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That makes him the fifth Trump Campaign official to plead guilty in what the president continues to call a witch hunt. Manafort has agreed to cooperate with the special counsel in any and all matters, a reminder he was in the room for that trump tower meeting back in 2016. Here is paul manmanaforts speag outside the courtroom yesterday. He has accepted responsibility and he wanted to make sure that his family was able to remain safe and live a good life. He has accepted responsibility and this is for conduct that dates back many years. Everybody should remember that. With us now, geoff bennett...

The testimony of any person in an official proceeding. To help us understand the significance of these brandnew indictments and what they mean for the special counsel investigation into russian collusion and obstruction of justice, some of our very best reporters and guests join us now. From the New York Times mike schmidt. Joyce vance former u. S. Attorney now law professor at the university of alabama. David chris, assistant attorney general for national security. And with us at the desk washington lemire for the associated press. Joyce, let me start with you you and i talked about this witn...

Involvement in the moscow project, plans for cohen and trump to travel to russia for it, and critically, outreach on the project. Saying donald trump referred to in this document as individual one was the person involved and saying cohen lied to congress to match trumps political messaging as well as out of loyalty. Cohens first lie, he talked with trump about moscow more than claimed. He briefed trumps family members, well get to that tonight within the Trump Organization about this project in russia. Cohen working on trump projects. The candidate and the president said over and over, he didn...

Lying, potentially wasting his only shot at getting out of jail. After citing the plea agreement, he committed federal crimes by lying to the fbi and the special counsels office on a variety of subject matters. The worst thing you can do when youre facing a serious felony charge i think is refuse to cooperate and then agreeing to cooperate and then lying because youre going to get caught, youre going to face all the punishment and then some. When Paul Manafort pleaded guilty, he agreed to cooperate fully with the mueller investigation, knowing if he broke this deal, he could face at least a de...

At Trump National golf course. But before heading out he spent time on twitter. Also tweeting anew about north korea and defending his decision to end the joint military exercises with south korea. He wrote, holding back the war games during the negotiations was my request because they are very expensive and all so quite provocative. Can start up immediately if talks break down, which i hope will not happen. He touted his agreement with kim jongun. He says the denuclearization deal with north korea is being parades all over asia. They are so happy. Here in america people would rather see the H...