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Film actress shortly before an election. >> shepard: how much trouble, based on the reporting that we have, is this david pecker flip on donald trump? >> i think this is -- this reveals that cohen really had no leverage. so everyone was trying to figure out what happened with cohen. he had no leverage. theres no operation there. they thought this guy was a prize witness, you have had a different deal. i spoke to lanny davis, cohens lawyer. lanny has been foreshadowing that theres more to come th...

Investigation into the trump foundation. it comes after cohens attorney claimed his client had information that federal and state investigators would like to know. the attorney general of new york is currently suing the trump foundation claiming donald trump illegally used his foundation to settle legal disputes, help his campaign for president, and pay for personal and business expenses. when the lawsuit was announced in june the president vowed not to settle the case. the current investigation...

Saying anything at all like mitch mcconnell. they are worried this could come out theyre not immediately defending the president or defending anything hes surrounded himself with. that could eventually turn on them. as soon as the voters turn on the president, the republicans on capitol hill will turn on the president, too. >> all they care about is -- >> the republicans on capitol hill keep getting surprised by the news. surprised by whats happening in court and dont trust what theyre hearing f...

The case against a former president, donald trump, on this campaign finance violation? >> well, they would make the case the way they always make the case. its going to be a paper trail case. and in this case, as you suggested, john, theyre going to have lots and lots of paper because they raided his office and they have been able to access any bank documents as we know, they dont have any search or privilege over that. so they have plenty of evidence to bring against him. the other thing to kee...

Sdny wont bring charges but i think its interesting that thats only the sdny or the tax division. it doesnt include the doj or the special counsel here. >> thats the leverage they have in their tool kit. the commentary is correct that the usual course in terms of procedurally you would enter the cooperation agreement. however that by no means means a cooperation agreement is excluded. some of you have gone so far to think that theres an agreement under seal. i dont tend to agree with that but th...

Mr. manafort, saying, i made my case, you are going to be convicted here, you have been convicted, and im going to put the squeeze on you, you better caught something up on donald or im going to actually -- is that is what is going on? >> muellers team has been putting the squeeze on manafort for many, many months now, and he hasnt caved. i suppose the pressure will continue although at this point, manafort has lost a lot of the leverage that he had at the outset, given that he stands criminally...

Case, you are going to be convicted here, you have been convicted, and im going to put the squeeze on you, you better cough something up on donald trump or im going to actually -- is that what is going on? >> muellers team has been putting the squeeze on manafort for many, many months now, and he hasnt caved. i suppose the pressure will continue although at this point, manafort has lost a lot of the leverage that he had at the outset, given that he stands criminally convicted for a that says, it...

I think that theres been plenty of time for him to cooperate. theres no question that the debriefings are extensive but he wouldnt plead guilty if he was going to cooperate in my view because a defendant loses leverage doing that. the prosecutor want him to plead guilty and then when he does, thats kind of where the defendant loses a little bit of the grip there. if this is a plea agreement, straight plea agreement, no cooperation, i think its unlikely then that michael cohen ends up cooperating...

Chairman schiff, thats when you see the democrats having additional leverage they dont have now. right now theyre relying on people, like senator graham, to do the right thing in their view, whereas if they have committee control, thaw cey can whatever they want. >> you are a former attorney general in new jersey. when the fbi and the u.s. attorney, the prosecutors raided michael cohens home, his office, his hotel room, his safe deposit box months ago, it was a pretty extraordinary move. the att...

With respect to manafort was in order to gain leverage on charges unrelated to the election. thats part of how he was able to compel rick gates to cooperate and one of the open questions raised from this trial is why did manafort offer his services to the trump campaign for free at a time when his firm was reporting losses in tens of thousands of dollars for a month. was there a quid pro quo there? we dont yet know. the investigation with respect to potential collusion between the trump campaign...