Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Trumps fixer in congress and the American People can judge for themselves, because they have now heard it for themselves. He is saying it is his job and the republicans job to clear the president. And some people have said, look, this is a part san politician making a partisan speech at a fund r fundraiser and to that, what do you say . Well, america was attacked by russia. They did not attack us to just screw around or test softwar
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Yeah. I think thats a good point. On Paul Manafort, the former Trump Campaign chairman convicted yesterday on eight felony counts, bank fraud, tax fraud, stealing literally millions of dollars from american taxpayers, not reporting income on tens of millions of dollars, is there a chance hell still cooperate with the Special Counsel Paul Manafort . He has another trial coming up next month. Right. Look. If youre Paul Manafort, i mean, youre looking at possibly some serious jail time. There is an incentive. But i think what you are seeing is the president telegraphing directly to Paul Manafort, if you stay put, if you do not as he said, if you refuse to break, if you see that tweet that he he contrasts Paul Manafort with Michael Cohen its very clear that hes telegraphing to Paul Manafort that if he doesnt break with him that perhaps theres a pardon in the offing and you can see, also, by the way, Paul Manaforts legal t
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. New york saying a crime is not a crime. What is going to be next . The skys not blue . Red is not red, an apple is a banana . It is just a bizarre world. And if thats a defense and thats what theyre going to put forward we are in for a crazy ride ahead. We may already be in one. Jennifer, to you. I just had last hour on a former law school classmate, good friend of rudy giuliani. Hes a former Assistant Prosecutor in watergate. He was just with me. He said that the fact that there is not an official Cooperation Agreement, at least that we know of maybe it is under seal between Michael Cohen and muellers team in the Southern District on this suggest that maybe the Southern District and muellers team dont even need Michael Cohens testimony and that could be a problem for the white house. How do you see it . Well, it is very interesting that Michael Cohen doesnt have a Cooperation Agreement here. It means that t
everything else is noise. joining me now to discuss, our lead off panel, luke broadwater, pulitzer prize-winning congressional carol leonnig, investigative reporter with the washington post, and former u.s. attorney joyce white vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. thank you all. joyce, let s start with you. michael cohen is central to this case. do you think costello s testimony will have an impact? is cohen s credibility a problem for da brag? cohen s credibility is a central issue in this case. he s previously been convicted. he s written a book called revenge, certainly, trump s lawyers will suggest that s what he s trying to get through this testimony. the reality is, and cohen said this today on every melber show, the district attorney will have to meticulously corroborate cohen s testimony at trial. now, we re just talking about grand
is cohen s credibility a problem for da brag? g? cohen s credibility is a central issue in this case. he s previously been convicted. he s written a book called revenge, certainly, trump s lawyers will suggest that s what he s trying to get through this testimony. the reality is, and cohen said this today on every melber show, the district attorney will have to meticulously corroborate cohen s testimony at trial. now, we re just talking about grand jury proceedings, and putting costello in front of the grand jury s last-ditch effort by trump to avoid indictment, it seems unlikely that it works since the grand juries did not request to hear from michael cohen again, after hearing from costello, to indict the have to find there is probable cause to believe that crimes were committed. that is a relatively low threshold for them to reach. just to be clear, joyce, in