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Like with the prosecutor with cooperating witness on stand at trial. the democrats will be focussing on the crimes he committed. so the first place i would go if i was on that panel is look at the campaign finance crimes, the hush money payments. who else was involved in that? cohen said he did that for and at the direction of the president. there were people inside the trump organization according to cohens plea document whose were involved in that, execute one and executive two of the trump or...

Public. obviously, that didnt happen. we saw from the flynn document it was heavily redacted. anything that touched on the investigation was blacked out. one way to read that is that robert mueller feels confident in his situation. he doesnt see anything impeedig his investigation. another theory is mueller has realized it makes sense to hold everything close. we as saw we the michael cohen plea document which had a lot of information in it, what did trump do? he attacked cohen on twitter. in th...

Specifically, cohen has confessed to lying in august of last year about the real estate project that was he was pursuing in moscow on trumps behalf while trump was a candidate for president. identifying the president as individual one in his plea document, cohens hearing today marks the first time the president of the united states has been named in open court in connection with muellers investigation. the documents reveal that cohen testified falsely when he said he only discussed the real esta...

Statement statements@oughts. pay are all over the map. >> what this adds to is russia was all over this campaign. even before this plea document, there are so many documented instances of members of this campaign interacting, communicating, talking, coordinating with russian government officials or surrogates in some way, whether it was supposedly on a diplomatic issue or potentially finding out information about hacking activities to assist the campaign and now it was with respect to the privat...

>> the new cnn reporting that president trumps son-in-law, jared kushner, obviously was directing flynn to contact the russian ambassador, im wondering your reaction to that? it runs count tore what the white house has been saying, that michael flynn was more of a freelancer. and the other question is, does jared -- did jared kushner take his orders from the president directly? >> thats a key question, anderson, because clearly from the special prosecutors statement of the offense, his formal ch...

It could have been any one of a number of people. all very high up who are now in jeopardy and who will also have information that if they are called upon to choose between going to jail and testifying, may testify and give us even more evidence to sort of draw the final loop around the white house. >> chuck, it does seem notable that mueller included in that plea document, that he was directed to do this by a senior administration official. theres a little bit of contradictory reports about who...

The special prosecutors statement of the offense, his formal charging and plea document, michael flynn was reporting, he was accountable, and he was directed by senior officials in the transition. one of them apparently jared kushner, the other possibly katey mcfarland. no questions that the transition people was involved. so your question is not only directly relevant to jared kushner, but also to vice president michael pence, because he was very closely involved in the transition team, and tha...

Number of people. all very high up who are now in jeopardy and who will also have information that if they are called upon to choose between going to jail and testifying, may testify and give us even more evidence to sort of draw the final loop around the white house. >> chuck, it does seem notable that mueller included in that plea document, that he was directed to do this by a senior administration official. theres a little bit of contradictory reports about who that is that directed to make t...

Have called the fbi but thats not what happened here. >> or wouldnt have been in the meeting to begin with, when is part of the problem they have now. ken dilanian, thanks for great reporting. senator richard blumenthal, member of that same judiciary committee that has oversight of the department of justice where jeff sessions is the attorney general. does jeff sessions have a credibility problem? >> enormous credibility problem. he has to come back to the judiciary committee. ive written him ...

Jennifer, we should note that whats described in that plea document is not papadopoulos saying, you know, we can collude with the russians on something untoward. so it doesnt, you know, in and of itself show sessions to be lying or not realizicalling. but it puts sessions in some peril, dont you think? >> it does. people associated with the campaign making contact with the russians, that would surely encompass somebody trying to set up a secret meeting between putin and the president. then when ...