cohen has cooperated, mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> reporter: sources tell abc news cohen has already spent more than 70 hours talking to mueller's investigators about the 2016 campaign and president trump's business ties to russia. today, he pleaded guilty to

mr. atkinson says yes, please. mr. cohen, did you hear that? i did, your honor. is that correct? it is correct, your honor. there is one contact. the judge says any further allocution requested by the government? the prosecutor says no, your honor, thank you. and that's where we get to the curtain call. the judge says, quote, i find mr. cohen is competent to proceed. i find he understands the rights that he is waiving by pleading guilty. i further find there is a factual basis for this plea, and i accept his plea of guilty. so today the president's long-time personal lawyer, long-time executive of his business plead guilty to a cover-up, a criminal cover-up. he plead guilty to lying to congress about the extent of the real estate dealings that president trump and his business were engaged in and pursuing in russia with the help of the kremlin while trump was running for president, and while the kremlin was simultaneously mounting an international military intelligence operation to skew our election in order to tilt toward trump. the lies that michael cohen told congress about thi

michael cohen, yes, your honor. the judge, mr. cohen, are you willing to give up your rights to a trial and all the other rights we have discussed? cohen, yes, sir. the judge, how do you plead to the sole count of the information? michael cohen, guilty, your honor. and then it gets a little confusing. so the judge says how do you plead? michael cohen says, guilty, your honor. the judge says guilty or not guilty? and then michael cohen says, sorry. the judge says, that's fine. guilty? michael cohen says, yes, sir. real quick, i'm here to plead guilty. sorry, were you not done? guilty, did i say guilty? >>> but then at this point in the proceedings is where the spotlight really turns on michael cohen, and this is the surprise proceeding. everybody who is there in the courtroom has arrived on short notice. there was no advance press this was going to happen. the plead says a little something, but now here is michael cohen in court really getting to explain. put a little narrative on what's going on here. the judge, after he's just pl

cohen, mr. cohen, mr. cohen. can you just talk to us? mr. cohen, just -- >> mr. cohen is the man who has known the president's deepest secrets for years and years. today the man who once vowed to take a bullet for trump filed a play agreement admitting that he lied to congress. this is not the first guilty plea for cohen, but this is the difference -- this is the first plea deal with mueller's prosecutors. today's deal was about a proposed trump to you are project in moscow. he testified the moscow project ended in january 2016 and was not discussed extensively with others in the company. however, court documents detail cohen was talking and coordinating about the project as late as june of that very same year with multiple

. >> mr. cohen has cooperated. mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> today's big stunner-- michael cohen pleading guilty for lying to congress. >> he's a weak person, lying very simply to get a reduced sentence. >> if anything the president has said is true, why are all his closest associates being found guilty about lying about their ties to russia? >> reporter: an arrest made into in hoover, alabama of an officer mistakenly shot and killed a man they thought was the gunman. >> a new jersey family murdered, their mansion torched. >> the homeowner's brother has wen charged with causing the fire and killing his family members that lived there. >> this one is the most brutal case i have seen. >> newly released body cam video shows one sheriff's deputy's harrowing rescue and narrow escape in paradise, california, earlier this month. >> male birth control may be happening soon. >> it's as easy as men rubbing gel on their shoulders. >> meet kalin bennett, the 6'10" center signed a letter of intent to join the golden flas

nick: michael cohen was donald trump's mr. fix-it, central figu in the billionaires business empire. the lawyer who made his problems go away nowotentially poses a huge problem himself for the present. >> mr. cohen has cooperated, mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. sentencing is set for december 12. nick: the fast talking new york rnattoey remained tightlipped outside court. those wordfrom his lawyer are a startling new development.it eans he is sharing information with collision investigation. up until now michael cohen has been prosecuted by investigators here in new york. what makes this so significante is that it is rst time he has been charged by and entered into a plea agreement with robert mueller, the special counsel looking into allegations of collusion between the trump thpresidential campaign an kremlin. inside court, he pleaded guilty to making false statements to congss about a real estate project that would have altered the skyline of moscow, proposed trump tower in the russian capital. talks about the project

