ruined my moment! >> we'll see >> a double whammy for the white house. president trump's former lawyer striking a plea employee deal wnl minutes of the quon conviction of the campaign chairman. >> an undocumented immigra is charged with murder in the mollie tibbets case. >> a destructive blast caught on camera. the wild video of an explosion rocking a georgia coffee shop. >> making sure his fans take care, the adorable moment drake surprised a young hospital patient in chicago. "early today" starts right now good wednesday morning. i' marlie hall. >> i'm phillip mena. >> president trump. reeling from a potentone-two

punch. >> first, the federal c jury convicted paul manafort on eight tourmali counts. then michael cohen pleads guilty to eight counts of tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations including hush money paents he claims were directed s" the president himself. "the new york ti editorial board alluding to watergate with the headline "all thees ent's crooks." it could get worse for trump. cohen's own attorney tellingal maddowen his c is more than happy to tell robert mueller all he >> mr. mueller is dedicated to telling the truth. now he h no shado hanging over him. the uncertainty is gone. he stepped up to the line and hd has admihat he did wrong. is he now liberated to tell the truth everythinging about donald

trump that he knows. ere's a cover-up here by our now president of the united states that is undeniable. >> nbc'shi chief wte house correspondent halle jackson has morena cohen's deal. >> reporter: that bombshell plea deal means the man who used to fix donald trump's problems has now become one for the presidt. michael cohen implicating his former boss after pleading guilty to eighty fel charges of tax fraud, bank fraud and campaign finance violations paying out hush ney, telling a judge he broke the law because a candidate told him to. he doesn't name the person buty he o worked for one, donald trump. >> worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believe would beth detrimental to 2016 campaign and the candidate and the campaign. >> that includes 30,000 payment cohen made days before the election to important star stormy daniels to keep her quiab

t an alleged fair with the president which he denies. michveltti represents daniels. >> she feels very vindicated and she's goingo continue to fight the good fight. >> the president said he didn't know about the payment at the kme. >> did yw about the payment to stormy daniels? >> no. ne>> the president's att rudy giuliani tells us late tonight there is no allegationny of wrongdoing against the president and the government's charges against mr. cohen. it is clear that mr. cohen's actions refrequent a bat esh of lies and dishonesty over a significant period of etime. thresident himself has suggested he's not concerned with what cohen might say. >> just want to know if you're worried. >> i did nothing wrong. >> cohen will not g have to to trial but faces 3 1/2 to five years in prison. he'll be sentenced in december. >> he can go to jail for a number of years. so he still has an eninsent tub to help the the more information, the more

truthful information he provides, ther off he'll be. >> reporter: it's a stunning development for two men whose relationship dates back a decade. cohen once said he would take a bullet for the president. this summer signs of a split when cohen declared his family and country comet. fi perhaps to the president a betrayal. >> is he still your friend. >> i always liked michael cohen. >> i he still yourlawyer? >> no, he'syeot my lr anymore. but i always liked michael.s >> our tha to halle jackson for that ror. president trump'sgnormer campanager is awaiting sentencing this morning. jurors consisted paul manafort on eight counts in his trial, charges ha predated h time with the campaign. justice correspondent petell wims breaks down the case for us. >> reporter: the jury found pull manafort of dodging taxes on miions of dollars h earned as

a political consultant for the former president of ukraine well before he served as trump's campaign chairman. prosecutors say he stashed the money in overseas banks by wiring money directly from those accounts to pay his bills by passing ax collects. through 2014, manafort earned more than $30 million but reported less than half of it as income. when the ukrainian money dried up, prosecutors said manafort lied in applying for loans to maintain his lavish spending habits. in the all, manafort faced 18 criminal counts. the jury convicted him on eight but could not agree on the other ten. of those, the judge declared a mistrial leaving prosecutors free to charge him with them all over aga though tha seems unlikely. >> the prosecution will be hap

that the eight counts were spread out over each of the fraunchs of things was accused. they can t argue judge should consider everything. >> the conviction is a boost for robert mueller. manafort was the first person he charged aer becoming special counselo force his cooperation in the meddling investigation. mueller's lawyered tha the judge and jury for what they said was a fair trial. >> mr. manafort is disappointed of not getting a completely hung injury. he is a evaluatin of his options at this point. >> no sentencing date has been set yet for manafort. but he could face up 0 ten years in prison. next month he goes on trial in federal court in washington where he fac charges of failing to register as a foreign lobbyist foruk ine, witness tampering and financial fraud. >> pete, thank you. >> despite that doebl does of

bad news, president trump is ingging his heels at a rally in west virginia last night, he keptisp attacks. once again declaring it a witch hunt. susan mcginnis joining us with more on the president's reaction to all of this. >> many here in washington are viewing this double bombshell surprising the walls are closing in around president trump. the president did not mention haeither man at rally but he hid slam the russia investigation w some familiar words. >> fake news and the russian witch hunt. we got a whole big. where is the collusion? >> ahead of the rally he did tention paul manafort saying he was a great man lso saying it has nothing to do with me. most significant words by con,

that his principal purpose was to affect the election. rudy guiliani says there's noon allegaf wrong doing that would lead to any charges in . cohen's words. white house is concerned about impeachment. some experts say ifemocrats retake the house, they'll have that at the top of their agenda. some are worried this could give more fuel to the mueller probe. >> thing already heating up now. an update in the serlg for student mollie tibbets. after she went for an evening jog. according to authorities, undocumented immigrant cristhian rivera was charged with first degrees mder hours after officials pound what they alieved to be her body in farm field. dan sheneman tells us more. >> reporter: more than a month after student mollie tibbets

disappeared, the search for her came to end. >> a body was discovered early this morning in a farm field southeast of brooklyn, iowa. the identity has not been confirmed. we believe it to be the body of mollie tibbets. >> authorities have a suspect in custody, 24-year-old cristhian bahena riviera who may have been in the country for seven years. video showing tibbets t day she disappeared provided a break in the case. the young woman's body was locked in a cornfield. the suspect's status of an undocumented immigrant caught the atttion of the white house. >> you heard about today with the illegal alien coming in very sadly from mexico. and you saw what ppened to that incredible beautiful young woma

should have never happened. >> tibbetts vanished july 18th while running in her home town of brooklyn. her family and friends desperately searched for her and prayed for a happyending. > i wp in the morning, i'm thinking of mollie. i'm at work, i think of molly. it's true still to this day and will be pore years to come. >> the search is over b the heartache has justbegin. deny sheneman, nbc news. haiireparing for a category 5 storm as an intensifying hurrica lane moves toward the islands. many residents have stocked u on food. >> is and water. the governor issuing an emergency proclamation. the officials are plan forth worst as the hurricane threatens the state with rains and monster flooding. >> nbc's bill karins is here. give u an update. >> scary things.

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