. >> mr. 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

the judge says do you understand the nature of that charge, mr. cohen? michael cohen says i do, your honor. the judge, do you have any questions for me before we continue? no, your honor. defense counsel, are you aware of any reason why your client should not plead guilty? defense for michael cohen, guy petrillo says no, your honor. the judge says are you aware of any legal district attorney's office the charge? cohen's defense lawyer guy petrillo says not that would prevail at trial. the judge says, mr. cohen, are you satisfied with your legal reputation up to this point? yes, your honor. 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? michael cohen, guilty, your honor. and then it gets a little confusing. the judge says how do you plead? michael cohen says guilty, your honor. and then the judge says guilty or not guilty? and michael cohen says sorry and the judge says that's fine. guilty? and michael cohen says, yes, sir. the judge did it really

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 pled gui

. >> 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 flash

mr. cohen was donald trump's attorney and advisor for years, and he is cooperating in theue roberter investigation which the president calls a witchhunt. today mr. trump said mr. cohen was weak. our north america correspondent nick bryant reports. 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 allegation

, mr. cohen, mr. cohen. can you just talk to us? mr. cohen, just -- >> mr. 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. sentencing is set for december 12th.t—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 spokesman for vladimir p

. >> mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> the plea agreement says the man who once said he'd take a bullet for the president gave information to special counsel robert mueller during more than 70 hours of questioning between august and november. according to course documents, among other things, cohen discussed the status and progress of the moscow project with trump referred to as individual one on more than three occasions, cohen claimed. while cohen told congress last fall that the moscow project ended in january of 2016, he now admits discussions about the project lasted as late as approximately june 2016 when trump was the presumptive republican nominee. cohen now admits he made the false statements to protect donald trump and minimize links between the moscow project and individual one and give the false impression that the moscow project ended before the iowa caucus and the very first primary in hopes of limiting the ongoing russia investigations, and he admits he then spoke to candidate

it shows that certainly mr. cohenoviding deep cooperation with the special counsel even as mr. manafort is not. 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

mr cohen has co—operated. mr cohen will continue to co—operate. sentencing is set for december 12.st—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 spokesman for vladimir

mr. cohenelling the truth now p or he lied to congress already and president trump says he is lying p or how do you put a witness like that forward as a practical matter because he can be subject to impeachment readily. >> that is true but you look at corroboration. what are the court -- what is the cooperation? other doctrines and emails question mark we know there are such emails. in what was filed this morning, they laid out a series of email communications between michael cohen and other individuals discussing setting up the trump tower in moscow. i think it is a he said a michael cohen'side, plus a lot of independent cooperation in the z males you have the president, who can be seen as offering self-serving statements to protect himself p or i do not know it is a straight he said he said at this point. >> it seems to be a possibility of motive, that there might be a reason for the president to take be in business with the russian spirit does it go to the collusion issue? to whether the rus

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 hi

mueller is sinking into my so tell us more then about these alleged russian real estate projects that mr cohen live about. so the significant thing in this story is the timing here now what michael cohen had alleged before the senate intelligence committee was that trump had been in talks to build a trump tower in moscow but that those talks somehow fizzled out or fell through around january of twenty sixteen which is well before trump actually became the nominee to run for president in the republican party and what we now know based on the michael cohen coming forward and saying i lied about this was that actually those plans move forward significantly and that multiple discussions were had about possibly building this tower in moscow as late as june of two thousand and sixteen well into when the campaign was underway now this isn't necessarily illegal but what it raises is questions about president trump's then candidate trump's connections to russia or whether or not he had any financial dealings financial interest in russia in the russian government which is something that he has repeatedl

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

former lawyer michael cohen pleads guilty to making false statements to congress the 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 no

mr cohen has cooperated. mr cohen will continue to co—operate. sentencing is set for december 12. 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 spokesman for vladi

cohen weak, a liar and not very smart. when asked then why was he your lawyer, mr. trump said that cohen had done him a favor many years ago and he said this about the cohen plea deal -- >> even if he was right, it doesn't matter because i was allowed to do whatever i wanted during the campaign. i was running my business, a lot of different things during the campaign. so very simply, michael cohen is lying and he's trying to get a reduced sentence for things that have nothing to do with me. >> reporter: the president also told reporters that he would be briefed aboard air force one about the latest with the russian/ukrainian conflict in the eastern part of europe, which has raised tensions in that part of the world so much. no sooner had air force one been air borne and president trump tweeted. the fact that the sailors have not been returned to ukraine from russia, i feel it best to cancel my previously scheduled meeting with president putin. i look forward to a meaningful summit again as soon as this situation is involved. the white house press office said there we

