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And he indicated in that pleading that he believes that michael cohen has been truthful and helpful to the investigation. that was a significant signal on the part of the special counsel. >> yeah. >> and yeah. >> today, i think the important thing here is that few people i thistle it can doubt now on the basis of what michael cohen has said that donald trump was untruthful about his relationship with russia and his dealings with russia throughout the campaign. during a period of time when he was...

Plead are going to be protracted trials, probably. don, one of the other things to pick up on what jack was saying how careful this guy is, mueller, he seems to have documentary evidence behind every charge he makes. we saw that in the corsi draft material. we saw that today in the cohen pleading. and its been consistent throughout. so hesable powerful stuff. >> two of quick points. one he may also have tapes. and two, he still has to clothes this julian assange link. >> okay. >> i got to run. t...

The court yesterday and michael cohens pleading, do you think that the presidents family is in trouble now, legal trouble? >> well, if i was the lawyer for donald trump jr., i would be very concerned. if you asked me a few days ago would i be worried about donald trump jr. being charged, one thing i would have said is, well, his biggest liability thats obvious is potentially lying to congress. and its not clear to me that that will really be charged or whether mueller would see that as within hi...

That? in new jersey, virginia, new york, california. states controlled by the democratic party. and the presidents pardon power does not extend to state crimes. so if the president were to pardon him tomorrow he would be indict and arrested immediately in furtherance of the prosecution for any of the four states. >> harris: that is a question we had this afternoon. would the state goes after him. im curious. do we think he lied or do we know or is it a situation of resist? those are two differen...

Itself. >> we shouldnt normalize it. >> joint defense agreements happen. innocent people, guilty people sometimes. thats a thing that exists all the time and is okay. to your point, to joyces point this is not normal. its not because theres a joint defense agreement. put that aside for a moment. its because of the underlying conduct. >> joyce, when we -- just to tie a bow all around this. what were talking about here is a major guilty plea by a witness saying he lied to the senate under oath. he...

>> reporter: cohen here is basically being busted for lying to congress, and hes identified as individual 1, donald trump. so were seeing basically some of the strongest links in a -- basically a pleading, which is different than allegations. sometimes we cover these things, we say this is what mueller alleges. here you have cohen admitting to it, which is what makes this one of the most significant advancements weve seen on the russian side of this investigation. i think some brief highlights h...

And agreeing to cooperate with the special counsel. specifically, what hes pleading to lying about is this development to build a trump tower in moscow, which was hidden from the voters while donald trump was running for president. while the campaign was going on, michael cohen and a man named felix sader, a convicted fel n, were trying to build this tower and enlisting the help of the moscow government. and they said something flippant like trump can become president and putin will help us. tru...

Hunt. thank you, all. this very busy hour. stay with us on twitter. @mitchellreports. heres stephanie for "velshi and ruehl." what an hour, starting with you at 9:00. >> what an hour. what a day. stunning. good afternoon, everyone. my partner ali velshi picked quite a day to be on assignment. it is thursday, november 29. lets get smarter. >> president trumps former longtime perm attorney michael cohen admitting he made false statements to congress about the russia investigation. >> this is diffe...

Can about wikileaks over there in the u.k. i guess he thought corsi had some kind of access. at first, according to the u.s. government in these draft filings, corsi denied it. stone never contacted me, i never did anything with the request, i dont know what youre talking about. all right. new documents that cnn has show that corsi did get the message from roger stone, did pass it along to someone called an overseas individual. thats how this person is identified in the draft pleading. and that ...

Request, i dont know what youre talking about. all right. new documents that cnn has show that corsi did get the message from roger stone, did pass it along to someone called an overseas individual. thats how this person is identified in the draft pleading. and that he led roger stone to believe that this person went to julian assange. how do they know? they say they have records. now, one of the reasons that corsi has some trouble is that corsi deleted a lot of communications that cover this pe...