Manafort faces. The judge told them to get back to work though. So could it mean we are any closer to a verdict. But we start with some Breaking News. An nbc news exclusive. Former trump personal Attorney Michael Cohen is discussing a plea deal with federal prosecutors. One that could come as early as this afternoon. Thats according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke with nbc news. Tom winter is the nbc news investigations reporter who helped break the story. Our guest is a former u. S. District attorney for the Southern District of new york which is conducting the cohen investigation. Let me begin with you, tom, lay this out. What else did the sources say . How close the possibility of seeing some kind of deal emerge today . Sure. So ayman, as ellie can probably well tell you, no prosecutor counts their chickens and counts a plea deal until they have it. Then insigned. And the person is in court. I think were still a little a ways away from that, based upon
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drone, causing significant disruption. one former russian lawmaker in exile linked with groups operating in russia tells cnn the work is of russian partisans. some are focused on railroad sabotage, some military force, some attacks on pro-war activities, some hacking attacks. are any of the partisans supported by the ukrainian special services? ukraine says it s got nothing to do with this attack. do you believe that claim? ukrainians have nothing to do with this because it s organized by russians. whoever is responsible is a threat. at the moment, preparations are continuing for the annual may the 9th victory day parade in red square near where the drones struck. but the weakness and insecurity
and we can t really know where these things are, but this is clearly high stakes psychological pressure that one side is on that last point, the prospect of this could be coming from inside of russia, cnn s matthew chance spoke with a former lachine lawmaker who has been linked to militant groups in russia. he said, definitively, but this was the work of what he calls russian partisans. take a listen. some of them are focused on sabotage, some of them are doing arson. some are doing recruitment, some of them doing attacks on activists, some of them doing hacking attacks. we have seen, you know, attacks. somewhat serious attacks occurring inside of russia. in this bryansk region a train derailment. another one in a storage facility, in oil storage facility. so, clearly