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Misdemeanor standard is quite different. these of course that michael cohen pled guilty to are felony offenses, likely avoiding felony charges for ami and others involved with it. if you judge it on the criminal side, its quite serious to have the felony assignment to it. on the flip side, part of reason why this is not the sexiest of insent ti insentiv incentives for democrats on the hill, you have the republican-led senate who would have to convict in some way. because of the dynamic and becau...

Talk to him, what they found him to be credible, reliable and useful testimony in cooperation from him. now, it remains to be seen exactly what michael cohen has on donald trump. and the special counsels office isnt showing their hand just yet, wolf. >> interesting. jim, cohen is going to prison in part for a crime that prosecutors implicated the president in these hush money payments to two women that trump allegedly had affairs with. should the president be worried about the legal trouble he p...

What we saw not only with michael cohen and being directly related to the president and implicating the president, but also now that the prosecutors have said they reached this deal with ami, the publisher of the national enquirer, directly tying that payment to karen mcdougal, who alleged an affair with trump to the trump campaign. >> and the president is being described as seething right now as a result of all of this. jeffrey, the three-year sentence that michael cohen got, whats the message ...

The person standing in the middle is the president. is the southern district gearing up to indict the president? i doubt it. but this campaign financing is a growing problem for the president. >> hang with me. you just hit on what were going to be talking about. the other breaking development, the parent company of the "national enquirer," ami, reaching a deal with the prosecutors over hush money. also ahead, british prime minister theresa may is really in the fight for her political life. a sec...

First time that the owner of the national enquirer admitted its role in the payoffs to the two women that donald trump allegedly had affairs with. what does the company say about the campaign that they knew about the hush money? >> this is important and interesting. as part of this nonprosecution agreement, ami admitted to making the hush payment to karen mcdougal for political reasons. we also know that ami met with at least one other person on the trump campaign, meaning that cohen didnt act a...

Testify around around the campaign contributions and these sordid stories. it was david pecker that was mentioned that said all of the stories we wanted to cover, all of them with david pecker and our friend, he mentioned alan weisleberg, who also got immunity, you have the idea about what sdny -- you had this idea what would they have said, what would have been the incentive for a prosecutor to have given them immunity if what theyre telling you michael cohen has done is a violation of the law,...

We are back. youre watching cnn. im brooke baldwin. it is tied to hush money payments. prosecutors say michael cohen coordinated for president trump, the parent company of the "national enquirer" has cut a deal, requiring ami to own up to the deal with karen mcdougal, the presidents mistress. brian, first to you. >> on this american media, this is the owner of "the national enquirer." he also own as bunch of other magazines like mens fitness and very well known for their pro-trump position. duri...

You want to decide who is more significant in this case, the presidents personal lawyer who knows about payments or ami, the media company that knows about payments. youre walking in, theyre saying, i dont know if i trust michael flynn. i would easily go to the "national enquirer" and say, youre going to get immunity. by the way, it must have worked. they must have gone in as prosecutors with michael cohen saying, we know about what you did to pay off the women, let it out. the other thing that ...

Correspondent shimon prokupecz is with me. this is a non-prosecution agreement with ami, meaning its basically a cooperation agreement with the company. >> yeah, theyre cooperating. essentially where theyre cooperating is theyre saying -- sdny is saying these payments were to suppress obviously the stories, the womans story, karen mcdougal, but also the purpose in making this payment was to prevent it from influencing the election. so essentially they now have another witness, a cooperating witn...

>> i have nothing to do with russia, folks, okay. i will give you a written statement. but they tie me in to russia all the time. they like to tie me in to russia. >> now, cohen will have some time before he heads to prison. the judge has ordered him to report to prison on march 6thth in addition to paying around a million dollars in restitution. wolf. >> he will be up in prison in upstate new york, not too far from new york city, starting in march. m.j., at the same time cohen was sentenced pro...