to 9:00 p.m. eastern. up next headliners looks at paul manafort. for now, good night from washington. drain the swamp. >> donald trump is a guy who likes to talk about the swamp. well, paul manafort is the guy who invented the swamp. >> he rewrote the rules in washington. >> he was considered one of the smartest and most able in the republican party. >> before taking his bare knuckle politics over seas. >> he huge paydays working for foreign leaders and politicians

who had unsaver rereputations. >> a high profile return to american politics. running trumps campaign. >> paul had great success with reagan and bush and ford. >> i have known trump 30 years. and when somebody started talking about the need to bring in additional people. he listened and reached out. >> he couldn't escape the sins of his past. >> he resorted to committing bank fraud. >> or his ties to russia. >> he was indebted to a russian oligarch. close to putin. >> after convictions of bank and tax fraud. and time in jail. a stunning reversal for the former trump insider. paul manafort agreed to cooperate fully with the russia probe. >> huge. >> what does manafort know? and what does it mean for president trump? >> mueller was not going to make

a deal where manafort pleads guilty to two charges unless he had something significant to offer. >> the rise and spectacular fall of paul manafort. he maybe the biggest threat to donald trumps presidency. >> paul manafort was probably one of the most connected political strategists in the last 40 years. the amount of information that he potentially has against the president of the united states. and probably many others. involving possible conspiracy with the russians to hack the election. money laundering and tax crimes. election crimes. it's incalculatable.

>> in august after a jury trial in virginia manafort was convicted of bank and tags fraud. a case that avoided touching directly on the mueller probe. not only did manafort plead gmt to two criminal charges. he agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors probing what president trump did, or didn't know about russian interference in the 2016 election. >> tough day if mr. manafort. accepted responsibility. >> paul manafort is significant at this moment because he may represent a critical part of the investigation of donald trump. and the russian effort to influence the 2016 election. >> what were paul manaforts contacts and communications with russians during the campaign? i think there's smoke there. and we'll have to find out from

the special counsel. where there's fire. >> during the nearly five month period that manafort worked on the trump cal pain. he was close to the center of power. organizing and directing the republican national convention for the future president. and attending a june 2016 trump tower meeting. with a russian lawyer. reporting compromising information about hillary clinton. >> that meeting could be at the heart of the conspiracy case involving collusion with the russian election interference. >> manafort may have inside information on financial contacts that donald trump may have with the russians. i think water gate compared to this. is quaint and pedestrian. >> i suppose one of the big questions about manafort, he's so smart. so able. he's a adept social will and

politically. yet he hits towards trouble himself. sitting in a jail cell as we speak. >> it's a dramatic take down of a man who changed long standing notions about lobbying and political consultant si. becoming one of the most influential figures inside the belt way. >> manafort is an incredibly important figure in the history of washington. he's changed the definition of what's acceptable behavior in washington. and donald trump is a guy who likes to talk about the swamp. paul manafort is the guy who invented the swamp. >> you think we don't have control of this convention. >> long before the trump campaign. he consulted and organized delegates for a generation of republican presidential candidates. among them ronald reagan and george hw bush. >> paul had great success are reagan and bush. and ford.

and great success. >> when you have a convention or fight, the guy you want with you on your side. hoefs the guy that could figure out a strategy. >> people were drawn to him in politics. he operated by his own rules and he operated in the universe of manafort. >> his influence extended far outside the u.s. border. in the former soviet union he worked with some of the most powerful oligarchs. linked to russian president vladimir putin. >> we don't know whether there was a conspiracy between trump campaign and the russians. if there was it stand to reason paul manafort was in middle of it. manafort came to the campaign with the russian connections. >> in august after a trial in virginia. manafort convictions on bank and tax fraud made him the first trump campaign associate found guilty as part of muellers

probe. >> he happens to be a very good person. i think it's very sad what they've done to manafort. thank you. >> the president appeared to believe manafort would never betray him by cooperating with the special counsel. in one tweet, trump referred to his former campaign chair as a brave man. who wouldn't break. >> by calling him brave. and talking about the fact he's a guy who wouldn't flip or break. he may have been urging his chairman to stand strong and hang in there. and take his lump and wait for a pardon. >> i think that donald trump thought paul manafort was going to do a good fellow. not talk. not be a snitch. >> with his guilty plea, manafort joined a growing roster of one time trump allying cooperating with investigators. >> the list of cooperators is

significant and growing. and any investigation at the federal level it's like building a wall. each brick is important. and at some point the wall has so many bricks that it's almost impengable. >> coming up. >> we continue the witch hunt. >> as the vice grow tighter around trump. prosecutors examine the life and deeds of paul manafort. >> he learned politics from his father. and absorbed it.

