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joining us now is emily jane fox, senior reporter at vanity fox who broke this story. y, great to see you. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> so you report that he is in contact with the special counsel's office, that he is talking to the mueller team. do you have any sense of the substantive nature of those communications? is he -- are they getting acquainted? is he providing them information? do you have a sense of that? >> it's unclear how far down the line these talks are. i don't know if they're preliminary. i don't know if they are in front of a grand jury. i don't know if they're working towards a cooperation agreement. all of those things are certainly possible and different people within the cohen orbit have suggested different things. it is unclear how far down the line they are. but it is a step in a direction michael cohen had not gone down before. this is not where he was even about a month or so ago when he pleaded guilty. he was at that time kind of befuddled that investigators were not reaching out to him, were not seeking his cooperation

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emily jane fox has done more remarkable reporting. from emily's piece. in interviews with more than a dozen alumni from area schools who graduated between the mid'70s and early 2000s i repeatedly heard stories of parties. many witnessed moments like the one ford described or heard about them or experienced them first hand. when i read this story on sunday i said, of course this happened. a woman who graduated from holton told me. there was nothing difficult to believe about what she's saying. how could anyone doubt this. it felt personal to a lot of us because the story is so similar to a lot of us so the attacks on her felt personal. emily joins us now. >> you know, nicolle, over the last few days i talked to seven women who went to holton arms which is a very small private school that dr. ford went to who themselves came forward with stories of sexual assault when they were students there. and what kept coming up as they shared their stories, which were all various shades or degrees similar to what dr. ford shared was that they wanted to share their st

with us tonight to talk about all of it, emily jane fox, senior report for vanity fair. she also happens to be the author of "born trump, inside america's first family." she also happens to be the first to report last week on michael cohen's talks with robert mueller. michael crowley also returns to our broadcast, national security editor at politico. and still with us, former u.s. attorney joyce vance. >>> emily, this is built on your reporting and i want you now to build on the reporting that's out there. what more do we know about these sessions, these questions, and possible answers from cohen? >> so, here's what i have discussed and last friday night i sat with you here talking about how michael cohen had been speaking with robert mueller and in the weeks since what i've learned is that michael cohen has been an open book. he had signalled for months that he was willing to be an open book, that he wanted to share everything that he knew with prosecutors. and he has now started the process of doing that. and what that means is he wants it to be known to investigators

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the reporter who brought us that story just moments before we came on the air, emily jane fox joins us live on the phone. what are you learning, emily, about what cohen has offered, and how much time he may be willing to spend or has spent with the mueller team? >> the nature of the conversations and what they have discussed is still unclear. the people who are familiar with the situation have expressed to me that michael cohen is an open book. he is no longer going to be protecting president trump. that is not in his interest at all anymore, and he wants to be as helpful to the special counsel's office as he can possibly be. now there is some questions about how helpful he can actually be. what he knows, what he witnessed, what he saw. but this is someone who has been incredibly close to the president in physical proximity, as well as the president's family members. he worked alongside don junior, ivanka and eric for more than a decade and alongside the president. we heard in a recording released earlier this summer the kinds of conversations he had with president trump where anything

joining our conversation tonight, emily jane fox, senior reporter for vanity fair who happens to be theuthor of born trump, inside america's first family. still with us, michael schmidt. emily, what has michael cohen's life been like these past couple of weeks? >> it has been a much quieter existence for him both because he has had to stop talking after he pleaded guilty in august. talking to friends, associates, people who he had been speaking to even in a run up to what happened in august, there is a sense in the world around michael cohen that something was happening, that something serious was going on. people around him started talking about he must be talking to robert mueller. as they reported today that has been the case. it is unclear what those conversations have been like and how serious they are, how far down the road they have been. this is a man who -- i interviewed him last labor day weekend. to say that his life has turned in a stunning way is such an under statement. this is someone who is out in the hamptons for the summer and this summer was different for him. he face

emily jane fox broke the story yesterday. >> it is unclear how far down the line they are, but it is a step in the direction michael cohen had not gone down before. this is not where he was even about a month or so ago when he pleaded guilty. he was at that time kind of befuddled that investigators were not reaching out to him, were not seeking his cooperation agreement, that they were going to indict him in the southern district of new york without really sitting down with him to reach a cooperating agreement. >> last month cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and other charges in addition to implicating the president in relation to the hush money payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. for more, i want to bring back my panel. betsy, let's start with you. we don't know the purpose of these talks especially when it comes to the reporting from vani"vanity fair," but what doe this mean for the president? >> over the course of the last several weeks around the time when michael cohen's legal problems started getting really dramatic and came a to the forefront, cohe

i want to share what emily jane fox of "vanity fair" and an msnbc contributor said about discussions.reporting this guy. >> here's what i know from people in this world. not only is he talking to robert mueller about things he knew related to russia which is what the mueller investigation is looking at, he is talking about the campaign finance payment hess made to women. he's talking to the attorney general about what he knows about the foundation. there's nothing that is off limits to michael. >> there is nothing that's off limits to michael. how worried should the president be? remember, michael cohen himself said, i am the president's fixer. comparing himself to ray donovan. people in the know have said yikes, this is the guy who knows where the bodies are buried. i don't mean literally, i mean metaphorically. how worrisome? >> maybe literally, we don't know that, right? the president should certainly be worried because as you said this was his fixer and this gets close to him. this is close to the family. and, you know, even -- it's surprisinging to me that many of his family memb

joining us now, emily jane fox. has he cut you off?i've been in touch with people. >> you can't ask that question. i'm just curious. >> i haven't been ghosted by anyone in michael cohen's corner so far. >> it's just the conversations are very -- it's just changed. >> things in michael cohen's universe have certainly tightened. i reported last friday he had been in talks with robert mueller and it was accepted in his camp that conversations have started. not only is he talking to robert mueller about things related to the russia investigation, he is talking to another district about the campaign finance payments that he made to women. he is talking to the attorney general about what he knows about the foundation. there is nothing that is off limits to michael. here is why. he has a family and michael has accepted the fact that he is going to prison. so whatever he can do to lessen his prison sentence to get the government to possibly say to a judge in december when he is sentenced, look, this guy was very cooperative. he recommend a lig

emily jane fox has a report out now that he's saying why am i facing all the consequences. donald trump has faced no cones j consequences at all. >> even with the most loyal defendants, think they're gangster style, when they're faced with the full force of the u.s. government prosecuting them after a while it's a war of attrition, even the michael cohens of this word who swear loyalty oaths to the president or anybody else, they break down. paul butler will tell you this. he's probably done it himself to defendants, but this is how it works. you see the one person who up until this week stood fast and did not take a deal was paul manafort, what ich was a clear signal to trump. if you're going to pardon anybody, pardon me. i am steadfast, i held my ground, and i'm not a snitch. which leads me to believe he may not be a snitch to trump, it may be to the russians, but he's still holding out that hope. >> to that point i have as a prosecutor stood up in court many times and take rn guiln gu pleas. there was a moment yesterday during paul manafort's guilty employee where muelle