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Can get angry at me in one night. i read the information what they call the charging document when there are no charges because there was a plea deal. im not impressed by these campaign finance violation charges. he pled guilty. i get it. but they never proved it. and theyre cutting it very fine with what they say he did and i dont know if this was some grave campaign conspiracy going on. i think they were lying about it, think think they were being sneaky about it but i dont know that theres cr...

More tentative on that. i think what i said was that at some point mr. cohen might be able to be useful to the special counsel about whether president trump knew ahead of time about the hacking of the hillary clinton e-mails. and its not a certainty the way he recalls it. may or may not be useful to mr. mueller and i dont want to go beyond my intuition. >> right. i know you have to be careful. >> i think what he can say would be useful. and thats the way i have to leave it. >> there are two fasc...

Granted immunity, what he knows about michael cohen and secret paymen payments. joining me now is ronan pharrow, thank you so much for joining us. you have done a lot of reporting on how david pecker operates. what sort of information pecker gives federal prosecutors warranted him of being granted immunity >> of course from this charging document and the cohens case that there is a close relationship between cohen, pecker and donald trump. indeed the document making is clear there is an active a...

Counsel about whether president trump knew ahead of time about the hacking of the hillary clinton e-mails. and its not a certainty the way he recalls it. may or may not be useful to mr. mueller and i dont want to go beyond my intuition. >> right. i know you have to be careful. >> i used the expression i think what he can say would be useful. and thats the way i have to leave it. >> there are two fascinating details in the charging document that havent gotten a lot of attention. one is on page 16...

Read it. yet, duncan hunters kind of lucky that all of this happened yesterday because it is certainly being overshadowed. >> it is being overshadowed but it is not being forgotten. it remains a story. we are talking about it and we should be talking about it. what is alleged in that 47-page charging document is widespread corruption and misuse of campaign funds for personal use. essentially what you see is a member of congress and his wife who have almost no money to their name, repeatedrepeate...

If anything, theyre going to do with it. and then we go back to the issue that i know you have talked about a lot on this program, which is can a sitting president be indicted or not? does mueller believe a sitting president can be indicted? and now do the attorneys in the southern district of new york believe an individual can be indicted who is president? >> one of the reasons i needed your help tonight is in looking at what would ordinarily be the indictment, the charging document -- they cal...

Does mueller believe a sitting president can be indicted? and now do the attorneys in the southern district of new york believe an individual can be indicted who is president? >> one of the reasons i needed your help tonight is in looking at what would ordinarily be the indictment, the charging document -- they call it the information when you cut a plea deal in the southern district -- they dont use trumps name anywhere. they also dont use the parent company of the "national enquirer." they don...

Ordinarily prosecutors and defense lawyers talk about this stuff. you dont go through the press to reach out to prosecutors. and as much as michael cohen wants to paint a picture of being a true patriot and an honest person just interested in the truth, that would be a real conversion in his life that may or may not have something to do with the fact that his plea agreement calls for four or five-year sentence which i think is probably motivating him a little bit more. so i think that where we r...

And more affordable. thank you, dennis quaid. youre welcome. thats a prop apple. id tell you more, but i only have 30 seconds. so heres a dramatic shot of their tagline so youll remember it. esurance. its surprisingly painless. when michael cohen in open court today said that he broke campaign finance law in coordination with and at direction of a candidate for federal office, there is no great mystery of who that candidate was. just in case, in the criminal information document filed by prose...

That led to front pages like this. this is the front page of the "new york times." cohen pleads guilty implicating president. thats the front page of the "new york times." heres where that comes from in court today. ready? okay. michael cohen. thank you, your honor. as to count number seven, on or about the summer of 2016 in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office, i and the ceo of a media company, at the request of the candidate, worked together to keep an indiv...