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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i m ayman mohyeldin alongside yas money vossoughian. morning joe starts right now. i did nong wrong. you have to understand. this stuff would have come out a long time ago. i did nothing wrong. is michael cohen still your friend? i like michael. i haven t spoke ton him in a long time. is he your lawyer? no, he s not my lawyer. i always liked michael. and are you going to cooperate? are you going to let me talk. i just want to know if you re going to cooperate with federal investigators. i did nothing wrong. oh, he flipped. in june president trump said he wasn t worried at all that michael cohen would flip. he should have been. the president s former attorney admitted in court yesterday that donald trump personally directed him to buy the silence of two women whose claims of sexual affairs with the presidential candidate threatened to derail his white house ambitions and it