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telling the truth. he has no shadow hanging over him. the uncertainty is gone. he has stepped up to the line and he has admitted what he did wrong, but he is now liberated to tell the truth. everything about donald trump that he knows. from this point on you re going to see liberated michael cohen speaking truth to power. and we will hear a lot more from cohen s lawyer who you just saw there, he is going to be joining morning joe later this morning. after four days of deliberations the jury in the fraud trial of paul manafort found president trump s former campaign chairman guilty on eight of the counts against him. the jury has unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the other ten counts manafort faced. his trial marked a critical first stage for robert mueller s investigation. pete williams has more. reporter: the jury found paul manafort guilty of intentionally dodging taxes on millions of dollars that he earned as a political consultant for the former president of u ....
Business news and analysis. violations. it could land him in prison from 3-5 years. mercedes, that issue will come up whether mr. cohen has decided to do this to get at this out of the way and hope and pray for a pardon down the road. certainly what our calling is done as wonder if they are going to get cooperation. frankly, they could have a discussion with mueller later on and find out what he knew. whether president trump knew of the meeting and what the meeting was taking place. and the payment to stormy daniels. whether the president knew about either of them. and, of course he has come forward and said, look, i think you did know. the back-and-forth can whether there are some continuation of discussion with mueller is left to be seen. he is without a doubt looking at something down the road. no lawyer wants to sit, even with that, no lawyer wants to sit in 3-5 years. that is a significant amount of time. neil: the former doj prosecutor, still better than what he ....
doesn t stop there. cohen s attorney tells msnbc he has information that bob mueller would want to know and is more than happy to start talking to the special counsel. meanwhile, paul manafort who two years ago literally ran donald trump s campaign is now a felon. he is facing serious prison time and like michael cohen sits atop this list of trump associates who are indicted or convicted criminals. that is a lot of witches. good morning, and welcome to morning joe on this wednesday, august 22nd. joe is off. he s tweeting. he ll be filing for the washington post. we ve put together an all-star lineup for this morning s incredible amount of news. a small law firm of legal experts, msnbc legal analyst danny savalas, john thnathan tu and barbara mcquade and two experts or the cohen stories i do not think there s a parallel. we ll see what you come up with. a legal landslide like none other in the history of the presidency. what the conservative drudge report described as trump ....
Hung jury on all counts, however, he would like to thank judge ellis for granting him a fair trial, thank the jury for their very long and hard fought deliberations. he is evaluating all of his options at this point. now, manafort faces the possibility of seven to nine years in prison. prosecutors have until next wednesday to decide what they will do about the ten mistrial charges. manafort also faces another trial on related charges next month in washington, d.c. special counsel robert mueller has asked to postpone the sentencing hearing for president trump s former national security adviser michael flynn. the joint filing yesterday by mueller s team and flynn s defense both parties asked for the sentencing timeline to be pushed back to september 17th. the court had asked for an update by this friday. the special counsel s office writing, quote, due to the status of the investigation the special counsel s office does not believe that this matter is ready to be scheduled for a sent ....
Speaking after the verdict, manafort s lead attorney said his client is now evaluating his options. mr. manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through, or a complete hung jury on all counts. however, he would like to thank judge ellis for granting him a fair trial. thank the jury for their very long and hard-fought deliberations. he is evaluating all of his options at this point. barbara mcquade, you were in the courtroom. manafort faces the possibility of seven to nine years in prison. prosecutors have until next wednesday to decide what they will do about the ten mistrial charges. i ll start there, because i want to hear what happened in the courtroom. what this all means. but also, is it fair to say the mistrials are also bad news for paul manafort? they re just going to keep picking away at him? ....