This is cnn blakicnn break im wolf blitzer in the situation room. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Were following Breaking News on the president s former fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the russia investigation. Two Court Filings just released, one by the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, the other by prosecutors in new york, and theres new information about cohens cooperation. What it could mean for President Trump and for Michael Cohen as the feds in new york argue he should get substantial prison time. Right now, Robert Mueller also is set to file a secret document on Paul Manafort, the former Trump Campaign chairman, and why prosecutors believe manafort lied. Theres lots of news to unfold right now. I want to go first to our
political correspondent sara murray. Sara, muellers document makes it clear that Michael Cohen was cooperating but hes not necessarily suggesting he shouldnt get a substantial prison sentence. No, i think theres
recently on november 2nd, so while everyone was talking about the timing about whether robert mueller would slow down his investigations around the elections, meanwhile paul manafort was sitting in front of a grand jury and testifying. all what was interesting to me was the notion of this entire sentencing memorandum is this. it seems paul manafort thought he was smarter than the team mueller, that he could simply say what he wanted to say, he could, you know, completely evade their scrutiny and they would have absolutely no documentary support or testimonial evidence to prove he was lying. one of the areas they decided to not block out in the redaction version was to say other documentary and/or testimony evidence showed the following and they black it out, to let you know a lot is based on the text messages of paul manafort, of documentary evidence, of things that could be corroborated, and his own statements that happened including before the grand jury. so you have somebody who eve