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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what we need to hear today. it s very important to be clear on what he told us, on what the sps special prosecutor told the american people. i think bob mueller as reluctant as he clearly has to testify has one more duty to perform for the country and that is to come before the congress and answer the questions the american people about his report. joining us now national security reporter for the daily beast and on set danny cevallos. where does this leave democrats in their push for mueller to testify? jerrold nadler was asked twice whether he ll subpoena mueller. he side stepped the question entirely. that s right. so what we do know that the negotiations between democrats on the hill and mueller s team in regard to him testifying are
interference in the electoral process that happened and that was a huge product of our investigation leading to multiple indictments. this was his final statement. we re studying like a religious text his words as to whether or not the president was exonerated or not and there s some mystery as to why he chose to make a statement like if the evidence had exonerated the president we would have said so. that s not traditionally the role of the prosecutor, but this is not traditional but felt so compelled by what the attorney general put out there. his general duty, this is someone who follows his duty and he felt like he was obligated to investigate even though he could not indict. also this appears to be a response to what he perceives as barr not exactly stating his words correctly earlier in barr s testimony to congress. jeff? danny, mueller tried to
the judge accepted the request last night. mueller s team had previously asked for a delay in sentencing back in july. flynn pleaded guilty in december to lying to federal investigators and has been cooperating with the special counsel since then. joining us here on set danny cevallos. bob mueller asking another delay for flynn s sentencing. the delay, does it tell us what role michael flynn is playing in the bob mueller investigation? why possibly the delay? typically prosecutors will delay a sentencing date in order to do one of two things, continue to cooperate with a cooperating witness or their investigation into all the other big fish is still ongoing and so they need that cooperating witness, they don t want to sentence him because after he s sentenced his obligations may be completed. there may be less to offer him, although he can cooperate after
reason. it s dangerous to be a snitch. it s not uncommon even at sentencing to go to sidebar and say, hey, judge, we have a motion here which is a signal that there s cooperation, then go back in open court and proceed with sentencing. danny cevallos, i am sure it is going to be another busy day for you. we haven t even talked about manafort yet. i will save that for later. still ahead, the white house economic adviser larry kudlow speaking out over hosting the publisher of a white nationalist website at his birthday celebration. the explanation he s offering over his guest. bill karins is back with a check on the forecast as hawaii braces for a rare and powerful hurricane. braces for a rare and powerful (vo) this is not a video game.