. >> i've worked for mr. trump for a long time, and i can tell you that mr. trump's memory is fantastic, and i've never come across a situation where mr. trump has said something that's not accurate. >> there are -- seriously? >> yes, seriously. >> today cohen testified that he lied before congress specifically to back up something that then candidate trump had said that was inaccurate indeed at the very least. let's talk about it with our legal panel. jeffrey toobin, what's the legal significant to this development in the context of the entire investigation? >> motive. this is all about motive. you know, why was donald trump so solicitive of vladimir putin? why did he change the republican platform? why was he endlessly defending putin? because, today's developments suggest, he had business interests during the campaign, and, you know, he said on the white house lawn today, well, everybody knew about that. no one knew about that. it would have been explosive during the primaries. the whole point of keeping i

mr cohen has cooperated. mr cohen will continue to cooperate. sentencing is set for december 12th. but the fast—talking new york attorney remained tight—lipped outside court. those words from his lawyer are a startling new development. it means he's sharing information with the russian collusion investigation. up until now, michael cohen has been prosecuted by investigators based here in new york. but what makes this so significant is that it's the first time he's been charged by and entered into a plea agreement with robert mueller — the special counsel looking into allegations of collusion between the trump presidential campaign and the kremlin. inside court he pleaded guilty to making false statements to congress about a real estate project that would have altered the skyline of moscow — a proposed trump tower in the russian capital. talks about the project had continued well into 2016, he admitted. the year of the presidential election. donald trump has been more extensively involved. he'd also been in contact about the project with a key figure in the kremlin. the spok

mr cohen has co—operated. mr cohen will continue to co—operate. sentencing is set for december 12. though the fast—talking new york attorney remained tight—lipped outside court. those words from his lawyer are a startling new development. it means he's sharing information with the russian collusion investigation. up until now, michael cohen has been prosecuted by investigators based here in new york. but what makes this so significant is that it's the first time he's been charged by and entered into a plea agreement with robert mueller, the special counsel looking into allegations of collusion between the trump presidential campaign and the kremlin. inside court, he pleaded guilty to making false statements to congress about a real estate project that would have altered the skyline of moscow — a proposed trump tower in the russian capital. talks about the project had continued well into 2016, he admitted, the year of the presidential election. donald trump had been more extensively involved. he'd also been in contact about the project with a key figure in the kremlin — the

president trump is saying mr. cohen is lying. president trump: what he is trying to do is get a reduced sentence. so he is lying about a project that everyone knew about p or we were very open with it. we were thinking about building a building. was an option, i don't know what you'd call it. i decided ultimately not to do it. there would have been nothing wrong if i did do it. give us a sense of what this could mean for the mueller seth,igation, we bring someone who spent 13 years in the u.s. attorneys office for the district of columbia trying complex white-collar criminal cases. thank you for being with us. this announcement came out, it was a surprise to just about everybody. it caused quite a stir. should it have? give us the legal consequences and how this fit into the overall situation. hugely significant you have trump's longtime consiglio area now making it clear he is fully cooperating with the mueller investigation, sharing whatever information he may have an on top of that, he has now played guilty to lying to congres

what more mr. cohen has to say, we don't know. we would be very interested at the appropriate time in inviting mr. cohen to come back to our committee to share any additional information and incites to clarify his prior testimony, so there's a lot more that warrants investigation here. >> adam schiff making two points, one it gets to possible lying by the president but also possible russian attempts to hold leverage over the president as he was the presumptive nominee. >> and he'll have the power to subpoena more people when he chairs that committee come january. >> absolutely. shan wu who represented a defendant prior in this case, the former deputy chairman in the trump campaign, your reaction to what you've heard today. >> this is really a huge development and in skimming over this information, i was particularly struck by paragraph seven, in particular, 7 a, in which it references the fact that there had been the multiple discussions with individual one, of course, but also with family members who were inside the company. so t

today mr. trump said mr. cohen waweak. our north america correspondent nick bryant reports. nick: michael cohen was donald trump's . fix-it, central figure in the billionaires business empire. but the lawyer who made his problems go away now potentially poses a huge proem himself for the president. >> mr. cohen has coorated, comrhen will continue to cooperate. enng is set for december 12.ni ck:g the fast tanew york outside court.ned tightlipped those words from his lawyer are a startling new development. it means he is sharing information wi the russian collision investigation. up until now mhael cohen has been prosecuted by investigators here in new york. what mak this so significant is that it is the first time he has been charged by and entered into a plea agreement with robert mueller, the special counsel looking into allegations of collusion between the trump presidential campaign and the kremlin. inside cou, he pleaded guilty to making false atements to congress about a real estate project that would have altered the skyline of moscow, proposed anump tower in the rus c

