along with our highlights of our incredible trip, wait until you see the planes landing and taking off. it is incredible. first, we have updates to the mueller witch hunt. michael cohen was sentenced to three years, making false statements, lying to congress about building a building project that never got off the ground, and a questionable campaign finance violation. notice something missing? no trump-russia collusion. none, again. also important to know michael cohen does not have a cooperation agreement with federall prosecutors. meanwhile, another top target of this mueller witch hunt, lieutenant general michael flynn, is asking a federal judge for leniency and to no jail time. he s pleading guilty to lying to investigators but only after legal bills wrecked his family finances, forced this man, 33 year veteran from a five years of combat, to have to sell his home, and probably most likely threaten impunity action against her son and business partner.
sean: we will have that full interview in a few minutes along with some planes landing and taking off. first we have updates on the mueller partisan witch hunt. lying to congress about building a building project that never even got off the ground and a questionable campaign book finance violation. notice something missing? no trump-russia collision. none come again. it s also important to note that michael cohen does not have a prosecution agreement with prosecutors. another top target, michael flynn is asking a federal judge for leniency and no jail time. he pled guilty to lying to investigators but only after legal bills wrecked his family finances and force this, 33 years a veteran in five years of combat to have to sell his home and probably was most likely setting punitive action against
tantalizing i think and significant sentence in one of the filings today in which the special counsel s office says that is cohen has provided information that relates to the core part of the investigation involving russia and the questions surrounding the 2016 election. the convergence between two different story lines is pretty striking. in the last couple weeks, remember, we found out that essentially the president was seeking to leverage his presidential campaign to do business in russia. and he had pursued for years the idea of a major project, a major building project in moscow. it hadn t panned out and the fact that michael cohen is now admitting, admitting under oath you know to the special counsel that he will called vladimir putin s office seeking help in that will in that real estate deal while donald trump was campaigning for president remains to me i think one of the signal breakthroughs in terms of our knowledge of
because michael cohen told the special counsel about contacts between team trump, the russians going back to 2015, a trusted person in the russian federation offering sinner jill on a offering energy on a government level. we re talking about serious national security situation here, right? well, that s right. and in fact, actually, there s a tantalizing i think and significant sentence in one of the filings today in which the special counsel s office says that is cohen has provided information that relates to the core part of the investigation involving russia and the questions surrounding the 2016 election. the convergence between two different story lines is pretty striking. in the last couple weeks, remember, we found out that essentially the president was seeking to leverage his presidential campaign to do business in russia. and he had pursued for years the idea of a major project, a major building project in moscow. it hadn t panned out and the
having discussions about who weather to do a building project in moscow and michael cohen is saying the conversations were more extensive and went on for longer than he previously admitted. these are areas where we can get insight from robert mueller. from cohen s perspective, he is hoping that by pushing for the quicker sentencinging because he could have asked for this to be potentially delayed under a more traditional cooperation deal, he made it clear he want this is to go on as originally planned because he is very, very eager to move on with his life. everybody stay with us. a lot of pieces to put together when we learn new developments in the investigation. the president has a new choice to be attorney general who would oversee the special counsel investigation. we ll be right back.