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washington d.c. in the early 1970s. while other students were protesting the vietnam war. manafort was studying business and law at georgetown university. and angle to find a place for himself in the republican party.

>> young republican elections were knock down drag out fights. and manafort was the master of this universe. he teamed up with a guy called roger stone. who is a recuring character in the manafort story and the story of donald trump. >> with manafort's help. stone became president of the young republicans. establishing the two as potential king makers. >> paul manafort almost came out of the womb as an operator. >> before his journey to washington, manafort story began here. in new britain, connecticut. in 1949. >> new britain is known as the hardware city. it's the home of stanly black and decker. hard scrabble place. >> still, paul's grandfather an italian immigrant thrived. starting manafort brothers. a demolition company that became

a construction power house. receiving government contracts to build roadways. and rail way stations. the family name can be seen here. a tribute to manafort's father. former mayor. paul manafort sr. >> his father he was a back slapping politician. he also liked to stoke peoples resentment. he liked to rail against the vietnam war protesters or hippies. in some ways his father foreshadowed the politics of donald trump. >> like president trump, this senior manafort was a controversial figure. charged with among other misdeeds, perjury. for providing false testimony in a corruption investigation tied to the mob. >> he was never convicted. so early on, you see paul manafort having exposure to what was when you get close to the legal line. but also saying that it doesn't

necessarily end a career. >> on the surface though, the younger manafort appeared to be playing by the rules. at the 1976 republican national convention, manafort just two years after receiving his law degree from georgetown, helped president ford win a bruising primary battle with former california governor ronald regul reagan. >> he understood gathering delegates and commitment. he could help you predict the political drama in advance. he was so good at counting delegates he earned the nickname the kept. >> there will be no more betrayal. of allies and friends by the united states government. >> as the reagan revolution began in 1980. manafort and his pal roger stone became parts of the campaign. stone organizing for the in the

northeast. manafort coordinated the southern flank. achieving the types of results that would prompt other candidates to seek them out. in future elections. >> there was no dispute. that manafort was very good at what he did. >> the year of reagan election, manafort and stone opened a lobbying firm. by partnering with charlie black. established republican operative. >> from the beginning, black, manafort and stone. seemed committed to breaking the time honored tradition of the nations capitol. >> previously law firms typically did lobbying. political consultant did there was a separation between the two. >> there are a few things manafort did that were extremely innovative in the lobbying industry. the first was he married a political consultant firm with a lobbying firm. so he could essentially help elect people and go back and lobby those same people.

who he helped elect. >> when you elect somebody to office, you know them intimately. they owe you a big debt. when you come asking a favor on behalf of a big corporate client. they're likely to do it. >> among those corporate clients. bethlehem steel. johnson and johnson and the tobacco institute. >> black, stone and manafort were known for their swagger they drove big cars. they wore fancy suits. and they let everyone know they were earning a ton of money. >> in 1984 the same year they helped president reagan get reelected. the firm broke another precedent. adding a partner. a democrat. >> peter kelly. often gets over looked. he was former finance chair of the dnc. the first real bipartisan lobbying firm. >> washington was a place that tended to have republican firms and democratic firms.

but their strategy is we're going to become the one stop shop for everything. >> america's best days are yet to come. i know it bothers my opponent. you ain't seen nothing yet. >> it was an intoxicating environment. he's smart and we wanted to do it all. he wanted to help make history. >> manafort never could have imagined that a generation later, he'd still be making history. but without the glory or the glam. >> congresswomming up. >> there's an irony in his story. he has been doing this stuff for years and got away with it. or delicious. or fun. but since you need both car and home insurance,

