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I think there will be ample opportunity for the department if it pursues this to demonstrate that the president knew what he was doing was wrong. knew what he was doing was unlawful, and was prepared to do it anyway. what we have found consistently, wolf, is you can t rely on any of the president s representations. because, of course, he said he knew nothing about this. he had no discussions with it. now we know all of that is false. he said when the sentencing memoranda came out that essentially, thank you, that has completely vindicated me when it was completely the opposite. so the last person we can rely on this is donald trump. but nonetheless, the department needs hard evidence. they may very well have it. and i think it s vitally important that the department adhere to the principle no one is above the law. and all of the arguments they made against michael cohen, all of the arguments they made as to why the seriousness of this offense justified his going to jail, that the rich ....
Sentencing it doesn t sound like it s the president. they know an awful lot about the president. be difficult to think of an area sandra: since the sentencing is about to happen in the next hour, what conclusions will we be able to draw about implications based on the sentencing? sandra, i don t think you get anything more from the sentence the judge imposes than what we ve gotten from the sentencing memoranda that were submitted particularly by the prosecutors. that s really our window into where their investigation is going and how they evaluate cohen has a cooperator. the sentence the judge imposes is going to be a measure not just of what he thinks of those investigations and cohen s value to them and what he thinks of cohen s crimes, but anything on the positive side of the ledger that there is about cohen that comes from, you know, his family, his friends, people who would speak in his behalf. bill: this is what the ....
Facing here. reporter: several different charges. the southern district of new york involves tax evasion, most notably being involved in campaign finance law violations, but later on just a couple weeks ago, michael cohen rushed in to plead guilty to another crime brought by the special counsel s office, and that was lying to congress, section 1001. not sworn testimony, not perjury, but unsworn testimony lying to congress. the special counsel s office and the southern district have both filed sentencing memoranda with the special counsel s office saying that it s okay with us if he is sentenced with concurrently with the southern district s charges and the southern district of new york saying, both of them saying rather that cohen s cooperation does not rise to the level of substantial assistance warranting a 5k 1 downward departure motion. ....
Back to that original thought. the real question now is whether we are getting to the end of the russia collusion investigation. and a leading legal expert told fox news that when you look at these heavily-redacted filings it is really pretty inconclusive right now. we are getting mixed signals. these reductions and the sentencing memoranda suggest that there is concern about disclosing information that might interfere with ongoing investigations. what i think we are at the end of sr as we know is the investigation into so-called collusion. we are also switching lawyers for the former national security advisor mike flynn to file their sentencing memo today prayed last week, mueller s team told the court that flynn had provided the court substantial assistance over 819 interviews are commending a light sentence. possibly no jail time. demand for records, as you know, are heavily redacted and it s really not clear how they will sit with the federal judge. sold and new ordered this ex ....
Care. mike at cohen said the president was involved in the southern district of new york, but it s michael cohen. who knows if he s telling the truth? yesterday we got the government s position. they believe him michael cohen may be a liar, may be a criminal, but the government believes he was ordered to commit campaign finance law violations by the president. that s a very significant revelation by the government in these sentencing memoranda, which are just fascinating. they are a study in contrast between the southern district s view of michael cohen s cooperation, which i should put in air quotes, because cooperation is a term of art. the government is saying, neither with the special counsel nor with the southern district, cooperated as that term is understood, for purposes of reducing your sentence. however, he tried. you notice they took out the ....