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Heres how it came to be. In may of this year, may 22nd, the New York Times had a scoop that they probably only got because they are specifically the New York Times. They sent crack reporters to an otherwise sleepy courthouse in albany, new york, not a Federal Courthouse, a state court, because that day in that state court in new york, a longtime Business Partner of Michael Cohens, A Taxicab Mogul Named Gene Friedman Who everybody called the taxi king, he was in court. He had been facing really serious charges in new york, Tax Evasion Charges in new york more than 5 million and four criminal co...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. All the prison time and felonies evaporated. Instead of being tried for evading 5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one count of evaluating 50,000 worth of taxes. Not 5 million, 50,000. Instead of decades in potential pr...

Reason. perhaps cohen is trying to sell himself a little bit to the prosecutors he'd like to cooperate. i heard that remarkable television proffer that took place with his lawyer last night with lanny davis. i've never seen a proffer take place like that in public. it seems lykohike cohen is tryio sell what he has a little bit and maybe wants to take his public shot at a president who's deserted him. hard to say just yet. >> joyce vance, from arizona. thank you.

There is all of this stuff about other epts, about executives with the trump organization, about ami, about a spec executive at ami and, of course, the stuff about the president himself. why was that all there? >> there was a lot of information. cohen spoke from written notes i'm sure he prepared with his lawyers. it seems unlikely to me that they wouldn't have shared at least the substance of what he was planning to say with prosecutors in advance to make sure it passed muster. someone, perhaps cohen, someone else, was interested in filling in lines in the narrative. we frankly don't know the...