mr cohen has co—operated. mr cohen will continue to co—operate. sentencing is set for december 12. though the fast—talking new york attorney remained tight—lipped outside court, those words from his lawyer are a startling new development. it means he's sharing information with the russian collusion investigation. up until now, michael cohen has been prosecuted by investigators based here in new york. but what makes this so significant is that it's the first time he's been charged by and entered into a plea agreement with robert mueller, the special counsel looking into allegations of collusion between the trump presidential campaign and the kremlin. inside court, he pleaded guilty to making false statements to congress about a real estate project that would have altered the skyline of moscow — a proposed trump tower in the russian capital. talks about the project had continued well into 2016, he admitted, the year of the presidential election. donald trump had been more extensively involved. he'd also been in contact about the project with a key figure in the kremlin — the

michael cohen. >> mr. cohen, mr. cohen, mr. cohen. can you just talk to us? mr. cohen, just -- >> mr. cohen is the man who has known the president's deepest secrets for years and years. today the man who once vowed to take a bullet for trump filed a play agreement admitting that he lied to congress. this is not the first guilty plea for cohen, but this is the difference -- this is the first plea deal with mueller's prosecutors. today's deal was about a proposed trump to you are project in moscow. he testified the moscow project ended in january 2016 and was not discussed extensively with others in the company. however, court documents detail cohen was talking and coordinating about the project as late as june of that very same year with multiple people, including presidential republican nominee donald trump. the president defended himself standing in front of the white house by going after michael cohen. >> he was given a fairly long jail sentence and he's a week person. and by being weak, unlike other people that you watch, he's a weak person and what he's tryin

what do we know about these alleged russian real estate projects that mr cohen says he lied about. one of the biggest link in this chain as we've said is that michael cohen was saying these plans to possibly build a trump tower and moscow had fizzled out somehow in january of two thousand and sixteen but what we now know is that in fact talks were ongoing and then candidate trumped out president trump was in fact aware of it and in the loop on these real estate dealings that were going on as late as possibly june of two thousand and sixteen that's well into the presidential campaign and it raises all sorts of questions as to what exactly trump's connection with russia is what his financial dealings are because as we know france he has the president has routinely deny that he has any financial dealings any interest in russia. stand by we're going to come back to you in just a moment we're going to talk about the u.s. president now in that g twenty summit now shortly after speaking to reporters in departing for the summit in argentina president trump said that he would be canceling h

president transform a lawyer michael cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to congress mr cohen is a key figure in. the investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election. and president trump us canceled a meeting with the russian president vladimir putin over the crimea crisis german chancellor angela merkel has called for calm but ukraine's president petro poroshenko has warned the nation to grieve prepared for any possible russian invasion. you're watching the news coming to a live from berlin don't forget you can get all the latest news information around the clock on our website that's steve dot com and after a short break brant will be back to take you through his day stay with us and. quadriga international talk show before journalists discuss the topic of the week everybody suddenly talking about the united nations pact this aims to provide a framework for a safe alternate and a bridge to the global migration critics though say a bull only lead to more mass migration who's right join the discussion here on talk radio show. quadriga in

but it was only in august when mr. cohen decided to work with the special prosecutor. my understanding is some level of working together. and i think we've all felt that michael cohen has a lot of information that i hope he shares with the special prosecutor and one of the reasons why we think he needs to come back and share it more with the senate intelligence committee. >> reporter: he made these false statements to be consistent with individual one's messaging, individual one presumably being the president. what does this tell you about the president? >> i've not read -- i just got the headlines from rachel about what he said, but let's face it, you've got all these close associates of the president, one after another, pleading guilty, often pleading guilty about their ties to russia and russians. and what are they covering up for? and we also have a white house that still seems just obsessed about this investigation. if anything the president has said is true, that there's no there there, why are all his closest associates being found guilty about lying about their

mr cohen has cooperated. mr cohen will continue to co—operate. sentencing is set for december 12. but the fast—talking new york attorney remained tight—lipped outside court. those words from his lawyer are a startling new development. it means he's sharing information with the russian collusion investigation. up until now, michael cohen has been prosecuted by investigators based here in new york. but what makes this so significant is that it's the first time he's been charged by and entered into a plea agreement with robert mueller, the special counsel looking into allegations of collusion between the trump presidential campaign and the kremlin. inside court he pleaded guilty to making false statements to congress about a real estate project that would have altered the skyline of moscow — a proposed trump tower in the russian capital. talks about the project had continued well into 2016, he admitted. the year of the presidential election. donald trump has been more extensively involved. he'd also been in contact about the project with a key figure in the kremlin. the spokesm

