The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Meeting with Labor Leaders this afternoon in the Roosevelt Room outside of the oval office when this story was breaking. No statement of any kind from the white house. Hes scheduled to leave here at about 4 00 to head to a rally in West Virginia in support of patrick morsi. The president usually doesnt hold back in these rallies. He may speak to reporters as he leaves the white house. White house not reacting to plea deal from a Top Associate in Michael Cohen but the fact that Paul Manafort jury could come back at any moment. President connected to all of these but so far not commenting. Let me turn to my four brilliant people sitting to my right. You have been out front in this cohen reporting. Hes going to plead guilty to x, y, and z. What will you be listening for . I think this is really going to be something to listen to because the judge is going to say to cohen i want to hear in your own words what crime you committ
the judge is going to want to make sure he hears from michael cohen himself. absolutely. he s not going to hear through the lawyer. he s going to ask cohen, the defendant, what did you do and he has to through his admissions indicate to the judge that he committed the crime he s pleading guilty with and only then does the court accept the plea. on the issue of sentencing, that s not going to happen. you won t see a commitment from the court on that today. that will get put off to a future type after more reports are done on cohen s background for the court. jennifer, over to you. as a former federal prosecutor, how big of a day is this? it s a huge day. i mean, if you take michael cohen on one hand and paul manafort jury reaching agreement on most of the counts, it s an enormous day. there s a lot to be said about it. i don t want to count my chickens on the manafort side, but to me this is a huge day for
daniels. i do think you re right. when you look at this, you can t look at it as a singular event. we can t look at the 4:00 event with michael cohen in solitude. you have to look at what s going on all around us right now. you have paul manafort, the campaign chairman for president trump, the man with him for four and a half months and got him through a difficult time during the convention, you have him facing 18 counts in virginia. you have president trump s personal lawyer right now copping a plea right now within the next 45 minutes up in new york. that has got to cause some concern and raise some red flags even amongst supporters of president trump. unfortunately i don t think we ll see those red flags. but this really is a moment in history i think that we ll look back on and it will be a very dark day.
meeting with labor leaders this afternoon in the roosevelt room outside of the oval office when this story was breaking. no statement of any kind from the white house. he s scheduled to leave here at about 4:00 to head to a rally in west virginia in support of patrick morsi. the president usually doesn t hold back in these rallies. he may speak to reporters as he leaves the white house. white house not reacting to plea deal from a top associate in michael cohen but the fact that paul manafort jury could come back at any moment. president connected to all of these but so far not commenting. let me turn to my four brilliant people sitting to my right. you have been out front in this cohen reporting. he s going to plead guilty to x, y, and z. what will you be listening for?
needless to say, again, this will be a very, very sobering experience for cohen. we were just talking to our reporter camped out outside of that federal courthouse in alexandria on the trial of paul manafort. that s happening in one orbit down in virginia and then here in new york you have what you just described involving michael cohen, two former fixtures in trump s world. just how extraordinary is it that these two stories are colliding at the very same time? it is extraordinary. and, of course, we should all be reminded that neither the manafort charges nor the cohen charges are aimed at the president or others in the president s inner circle themselves specifically. it is an incredible confluence