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Russia but that one russian national actually offered cohen, quote, political synergy between the kremlin and the trump campaign. cohen, who pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes this summer and was charged with one count of lying to congress by mueller's office, is set to be sentenced next week. joining me now to discuss all of this is bruce single, he worked with robert mueller in the u.s. attorney's office in boston. good morning to you, bruce. >> reporter: good morning. >> thank you very much for being with us. we're kind of going through these filings from yesterday. there's a lot of mov...

Here to discuss all of this, cnn contributor and "washington post" national reporter wesley lowery, and cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney paige pate. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> paige, let's look at an excerpt from the sentencing memo. quote, cohen coordinated his actions with one or more members of the campaign including through meetings, phone calls about the fact, nature, and timing of the payments. in particular, and as cohen admitted, with respect to both payments, he acted in coordination with -- here's the key -- and at the direction of individual one. me...

About contacts between people close to trump and russians during the 2016 campaign. here's senior white house correspondent pamela brown. >> reporter: mueller's team outlined in a heavily redacted filing how they believe and why they believe paul manafort lied in, quote, multiple ways on and on multiple occasions. manafort they say lied to the special counsel's office regarding his contact with the trump administration this year. even after his indictment he said he didn't talk to anyone in the administration or convey messages to them. mueller says that's not true. his team says manafort told...

Sanction that might come toward the president might have to come via congressional republicans. thus far we haven't heard much from them at all on this. and this is going to be the real test, the real question from congressional republicans is at what point do they draw a line and say the president has done something we think is unacceptable. because in many ways that seems to be could face any repercussion here. >> i think you make a great point. where is that line for those congressional republicans. i guess we'll see in the days coming forward. page, i want to go back to you, and i want to ...

Shrugging this off as if it's no big deal. i wanted to point out a statement by press secretary sarah sanders yesterday. in it she refers specifically to both the filings against manafort and cohen. related to the manafort filing, she suggested this does not implicate the president at all, but rather is tied to manafort's financial crimes. on the cohen front, she effectively says that there's nothing new there. she echoes the claim in that filing suggesting that cohen is no hero. i did want to point the president's tweet quickly. as jeremy note, the president writing yesterday, quote, totally ...