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To give a factual basis for why youre guilty. so one could argue, i dont think this is right, and im sure giuliani and others have been arguing this. that it was a gratuitous slap by someone who has been left behind and now has an ax to grind with the president, to throw this in in open court under oath. it still is the case, he said it. >> would prosecutors have accepted this agreement if they didnt believe michael cohen? >> i think if prosecutors thought he was lying about that aspect of why h...

>> right. and its not -- it doesnt even require an impeachment investigation. remember, congress has very broad jurisdiction to investigate whatever they want. they could be investigating campaign fninance violations. congress has the power to give immunity to people that they want, who are citing their fifth amendment rights. congress generally refrains from doing so if its going to interfere with a criminal investigation. but here, that criminal investigation is over. theres no risk of a case ...

There are a lot more lies that michael cohen told that are going to unravel over the coming weeks and months, i would suspect. >> senator santorum, appreciate it, jen psaki, jeff toobin as well. >> as we touched on a bit while michael cohen was entering guilty pleas, the jury in the paul manafort trial came back with its verdict. well walk you through what happened in that case. its a burrito filled with plants pretending to be meat. here we see the artist making an attempt to bare his soul. its...

These actions without the permission and the direction of the president. you could make a case. im just saying i dont know how much direct hard evidence there is to corroborate. >> not regarding stormy daniels. theres audiotape regarding the karen mcdougal situation in which donald trump and michael cohen, i dont know if conspiring is the right word, but they seem to be talking about and discussing the details of buying the rights to her story from ami. why they would be -- not like trump magazi...

Add one more thing. hes looking at two more prospects. mueller has to decide whether he wants to retry him on the ten counts in which the jury hung. and theres an entirely separate trial with different crimes that is supposed to start in september in washington, d.c. so manaforts ordeal is not over, and the question of whether he pleads guilty now is even more pressing, i think, because why he would want to go through this again is a mystery to me. >> the president did say hes a good person, a g...

But what does it say about your judgment that these are the people you choose to surround yourself with? >> i dont think it says anything good. >> well, first off, number one, general flynn was -- is not a smarmy character. general flynn served this country terrifically as a military officer. >> but he did lie to a federal investigator. >> you know, he made a mistake, and he committed a crime, and he took the hit for it. but to suggest that thats a bad guy to surround yourself with, i think is o...

With its verdict. well walk you through what happened in that case. this is not a bed.

Now the president seems to be pointing out, oh, he used to work for reagan and bob dole, too. im one in a long line of republicans he worked for. hes saying it has nothing to do with russia. it does ignore the fact that manafort at the convention, they did change the platform to be more russia friendly. >> i mean, completely. and its important to remember that this has been a huge part of muellers investigation, the manafort case. so the president is now distancing himself from it. hes always mi...

Perhaps even before watergate that a federal criminal guilty plea has taken place. and the guilty person has said i committed this crime with and for the president of the united states. if this were any other person, given the evidence that was presented in court today, it seems to me a virtual certainty that donald trump would have been indicted and charged, too. remember, who benefitted from this campaign fnls violation? it wasnt michael cohen. the beneficiary was, according to michael cohen, ...

President of, is a serious difference from what we have seen, where we were just even a couple days ago. >> i want to pick this up after the break. want to get a quick break in. >> also tonight, the other big case today, the conviction of paul manafort, the other guy the president suggests he never knew, also known as the man who ran his campaign. that and more ahead on the program. mom: okay we need to get all your school supplies today. school... grade... done. done. hit the snooze button and ...