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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 ....
For a third. jillian: accusing michael cohen of perjury. mike meadows and jim jordan outlining a list of ways cohen contradicted himself in a letter to the doj. s attorney called the allegation baseless. he will return to capitol hill for another closed-door session with lawmakers. rob: the nation of pakistan will release an indian fighter pilot after shooting down two military jets. the prime minister calls it a piece gesture in an effort to ease tensions between the two nuclear armed countries. celebrations already beginning on the border ahead of the pilots s return. long-held tensions between these countries reigniting earlier this month when the terror group killed 40 indian soldiers in the indian control portion of the disputed territory of kashmir. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowing to fight corruption charges. opposition knows it cannot beat us, for the last two years ....
On this. what this latest document points out is that michael cohen provided this false testimony in front of congress because he wanted to protect donald trump. the document said he did it in the hopes of limiting the investigations into possible russian interference in the 2016 u.s. presidential election, an issue of heightened national interest. i think the other thing that s interesting about cohen s lies around this moscow project is the filing from mule peller s oe notes there are a couple of ways cohen was helpful to the special counsel. one was talking about his contacts with people connected to the white house during 2017 and 2018, which gets into the question whether michael cohen may have helped with the obstruction of justice probe. it also talks about how he was circulating his testimony, his plans to respond to congressional inquiries, with those in the white house. of course, a big question is, you know, who saw that and if they knew it was false at the time, that cohen ....
We will bring that to you. bret: okay, catherine herridge live on the hill. catherine, thanks. just moments ago we saw a tweet about three minutes ago from the president of the united states, donald j. trump at real donald j. trump totally clears the president. thank you exclamation point. assume he is talking about all of this. i don t have any more detail on that. but that was a tweet that just came out. let s dig into this filing, these filings, what we know, what we don t know. let s get some analysis right now from george washington university law professor jonathan turley. jonathan, i want to start with the russia part of the special counsel filing and the breakdown, as catherine mentioned of these four ways cohen helps. and we have got another bullet point here. and it s new information that we didn t know, but what s your reading of that particular part? some of this we have known about, obviously. there was this moscow ....