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"the new york times" is reporting that the ongoing investigation regarding michael cohen is zeroing in on potential bank fraud involving michael cohens involvement in the taxi business. also campaign finance loans in the payoffs that he helped arrange to at least two women who said they had sexual relationships with the president. this follows same contours of what was reported a couple weeks ago by the "wall street journal." now "the new york times" has the story, too, as does the associated pr...

This follows same contours of what was reported a couple weeks ago by the "wall street journal." now "the new york times" has the story, too, as does the associated press. all of these stories have the same basic contours. and none of that is the same as us seeing a real live indictment. but it does at least mean theres a big pile of credible corroborating reporting that all lays out the same potential charges against cohen. if it is true about what michael cohen will be charged with, then first...

You have to defense trying to hang their entire case on discrediting rick gates. the star prosecution witness. is that a risky move? >> its risky on both sides. its particularly bold of the defense to hang their entire case on whether you believe in the credibility of rick gates who is only a corroborating voice and not the linchpin to most of the actual charges on the indictment. hes only a corroborating voice on a fraction of them so to say im going to put my eggs in one particular basket is a...

Corroborating witnesses, may have legal consequences. they also destroyed the career who was the senior government person in charge of the mounding intelligence operations against the united states on u.s. soil. when it came to this russian intelligence operation, to mess with us in our own country, peter strzok was there from the beginning. he was one of the only people on heerth has ever been in a position to give testimony like the and now hes literally having to set up a go fund me page to h...

Bus. i mean, the admission of it is an add myths of incredible will law. >> his son can be charged. >> the lie is an historic lie that he told. the admission is a potentially cataclysmic admission for the whole -- this element of the investigation and particularly for his son who his father has basically went on twitter and testified against. >> frank, can you unpack that for us? we stare at those trees. we stare at the tweet as if its a tree. the forest started as a counter intelligence investi...

Blame from yourself. so it is sort of defense argument 101. and in this particular case, the uphill battle, i dont know how uphill it is, for the government is that one of the particular crimes to which gates has pled guilty is lying to the fbi. and not just lying to the fbi, but lying to the fbi in the course of an interview -- in the course of a promeeting in which was trying to convince the fbi specifically that he was being truthful to try to get a deal. so the argument that you see time and...

Mueller probably already has the corroborating information necessary to move forward on cohens testimony. he may have matched the anonymous number dialled off thereof. hes probably talked to other witnesses. they may have looked at logs about who was in the building that time or before hand and maybe looked to see emails. we dont know. so my guess is that krauberation piece has already been made and on to the races for michael cohen who at least is giving advice to watch out for himself because ...

Would not let the democrats subpoena. so mueller either has those phone records and a lot of other corroborating information or not. if this is going to go any place, its not going to rely on michael cohen. >> just a small thought. in a funny way, i think the cohen stuff and the meeting and the payoffs, check or cash for the playboy person, that has had a funny way of obscuring the really big story of the moment, which was helsinki, a two-hour meeting about which we know nothing. no american not...

Those folks know far more than we do. and they know who telling the truth and who is not telling the truth. they likely already got phone records and corroborating evidence to give a sense of who here is shading and not shading and by how much. id also point out that to the extent congress wants to delve into the issues seems like kind of doesnt. that could get in the way of the on going criminal investigations. so for now were left with these actors both with motivations to improve on a story w...

>> or it turns out that john dean in water gate everything that he says in his memory shows up on the tape. all of these women he got rid of, he knows everything about trump. trump must be dying with this person out there. >> i would go with trump as being the better liar, the more consistent liar, if he breathes, he lies. and mueller is not going to just have to rely on michael cohen. michael cohen could be just a corroborating in this meeting. junior is not calling meetings without telling pop...