Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Counsel. How much specificity would we get here in seeing a plea deal . Would there be things that are sort of kept from public view or would it be pretty clear what the guts are here . I dont think the first filing i dont think will reveal everything. In other words, i think the first filing, announcing the plea deal and that sort of thing is probably not going to spell out in great detail exactly what Information Cohen has to provide. We may have to await several weeks, several months down the road to find out the full scope of his cooperation and the full breadth of his information. Kristen welker, i think we have you standing by as well. The other aspect of this, we set this up at the top, Michael Cohen so close to donald trump for so long, that famous line where he said he would take a bullet for donald trump. Obviously in the last few weeks, yes, it sounds like hes been telegraphing this possi
guilty, yes your honor in court and that s expected to happen at 4:00 this afternoon. daniel, again on that question of the campaign finance violation, obviously the speculation is it involves hush money payments, the tape with the discussion of karen mcdougal back in 2016. the idea of a campaign finance violation, when we talk in the news a lot we generally think of it in other contexts at least as something where the penalty is more of a slap on the wrist, a fine, that sort of thing. in this context here, the seriousness of a campaign finance violation? well, it is serious. it would not carry nearly the sentencing hit that the bank fraud in particular might carry and the tax fraud as well. it s still a lighter sentence than those crimes. but it would probably involve jail time in and of itself when