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Can you make some sense of this? >> isnt it training to think, many months ago when flynn came before the judge and the judge said i should let you cooperate a little more, otherwise, i may give you jail time, that flynn might have been better off taking that jail time. because now, if hes backing out, hes essentially breaching that plea agreement. if you look back at flynns original charges, yes, his sentencing guidelines range is zero to six months. so its likely he will be sentenced within th...

York was telling this court today, dont go easy on this guy. he didnt cooperate as much as he could have. do you have any sense what it was that cohen did not provide? what aspects of the inv investigation this might cover? >> reporter: we dont know what aspects of this investigation or other investigations. thats really the thread here that matters. michael cohen decided that he wanted to cooperate, clear his name, as it related to donald trump. as it related to the special counsels office. he ...

Dann danny? >> that is right. and just to piggyback on lanny davis comments. i agree with what mimi said earlier with you that i dont believe that lanny davis fully understands the cooperation process, but guy petrullo absolutely does. he made a comment in court today and he made several comments critical of the southern district process and at one point he said facetiously about the cooperation process that the southern district uses that it has been given to us by the minor gods and woe to tho...

That the government has evidence of but any other crimes that they may have committed. >> back to the time they were 2 years old. >> literally if you stole a candy bar from the drugstore when you were 16 you have to tell the government that. you wont necessarily plead guilty to that because its not a federal crime, but you may have to plead guilty to additional federal crimes that you volunteer to the government. its the way that this cooperation process works in the southern district, and it is...

Years old. >> literally if you stole a candy bar from the drugstore when you were 16 you have to tell the government that. you wont necessarily plead guilty to that because its not a federal crime, but you may have to plead guilty to additional federal crimes that you volunteer to the government. oats the way that this cooperation process works in the southern district, and it is a little different tan the way that bob mueller and the special counsels office seems to be operating where theyre wi...

Cooperating witness. he has not been willing to talk to about criminal behavior he may have been involved in or know about, and therefore throw the book at him. is this a southern district thing or is this something specific to cohen am. >> the southern district requires cooperating witnesses to not only admit to the crimes that theyre charged with or that the government has evidence of but any other crimes that they may have committed. >> back to the time they were 2 years old. >> literally if ...

Who makes the difficult decision to cooperate a witness. because in doing so, defense attorneys like me will surely point out to the jury that the government got hand in hand with the delve. th -- devil. they made a deal with someone who has admitted to being a criminal. the formula that prosecutors have to apply throughout the cooperation process is, they realize theres an acceptable amount of lack of credibility and lying we can take from this person, but if yaw continue to do so and they beco...

>> well, nobody knows. he came in a wheelchair minus one shoe, the doogie howser non-doctor, dr. sleuth in me tells me he haus gos gout, but really dont know. >> he has a -- its not clear when his on collaboration will wrap up. does that minimize the leverage he has? is it unusual to be sentenced before a witness completes the cooperation process? >> yes, ordinarily it would be put off, and it would be put off nine out of ten jurisdictions. it hasnt been put off here. all it would do is require ...

It will be a close and trusting cooperation process of how in recent years. before the vote anglo-american had urged the conservative m.p.s to support her like her candidate was all. so backed by leaders of the conservative but very insistent party the c.s.u. but to no avail the majority wanted to change afterwards the newly elected leader stressed that he didnt see the result as a vote against anglo american but the german chancellor acknowledged the outcome is a defeat. this is democracy and t...

To me is that this is a marker. this is a place holder before labor day, before we get into election season. so they dont disrupt anything and cant be accused of disrupting anything related to the election. have him plead guilty to what we know hes under investigation for, and then theyll sort of begin the cooperation process, which requires many, many meetings between cohen and the prosecutors and investigators. >> chuck, it comes down to you. in the moment as it was happening today, i heard se...