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Spokesmen for vladimir putin trying to get a deal, and he has told us previously that that had gone nowhere. so now we're learning that some of these statements that cohen had made were not true. we don't know the details of that yet, but it is likely playing out in court right now as cohen is pleading guilty. he already pleaded guilty in august to other offenses. that time he implicated the president. >> stay with us on this because we're just getting these alerts out of our colleague in the courtroom. and significant what she is reporting is that michael cohen is now saying that he had discu...

Mueller's theory on collusion is starting to come into focus. >> the road map appears to run through jared corey and perhaps through roger stone and through julian asange and perhaps through the president of ecuador. perhaps paul manafort in an effort to -- this is bob mueller's theory, not mine, show a secure route of communication between russian hackers getting into the dnc and the hillary campaign computers and delivering that information. >> dana: i'm joined by doug burns a former federal prosecutor. so good to have you here for your expertise. one other character that i want to bring int...

To the guilty plea in court this morning. one count for lying to the senate and at a hearing in august 2017 regarding the time line of his and candidate trump's interactions on a potential real estate deal in russia. cohen told congress that all of the conversations ended in january of 2016 before the iowa caucuses and republican primaries. he told the judge he lied claiming the discussions lasted until june 2016 and that he had more talks with president trump about when he was still a candidate than previously admitted. cohen said he lied to congress to keep up with the political messaging an...

Today that he lied to congress both in an august 2017 letter to the congress and then in his testimony in october, quote, to minimize links between the moscow project and individual one which we know is donald trump. >> and to pick up on that, chuck rosenberg, why is this important? why is what they have put in this criminal information which we have right here so important, the details that they have put in here. >> it is fascinating and important, but pete is right. keep in mind that prosecutors don't need to charge cohen with every single crime that he completed, because he plead g l guilty...

Individual two was presumed to be this man on your screen, felix sater, a russian immigrant, real estate developer, once connected in connection with the russian mafia stock fraud. he was a significant player behind the trump project. sater promised to engineer a deal with the help of russian president vladimir putin. in august 2017, "the new york times" published portions of e-mail exchanges between cohen and sater. when he told cohen, quote, i've arranged for ivanka to sit down in putin's private chair and his desk and office in the kremlin. i will get putin on this program and we'll get don...