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Big tough even controversial cases over the past year, and some have gone the other way and put a lot of heat on trump and his associates. >> today, as you heard, michael cohen plead guilty to eight felony charges. >> today we announced criminal extortion charges against michael avenatti. >> today we announce the unsealing of sex trafficking charges against jeffrey epstein. >> so how does sdny work? what are they doing? i am joined by jamie nowaday, a prosecutor with that office and your first t...

How important it is for him to be able to return to his normal life after all of this is over. and we know from or reporting that that has been sort of a key factor for him from the moment that he decided he was going to cooperate with investigators and no longer have the presidents back. >> m.j. lee, thank you. jaimie, stick around. well have you back in a moment. >> republican governor scott walker signed a bill weakening the power of his democratic opponents. >> he said he is not going to cav...

Related to russia. do you think president trump is telling the truth about that? >> no. >> reporter: how does this end for donald trump? >> that sort of gets into the whole investigation right now between the special counsels office, the attorney generals office, you also have the southern district of new york. i dont want to jeopardize any of their investigations -- >> reporter: are you still cooperating? >> if they want me, im here and im willing to answer whatever additional questions that th...

Joining us now, seth waxman, a former federal prosecutor under the clinton and obama administrations. i want to get your reaction to this new backtrack by orrin hatch. >> im glad to see him do that. his initial comments were troubling, a sitting senator saying the president can act with impugnity, whether thats breaking the law or not. for him to walk that back, its not surprising. hopefully hell wait to see the evidence, when he says mr. cohen isnt a credible witness, that may or may not be tru...

The help he has provided. given the judge thats overseeing this, emmitt sullivan, the think the prosecutors are under pressure to make sure theres no doubt that flynn lied to the fbi on his own without any trickery on the part of the fbi. >> jamie, as you recall, the initial flynn sentencing memo from the special counsel team last week was pretty extensive but a lot of it was redacted. do you think well get more about what flynn told investigators in todays filing? >> i dont think well get much ...

Cohen is how he feels about president trump going from this guy, as you said, who was so loyal to his boss to now outright calling the president a liar on national television. that is pretty stunning. i thought one of the most fascinating things in the interview was michael cohen sort of acknowledging myself that they did have this abusive relationship, him and president trump. he acknowledges that the relationship started because he had real admiration for donald trump back when he wasnt presid...

Acceptance of responsibility, which is extremely powerful and important at sentencing. he wants to be very clear, yes, i lied, yes, i take responsibility for that. but the judges have to look at the nature and circumstances of the offense and the characteristics of the defendant and what was put forth in the sentencing memo are relevant to both of those. i was lulled into believing i was having a casual conversation and i lied but thats a different thing than where im sitting down with a prosecu...

Substantial assistance. let take a deep dive on this with cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez and back with us federal prosecutor jaimie nawaday. >> you would think theres not much more for mueller to say, but the last filing, which was from flynns lawyers, sort of took a walk in the woods that was kind of strange. it talked about the circumstances under which he was questioned by the fbi and raised concern as to whether or not he was duped into essentially lying to the fbi. at least tha...

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