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Cohen's cooperation in the special counsel's investigation. the special counsel's filing indicates that there could be much, much more for donald trump to worry about in what michael cohen has been telling robert mueller. the defendant has met with the special counsel's office for several proffer sessions, many of them lengthy, his statements beginning with the second meeting with the special counsel's office have been credible. the defendant's assistance has been useful in four significant respects. first the defendant provided information about his own contacts with russian interests during ...

It had continued throughout the campaign during the entire time that trump was trying to line up the nomination. so cohen, quote, admitted that he had lied to congress and to the special counsel's office about the moscow project. he provided detailed information about the true circumstances of the moscow project, including its duration, the persons involved in the discussions, contact with russian government officials and discussions during the first half of 2016 about the possibility of travel to russia in connection with the moscow project. in addition to correcting the timeline and detailin...

A separate sentencing document on michael cohen was filed by the special counsel's office today. in that document robert mueller describes michael cohen lying to congress about his efforts and coordination with presidential candidate donald trump to pursue what mueller calls the moskow project, which included business opportunities in russia for donald trump including building a trump tower in moskow. the special prosecutor's sentencing recommendation was for leniency based on michael cohen's cooperation in the special counsel's investigation. the special counsel's filing indicates that there ...

Of the moscow project, cohen explained financial aspects of the deal that would have made it highly lucrative for the company and himself. the information provided by cohen about the moscow project in these proffer sessions is consistent with and corroborated by other information obtained in the course of the special counsel's investigation. so they've got it. they've got trump tower moscow. and specifically, they've got the fact that it would have resulted in russian sources paying hundreds of millions of dollars to trump's campaign, and they needed to russian government in order to make the ...

Post," sater told cohen he could get president vladimir putin to say great things about trump. where do i go with this? let me go back to tom on this. put it together. money, politics. what, i mean, we're not even talking the dossier for a while now. it is so -- it's so connected, all this stuff. >> it really is, chris. i think that's kind of the biggest thing we're trying to figure out at this point. i mean, i think we're a good six, seven months behind where robert mueller actually is in this investigation. i think really tellingly today, chris, they decided to set the sentencing for what mi...