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A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. going to plead guilty but there s no cooperation agreement. they ve been hoping for that, but there isn t one. what does that say in the bigger picture for the mueller investigation regarding the president, if anything? that litany you just laid out is correct. what it doesn t give the mueller investigation is any information mr. cohen has specifically about the payments to those women. not so much the taxi medallions. that doesn t interest mr. mueller. but certainly the women, the money paid for on behalf of candidate trump. you re depriving mueller of that inside information and you have to make the case some other case. if there s no criminal case to be made against the president, certainly a report to congress. shepard: either way, the items seized in the raid, if you will, on those three properties, those items can be used by the feds what ever way they chose to use them because they were legall ....
lawyer, michael cohen accepted his own fate in a deal with prosecutors. the michael cohen case that s shaking the political and legal worlds tonight. michael cohen devoted more than a decade of his professional life to being the president s attorney and go-to fixer. he once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. i said with michael cohen and he told me he could barely walk by trump tower because it made him so sad. to look at a place where they spent a decade together working side by side. less than two years into the president s term, their once close relationship turned to mutual hostility. things have shifted. i think he couldn t walk by trump tower now because he would get so angry. cohen s plea deal followed months of controversy. the media reported extensively on cohen s alleged hush money payments to a porn star and a maybe model. whose claims of affairs with donald trump might have few people who knew michael cohen as a young man who would predic ....
consensus reached after multiple days and meetings among officials. we reviewed department policies and concluded assistant director pre step s exercise of description in opening the investigation was in compliance with those policies. we also reviewed, as we detail in the report, the emails, text messages and other documents of those involved in that decision, particularly mr. pre steps. we didn t find documentary or testimonial evidence that indicated political bias or improper motivation influencing his decision to open the investigation. while the information in the fbi s possession at the time was limited, in light of the throw threshold established by department and fbi predication policy which, by the way, is not a legal requirement but a prudential one in the fbi and department policies, we found that crossfire hurricane was opened for an authorized investigative purpose and with sufficient factual predication. this decision to open crossfire hurricane which involved t ....
Got here. they are also talking about the way the investigation was launched after the journal broke the stormy daniels story in january 2018. than august 2018 michael cohen pleaded guilty. implicating donald trump again 10 2019 the feds ended their probe of the hush money investigation without charging donald trump it was december 2021 when he left office without charging trump. february 2020 nixie prosecutors trump s then leading the investigation and they resigned. more than a year later the dea announcing 34 count felony indictment leading the way to may 31, 2024, which is the guilty verdict that was heard around the world here. appeared to maybe have gone away and come back. to give fodder to some of the political rhetoric we are hearing from them that are saying this is politically motivated. ....
He knew and where he knew his money was going. the folks will recall, when it comes to stormy daniels specifically, in january of 2018 is when the wall street journal first broke the story of the stormy daniels-michael cohen arrangement. again, that was january 2018 after the reimbursement checks had been made. fast forward, four months later, in april of 2018 donald trump was finally asked about that $130,000. i want to read you he was on air force one when a reporter asked did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels. trump replied no. when asked again, he added on, quote, you ll have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney. you ll have to ask michael. already the prosecution is prepared to make the case to this jury that donald trump had instructed this payment to go forward, something that donald trump months after the story broke actively denied in public. ....