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mcgahn, the current white house council has been meeting and talking with robert mueller s team. there s also the president s former campaign chairman, still waiting for a verdict in his tax evasion and bank fraud trial. and dozens more intelligence professionals weighing in against the president removing john brennan s security clearance. his anger at least on twitter appears to be growing. bob mueller and his whole group of democrat thugs spent over 30 hours with the white house counsel, only with my approval for purposes of transparency. he then went on talking about mueller. anyone needing that much time is just someone looking for trouble. they are enjoying ruining people s lives and refuse to look at the real corruption on the democrats side. the lies, the firings, the deleted e-mails and so much more. mueller s angry dems are a national disgrace. the president railed against bruce
reminder, don t 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. i m 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. we re going to have cohen s counsel joining us for what lies ahead. and what does this exposure mean for the president going forward? that s where michael avenatti,
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to roll the dice and gamble. i think the question of a pardon is huge. and intimidating to the whole process here and the president is wise to step back and not do that because the act of that and interesting to see. the mueller team can look at that as destructive conduct. in these circumstances what is best for him and, honestly, the best thing to do is not to plead but to cooperate, as well. reverend al sharpton who is one of the few people that michael cohen has reached out to to discuss where his head is at but right now where his head is at but what about exactly is going to happen. he has come to an agreement with the prosecutors in the southern district of new york. that is not the mueller investigation. we need to figure out what role the mueller investigation is going to have in this agreement. in the end, this all has to be presented to a federal judge,
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prosecutors. there s 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 don t need a cooperation deal to be cooperating? exactly. i think that point that you just made is critical. you don t have to have it in writing in the documents in order to have an agreement in place. i m highly confident in fact, i know michael cohen s been providing information. prosecutors in sdny are expecting him to continue to cooperate because if he doesn t, 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, it s o
that. it doesn t involve me, but i still feel, you know, it s a very sad thing that happened. this has nothing to do with russian collusion. this started as russian collusion. this has absolutely nothing to do. it s a witch-hunt and it s a disgrace. harris: the president also claimed a double standard in the charges against his former attorney tweeting. this. michael cohen pleaded guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. president obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled. but democrat leader nancy pelosi says, quote: the guilty verdicts are further evidence of the rampant corruption and criminality at the heart of trump s inner circle, end quote. chief white house correspondent john roberts. john, day two of this and a lot of movement. yeah. and still a lot to talk about. first of all, let me just reflect back on what you illuminated in the president s tweet about obama campaign finance
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