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Them and trying to work this out so manafort can stop lying, so he can clean up what hes been lying to them about. but according to prosecutors, quote, in none of the communications with manaforts counsel was any factual or legal argument made as to why the governments assessment of manaforts credibility was erroneous or made without good faith. okay. so what this is this is muellers office, the special counsels office saying paul manafort keeps lying to us. weve got him before the grand jury. w...

Special counsel with useful information concerning certain discrete russia related matters core to his investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with trump organization executives during the campaign. so we dont know what this is, but cohen gave the special counsel useful information about certain discrete russia-related matters core to muellers investigation. he obtained this information because of his contact with people who worked a the trump organization. so presumably,...

The redactions here. it starts to look like this. but even with the redactions, you can still get the basics of this sort of five-part list of things that they say theyre lying about. muellers office says manafort lied to them about his interactions with konstantin kilimnik. remember that name? kilimnik was sort of manaforts right-hand man in his business in ukraine, and prosecutors have already said in other court filings that they believe konstantin kilimnik is associated with the interactions...

Bullpucky, and then he tried to change it back to original bullpucky story number one, because he hadnt been able to keep straight the first set of lies in what that had been. so this is the part of manaforts filing, which suggests that, yeah, prosecutors maybe had good reason to feel not at all comfortable with him providing anything that was supposed to be factual information about anyone. he is lying about his lying. but the final point in this manafort filing today is perhaps more serious fo...

From mueller and from how cohens -- about how cohens case fits into the overall scandal. so remember here what happened is that cohen initially plead guilty to eight felonies in federal district court in new york. that was a deal he worked out with prosecutors in the southern district of new york. we know from todays other filing in the cohen case that they ended up subsequently not that happy with the cooperation they got from him as a witness, and they think that the judge should put him in ja...

Government, including department of justice personnel handling this investigation, he told them a different and exculpatory version of the events. he then subsequently changed that version too in order to more closely conform to his earlier statements after his own defense counsel in the governments presence showed manafort notes that had been taken of his earlier proffer session. so, i mean, its not like a whoopie cushion or anything, but the reason i say that is somewhat comical is that what m...

That juicy stuff was filed simply under seal, and we dont know when that stuff will be unsealed publicly to the public, if ever. based on what we can see in terms of this manafort stuff today, it does leave was a few new open questions about the paul manafort case. are we going get to see that other material that was filed under seal? are we going to get to see the stuff thats behind the redactions in this fighting, right? when youve got pages like this, you want to know if those bars are ever g...

So they go on for dozens of pages talking about cohen as a bad guy. at one point they go out of their way to describe the kinds of threats that cohen has made to journalists and to other people who he has crossed in business and politics. describing his conduct at one point as repugnant. so the prosecutors in the southern district of new york, they did persuade michael cohen to plead guilty to eight felonies, and then the special counsels office ultimately persuaded him to plead the one more, a ...

Cohen. but threaten is the second filing on michael cohen. and for my money, thats the document from which we got the most new information and the most intriguing information. so thats the third document were going to talk about tonight. and thats a relatively short document, a seven-page-long filing from muellers office about michael cohen explaining why his cooperation has been so valuable to them. that document i think youll see has the most intriguing stuff in it. its also the document that ...

There are two major figures in the presidents orbit whose legal worries got much worse today for themselves and whose relationship to the overall scandal involving the president somewhat changed today. one of them is the presidents campaign chair, paul manafort. and one of them is the presidents long-time personal lawyer who served for a decade as a senior executive at the presidents real estate business. now heading into today, we had expected that the filing from prosecutors in the manafort ca...