Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Federal prosecutors in new york have accused the president of criminal violation of the federal Campaign Laws. They say trump directed thats the word Michael Cohen to cover up a Campaign Contribution in the form of payments with two women with whom he had sexual relations. This comes from the Southern District of new york, not Robert Mueller, not the socalled 17 democrats the president says are working against him, not the deep state, not from a witch hunt. Its from one of the two Sentencing Memos filed in the case of trumps former lawyer, Michael Cohen, today, which are shedding new light on the president s potential legal exposure. As trumps longtime fixer, cohen pleaded guilty in august to Campaign Finance violations and making hush payments to two women on trumps behalf. And now, tonights Sentencing Memo makes clear that with respect to both payments, cohen acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual
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america, joins me live. your boss has come to our committee. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. michael flynn s sentencing hearing was supposed to be a routine procedure today in a d.c. federal court. it was not. that leaves a lot of questions that should be unnerving to stay the least to the white house. it s been just over a year since flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to fbi agents. the special counsel s team said in a recent filing he has been very cooperative and as such recommended he serve no jail time. but in their sentencing filing, flynn s own lawyers seem to suggest he d actually been duped by the fbi. an accusation that trump tv and the president both ran with. this might be part of the worst part of flynn s political persecution, the agents areir interviewing flynn they never se thought he lied. that is such a miscarriage of justice and an abuse of power corruption scandal, one of the biggest in american history
what flynn has done. then, russian roulette author michael izakoff on why the president was tweeting favorably. plus, the trump foundation shuts down following a shocking pattern of illegality . first of all, the tear gas is a very minor form of tear gas. the congresswoman who helped this family make it into america, joins me live. your boss has come to our committee. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. michael flynn s sentencing hearing was supposed to be a routine procedure today in a d.c. federal court. it was not. that leaves a lot of questions that should be unnerving to stay the least to the white house. it s been just over a year since flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to fbi agents. the special counsel s team said in a recent filing he has been very cooperative and as such recommended he serve no jail time. but in their sentencing filing, flynn s own lawyers seem to
focus and his focus was on that russia meeting for trump tower in moscow. it means that weiselberg will be able to confirm all of the financial transactions related to that. and you add on top of that, flynn, the special counsel has been jumping up and down about the level of cooperation. remember, he had his own russian ties going in 15 and 16. you start adding that together. i think that s the pot that s getting ready to boil over. what that means for the president i m not sure, but i think it s pretty serious. we could learn more about michael flynn later today as the prosecutors will be responding in their sentencing filing. who knows what could come out or very little considering what we have seen depending on the day. i want to play what michael cohen says about who he says is the liar here in all of this. he knows the truth. i know the truth. others know the truth. and here s the truth. the people of the united states
power from the incoming democratic governor and blocking him from enacting campaign promises. wolf blitzer is off today. i m brianna keilar. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. breaking news this hour. special counsel robert mueller s team slamming a suggestion in michael flynn s sentencing filing that the former national security adviser lied to fbi agents because he was caught off guard. the new mueller filing just released as i say flynn was, quote, committed to his false story and had already spread the lie about his contact with the russian ambassador to other top members of the trump administration. i ll talk about that and much more with congresswoman jackie speier of the intelligence committee and our correspondents, analysts and specialists with full coverage of the day s top stories. let s get more on this breaking news with cnn political correspondent sara murray and crime and justice reporter