doesn't trump meanwhile has denied working on this plan and says mr cohen is lying to get a lighter sentence. he was convicted of various things unrelated. he was given a fairly low jail. and he's a weak person. by being weak i'd like other people would walk he's a weak person. what are you strong to do is get a reduced sentence so he's learning about a project that everybody knew it i mean we were very open with it. so let's go to washington then where we find a deal because opponents of mine i'm sure you do well so how does this latest revelation affect the investigation. well it's certainly a revelation in that it looks like michael cohen the president's former lawyer is actually cooperating with the special counsel which is something that was not known before and michael cohen was part of trump's inner circle and he was really one of the president's closest advisers closest people someone who in previous statements has said that he would take a bullet for the president his now coming forward pleading guilty to lying to congress and that's a significant step although it is just one step i

cohen also told congress, quote, i never considered asking mr. trump to travel to russia in connection with this proposal. to the best of my knowledge, mr. trump was never in contact with anyone about the proposal other than me on two occasions. cohen told the court earlier today the discussions were more extensive. today the chairman and ranking democrat of the senate intelligence committee who really mattered here because it was their committee that got the original testimony from cohen responded to the plea. >> there seems to be a trend here amongst so many of the president's closest allies, that they don't tell the truth. >> i haven't seen the specific indictment or the plea. but this is a reason people shouldn't lie when they're in front of a congressional investigation. >> reporter: critics of the mueller probe say the cohen plea is another example of what they call a process crime and it's not evidence of coordination with russian officials. but congressional democrats are already saying they're going to renew their investigation of cohen

president says mr cohen is lying to get a reduced sentence. and germany's chancellor merkel well calls for calm in the standoff between ukraine and russia as ukraine's president joins his troops in preparing for a field russian invasion and urges nato to intervene. i'm phil gramm welcome to the program. german prosecutors of raided the offices of the country's biggest lender back as part of an investigation into money laundering inquiries based on revelations made in the twenty sixteen day to make known as the panama papers which suggest that the deutsche bank stuff had helped criminals follow money into offshore tax havens. police vans surrounding the headquarters of germany's biggest lender if george's image wasn't already in tatters it certainly is now. the banks accused of helping clients hide money and crime the suspicions are based on revelations contained in a set of leaked documents known as the panama paper is. different asked. for submission of rose in the summer two thousand and fourteen really not after the federal criminal police

mr cohen has cooperated. mr cohen will continue to co—operate. sentencing is set for december 12. but the fast—talking new york attorney remained tight—lipped outside court. those words from his lawyer are a startling new development. it means he's sharing information with the russian collusion investigation. up until now, michael cohen has been prosecuted by investigators based here in new york. but what makes this so significant is that it's the first time he's been charged by and entered into a plea agreement with robert mueller, the special counsel looking into allegations of collusion between the trump presidential campaign and the kremlin. inside court, he pleaded guilty to making false statements to congress about a real estate project that would have altered the skyline of moscow — a proposed trump tower in the russian capital. talks about the project had continued well into 2016, he admitted, the year of the presidential election. donald trump had been more extensively involved. he'd also been in contact about the project with a key figure in the kremlin — the spo

michael cohen. in a surprise move, mr. cohen is in a new york courtroom at this hour pleading guilty. ap reporting that mr. cohen made the appearance this morning at about 9:00 a.m. eastern. he admitted to making false statements in 2017 about a plan to build a trump tower in moscow. more on this as we get it. >>> today brock long testifies on a disaster response before the house oversight and government reform committee. we'll have live coverage of that at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. >> each week in the segment of the washington journal, we like to take a look how your money is at work in a different federal program. this week we're joined by todd harrison. there was an audit that the d.o.d. technically failed but the pentagon said they expected to fail this audit. why? >> well, this is something that the d.o.d. has been working on for more than a decade now, try to get ready for an audit and believe it or not, this is actually progress that they failed the audit because that means they got through the process of

