carter page for alleged connections to russia and october 19th and 20th more installments of the dossier zeroed in on allegations against paul manafort. these strands may give the president more fodder to charge that he believes will collusion involve the campaign to stop him, not the trump campaign. shannon: the special prosecutor team prosecuting paul manafort taking a stand against the judge, ts ellis iii complaining the judge unfairly admonished them in front of the jerry. peter doocy, the latest fireworks. the judge, mueller s guys mentioned the case and the judges complaint to have bad manners saying yes, he has been
critical of the way they tried to introduce certain exhibits. yesterday there was a witness who before they took the stand was sitting in the courtroom, press and family members, the judge dressed down special counsel, and they are not supposed to look. the judge never told the special counsel that, and what they see as bad treatment from the judge, it is a mist
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box with maybe trump junior and several other people. you re using a fancy word as you often do, inculpates for makes them look really suspicious and guilty. glenn, let me play for you the way mr. credico tried to limit his exposure to other people that could figure in as subjects or targets. this was on the subject of mr. roger stone. take a look. and you re in there as an associate, i m not implying anything negative about you, but as a known associate of roger stone and julian assange. don t say associating of stone. i know stone. what word would you use? someone that has worked with stone before but not an associate. a former colleague? no. i ve worked on a campaign or two with roger stone in the past. 16 years i ve known the guy. it sounds like you re going up from associate, not down. glenn? so, ari, let me say something that you might not hear a lot of peopl
reminder, don t miss full circle on facebook. you get to pick some of the stories we cover. you can see it week nights at 6:25 p.m. eastern on facebook.com/anderson cooper full circle. the news continues on this very busy tuesday night. i m going to hand it over to chris. cuomo prime time starts now. thank you. i am chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. we have new information and key players for you in the big breaking story. michael cohen says a candidate for federal office, aka the president, directed him to commit felonies. those hush money payments to women before the election, cohen says they were made at the direction of trump himself, and they were crimes. this is uncharted territory. a president directly implicated in criminal behavior in open court by his lawyer. we re going to have cohen s counsel joining us for what lies ahead. and what does this exposure mean for the president going forward? that s where michael avenatti,
the lawyer for stormy daniels, one of the
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we played that clip of donald trump call thing an attack on the nation. cohen, interestingly in interviews with george stephanopoulos and others, said the fbi was very courteous and respectful. he did not describe the raids on his home and offices as an attack on the nation. does that seem to be more that he softened on his stance against the fbi? he seems to. i recall him saying he would take a bullet for the president. maybe that s going into court and pleading guilty. but the pardon itself is a political calculation. i m not very good at that. i don t know whether he s a candidate or not. but at this point, with what he has in front of him, what he did and what he knows, he seems like he s taking the smart path, the one where he admits his guilt, sort of takes his medicine, and hopes the court will give him some consideration for that. joyce, when you look at what lanny davis, michae
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very troublesome for the president here. the fact is if president trump were president right now, he could be indicted for these campaign finance violations, couldn t he? absolutely. when you look at the way the prosecutors have described it, when you look at the way michael cohen described it in court, these documents, it s criminal information, so it s essentially laying everything out. if this was an indictment and trump, donald trump was not the president, we could be looking at an indictment against the president. we could also, you know, if this was an indictment, look at this as the president being an unindicted co-conspirator. think of that, and certainly, the ramifications of that. it s really serious here. we ll see what happens from here. the other thing in these documents that the prosecutors have talked about was that michael cohen, and we don t know who these people are,
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me late one night, to hit the reset button on his life and liz previous loyalty to such a man that he considered especially after helsinki to be a danger to our country. as president of the united states. so do you know what giuliani has been saying? he s a liar, this is nothing more than a series of lies, he s a liar, liar, liar, liar. what do you say to that? the man who said truth is not truth. the man who takes away any dispute of fact that donald trump committed a crime when he directed my client, michael cohen to pay the money to miss daniels. it was rudy giuliani who broke the attorney/client privilege, contradicted president trump s lie on air force one who said,
mr. trump reimbursed michael cohen for the advance money paid to miss daniels to keep her quiet. that is rudy giuliani saying that donald trump knew, directed and paid michael cohen. there is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president in the government charges against mr.
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as part of his plea deal he agreed to cooperate with mueller s investigation, and then there s dutch lawyer alex van der zwaan who pled guilty to lying to investigators about his discussions with gates. he served 30 days in prison and was deported to the netherlands in june. richard pinedo pled guilty to election fraud running a business selling dummy bank accounts to shadowy buyers including russians to sew discord in american politics. his lawyer said he didn t know the identity of his customers. he cooperated with mueller s investigation as well. fired trump national security adviser michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with former russian ambassador to the u.s. ambassador sergey kislyak and he s been cooperating with the special counsel investigation. his sentencing hearing was delayed for the fourth time today. former trump campaign adviser george papadopoulos pled guilty to making a fals
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prosecutors. there s no reason why they would have entered into this plea agreement that they did were he not cooperating. michael cohen has a lot of information. so you don t need a cooperation deal to be cooperating? exactly. i think that point that you just made is critical. you don t have to have it in writing in the documents in order to have an agreement in place. i m highly confident in fact, i know michael cohen s been providing information. prosecutors in sdny are expecting him to continue to cooperate because if he doesn t, they have the ultimate hammer, and that is at the sentencing stage, which for michael cohen is going to take place in december, they can ask for either an upward departure or the maximum. they have a significant hammer in their toolbox in the event michael cohen does not cooperate. same with manafort? same with manafort. but let me say this. you know, it s o
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bookminder, executive director for citizens for responsibilities and ethics. and midwin charles is an attorney. president trump reacted to cohen s plea this morning on twitter where he writes if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest you that don t retain the services of michael cohen. okay. let s remind our audience, the president is downplaying this. being funny, almost cute. there s nothing cute about it. the president of the united states is the chief law enforcement officer. that is what he is. and yesterday, he has been accused as a co-conspirator of a federal crime, maybe multiple. so, please, let that sit in. midwin what is your take here? my take is this is consistent with donald trump. we have seen him react this way to a varietydifferent thinks
even when accused of sexual assault by women. now, what is shocking that i think all of us need to recognize on august 21st, 2018, t
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an admitted liar and is lying now to help the government. it doesn t behoove him to lie. it would hurt him. if he said this was done at the president s direction he better have proof, and if he doesn t, they say it in the plea agreement, the allocution, when the judge tells you, you know, the deal right before sentencing, if you want to say anything, he took that opportunity. if he s lying he s dying in terms what have this deal means. we both know michael cohen from the campaign and just from being a character, a person here in new york. again, this is a total 180 for him. i cannot wait to hear him speak. i cannot wait to hear his side of the story. boy, is that going to be amazing. i can t wait to seat proof. lanny davis just said, i said do you think he knows more things about wrongdoing by the president or even any potential criminal behave i don t remember and he said yes, and he said we ll see what happens. he wants to tell the truth but, y