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So the question is how does this relate to the campaign? i think everybody is waiting to see the final language that michael cohen pleads guilty to. the other question is what type of agreement does this involve? this morning we were hearing that there was some discussion of how much cooperation he would offer. obviously we know that michael cohen is not exactly the world s greatest witness anymore after what we ve seen in the last few weeks. i m not even sure that prosecutors would want him to cooperate against anyone in particular because it s not clear that he s exactly a great witness to use in another case. evan, thank you. still no verdict where you are, correct, sir? still no verdict? reporter: we re constituesti waiting. that s right. i want to bring david into this conversation, former cia. your point is that robert mueller must be watching this whole michael cohen situation very closely. absolutely. let me set this up for a little ....
About one count you think? reading the tea leaves in the text, there s more to the question they asked to indicate they had come to a consensus on the 17 counts. he delivered the alan charge which i love. it s so funny. go back and make a decision and also don t, you know, change your minds so i mean, it is a little bit of a the idea to conserve resources. nobody likes a hung jury. it s not that big of a deal one count the government is going do see it as a huge win with a conviction on 17 counts. and this is just further emblematic of this judge keeping the train on the track. rock it, docket. he wants a verdict on all 18 f. you re the prosecutor, you want the judge to tell them, look, you can hang on one count. give us the other 17 and the fear is they misunderstand somehow and think if they can t get to consensus on 18, throw it all out. which is the prosecutors don t want this. ....
Day. and imagine being the president right now and observing what s happening as we re awaiting a manafort trial verdict out of virginia. he s watching perhaps someone that there are few people who have been closer to this president than michael cohen over the years in his business. a personal lawyer. you ve heard the recordings of their conversations that lanny davis put on the air. this was something intimately involved with president trump and now the president is observing him surrendering to the fbi and pleading guilty to some crime that is relate directly to his presidential campaign. that would be a lot of pressure ratcheting up i would imagine that the president is experiencing as he watches this as much as he and the team want to distance the president from this, there s no distancing anymore. and i think that is made crystal clear in this news that we are getting right now about michael cohen s plea deal. listening to you, talking to the control room, do you have ....
as paul said, you can have a partial verdict. if you re the prosecutor and 17 counts of conviction, even 10 and 7, 10 convictions of you take that every day of the week as a prosecutor. if paul s math is correct, today could be the day. don t go too far. we ll see. back to the other breaking news here. michael cohen will appear in manhattan federal court. is he about to accept a plea deal with prosecutors? we ll take you live to that courthouse, next. confidence and convenience plus get these 4 benefits from kenmore at sears. and save during our labor day event with your sears card. get up to fifty percent off appliances. this high efficiency washer and matching dryer now $539.99 each. and this fingerprint resistant french door refrigerator now $899.99. hurry in for savings to the sears labor day event! sears and kenmore. be amazing. ....