cohen lied about it to the judiciary to the oversight committees and that's why i think mr mr trump feels so resentful and remember one of the things that he said in his comment he said well it could be true but who cares about it which indicates that he he concealed it because he knew would be embarrassing he's almost confessing that mr cohen is accurate in the his accusations the volume of attack on mr muller seems to be proportional to the closeness that he comes to the white house i believe that he ultimately will be pushed provoke to fire mr muller when he actually receives the subpoena to testify under oath about among other things this june two thousand and sixteen meeting with donald junior and man afford and shared question because you remember that that meeting was something that clearly was a probe of mr man a for when they're asking him repeatedly did mr trump know about this meeting and i say i was there at the time mr archibald cox who is my professor at. law school was fired by mr nixon and that precipitated impeachment proceedings i think that's down the road probabl

he told mr. cohen to tear up the reimbursement agreement but mr. cohen kept a copy. federal agents found it in a search of mr. cohen's office earlier this year. it reports donald trump was fully aware of the payment to buy her silence. the journal reports michael cohen had to make the payment using his own funds because the national enquirer refused to cooperate on that deal because david pecker, quote, didn't want his company to pay a porn star. the journal reports that donald trump told michael cohen to quote, get it done. during the presidential transition after donald trump was elected, donald trump thanked david pecker for suppressing the mcdougal story. the journal reports, mr. pecker granted immunity for his grand jury testimony, told investigators about mr. trump's involvement in the mcdougal deal. joining us now barbara mcquade, a former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor. and david corn is back with us. barbara, your reading of the legal implications of this wall street journal reporting. >> well, it's a very painstaking walk through the very same criminal

cohen is providing deep cooperation with the special counsel, even as mr. manafort is not. we will be very interested at the appropriate time in inviting mr. cohen to come back to our committee to share any additional information and insights to clarify his prior testimony before our committee. so there's a lot more that warrants investigation here. >> the kind of picture you're drawing is of michael cohen coming back to congress and potentially hours, if not days, of what could be incredibly damaging testimony, public testimony, about this whole affair. >> well, what i'm saying is this -- if mr. cohen is stating now that he misled the congress about the, tent a extent and na duration of the trump organization's business interests in russia, denials the president made about business interests in russia turned out to be false, it means the financial entanglement is more than we knew in terms of trump and russia. it also underscores the imperative of finding out do the russians continue to hold some financial leverage over the president? after all, if the president was willin

>> well, i have a great desire to have mr. cohen come back to the committee. he has expressed a desire to come back and talk to us without any form of immunity. so just the top of my head, did you meet with russians at any time during the course of the campaign and discuss the campaign, give an exchange of information as was talked about, for example, in trump tower, the sanctions that were imposed by the obama administration. those are all fair game. and any connection with the russians and financial gain as it relates to, perhaps, trump tower or the money laundering issue that we're all too familiar with. >> and has he -- when you say that he wants to come back, has he explicitly said that to you? >> no. there was public reporting that he was willing to come back and talk to congress without immunity. i think that was after his first plea deal and his willingness to volunteer and cooperate. we're now -- have heard in today's reporting, just the breadth and width of his cooperation with the mueller investigation, it's incumbent upon us to make sure that we co

all that beginning with the headlines in 60 seconds. >> mr. cohen has cooperated. mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> today's big stunner-- michael cohen pleading guilty for lying to congress. >> he's a weak person, lying very simply to get a reduced sentence. >> if anything the president has said is true, why are all his closest associates being found guilty about lying about their ties to russia? >> repor a

cohen has cooperated. mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> cohen pled guilty in federal court today admitting to misleading congressional investigators saying he lied to be consistent with the president's political messaging and out of loyalty to the president. cohen has already met with investigators seven times since august, the most recent meeting just last week. one source saying the details about trump tower moscow were just one of the many topics involving the president that cohen divulged in more than 70 hours of questioning. >> there's no relationship. >> cohen told the house and senate intelligence committees last year that all talks around the deal were done by january to 16, but he now admits discussions about the moscow project continued as late as june 2016 after donald trump became the presumptive republican nominee and just one month before the convention. cohen saying he told congress the deal, dubbed the moscow project, ended before the iowa caucus and the very first primary in hopes of li

cohen has cooperated. mr. cohen will continue to cooperate."cohen pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting to misleading congressional investigators, saying he lied to be ... graphic:"consistent with the president's political messaging and out of loyalty to the president."cohen has already met with investigators seven times since august....the most recent meeting just last week.one source saying the details about trump tower moscow were just one of the many topics involving the president that cohen divulged in more than 70 hours of questioning.michael cohen:"there's no relationship."cohen told the house and senate intelligence committees last year that all talks around the deal were done by january 2016.but he now admits discussions about the moscow project continued as late as june 2016 -- after donald trump became the presumptive republican nominee....and just one month before the convention.cohen saying he told congress the deal dubbed the moscow project ended before ...graphic:"the iowa caucus and....the very first primary, in hopes