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less attention. if i apply my trade over seas. >> manaforts new strategy took him to places like the philippines. where in the mid-1980s, protestors citing long time dictator record of human rights abuse, and corruption. were calling for his outser. with manaforts help. they held new elections. staving off his removal until 1986. >> manafort was an early practitioner of that international art of lobbying and consulting. the same way in united states and making a fortune. in the process. >> manafort reached huge paydaying work frg foreign leaders and politicians. who had unsavor ri reputations. >> a civil war raged for more than 25 years. manafort was hired by rebel leader.

a former at war with the country left leaning government. >> he's a guy who didn't hesitate to kill women. and children. who spread land mines like crazy. who killed hundreds of thousands of people. in the course of perpetuating a civil war. >> paul orchestrated a sort of rise. laundering his reputation and creating a heroic picture of this african rebel. and he was eventually welcomed at the white house. >> during the next decade. a notorious group of billionaires began to exert power. >> when they felt there was a ton top of money sloshing around eastern europe. controlled by a handful of the oligarchs. capitalizing on the private s k

privatization of the industries. >> the golden goose. >> he's very close to vladimir putin. >> he reportedly acquired his wealth during the bloody battle during the control of the alum yum industry in the 1990s. >> paul manafort helps hip out. who is constantly over the past couple of decade, seeking influence and access to the united states. >> in fact before the 2008 presidential election, manafort arranged a meeting with the presumptivive republican nominee. john mccain. at the time, manafort was hoping to play a major role in that campaign. >> when public reports reveal presidential candidate john mccain has met an oligarch. a guy close to putin. mccain hitched the roof. and it's curtains for paul

manafort in the mccain campaign. >> they remained close. with the billionaire investing in a number of manafort business projects. with the endorsement, and other like mined oligarchs. manafort also began working extensively for ukraine politician. >> victor is a former coal trucking administrator who had been convicted twice of assault. as a young man. >> after the 2004 presidential election in the former soviet republic of ukraine. covish was accused of voter fraud and conspiracy to poison his opponent. >> he was sent packing. it didn't look like he had a political future. and manafort was brought in to rehab him. >> he came from a very rough part of the country. and he dressed very much like a

mob boss. manafort came in and made him essentially ready for tv. >> paul manafort took a great deal of pride in his appearance. hi suit jackets and particularly his magnificent hair. many people i talked to in ukraine thought he actually modelled victor ts hair after his. >> his victory in the 2010 presidential election in ukraine was stunning. it's not an under estimation to say manafort almost single handedly resuscitated this mans career. >> one he took power. his key opponent was sent to prison. manafort aided his client by planting storying depicting her as an antisemite. and murderer. while she was being beaten and tortured behind bars. in 2014, demonstrators gathered

in central to rail against cove itch. >> he was signing a deal with russia. so ukrainens that wanted to move further from russia's influence went to the streets. it went from a street protest to a full blown revolution in days. >> people were gunned down. 100 over all. >> the backlash that followed. he fled to russia. >> the loss of victor and his party. as a client. meant the loss of millions of dollars. >> suddenly, manafort found himself cash poor. >> when the source of the money in the ukraine dried up, he then resorted to committing bank fraud. in various ways to make his finances last longer. >> to make matters worse, oligarch was demanding an

accounting for the $18.9 million he invested in the telecommunication company with manafort. >> when the oligarch attempted to contact manafort. he reportedly refused to respond. >> he was in debt to a powerful oligarch. which would make anyone worry about how you're going to get money back to pay this person back. >> manafort attempted to change his fate. he looked back to the united states. and a long shot presidential candidate. >> we will make america great again. in the u.s. it's america's most popular street name. but allstate agents know that's where the similarity stops. if you're on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage your siding. and that's very different than living on park ave in sheboygan, wisconsin, where ice dams could cause water damage. but no matter what park you live on, one of 10,000 local allstate agents knows yours.

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and two adult daughters had gro grown used to. he owned several luxury properties in virginia. florida and new york. he also indulged a flair for expensive clothes. spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on tailored suits at designer shops. >> text messages allegedly hack frd the phone of manaforts daughter. reveal manafort was even paying the bills for a mistress. >> her text messages show that the family had confronted paul manafort about having a an awe fair. and believe that manafort was paying for his mistresses rent. and also credit card bill. just adding more to the financial and emotional burden that was collapsing around him. during this time period. >> he had some period of depression. and hopelessness. and he needed help. the only way he felt like he

could hold onto his family was to follow his families advise and check himself into a clinic. >> that clinic according to text allegedly sent by his daughter. was a treatment facility in arizona. >> manafort as he exits the clinic. claims to be a reborn man. he presented himself to his family as a guy who had his act back together. he might have come out of this rehab center with a renewed self-awareness. he was so deep in financial trouble there was no way he could get out. >> wow. amazing. amazing. >> then, in a political turn few saw coming. by the spring of 2016, donald trump had broken out of the republican pack.

