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Questions and listening to what he has to say. and over time, you know, they would make a decision about whether he had information that was useful. and if so, then he would -- they would negotiate what's calle a cooperation agreement, which is a plea agreement that also gives basically a promise that down the road, the government is going to make the judge know and write the judge a lett it's called a 5 k 1 letter that lets the judge know about his cooperation. so it's not necessarily negotiating a particular sentence or sort of cutting him a deal. it depends on what the crimes are that he wo...

Instead they will bear some criminal liability for their actions. but most often it will be a 5 k 1 motion or a motion at sentencing for substantial cooperation. it's not a get out of jail free card. most of the time cooperating witnesses are serving some penalty ultimately. >> let me ask you about this point brought up by alan der sh wits. he laid out two different outcomes to the cohen investigation. >> prosecutors have enormous weapons at their disposal. they can threaten him essential with life imprisonment. they can threaten his parents, they can threaten his spouse. they have enormous ab...

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