michael cohen is someone that works very closely with mr. trump over the years. his guilty plea will turn out to be a big deal. >> we're going to see collusion with the russians, whether that goes directly to the president, i don't know. but it's clearly the people that were around him in the campaign. i think this is going to be a very sad chapter of american history. >> the expected next chairman of the house tell committee, adam schiff with california said, now more than ever, the special counsel has to be protected by trump or acting attorney general whitaker. the committee in the new house will use all of their powers to preserve the independence of the justice system and make sure that nobody is above the law and democrats are trying to read between the lines here. >> this cohen guilty plea is another piece inhe mosaic could provide another picture in the president's liability here and conspiracy involving michael cohen have always been front and center. >> adding to the tension here on capitol hill, the uncertainty of when we'll hear from robert mueller an

cohen has cooperated, mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> reporter: sources tell abc news cohen has already spent more than 70 hours talking to mueller's investigators about the 2016 campaign and president trump's business ties to russia. today, he pleaded guilty to lying to congress about plans to build a trump tower in moscow. cohen had told lawmakers the moscow project was abandoned in january 2016. he now says that's not true, that the project did not end until june, deep into the campaign. but cohen now says he briefed the president and members of his family on multiple occasions. the next month, candidate trump said this -- >> i have no relationship to russia. >> reporter: cohen now admits he also discussed trump tower moscow in 2016 with top officials in the russian government, and he planned to visit moscow that june. according to court documents, he even spoke to a trump business associate about the possibility of trump himself traveling to russia "once he becomes the nominee after the convention

president trump has denied working on that plan and says that mr cohen is launching in the hopes of getting a wider prison sentence it was convicted of various things unrelated that. he was given a fairly long jail sentence and he's a weak first advice being weak i'd like the people that watch he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reeses set so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about i mean we were very open to. fact check very can't get a reduced sentence yet because he hasn't been sentenced yet that comes in december well senior democrats say that michael cohen may not have been the only person why would you take a listen to what adam schiff from california said today he becomes chair of the house intelligence committee in january. in terms of. the russian vest occasion and clearly indicates that it was special counsel is getting meaningful cooperation from mr cohen rolled in to determine whether or not there was any financial leverage to the russian capital right. well i think we need to look into one of those things are credible allegations that the russian

cohen has cooperated. mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> michael cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress during a court appearance in manhattan this morning. >> this is one more example of one of the president's closest allies lying about their ties to russia and russians. >> cohen now admits that negotiations over trump tower in moscow continued throughout the campaign into 2017 and he says he kept president trump in the loop the whole time. >> it means when the president was representing during the campaign that he had no business interests in russia, that wasn't true. >> cohen's guilty plea is part of the deal with special counsel robert mueller. as part of the agreement cohen spent dozens of hours talking with investigators. >> he's a weak person. >> president trump criticized his former lawyer and said his moscow project was perfectly legal. >> he's got himself a big prison sentence and he's trying to get a much lesser prison sentence by making up the story. >> the president has repeatedly attacke

cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violation, prosecutors filed a 22-major document asserting mr. cohen coordinated with one or more members of the campaign including through meetings and phone calls about the fact nature and timing of the paymen payments." how serious is this for the president? >> it's quite serious. he said i did this at the direction of a candidate for office. the big question coming out of that proceeding was does he have the proof of that, does he have the goods? i think michael cohen probably has some credibility issues that the southern district i'm sure is working with. does he have the proof? i think with piece of reporting by "the wall street journal" does lend a lot of support to what michael cohen said. >> it kind of connects the dots. after this was reported by the "journal" and a.m.i. paid them off and out come stormy daniels. from what i read in the journal, david pecker was like, nope, i draw the line at paying off porn stars. so it then becomes something that trump and cohen have to deal with. it's where that money comes from. we remember when th