and was closing in on the presidential nomination. >> we are going to make america great again. >> manafort was a long time acquaintance of trump and even owned an apartment in new york trump tower. he reached out to an intermediary for the campaign. and inspite of the financial straits. manafort offered to counsel the candidate for free. >> my sources tell me that manafort thought if he could present himself as aa peer to trump. an equal. and lived the lavish lifestyle. trump might see him as someone willing to take advice from. >> in march 2016. he was asked to join the campaign. >> i have known trump 30 years. and when somebody started talking about the need to bring in additional people to deal with the process. he listened and he reached out.

>> manafort was back in the spotlight. but few around him knew he was in desperate need of millions in cash. just to stay afloat. >> to that end as prosecutors would later discover, manafort had be submitting fraudulent loan applications to several banks. which would ultimately net him $20 million in loans. >> you would think he could have just sold off some assets or changed his lifestyle. and spen less. but the fact he didn't shows just how much a part of his identity this high flying lifestyle had become. >> soon after joining the campaign, manafort reportedly e-mailed an intermediary. for the russian oligarch. still looking to know what happened to his near will $19 million investment. with manafort sfl once he started working for trump there were messages that he sent back. to make sure he knew that he was

now in this position of influence. >> and there's this phrase where manafort says how do we use this to get whole. he was clearly on his mind. the idea of leveraging his access to trump. to solve this business problem he had. >> he persists in that suggesting at one point tell him i can provide him private briefings on this state of the campaign. >> working for trump, manafort showed talents for counting delegates and convention planning. >> we're going to win. before the first bell. before cleveland. >> you're confident you'll win before cleveland? >> i wouldn't be saying it. >> in may he was offered the jb of campaign chairman. his right hand man, rick gates, joined as deputy chairman. >> he had an enormous on the

campaign. professionalizing it. developing the strategy for issues on which to concentrate. states and travel and where the candidate should go. make sure had had sufficient delegates in his corner to secure the nomination. >> manafort maybe remembered more for his presence at the now notorious trump tower meeting in june 2016. those in attendance included manafort. donald trump jr. jared kushner and rush lawyer. what transpired maybe at the core of the russia investigation. >> russian lawyers came with the promise of incriminating information about hilary krin ton. manafort is somebody who spent considerable time in moscow. and is incredibly well versed in the politics of the region. and so if anybody in that room

should have said, you know what, let's cancel this. set off alarm bells. it would have been maul manafort. there's no evidence that he had any discomfort whatsoever with the meeting. >> in july, at the republican national convention in cleveland, manafort skills at delegate counting helped ensure a victory. for donald trump. >> i humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the president of the united states. >> there was speculation manafort may have influenced another out come of the convention as well. a curious amendment to the republican platform. >> during the convention there was a zsubtle change in the pary platform. >> which targeted america policy towards ukraine. originally demanded the u.s. provide ukraine with lethal defensive weapons to fight russian aggression.

after the change, the language was softened to offering them appropriate assistance. >> there's a strong belief in suggestion since manafort was connected with you crane for so many yores he might have been part of this effort. yet, manafort denied at the time he had knowledge of and participated in this change ot platform. >> in august, manafort's job as campaign chairman was thrown in jeopardy. the "new york times" revealed a ledger found in ukraine. listing millions of dollars in cash payments to manafort. between 2007 and 2012. >> manafort denies it. says he's never accepted off the books funds from the ukrainen political party. >> it got to a point where the scrutiny was so great that trump essentially had to let him go. although i believe technically

