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>> hire, everyone. its 4:00 in new york on a very busy day of news and more details on what promises to be a blockbuster hearing on the january 6 hearing and well have much more on that. we begin with the verdict in the alex jones trial where a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to the family members of the sandy hook victims, people who suffered from the lines that alex jones started spreading hours after the massacre. harry lipman joins us, a former u.s. attorney and ...

Point, Michael Cohen had a light bulb go off, and in recent times, tried to behave a little bit better and maybe thats whats reflected in the kinder document thats been filed by the Special Counsel. All right. Thanks so much. Our cnn coverage continues right now. This is cnn breaking news. Im wolf blitzer. We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Were following breaking news. We have just received two major filings involving the former trump lawyer, Michael Cohen. One fr...

Of michael cohen scheduled for september 12th, 2018. on november 29th, cohen pled guilty to one count of making false statements to congress. the government does not take a position with a particular sentence to be imposed but admits it is appropriate for any amount of incarceration to be served concurrently to any sentence imposed by the court in united states versus cohen. so, again, what that means is if cohen is going to get any prison time for the other felonies that he plead to with prosec...

False statements to congress. the government does not take a position with a particular sentence to be imposed but admits it is appropriate for any amount of incarceration to be served concurrently to any sentence imposed by the court in united states versus cohen. so, again, what that means is if cohen is going to get any prison time for the other felonies that he plead to with prosecutors from the southern district of new york, thats fine, but dont make this additional time, not for us. they g...

Lying to congress about the trump tower moscow project. and so essentially what theyre saying here is yes we got him to plead guilty to an additional felony, but we dont think that that should give him any additional jail time. so this is from the filing. quote, special counsels office provides this memorandum in connection with the sentencing of michael cohen scheduled for september 12th, 2018. on november 9th cohen plead guilty of one count of making false statements to congress. the governmen...

That we have been talking about for many months now. and the sentencing guidelines are zero to six months. so on the one hand, it seems like the mueller team was sort of happier with how michael cohen interacted with them. on the other hand, the mitigation that michael cohen was trying to engage in with respect to a sentence is not as -- is not as needed, because the seriousness of the crime to which he pled guilty on the mueller side is just not as significant. he wasnt going to get much jail t...