cohen has cooperated, mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> reporter: sources tell abc news cohen has already spent more than 70 hours talking to mueller's investigators about the 2016 campaign and president trump's business ties to russia. today, he pleaded guilty to lying to congress about plans to build a trump tower in moscow. cohen had told lawmakers the moscow project was abandoned in january 2016. he now says that's not true, that the project did not end until june, deep into the campaign. cohen now says he briefed the president and members of his family on multiple occasions. the next month, candidate trump said this -- >> i have no relationship to russia. >> reporter: cohen now admits he discussed trump tower moscow in 2016 with top officials in the russian government and he planned to visit moscow that june. according to court documents, he even spoke to a trump business associate about the possibility of trump himself traveling to russia once he becomes the nominee after the convention. that didn

what do we know about these alleged russian real estate projects that mr cohen says he lied about. one of the biggest link in this chain as we've said is that michael cohen was saying these plans to possibly build a trump tower and moscow had fizzled out somehow in january of two thousand and sixteen but what we now know is that in fact talks were ongoing and then candidate trumped our president was in fact aware of it and in the loop on these real estate dealings that were going on as late as possibly june of twenty sixteen that's well into the presidential campaign and it raises all sorts of questions as to what exactly trump's connection with russia is what his financial dealings are because as we know france he has the president has routinely deny that he has any financial dealings any interest in russia. we're going to come back to you in just a moment we're going to talk about the u.s. president now in that g twenty summit shortly after speaking to reporters in departing for the summit in argentina president trump said that he would be canceling his meeting there with russian

president trump has denied working on that plan and says that mr cohen is launching in the hopes of getting a lighter prison sentence it was convicted of various things unrelated that. he was given a fairly long jail sentence and he's a weak first advice being weak i'd like other people that's why he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reeses set so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about i mean we were very open to. fact check very can't get a reduced sentence yet because he hasn't been sentenced yet that comes in december well senior democrats say that michael cohen may not have been the only person why would you take a listen to what adam schiff from california said today he becomes chair of the house intelligence committee in january. in terms of. the russian vest a geisha and and clearly indicates that the special counsel is getting meaningful cooperation from mr cohen what would you do to determine whether or not there was any financial leverage to the russian capital right. well i think we need to look into one of those things are credible allegations tha

mr. pecker told mr. cohen to tear up the reimbursement agreement, but mr. cohen kept a copy. federal agents found it in a search of mr. cohen's office earlier this year. the journal reports that donald trump was fully involved in the payment michael cohen made to stormy daniels of $130,000 to buy her silence. the journal reports that michael cohen had to make the payment using his own funds because the "national enquirer" refused to cooperate on that deal because david pecker, quote, didn't want his company to pay a porn star. the journal reports that donald trump told michael cohen to, quote, get it done. during the presidential transition after donald trump was elected, donald trump thanked david pecker for suppressing the mcdougal story. the journal reports, mr. pecker granted immunity for his grand jury testimony, told investigators about mr. trump's involvement in the mcdougal deal. joining us now, barbara mcquade, a former u.s. attorney and an msnbc legal contributor, and david corn is back with us. barbara, your reading of the legal implications of this "wall street jo

cohen admitting he misled lawmakers about the moscow project during the 2016 campaign to protect mr. trump. more now from cnn's evan perez. >> reporter: dave and christine, the former fixer michael cohen, pleaded dpiguilty to congress o how much you knew about the moscow project and when it was terminated. telling the court he lied out of loyalty to the president. the man who once said he would take a bullet for the president, gave information to special counsel robert mueller during more than 70 hours of questioning between august and november. the deal to build a trump tower in moscow was one of the many topics discussed according to a source. the court documents revealed that quote cohen discussed the status and progress of the moscow project with trump. referred to as individual one on more than three occasions. while cohen told congress last fall that the moscow project ended in january of 2016, he now admits the discussions lasted until june of 2016. cohen now admits he made the false statements to protect donald trump and give the false impression that the project ended before

you heard his remarks regarding michael cohen. in a surprise move, mr. cohen is in a new york courtroom at this hour pleading guilty. ap reporting that mr. cohen made the appearance this morning at about 9:00 a.m. eastern. he admitted to making false statements in 2017 about a plan to build a trump tower in moscow. more on this as we get it. >>> today brock long testifies on a disaster response before the house oversight and government reform committee. we'll have live coverage of that at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. >> each week in the segment of the washington journal, we like to take a look how your money is at work in a different federal program. this week we're joined by todd

