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is not the truth. is that just misspeaking or part of a campaign of deception? it s time to go deep. let s get after it. in an on the record interview with reuters, the president says that he could run the probe himself if he wanted. all this coming after his biggest tweet storm yet about mueller and word that his white house counsel cooperated with mueller s probe more than trump might have known. here to discuss that and much more, former attorney general michael mukasey. judge, good to have you as always. good to be with you. so if you were to hear that the president has decided, i m taking over this probe. i m taking it over. what would your reaction be? i would shake myself and wake up. just a dream? yeah. can he, or should he not? i i have no idea whether he can. i can t believe that he can. he d have to fire mueller in the Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with in-depth reporting and investigations. making a false statement to an f ....
A recap of the day s news. mr. trump, helped along by aras and amon. it s clear from the very beginning the information being offered to the trump campaign was coming from russia. and it was clear that the information being offered was dirt on clinton. it s the first thing they said. despite trump junior s initial claim the meeting was about the adoption of russian children. that claim coming in a statement we later learned was dictated by president trump himself. after white house press secretary sarah sanders claimed he didn t. how did we learn about the president s statements? well, his own attorneys acknowledge it in a letter to robert mueller in january. it s all right there in front of your face. it s all in writing. this is an administration that has tried to distract and deflect from the facts literally from day one when then press secretary sean spicer, remember, tried to claim that president trump s inauguration crowd was the largest ever. and kellyanne conway do ....
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. 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, ....
telling the truth. he has no shadow hanging over him. the uncertainty is gone. he has stepped up to the line and he has admitted what he did wrong, but he is now liberated to tell the truth. everything about donald trump that he knows. from this point on you re going to see liberated michael cohen speaking truth to power. and we will hear a lot more from cohen s lawyer who you just saw there, he is going to be joining morning joe later this morning. after four days of deliberations the jury in the fraud trial of paul manafort found president trump s former campaign chairman guilty on eight of the counts against him. the jury has unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the other ten counts manafort faced. his trial marked a critical first stage for robert mueller s investigation. pete williams has more. reporter: the jury found paul manafort guilty of intentionally dodging taxes on millions of dollars that he earned as a political consultant for the former president of u ....
you can see it weeknights 6:25 p.m. eastern at facebook.com/anderson cooper full circle. right now the news continues. i want to hand it over to chris cuomo for cuomo prime time. chris? all right. thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo. plm to prime time. we have new information about what may be next for michael cohen. if he s going to deal with any more authorities. and the president s latest legal misstep. trump has twisted his story once again about the payments made by his lawyer to help his campaign. and this latest one has him tied up in knots. we have trump s former lawyer, whom he called for advice about how to handle the cohen situation. what he thought then and now. and you know the president is on his heels with what just happened because he whipped out his what about defense. what about obama? he did it too. no, he didn t. we have the facts ahead. and a convicted felon gets some very high praise from the president, raising a question. will paul manafort soon ....