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to roll the dice and gamble. i think the question of a pardon is huge. and intimidating to the whole process here and the president is wise to step back and not do that because the act of that and interesting to see. the mueller team can look at that as destructive conduct. in these circumstances what is best for him and, honestly, the best thing to do is not to plead but to cooperate, as well. reverend al sharpton who is one of the few people that michael cohen has reached out to to discuss where his head is at but right now where his head is at but what about exactly is going to happen. he has come to an agreement with the prosecutors in the southern district of new york. that is not the mueller investigation. we need to figure out what role the mueller investigation is going to have in this agreement. in the end, this all has to be presented to a federal judge,
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All may be. if he s covered them in a plea, then, the president can tweet whatever he wants, that s going to be dealt with in terms of the judge and the prosecutors. the question is, is there anything there he can expose the president to? and then we have a real question of where mueller goes and doesn t go forward. if, in fact, for example, i do not know this, he says yes, donald trump did know about the meeting with the russians, was seeking to have his son and others get information that would interfere with the campaign, that goes right down the street towards collusion. and if he knew about the stormy daniels stuff. so, i think michael cohen could be a very, very pivotal person as we go forward the next few weeks. just to bring you up to speed. we do not know exactly what michael cohen is going to say, but we do believe he will be appearing before a judge. he already turned himself into the fbi. there is a hearing scheduled for