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Things that are of value to the government. you know, the government would be obviously leery of still cooperating with someone whos lied, but he has enough also truth-telling on his side on the mueller side, and theres specific mechanisms in the criminal, federal criminal rules that allow for a defendant to get cooperation credit after being sentenced. so, i think the opportunitys still there. >> mimi, youve been great all night tonight. ive been watching you all night. thank you for helping al...

Tax fraud concerning the taxi medallions but payments to two of the alleged mistresses of then candidate trump and the campaign violations around that, that defectly implicate the president, and then -- directly implicate the president, and then on the mueller side, the discussions taking place between cohen and various russians close to the kremlin, thinking about doing a financial deal, a real estate deal, in moscow, during the campaign, and how he lied about that to congress. so there is a lo...

Be cleary of still cooperating someone whose lied, but he has enough truth telling on his side on the mueller side. and there are specific mechanisms in the federal criminal rules that allow for a defendant to get cooperation credit after being sentenced. so i think the opportunity is still there. >> mimi, youve been great all night tonight. ive been watching you all night. >> thank you. >> and julia ainsley, of course. you guys are the pros. and ken and barbara. stick with us. tonights highly d...

That we have been talking about for many months now. and the sentencing guidelines are zero to six months. so on the one hand, it seems like the mueller team was sort of happier with how michael cohen interacted with them. on the other hand, the mitigation that michael cohen was trying to engage in with respect to a sentence is not as -- is not as needed, because the seriousness of the crime to which he pled guilty on the mueller side is just not as significant. he wasnt going to get much jail t...

Come out, not one and then the other. >> and more important than the president is what he owes the american people. >> yeah. >> i agreed. >> and thats a full disclosure of whats in the report and the attorney general of the acting or whatever -- >> it should all come out. >> -- should not and cannot hold anything back -- >> unless its something of national security -- >> no, let us decide whether theres something that is sensitive -- >> the medias not making that call. >> thank god for the leaks...

An important point. theyre going to control the process. the mandate to the special counsel only assumes that when theyre done, they give a report to the attorney general or the acting attorney general, the deputy attorney general at that time -- >> whatever. >> -- whos overseeing the probe, but not to the american people. and if the president wants to put out a rebuttal, thats fine, but theyd better not taking out any of the things in the mueller report. >> i think its important, and a lot of f...

Welcome back. rudy guiliani telling cnn that president trump would consider any followup questions on possible russian collusion after the presidents admitted written answers to the special counsel, robert mueller yesterday. guiliani cautioned that any questions about obstruction would likely go unanswered, arguing that the president is protected by executive privilege. alex, does this mean that the mueller probe is coming to an end without that long-discussed presidential sitdown interview? >> ...

In mueller probe tonight. reports about how guilty trump campaign aids rick gates is giving up information and trump lawyers busting out a new argument about why not only some collusion is okay but protect bid the instituticonstitution. gates is still talking to mueller to this day. hes visits his office numerous times for months. we didnt know that. these are intelligence meetings to get new leads and mueller, not known for going easy, it looks like hes happy with what hes getting from gates be...

Close to it on the mueller side. when are we going to see either a conclusion to the investigation or charges that have something to do with the russian collusion, not other matters. the manafort prosecutions, for example, nothing to do with the trump campaign, nothing to do with russian collusion. >> harris: whats interesting about what youre saying, i had forgotten, werent there like five or six simultaneous investigations going on in all of this? mueller isnt the only thing in town but nothin...

Cooperating on may 22nd. that also tells us that hey, the mueller investigation had an active cooperating witness working with them for more than the past three months and none of us had any idea about it. mueller side of this doesnt leak. if you were hoping to get juicy leaks out of the special counsels office, nobody is getting it. otherwise we would have mattered sam patten was a cooperator and due to be charged someday. the prosecutors say that sam patten lied to and obstructed the senate in...