there he is. >> michael cohen! >> mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> mr. cohen, how are you feeling? how are you feeling? sir, do you want to say anything? are you happy? mr. cohen? >> come this way. >> as expected. >> thank you. >>> all right. so not a word from michael cohen there who has pleaded guilty there in federal court in lower manhattan to lying to congress. however we just heard from his attorney, jeffrey toobin come back in with me and jim, what was really significant was the few words that was said, michael cohen has cooperated and will continue to cooperate. to your point, jeff? >> this is, you know, a collapsing story that -- remember, the core of donald trump's view -- donald trump's statements about his relationship with russia, business relationship with russia is at any time have one, that there was nothing there and here we have michael cohen saying, under oath, admitting that he lied previously saying, there was this business relationship and it was going on during the campaign, during the time that the candidate trump now president tr

also, let's see what else mr. cohen has shared with the special prosecutor. this was an individual affiliated with donald trump for many, many years. not only his lawyer, but his fixer. he may have other stories to tell, but i think the sooner the stories get out, the sooner the special prosecutor can lay out his case and the better for the american public. the white house said attack the mueller investigation and constantly said there is no there there. they have nothing to hide. now that trump has actually produced some of the answers to mueller, every day comes out with a new indication of these close affiliates either lying or dissembling and often times with direct connections to russians or agents like julian assange. >> the documents, michael cohen admits he kept mr. trump, individual as he is referred to in conversations that didn't end in january and actually went through june of 2016. he said he kept family members involved. the president's son, donald trump, jr. told the senate judiciary committee he knew very little about that project. any reason

mr. trump should come after he became the nominee at the republican conviction and he lied when he said that he could not recall any contact with the russian officials about the project when he in fact talked to the russian officials about getting help for the land and the financing. now, after he appeared in cohen, you heard the president's statements about it, but today's guilty plea clearly demonstrates that michael cohen continues to cooperate with robert mueller's prosecutors and what it shows is that mueller's prosecutors have now documented a business connection between the trump organization, and russian top officials including the potential meetings of vladimir putin, and now the question is were the same conduits used in any way to facilitate russian meddling in the election. that is a good question, and nothing in today's guilty plea or the court documents saying anything about the second point, but it is simply talking about the potential connections. and the final thing that

attorney's office in miami using recordings made by mr. cohen. they actually extracted a guilty plea from mr. cohen, the president's former fixer back in august. they convicted him of campaign finance law violations, conversations or meetings with one or more members of the trump campaign team. one person according to the report, or at least it was suggested, that person was the president himself. aside from the president's denials, we know the white house has offered a series of the nails about his involvement in the circumstance. you remember early in the year, white house press secretary sarah sanders said none of these allegations are true. back in may, we heard rudy giuliani describe the payments to daniels, well, the president paid him back. no crime of any kind. michael, that is cohen, had discretion to solve these problems. we heard jay sekulow woodfield questions about the circumstance but we have not heard from him on this latest report, but should we hear from him, i will pass it along. but back to you. >> bret: kevin corke live in the

in court, cohen said he made these misstatements to be consistent with mr. trump's political messaging and out of loyalty to donald trump. in a court filing, special counsel robert mueller said cohen also lied to congress, "in hopes of limiting the ongoing russia investigations." >> but obviously, this is a very significant plea and statement. it means that when the president was representing during the campaign that he had no business interests in russia, that that wasn't true. >> reporter: other than cohen's lies to congress, today's charges don't allege any other illegal conduct. there was nothing illegal about the trump organization trying to get a project going in moscow. legal experts say today's charges suggest that mueller wanted cohen's testimony in court today to build a case against others in the trump orbit. >> additional charges down the road, if any, could include lying to congress, as mr. cohen admitted to, but it could be other charges as well. it could be people involved in transactions that in and of themselves were illegal. we don't know y

mr. trump is firing back at cohen. he's also canceling, canceling a planned meeting with vladimir putin. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us from buenos aires. the president lands where you are fairly soon, and we're told that he's in a pretty terrible mood right now, quote, spooked and completely distracted. >> reporter: wolf, he has good reason to be in a terrible mood. president trump, as you said, he's on his way to argentina for the g20 summit. the president will arrive at the summit facing new questions, as you were saying a moment ago, about his business ties to russia during the 2016 campaign. after that bombshell that his former attorney michael cohen dropped in new york earlier today, pleading guilty to lying to congress about mr. trump's dealings in moscow. president trump's former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, has left his old boss in a fix. leaving for the g20 summit, the president lashed out at cohen's decision to plead guilty to lying to congress about mr. trump's business dea