♪ it's wednesday, august 22nd, 2018. this the cbs morning news. president trump's ex-lawyer pleads guilty. michael cohen says he was ordered to illegally influence the 2016 election. what other charges he's coughing to. and a jury finds president trump's former campaign chair, paul manafort guilty of a slew of financial crimes. how the president is responding. plus a heart breaking end to the search for a missing college

student. suspect leads investigators to the body of mollie tibbetts. ♪ good morning here in new york. good to be with you. we begin with brand new developments involving president trump former colleagues. mr. trump's former personal lawyer, michael cohen, implicated the president in a federal crime. he says then candidate trump directed him in a hush money scheme. cohen will be sentenced in december. he faces several years in prison. good morning. >> reporter: good morning and we're still waiting on the president to address ace --

he said at the direction of then candidate trump. he pled guilty to eight crimes. >> he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the 2016 campaign to the candidate and the campaign. >> reporter: cohen did not name intwo women or the president but the details line up with payments made to adult star stormy daniels and former playboy model, karen mcdougal. both women claim to have had a affair with president trump which he denies. president trump avoided talking about cohen yesterday. but at his rally in west virginia he continued his attack on the special counsel's r

wh the collusion? >> cohen's plea deal not involve the special counsel. but the attorney says cohen has information for them. >> from this moment on you're going to see liberated michael cohen speaking truth to power. >> he pled guilty to tax evasion and bank fraud. rudy giuliani said in a statement quote there is no allegation of any wrong doing against the president in the government's charges against mr. cohen, end quote. cohen is out of jail on a half dollars bail. coming up on cbs this morning,e'll talk toie's plea.

and a jury found prentrum former chairman tkpweuplty of a crime. this is the first trial to come out of the russia investigation. the president called manafort a good man the verdict a disgrace. >> reporter: he never mentioned former campaign chairman, manafort, by name. >> where is the collusion? >> the apaoerpbls after manafort was convicted on 18 penalty acounts. >> mr. manafort's not worried about getting a completed hung jury on all counts. they said they didn't think the but manafort is counting on a . pardon.

>> he is evaluating all of his options at this point. >> this has nothing to do with with russian collusion. this is a witch hunt and it's a disgrace. manafort is facing years in prison but they don't answer questions about the manafort investigation. >> out of this manafort goes to jail because he's a crooked business man but the heart and soul is cuwhraougz the russians. obstruction of just. cbs tphaourbgsz alexandria, virginia. speaker of the house, paul ryan, says the charges are deeply serious. used mthan50,$000 d to ay he

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tibbetts faces court -- an autopsy will be performed today. >> reporter: investigators charged 24-year-old christian rivera, an undocumented immigrant for the abduction and murder of mollie tibbetts after going on her daily job. at ohe said molly said you need leave me alone or i'm going to call the police. then he blacks out and to an intersection we believe he then placed molly. >> reporter: just mile brooklyn, iowa. >> investigators have been searching for weeks. why was it not found before.

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a mistrial was declared on 10 other counts. manafort faces several years in prison. an autopsy will be performed today on the body of iowa college student, mollie tibbetts. rivera is scheduled to make his first court appearance today. some scary moments for rapper post malone and his entourage after their private jet ran into trouble just minutes after leaving the new jersey airport. here with the latest from new york. >> reporter: a private lane carrying rapper post malone landed safely in upstate new york. shortly after take off from teat

teterboro, new york -- they informed that gulf scream jet b stewart international airport instead of returning. for hours the pilot stayed in plane. malone is riding high. the new york native performed with with 21 savage and aerosmith at the mtv video music awards in new york. he won a moon man for rock star, song of the year. on the ground emergency crew wurz standing by just in case something went wrong. officials say malone and his entourage were headed to airport london. well, coming up first on cbs this morning new details on what's considered the most dev

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i'm kenny choi. i'm kenny choi. and i'm anne makovec in for let's t ofthis morning with a live look at at&t park. it is wednesday, august 22nd. good morning. i'm kenny choi.

thanks for joining us. >> and i'm morning. it is just about 4:30 on a wednesday. halfway there. >> all right. yeah. the weekend is almost here. >> we are getting there. and you can see there are some changes. the weather even knows that the weekend is upon us because our temperatures this morning are not quite as cool. that thanks to the blanket of clouds sitting over top of us now. 63 in concord. livermore 61. 64 in san jose. santa rosa 60 degrees. so temperatures are going to climb this afternoon although not too high. i'll tell you where it's going to clear coming up. and right now, we are tracking an accident that has one lane blocked in antioch eastbound 4 past hillcrest blocking a lane. no