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Big tough even controversial cases over the past year, and some have gone the other way and put a lot of heat on trump and his associates. >> today, as you heard, michael cohen plead guilty to eight felony charges. >> today we announced criminal extortion charges against michael avenatti. >> today we announce the unsealing of sex trafficking charges against jeffrey epstein. >> so how does sdny work? what are they doing? i am joined by jamie nowaday, a prosecutor with that office and your first time on "the beat." thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> the first question for people ...

How important it is for him to be able to return to his normal life after all of this is over. and we know from or reporting that that has been sort of a key factor for him from the moment that he decided he was going to cooperate with investigators and no longer have the president's back. >> m.j. lee, thank you. jaimie, stick around. we'll have you back in a moment. >> republican governor scott walker signed a bill weakening the power of his democratic opponents. >> he said he is not going to cave in to all the hype and hysteria from protesters, who are calling this a power grab, calling it t...

Related to russia. do you think president trump is telling the truth about that? >> no. >> reporter: how does this end for donald trump? >> that sort of gets into the whole investigation right now between the special counsel's office, the attorney general's office, you also have the southern district of new york. i don't want to jeopardize any of their investigations -- >> reporter: are you still cooperating? >> if they want me, i'm here and i'm willing to answer whatever additional questions that they may have for me. >> joining us now, m.j. lee and jamie nowaday. seeing that change, the man ...

Joining us now, seth waxman, a former federal prosecutor under the clinton and obama administrations. i want to get your reaction to this new backtrack by orrin hatch. >> i'm glad to see him do that. his initial comments were troubling, a sitting senator saying the president can act with impugnity, whether that's breaking the law or not. for him to walk that back, it's not surprising. hopefully he'll wait to see the evidence, when he says mr. cohen isn't a credible witness, that may or may not be true but there's a lot of corroboration we seeing on mr. cohen. there's an entire picture that nee...

The help he has provided. given the judge that's overseeing this, emmitt sullivan, the think the prosecutors are under pressure to make sure there's no doubt that flynn lied to the fbi on his own without any trickery on the part of the fbi. >> jamie, as you recall, the initial flynn sentencing memo from the special counsel team last week was pretty extensive but a lot of it was redacted. do you think we'll get more about what flynn told investigators in today's filing? >> i don't think we'll get much more about what he told investigators. i think we will get more context to the statements in f...