what did what is his sflosz wh his process? i ve always said that mueller s appointment as special counsel perhaps surprisingly is both good news and bad news for trump. first the bad news he is extremely detailed, thorough, meticulous, and methodical in his approach. he s like a dog with a bone. he will leave no stone unturned in his effort to find who committed what crimes at the highest possible levels. now with that as the bad news, one might ask, well, what possible good news could there be. and the good news is that he is a person of principle. he will not go beyond a slavish devotion to where the law and the facts actually take him which means that while he ll go as far as it will take him, he will not go beyond, and of the
russia but that one russian national actually offered cohen, quote, political synergy between the kremlin and the trump campaign. cohen, who pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes this summer and was charged with one count of lying to congress by mueller s office, is set to be sentenced next week. joining me now to discuss all of this is bruce single, he worked with robert mueller in the u.s. attorney s office in boston. good morning to you, bruce. reporter: good morning. thank you very much for being with us. we re kind of going through these filings from yesterday. there s a lot of moving pieces here. you work obviously you worked with mueller and you work in this sort of work. what are what conclusions are you drawing from these this morning? the biggest conclusion is that not surprisingly mueller knows much more than we know, and much of what he knows is tantalizing in the way it s hinted at in these papers. in the cohen paper, for example, from mueller s office.
beyond what may or may not have happened in the 2016 campaign. these revolutions of mueller s filings raises questions about why paul manafort may have been lying about these contacts and who the contacts were made with. sarah sanders, the press secretary, released a statement in response to this saying that it has nothing do with the president and that the media is making up a story. pamela brown, cnn, washington. thank you. let s bring back wesley lowery and page pate. wesley, to you, a lot of the manafort document was redacted as expected. this revelation of communications or directing someone to communicate with the white house on his behalf as late as may 26th of this year, he d been indicted for months by then. what s the significance of that? certainly. we obviously like you said a lot of these documents have been redacted. there s a lot we don t know and
about contacts between people close to trump and russians during the 2016 campaign. here s senior white house correspondent pamela brown. reporter: mueller s team outlined in a heavily redacted filing how they believe and why they believe paul manafort lied in, quote, multiple ways on and on multiple occasions. manafort they say lied to the special counsel s office regarding his contact with the trump administration this year. even after his indictment he said he didn t talk to anyone in the administration or convey messages to them. mueller says that s not true. his team says manafort told a person to talk to a trump administration official this past may and had contact with administration officials including a senior administration official in february and may of this year. and so this new and damaging information for the white house comes at a time when every move by mueller appears to bring his investigation deeper into the white house and trump s inner circle. shows it has expan
directed michael cohen to commit crimes when he tried to silence women by making them payments to them during the campaign. we also learned about new contacts that russians had made to the members of the trump team including one who offered michael cohen political synergy as they were discussing the trump tower moscow project. we also learned from the filings that mueller s team laid out how the trump tower moscow project that was being pursued in 2015 and 2016 was involved with the russian meddling. the project was being discussed while russia was actively meddling in the election. prosecutors recommended a substantial jail sentence for michael cohen after his attorneys had asked for no jail time. the filing, it was a different tone than what we had gotten from michael flynn earlier who mueller said provided substantial assistance to the investigation and recommended no jail time. cohen is accused of crimes including tax frauds, campaign