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after report surfaced of paul manaforts work for a pro-russian party in ukraine. he was forced to resign from donald trumps presidential campaign. in august, 2016. >> instead of becoming the biggest player in trump washington. he becomes this big villain. he becomes the epicenter of the growing attention on the relationship between donald trump and russia. >> as questions of russian interference and possible collusion continue to grow, former fbi director robert mueller was named special

counsel. >> if your mandate was to look at possible collusion, one of the first places you would look is the campaign chair. the top adviser to a candidate. who is himself connected financially and personal le to the kremlin. >> earl will on the morning of july 26, 2017. authorities raided one of the manaforts homes. this upscale apartment in virginia. >> the fbi executed a number of search warrants against paul manafort. they identified a storage unit where he kept some materials that they searched. >> those materials and others led to the first charges brought by the mueller probe. a 12 count indictment against paul manafort. and his business partner rick gates. >> the 12 counts against him include conspiracy. against the united states. money laundering. and failure to report foreign bank accounts. >> today's announcement has nothing to do with the president. nothing to do with the president

campaign. or campaign activity. >> manafort pleaded not guilty. confined to house arrest in virginia. the master at shaping public opinion attempted his own image make over. through his attorney kevin downing. >> mr. manafort represented pro-european union campaigns. he was seek lg to further democracy. and to help the ukraine come closer to the united states and the eu. >> manafort refused to cooperate. rick gates did. agreeing to a plea deal after additional charges of tax and bank fraud were filed in february 2018. manafort one time protege would cooperate. and testify against his former mentor. >> though he lost rick gates as an ally. manafort tried to contact other witnesses through a third party. while he was under house arrest. >> he reached out to try to

convince potential witnesses to get their stories straight. according to mueller. who said that amounted to witness tampering. >> as a result of those witness tampering allegations, manafort was actually remanded to prison in june. that's powerful evidence of what the prosecutors call consciousness of guilt. if you are trying to get witnesses to change testimony you are trying to hide something. >> because the charges stem from activity in virginia and washington. he faced separate trials in both virginia and the capitol. the first trial began. where the defendant sat before a jury of six women. and six men. >> paul manafort is a guy who has swagger. who understands how to project an image. and when he would walk into court and flash the smile at the jury. and he sat down and orchestrate

his defense team. there's a magic that comes with manafort. >> prosecutors laid out the case for tax and bank fraud. manafort they alleged laundered $30 million in income from ukraine. through offshore accounts in places like cyprus. he used that money to fund his lifestyle in the united states. >> the jury learned that in 2012 alone, manafort spent $6.4 million on three new homes. a house in arlington, virginia. a condo in manhattan. and a brooklyn brown stone. he also spent millions more the prosecution claimed on luxury cars. and antiques. watches. and custom suits. perhaps the most ostentatious possession. a jacket made of ostrich skin. costing $15,000. >> that was really the thing

that was i think most highlighted in the first trial. was the opulence of his life. the ostrich skin jacket. the hamptons and the all the expenditures. >> prosecutors also pointed to the $20 million in fraudulent bank loans manafort secured when his income ran out. >> he in one case went so far as to offer high up bank employee a job in the trump administration. in exchange for fwifing him a loan he wouldn't have otherwise gotten. >> the jury heard from a string of government witnesses. most notably manaforts former business partner, rick gates. >> mr. gates would display what i consider nervous gestures. he would squeeze hi eyes shut really tight and open them. >> he just seemed nervous and no time did i ever see him turn his head to look at mr. manafort. >> the defense called no

witnesses. having done their best to under mine rick gates throughout the trial. >> what they tried to do is to set up rick gates essential will as the fall guy. the guy who was under pressure who really commit td'd all the crimes and ultimately tried to cut a deal with the prosecution. >> on august 15 the case went to the jury. pall manafort's fate was in the hand of 12 ordinary americans. >> day one of the deliberation is history. the manafort trial. >> the jury wrapped up day two of the deliberation. they'll be baa k at work on monday morning. >> meanwhile we're waiting on the jury and his first federal felony trial. >> after three days the jury was still locked in deliberation. >> tensions starts to build. the longer they go the more your mind begins to wonder. what's going to happen here? it looked like a slam dunk case. maybe the jurors were reading it differently. >> coming up.

