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4 million. Filing false statements to a bank in order to obtain a loan, and the real stunner, two counts of Campaign Finance violations. The reasons those were such a stunner, because Michael Cohen detailed in a little bit exactly what those Campaign Finance violations were. One, 150,000 payment to the ceo of a Media Company for a contract which we know from our previous reporting has to do with karen mcdougal, who accuses President Trump of an affair, which he, of course, has denied. And then t...

He will actually appear in Court Next Week on december 12. Charles . Charles david lee miller, thanks. Michael cohen not cooperating the way we thought he was. The five starts now. Hello, everybody. 5 oclock in New York City and this is the five. Fox news alert. We are monitoring 3 huge news stories. Prosecutors made their bombshell filing in the case against extrump lawyer Michael Cohen recommending substantial prison time. We are awaiting specials Robert Muellers memos on Paul Manafort after j...

Trump campaign, manafort was saying things that perhaps other students. that the path for trump to win was going to be through these working class, blue collar voters in states that were traditionally, or at least recently, in a ball ims column. in pennsylvania, he saw it happening in wisconsin, michigan. so these two conversations are happening at the same session. >> jim, let me ask you about the manafort prosecution. and there is a point, if i dont remember this accurately, correct me, but it...

Manafort had four started working in ukraine, this is very important, in the mid 2000s. he was brought in by who? a very prominent russian oligarch, oleg deripaska, who is on record saying, i pursued my own interests but it is good for me when they align with the kremlins own interests. he helped introduced manafort to the ukrainian political world. that part of the political world is very pro-russian. so, what kilimnik was talking about doing is reinstalling a former manafort client. to this da...

That have been left out of what he has learned so far, from instance from mr. manafort who was speaking at one point with prosecutors as they talked about a possible cooperation deal, he says, okay what are they hiding here? >> heres what they are hiding. once you realize that what they are talking about is the east of ukraine, once they are talking about how important the eastern ukraine is to putin and wants to establish separately that there was a russian meddling operation to effect social m...

Echelon. >> in june of this year, firtash could be extradited in the u.s. now in the midst of this whole boiling of a scandal about trump and whatever hes doing with ukraine. now today in the middle of all that, we got words firtash, t manaforts business partner. he spent indicted and wanted by law enforcement. firtash have hired new lawyers. they are very different than his expensive a-list lawyers. they are these people mowho are

But in this case in particular that is so far below the standard and the guideline that weve seen, i think jackson after this 17 months of dealing with this case and the 500 motions that have been filed back and forth, in addition to breaking his plea deal and the bad behavior both from manafort and his representatives, now is the time to address all of those transgressions in sentencing. all of those are aggravating factors. >> do you expect judge jackson to hit manafort for what happened elsew...

Puttingor his own spin on the sentencing judges comments. >> the judge, i mean, for whatever reason, i was very honored byn, it, also made the statement that this had nothing to do with collusion with russia. so, you know, keep it going. lets go, keep the hoax going. >> the president failing to mention that t manafort was convicted on bank and tax fraud charges and that judge t.s. ellis barred any mention of russian collusion when the manafort trial began. hes t seizing on this comment from mana...

Team will take to finish the report. if someone says the end of february, add a month or couple months. maybe they intended to be finished by february, but as we have seen in just the last few weeks, new arrests, new investigations, new search warrants turn up new information. it can lead to new avenues of investigation prolonging the current investigation. this is all stuff we should take into account and expect whatever timeline we get or hear about is always likely to be extended. >> okay. fr...

Prosecutors are looking at ascii. t as key. >> this particular meeting on august 2nd between paul manaf t manafort, where something was exchanged. it strikes at the heart of the mueller investigation. these discussions of a piece plan potential broker solution to end the hostility between russia and ukraine and we know there were a number of piece plan being discussed at times. some are potential to the kremlin and could include the lifting of u.s. sanctions of russia. that was russian number on...