He will actually appear in Court Next Week on december 12. Charles . Charles david lee miller, thanks. Michael cohen not cooperating the way we thought he was. The five starts now. Hello, everybody. 5 oclock in New York City and this is the five. Fox news alert. We are monitoring 3 huge news stories. Prosecutors made their bombshell filing in the case against extrump lawyer Michael Cohen recommending substantial prison time. We are awaiting specials Robert Muellers memos on Paul Manafort after james comey just finished speaking to reporters following his closed door testimony to the
house judiciary and oversight committees. Chief intelligence Correspondent Catherine will break it all down. A lot of Breaking News in the last halfhour. One step at a time. On the filing for Michael Cohen, the recommendation is substantial jail time and a fine of 500,000. I want to read about the payments to women on behalf of donald trump. They said Cohen Aranged for the payment through a Media Company an
additional questions. well, what about when you told lester holt something different? what about this e-mail, what about this tweet? what about your anger at attorney general sessions for recusing himself? you know, all of these times when the president has said things that sure looked like he wants to shutdown or undermine or cut short the investigation. one more thing, michael cohen has been sentenced, michael flynn is about to be sentenced. where does that tell us where robert mueller is in his investigation? does that mean he s wrapping things up? i say he s finishing certain pieces of the investigation. but there s a huged blacked out portion, there s at least one case left to go there. and the michael cohen sentencing memorandum, the special counsel s office was very cagey about what more cohen could do, what his cooperation could yield. and similarly when they were in
outside legal team rudy giuliani. if we hear something from sarah sanders i think they would say there is no evidence of collusion here that is demonstrated. michael cohen maybe talked about contacts with russians but no evidence of collusion. that s been their story all along and a story they are sticking to. what might be more interesting to see than the michael cohen sentencing memorandum and attacked addendum is what comes out in the manafort case and if that s as heavily redacted aside the michael cohen one was. that might have more information about collusion and the trump campaign and russians in terms of trying to influence the outcome of the election. the mantra all along from the white house from the trump campaign and president s legal team: there is no evidence in anything we have seen so far of collusion between the trump
and we are waiting for manafort. put that in context for the kind of week the president is looking at on the special counsel? i don t think we know yet. i think the flynn filing, if you listen to people who really covered this closely like michael and others who say people are reading too much into it. you don t know what is behind the redactions. it s possible they could be involved in other crimes dealing with other people and other lobbyists. again, we don t know on that front. as far as these fileings, the most damning thing so far is the payments.ings, the most damning thing so far is the payments. whether you character those as a campaign finance investigation. russian collusion i have shifted through 40 pages and i have not
witch-hunt tweet, but has continued in just the last hour with a series of tweets about the russia probe and other matters. so, daniel, because lawyers love files, let s you two are two counsel here in new york. make two files. first file is going to be you. what to expect with this cohen memorandum filing tomorrow, and please tell me it s not going to be the dreaded black stripes of redaction. i wish i could tell you that, but what we have seen with the flynn memo is robert mueller playing by the book, following d.o.j. policy, which is not to reveal any information about an ongoing confidential investigation. and the reason for that is not just because he s trying to keep things close to the vest, but it s to protect potential people who would be mentioned who are ultimately not charged, and have no way of vindicating themselves. so there is sound reason for doing that, and i expect that in the michael cohen sentencing memorandum, we re going to see the same things because if ther