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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 youre going to see liberated Michael Cohen speaking truth to power. And we will hear a lot more from cohens 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 Trumps 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 Muellers 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
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serving for president of the united states, he, too, would have been charged with felonies in the cohen case. well, now there is another one. as broken this morning by the wall street journal , quote in early 2015, a man who run as small technology company showed up at trump tower to collect $50,000 for having helped michael cohen, then donald trump s personal lawyer, try to rig online polls in his boss favor before the presidential campaign. quote, in his trump organization office mr. cohen surprised the man by giving him a blue walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and comma, randomly, cam omma, a boxing gl mr. cohen said was worn by a brazilian mixed marshall arts fighter. the man in question confirmed to
it would be unbelievable for me to believe that cohen would go and lie to congress again. let me be totally clear on what we got here. cohen said publicly he did this at the direction of donald trump. you say he told you there is a document that backs that up. my reporting. your reporting is that there is a document that backs that up and cohen has access to that document? i would assume that he has access to this document. do we know if this is something that he has discussed already with either the southern district of new york, which prosecuted him on the other campaign finance felonies or with the special counsel s office or with other investigators? here is what i do know. he s spent upwards of 70 hours with investigators. if there is something permanent to a case he s involved in, he s shared it. not sitting in those rooms with
their allegations they had affairs with the president. of all the things this president has been accused of and associated with, those hush money payments to those two women seem so small, right? so tabloid and dumb. and embarrassing to talk about, right? it was almost hard to take the legal maneuvering around them as something potentially quite serious to the president and presidency. but michael cohen pled guilty to two campaign finance felonies because of those hush money payments. the president got that, right? the president became individual one. he s described as having been the person who conspired with cohen to commit those felonies. they describe him as the person that directed the commission of the felonies and benefitted from them. nbc news reported that had the president not been president, with all the complications that employeds for a potential felony prosecution for somebody holding that office, had he not been