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This is cnn blakicnn break im wolf blitzer in the situation room. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Were following Breaking News on the president s former fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the russia investigation. Two Court Filings just released, one by the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, the other by prosecutors in new york, and theres new information about cohens cooperation. What it could mean for President Trump and for Michael Cohen as the feds in new york argue he should get substantial prison time. Right now, Robert Mueller also is set t...

It does not say the director can only forward this if it involves a person under the director's jurisdiction. and that seems to be the sticking point that the director is clinging to at this point. >> or that the director can only forward this if it doesn't implicate executive branch privilege in some way, which seems to be the other thing they're claiming. >> not a word about that. >> one thing, lawrence, i would be very interested in figuring out is whether -- remember the way this happened, went from the whistle blower to the inspector general for the intelligence community. the inspector g...

Messaging battle and political battle over what the report might say before her was submitted to the attorney general. democrats have been doing the same thing and now they're trying to win the battle to say even if it doesn't implicate president trump. even if it's not politically problematic, it is in here is what we think so. this political battle is going to head all the way into the 2020 election. the president himself common even though it's been a quiet couple of days one of talking about this as often as talked about it so far. most of the news during the investigation that was generat...

Important thing is the concentration of capital, and it means that we seek and prioritize profit and the accumulation of money above all else and we seek it at any human an environmental cost. to me, that ideology is not sustainable and cannot be redeemed. >> quite something. new polling by the des moines register crohn indicates an appetite of democratic voters for socialism with bernie sanders trailing only joe biden as first choice for president. of course, there is the mueller report. while democrats have fought for it be made public, it's reported the 2020 campaign teams have wrestled how...

Pardon, that is highly problematic. that is even the kind of thing our new attorney general william barr suggested he would see as a potential charge -- >> is it legally problematic? >> it can be construed as obstruction of justice, witness tampering. holding out the idea of a pardon, the promise of a pardon in exchange for the person not testifying, or testifying in a way that doesn't implicate you. so it's highly problematic. >> but not surprising. >> how are you as a former federal prosecutor make sense of this? as stephanie said, michael cohen went to congress last week, apologized for lyi...