank you. I am chris cuomo. Welcome to prime time. We have new information and key players for you in the big breaking story. Michael cohen says a candidate for federal office, aka the president , directed him to commit felonies. Those Hush Money Payments to women before the election, cohen says they were made at the direction of trump himself, and they were crimes. This is uncharted territory. A president directly implicated in criminal behavior In Open Court by his lawyer. Were going to have cohens counsel joining us for what lies ahead. And what does this exposure mean for the president Going Forward . Thats where Michael Avenatti,
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Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Prosecutors. Theres no reason why they would have entered into this Plea Agreement that they did were he not cooperating. Michael cohen has a lot of information. So you dont need a Cooperation Deal to be cooperating . Exactly. I think that point that you just made is critical. You dont have to have it in writing in the documents in order to have an agreement in place. Im highly confident in fact, i know Michael Cohens been providing information. Prosecutors in sdny are expecting him to continue to cooperate because if he doesnt, they have the ultimate hammer, and that is at the sentencing stage, which for Michael Cohen is going to take place in december, they can ask for either an upward departure or the maximum. They have a significant hammer in their toolbox in the event Michael Cohen does not cooperate. Same with manafort . Same with manafort. But let me say this. You know, its one thing its a mul
That s just his first trial. there s another trial that s scheduled in september, and this is one of those days that we may look back on. not only the president s campaign manager guilty, the president s personal lawyer guilty, microsoft, one of the technology companies acknowledging further russian intervention realtime this year with efforts to split our country and potentially impede with the 2018 elections. and then earlier today in our banking committee hearing, the four administration officials in an administration where there s nobody in the white house in charge of election security stumbling over answers of how they can say they ve done enough to take on russia with the individuals that have been sanctioned from the internet research agency questioning
Lawyer guilty, microsoft, one of the technology companying acknowledging further russian intervention realtime this year with efforts to split our country and potentially impede with the 2018 elections. and then earlier today in our banking committee hearing, the administration officials in an administration where there s nobody in the white house in charge of election security, stumbling over answers of how they can say they ve done enough to take on russia with the individuals that have been sanctioned from the internet research agency questioning whether they re going to sanction some of the russian gru spies, the russian spy agencies. all of those individuals who same out of the mueller investigation, and we pressed those individuals from the white house, how can this be a witch hunt when the mueller investigation are finding out these individuals who are attacking our country? so it was a wild day even in