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Getting away from a prison van, jumping into the van with the motor running, driving away in handcuffs. ramming another policear getting away. officials say there was a firearm in the van. and he should be considered armed and dangerous. today, his fiancee is pleading for him to turn himself in. a heartbreaking new revelation about the massacre in thousand oaks, california. just last month, 12 people were killed, including officer ron helus. weve now learned the attacker shot him five times, b...

Cohen as a witness and obviously paul manafort is not anybody who can be used as a witness. so two key people who could have been witnesses against donald trump have serious baggage and are probably unusable by robert mueller. >> even in muellers pleading they specify that cohens first impulse was to lie to them. and so he didnt start telling the truth until the second round of their discussions. thank you for helping us start this off tonight. everyone else is going to stay with us. were going ...

Nothing it do with russia, he did want know anybody who worked for him who had any contacts with russians. but, you know, again, that said, you know, a lot -- a lot of -- you know, michael cohen -- if robert mueller was looking for a witness, a john dean to testify against the president, hes going to have a hard time with michael cohen especially reading that southern district memo which says he wasnt even forthcoming after he agreed to cooperate and wouldnt testify, wouldnt give them informatio...

Want answered today. >> i would love to see more about what michael cohen has told the special counsel relating to russia. i think thats the key and core of all of this. unfortunately based on what we saw on wednesday, i think chances are pretty good that much of anything thats really new will be redacted at least for now, but no doubt he has provided information. the fact he pleaded guilty about the trump tower moscow suggests to me theres more to that story than that piece of it. to be a crime...

Impression? >> if he makes a good point. typically when a prosecutor wants to do is if somebody is pleading who participated in the most serious crime, that is the crime that you want to charge. if youre trying to prove for example tesco if you believe that the presidents enter circle is criminally polluted with the russian government and you have somebody that you caught doing that, you would want to make him plead to that. you may let template to a conspiracy charge which has a five year cap, ...

Why -- >> thats an interesting booking right now. thats all we will say. >> hes accused -- >> mueller is helping create crimes because people in the presidents orbit lied to him. joining us now we have michael isikoff also former assistant director of the fbis counterintelligence division, frank figlu sfwlchlt i. where do we stand right now? how suggest was the pleading last night? >> so the key take a ways here is the phrase substantial cooperation, what were hearing from mueller. mueller is no...

Asking roger stone to give witness that he somehow or another notified the president of something that went on with wikileaks. and roger knows that he never did that. so, he will not state that if hes asked. hes not going to be the source of that kind of information, because being that source would mean that hes lying -- >> but nobodys asking him to lie. >> like jerry corsi was asked to lie. >> there is an assumption that people are asking him to say some things that are untrue. whos asking him ...

Anyone on that campaign as it related to work that they did on that campaign. it hasnt happened. >> norm, final word. >> michael cohen set up in court and he said the president, the senior person in charge of the campaign, ordered him to violate federal campaign finance laws! >> i just listened to -- >> thats a crime by the president and the campaign, jim. >> -- anderson cooper. i just listened to anderson cooper, of all people, just say michael cohen, what he said today is all over the place. >...

The things he said to date have been all over the place. so, to say that what michael cohen says is gospel is just irresponse -- >> well have plenty more time to discuss this. distinguish what michael cohen has only said versus what this special counsel has been able to corroborate. and the reason that he said, in the pleading that he put his name on, robert mueller, that they believe cohen to be credible about what he said about the timing of the russia deal because they had documentary evidenc...

Witness that he somehow or another notified the president of something that went on with wikileaks. and roger knows that he never did that. so, he will not state that if hes asked. hes not going to be the source of that kind of information, because being that source would mean that hes lying -- >> but nobodys asking him to lie. >> like jerry corsi was asked to lie. >> there is an assumption that people are asking him to say some things that are untrue. whos asking him to do is that? who asked co...