The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. To its the same thing as an indictment. The prosecutors just didnt have to go through getting a grand jury to sit. The information doesnt have this language about the president. Michael cohen, of course, in his allocution to his guilty plea stood up and stated he did these Campaign Finance law violations at the best of the president. But you think its notable its not included on paper . I do. Theres the buzzword unindicted coconspirator. The president is not technically an unindicted coconspirator. Hes not mentioned in the information so i think that was a real move on the part of the prosecutors not to go one step deeper. It would have been different if they named him in the information. What do you think they didnt, paul . Its an interesting set of charges against cohen. The charge essentially is that the payment to stormy daniels
and Karen Mcdougal were Campaign Contributions that were unreported and they
organization solved the difficult problems in whatever way he had to and in that business world my suspicion is if you push on cohen, you re going to find that donald trump may have been involved in business transactions or family members of the trumps were involved in business transactions that will create liability and exposure for them. so that s probably a greater problem for mr. trump than this case. quickly, i would say that perhaps the only reason cohen may not cooperate would be if he thinks he would some way get a pardon for the president. clearly the president doesn t like him very much. and lanny davis says he s not looking for that. but it was just a few months ago the president pardoned dinesh di souza for campaign finance violations. and his defense was that it was a vindictive prosecution.