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Russia but that one russian national actually offered cohen, quote, political synergy between the kremlin and the trump campaign. cohen, who pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes this summer and was charged with one count of lying to congress by muellers office, is set to be sentenced next week. joining me now to discuss all of this is bruce single, he worked with robert mueller in the u.s. attorneys office in boston. good morning to you, bruce. >> reporter: good morning. >> thank you very much...

The saudi crown prince directly responsible for the murder, despite the cias conclusions that he personally ordered the assassination. and something we havent seen too often, the gop-led senate is preparing to confront the white house with floor votes, likely this week, on the u.s. involvement in the saudi-led war in yemen, which has been, by all accounts, disastrous. this is south carolina senator lindsey graham. >> if you get in the orbit of the united states, if you want to buy our weapons an...

Did anything wrong. committed any crimes, or certainly had any contact with russia. a lot of hype, a lot of sound, a lot of noise, a lot of drama, but no substance, in terms of the president of the united states. >> laura: now someone jumped on this part of the special counsels filing on michael cohen, without including the last part. were going to just read it to the end. you can make your own conclusions as to why some media organizations are leaving it off. quote the defendant also provided i...

Team and he worked at the direction of president trump in arranging illegal payments according to manhattan prosecutors. what say you, congresswoman? >> well, first of all, i think all of these investigations need to continue and i wouldnt come to any conclusions, especially the one that guiliani came to, i have not read the documents, but in watching news conference yesterday it seems as though the president is implicated, but i dont think that we-- i think we just need to hold tight, let the m...

>> thats exactly right. there is another aspect to it which is that all the possible crimes, those that have arisen as a result, after it began in terms of whether people cooperated or lied or whatever to the fbi. i think really most peoples conclusions looking at all this is that it just confirms how out of touch and decadent, frankly, our political and media establishments are. they spent all this time, thinking about russia were talking about russia, and thats a low unemployment and out of th...

Minds when this transcript is released. that was one of the terms he insisted on before agreeing to do this. he described the transcript as boring. would you characterize it is that? >> it might be a yawn in some ways. one thing i came away with his, there will be interesting things there and we can draw certain conclusions. i am glad the transcript is getting out. its important for the american people to see. i hope there is nothing redacted. we just talked about reactions, and tired of that. l...

Be covered up as dual filings and investigations into the presidents personal lawyer michael cohen suggest even greater efforts from russian nationals to forge ties with the pre white house trump. of course, the president continued with his twitter tirades against the investigation this morning taking shots at mueller and his team. the question is, as we approach the new year, how close are we to hearing the final conclusions of the russia probe? we have a great panel. and we are welcoming attor...

And i have to say i fell for that. i felt sympathy for cohen as portrayed in his lawyers document. and its a good thing you always wait until you hear the full evidence before you jump to conclusions, a lesson that i hope whitaker is paying attention to since he already formed a conclusion about evidence. obviously, my original opinion of cohen was correct. he cannot be trusted except when he is confronted with corroborating evidence. so thats the other thing we learned, that mueller must have s...

You have a lot of redacted information in both the manafort part of it and some things that are not redacted by being blacked out but are redacted because of being so vague as to what other information cohen has provided to mueller. it also is interesting because there are really three cohens. theres the cohen that the southern district saw. theres the cohen that the special counsel saw. but theres also the cohen that his lawyer presented in his earlier filing in his request that there be no jai...

So thats the kind of thing. because in michael cohens best self-interest to be fully cooperative. everything he tells them, theyre not going to use against him, theyre going to use in the prosecution of other people. so the conclusions that come to my mind are either someone they he wants to protect or there is someone he fears. >> well said. thank you, natasha bertrand and david corn and ken dilanian. a great power team tonight, and ari melber from joining us from his program, "the beat." much ...