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A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Yeah. I think thats a good point. On Paul Manafort, the former Trump Campaign chairman convicted yesterday on eight felony counts, bank fraud, tax fraud, stealing literally millions of dollars from american taxpayers, not reporting income on tens of millions of dollars, is there a chance hell still cooperate with the Special Counsel Paul Manafort . He has another trial coming up next month. Right. Look. If youre Paul Manafort, ...

Paula, youve been doing some terrific reporting on all of this. do you have a sense when the grand jury in new york is likely to vote on a possible indictment. well wolf we know from our new reporting. the first thing that is office needs to do is decide whether or not they are going to bring cohen back. we know that is something theyre considering. and if they dont bring him, are they going to bring another witness back to try to buttress their case? colon would be easy to bring back he lives l...

Need to bring cohen back. to buttress their case or if they need to call another witness before the grand jury to button things up before moving on to a vote on whether or not to indict. let me bring norm eisen into this conversation. standby paula for a moment. what does it reveal to you? nor um that prosecutors are signaling they may need to hear more testimony from cohen or may even call an additional witness. wealth the litigation process is an adversarial one, and new york has particularly ...

Back in front of your committee in february as well. we know about his public testimony that hes agreed to give to the house oversight committee. have you gotten -- has he agreed to this yet? >> were still in conversations. chairman burr and i have agreed for some time we wanted to bring cohen back. hes also agreed to testify publicly. i know the house intel committee is bringing him back as well. we particularly want him back because it was his original lies to our committee that got him into t...

"national enquirers" parent company. does it give him an out to say that i knew about it later? >> no, it doesnt give him an out that he knew about it later. once he knew about it, he was party to the violation. >> reporter: another shift in the story comes from trumps legal advisor rudy giuliani. on may 2nd, giuliani told fox that cohen, who had taken out a personal home equity line to pay for stormy danielss silence, was paid back by trump. >> the president reimbursed him. >> the reimburseme...

Woke us up. in the house where the democrats will be taking control. but now theyre saying who else can we call knowing were going to be back stopped by the mueller investigation, knowing that anyone who lies to us will be prosecuted. hes ready to bring in additional witnesses. take a listen. >> this is a very significant plea and statement. it means when the president was representing he had no business interest in russia, this wasnt true. only underscored the importance of our bringing mr. coh...

Has immunity, federal prosecutors cant take any illegal action against him for his role nutt in the hush money payments. but the "new york times" reports that local prosecutors are now look into it. the manhattan district attorney weighing a criminal probe into how the trump organization paid cohen back. its not clear whether weisselbergs deal ended with cohens guilty plea this week or whether crucially that investigation is ongoing and weisselberg is still cooperating. we just do not know. but ...

Her account of an alleged affair with trump tower, o with donald trump, and one he denies, and then never publishes. >> what are you doing to get ready for prison, mr. cohen? >> reporter: pay wrofs michael cohen admits broke the law. >> those two counts arent even a rhyme. they werent campaign finance. >> reporter: but they were. cohen paid $130,000 to a porn star to keep her quiet about an alleged affair, admitting in court it was for influencing the election. so thats a campaign contribution. ...

President did. >> was cohen honest with your committee, the intelligence committee, giving an interview behind closed doors in october of last year? >> i dont think so. i think that months ago after his interview and before yesterday there was enough new evidence, documents, circumstances and things we have learned from other witnesses that made us all in the democratic side want to bring mr. cohen back. yesterday you saw the bipartisan leadership on the senate intel committee basically say afte...

I did it own my own. guliani said the president didnt know about that payment, but did later pay cohen back. meanwhile, theres a lot of speculation about the release of the recording might anger the u.s. attorneys office and could hurt cohens chances of secure ago plea deal, shep. >> shepard: what do we know about the subpoena involving president trumps organizations financial chief? >> we reached out to the southern district. a spokesperson said since grand jury proceedings are secret, they nev...