good morning, everyone. it is friday, december 7th. i m ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. new documents scheduled for release today could shed new light on robert mueller s russia probe. prosecutors for the southern district of new york and the special counsel s office both have until 5:00 p.m. tonight to deliver sentencing memos concerning michael cohen. those documents are expected to detail cohen s cooperation in both of those ongoing investigations. mueller s team should also be filing a document that outlines the crimes and lies that led to the collapse of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort s plea deal. meanwhile, nbc news has also learned that in recent days president trump s legal team has resumed discussions with the special counsel s office. that s according to two people familiar with the matter. it s been just over two weeks since trump admitted those written answers to mueller regarding the russia probe. back in july, president tru
they had an orientation event which, you know, gary cohen and other corporates coes attended. she made much of the fact that they weren t labor leaders there and, you know, just seeing this real public agitation about what most members of congress at least quietly grind about or taken for granted or lived with for a long time. so she s already i mean, one of our i think it was the melman castonetti firm says her total number of twitter followers is the same as 60 other combined twitter followings of the house democratic caucus. so she is already, besides pelosi, the most famous member of that conference. shows the generational difference that exists. it s safe to say that she now has a national audience, not just within her district. jonathan swan, good to see you. we re going to see you in a little bit on morning joe. we re going read axios a.m. in
joining us from washington political reporter from axios, the one and only jonathan swan. how are you doing, jonathan? hi, guys. friday mornings with jonathan. not that good.? let s talk about the one big thing. what have you got? the range of pressures bearing down on the president are more acute than at any point in his presidency. current and former administration officials tell us. you have a booming economy that suddenly looks vulnerable. stock market wild, wild volatility which affects the president s psychiatricsy. he asks staff every day what the dow is doing. you ve got obviously more we re about to learn much more about cohen and manafort. and the third one, yesterday i have been covering this west wing since the beginning of the presidency. yesterday was peak uncertainty about the fate of john kelly. it s now i mean, you hear this, it s like groundhog day so we re not reporting anything, but honestly, it is widely
bombshell there. what do you think that we could expect to see with regards to the sentencing memo considering cohen s cooperation. good morning. i think the first thing we have to remember is that this is a person who has sat for more than 70 hours of interviews with the special counsel s team. that s a lot of information that could potentially be brought forward and made public as part of this sentencing memo. of course i think we have to take a little note from what we saw earlier this week with documents involving michael flynn. there were a lot of redactions as part of that memo and i think we could potentially see the same today. if we don t, there could be information about those discussions about a possible trump tower in moscow that was revealed as part of court documents in cohen s case last week, as well as maybe even those hush money payments that cohen and which trump knew about made to those two women who allegedly had affairs with the president more than a decade ago.
same time that cnn had yet another bomb scare, just a few weeks after pipe bombs were sent around to a lot of his enemies, his sort of his enemies list, fake news, the enemy of the people. that is exactly what donald trump s name did not come up last night. that is exactly sort of the autocratic tendencies in countries across the globe that really are posing the threat to the democratic foundations. here we go. and new documents that are are scheduled to be released today could shed new light on robert mueller s russia probe. prosecutors for the southern district of new york and the special counsel s office both have until 5:00 p.m. tonight to deliver sentencing memos concerning president trump s former fixer, michael cohen. the documents are expected to detail cohen s cooperation in those ongoing investigations.