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Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Counsel. How much specificity would we get here in seeing a plea deal . Would there be things that are sort of kept from public view or would it be pretty clear what the guts are here . I dont think the first filing i dont think will reveal everything. In other words, i think the first filing, announcing the plea deal and that sort of thing is probably not going to spell out in great detail exactly what Information Cohen has to provide. We may have to await several weeks, several months down the road to fin...

Short of pardoning cohen, which is, i said, would have caused all sorts of fireworks. >> we have jeff mason with us, as well. again, white house correspondent with righters and he actually interviewed the president last night, so, jeff, again, this, the reporting here that a campaign finance violation would be part of this plea agreement that's announced about an hour from now. a lot of speculation here, but the possibility that donald trump and the trump campaign could become part of this plea deal story at 4:00. >> yeah. it will be very interesting to see what the deal is and what sort of im...

The assumption that he is not going to be pardoned. it's important to point out cohen is currently under criminal investigation in new york. but he has not been charged. we don't know what he might be charged with. we also don't know whether pardoning cohen is something that president trump might consider. still, the fact that cohen is telling friends he is not counting on a pardon from a man he was so loyal to for so many years gives us some interesting insight into where his head is right now. we've been reporting for a while that cohen has been feeling very isolated. he's worried about his ...

Over for dinner. >> will he or will he not consider pardoning cohen. he does this sort of mysterious tweet. i think it was a pretty good question. i think the idea of pardon is in the air and several of his former staffers and administration officials have been indicted. it's a good question. >> first i don't think the pardons he issued were a controversial scare. it should have been pardoned a long time ago. it was an out rage. i don't think it is outrageous. i think -- >> why did george bush pardon him then? >> the former president deeply disagreed with it. >> and he wanted him do it. >> and...

Then be called to testify and testified falsely or engaged in some form of obstruction, he would need a sort of daisy chain of pardons for each crime that he commits. it also doesn't cover state offenses. so, the president can't protect cohen from charges that might come in new york. and we know that the state is moving towards a change in the law to allow the charging of someone who has received a pardon. in cohen's case, the things that he's being charged -- he's being investigated for appear both in federal and state criminal codes. things like bank fraud, the allegations with regard to tax...