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on the afternoon of august 21st 2016 after four days of deliberation, the jury and paul's bank fraud trial turns to the courtroom. >> the deputy clerk started reading off the verdict and said "count one" which is tax fraud, "guilty." and i was looking right at paul, and he showed very little emotion. but i did notice he took a big gulp and swallowed quite hard. >> he was convicted of seven more counts including filing false tax returns, failure to disclose a foreign bank account

and bank fraud. his likely prison sentence, eight to ten years. >> mr. manafort got a fair trial. >> any comment? >> we have a lot to evaluate in terms of the outcome. today, we'll do it in a thoughtful manner. >> the jury was unable to reach a verdict on the other ten counts. after a lone juror refused to convict. >> out of 11 of us, it was an obvious guilt on 18 counts, but there was a holdout. needed ten hung counts. we really wanted to be able to reach a verdict on all 18 counts. it caused tears in a couple people. it's a very emotional thing. >> moments after news of the verdict, another thunder bolt. >> today, as you heard, michael pled guilty to eight felony charges. >> in a new york courtroom, michael cohen, the president's former personal attorney, pled

guilty to bank and tax fraud and campaign finance violations. >> and it's extraordinary that you have two people in the inner orbit of trump, one found guilty and the other one pleading guilty within minutes in separate courtrooms. >> mr. president, what about michael cohen? any comment on michael cohen? >> as the white house down played the significance of the two cases, paul manafort's second trial in washington, d.c. moved. on friday, september 14th, with jury selection just days away, a stunning announcement. >> major breaking news this hour in the mueller investigation. president trump's former campaign chairman, paul manafort, pleading guilty today to two charges. >> paul manafort reached a plea deal with prosecutors, agreeing to cooperate fully and truthfully in the special

counsel's probe. the former trump insider pleading guilty to two charges, conspiracy against the united states and conspiracy to obstruct justice. >> the conspiracy to the united states charge encompassed bank and tax fraud, and the other was the alleged reaching out to witnesses to get them to change their stories. >> the deal required him to force ill-gotten gain made through his fraudulent schemes. five new york properties in total, including his trump tower condo. manafort also agreed to hand over funds from three bank accounts and a life insurance policy, all told, the values of his forfeitures reportedly between $42 million and $46 million. most significantly, he pledged to share any and all information of interest to prosecutors,

waives a right to counsel in interview and agreed to testify for the government in court, and even to participate in undercover activities, a major victory for the mueller team. >> huge. and i would capitalize h-u-g-e and add four exclamation points. of interest to prosecutors, the recollection of the notorious trump tower meeting in june 2016. >> manafort was there. he can give realtime analysis of that before, during, and after. those events could all lead to a conspiracy with the russians to affect our democratic process. that's against the law. mueller's team may also ask about the attempt during the trump campaign to reach the russian oligarch seeking information on nearly 19 million invested with manafort. >> during the campaign, he

offered the man private briefings. he was in debt to him. what did that mean? what was he willing to do for the russians while he was chairman of trauhe trump campai? >> mr. manafort accepted responsibility and he wanted to make sure his family was able to remain safe and live a good life. >> i will tell you this, i believe that he will tell the truth. if he tells the truth, no problem. >> manafort's cooperation, may, however, save the 69-year-old husband and father from spending what could be the rest of his life in prison. >> it's doubtful that he's going to get the 10-15 years he was looking at if convicted on all charges in both trials. >> i predict that at the end of the day, paul manafort ends up with six years. if that happens, and he doesn't lie and cheat and hold back and is fully truthful.

>> a sensational fall from grace for the political operative with tremendous talent and personal ambitions, but, perhaps, even greater greed. >> what is it about such a smart guy that directs him to trouble? is he looking a moral compass? is he seduced by money? this guy who grew up in new britton, connecticut, and he flies to the top of the political world is drawn consistently by seeking financial reward. to see a guy who was once the face of a high-flying, swaggering industry reduced to a broke and kind of desperate figure, in a way, it's tragic and spax spehakespearean. >> it's painful watching them go through this. he has a lot of friends. he is people who hope for the best for him. he has people who are praying for him.

>> he's sitting in jail, and technically, he's unemployed, but he is the de facto employee of the united states of america. he is on the government's feet. he is all in. he'll do what he has to do truthfully to help himself. >> michael cohen pled guilty on eight counts today. >> michael cohen was the president's fixer -- >> if anybody else was, in his mind, going after his boss, he was going to fight back. >> and keeper of secrets. >> in all of individuals of trump's orbit who knew where the bodies were buried, if you will, cohen was at the top of the list. >> swearing to do anything to protect the president. >> told me he could take a bullet for the president. b