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 doing the audit in order to find all of the deficiencies. as ex

moscow that this committee these kind of discussions were concealed from the american people that mr 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

it shows that certainly mr. 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 ho

but that was the story that mr. cohen was telling to the congressional committees. but this was -- this was michael cohen trying to protect donald trump once again. to make sure that nobody would know that donald trump was lying about this. and now, what michael cohen is saying is that, yeah, donald trump was lying about it, and i think the big question here is, how much leverage, how much leverage, then, did all of this give putin? >> right. >> over a person who could potentially become president of the united states. >> and that is the crucial question we have tonight, right? because the question is, how much leverage and has he used it? and that is the crucial question we all have, the quid pro quo, and this huge development tonight, putting it front and center. thank you all and our breaking news coverage continues. >>> president trump is trashing cohen. so, you know, and he had been for a little while here. so why did he keep him around for so long? >> because a long time ago, he did me a favor. a long time ago, he did me a favor. >> what favor could it be? that

he told mr. cohen to tear up the reimbursement agreement but mr. cohen kept a copy.gents 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 informati

. >> mr. 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 lim

all that beginning with the headlines in 60 seconds. >> mr. cohen has cooperated. mr. y'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

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we know from what mr. cohen said, there's others in the trump organization that knew about the time period when the conversations were going on and were aware that a trip to russia was discussed with candidate donald trump. so if you're one of those people in the trump organization who has talked to mr. mueller or congressional hear and and you toed the line, you're having a nervous night tonight. >> shepard: are you referring to donald trump jr. or others? >> donald trump jr. is one. that's a logical inference given what we know to date and mr. cohen's allocution. those questions would have been asked of donald jr. they may have been asked before on the written questions submitted to the president. they may have been asked and probably were of others in the trump organization. anybody that said january is when it stopped and no trip planned to russia, they're looking at an indictment square in the face right now. >> shepard: one more thing. the president said that michael cohen is weak and that he's lying. what

when mr. 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 someth

. >> mr. 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.

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 russians may have a laundry money to the trump organization. wow our lives to go is now them on its way to our correspondent in washington good evening to you maya the democrats they must be looking at their jobs i mean clear words from adam schiff they are they were going to be giving any clues what we can expect once they take control of those key house committees. well as in they seem to be licking their chops as you said chomping at the bit might be another metaphor we could use not only did we hear from adam shift today but we saw several rather prominent democrats come out to condemn the various going on that have been happening around the president we saw senator chris and jill a brand new yorkers a rumored twenty twenty presidential candidate talking about the culture of corruption around th

. >> mr. cohen has cooperated. mr. 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 attacked the m

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

in a surprise move, mr. cohen is in a new york courtroom at this hour pleading guilty.p 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

mr. cohen? >> come this way. >> as expected. >> thank you. >>> all right. ot 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 trump was making all these overtures to vladimir putin and to russia and the question that has always been is why. why was donald trump so solicitus of russia and michael cohen's

mr. cohenred 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

mr. cohen has more stories to tell. this is someone who is intimate with then candidate and business leader trump. whose name has popped nup a variety of places, and again, not knowing what he is has shared with the special prosecutor and he is clearly one of the individuals that our committee has want ted to come back, and will want to come back, and testify. as well after he has been appropriately plead and sentenced by the justice department activities. but i have to believe that he has more to tell. >> there is another sentence in the criminal investigation that michael cohen discussed the trump tower deal with members of the family, the members of the trump organization, and the members of the family, and that is a small universe, and do you want to call the members of the family back to testify before you and we are talking about now conceivably don jr. >> well, i would hope that we with would get a little bit more clarity on that as to who that was or which members. but there are a host

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

russians about a deal to build a trump tower in moscow than cohen has previously acknowledged. >> mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> reporter: cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress about how much the president knew about the deal dubbed "the moscow project," and about when it was terminated, telling the court he lied out of loyalty to the president. the plea agreement says the man who once said he'd take a bullet for the president gave information to special counsel robert mueller during more than 70 hours of requesting between august and november. the deal to build a prour in moscow was one -- trump tower in moscow was one of many topics discussed according to the source. cohen discussed the status and progress of a moscow project with trump, referred to as individual one on, more than the three occasions. while cohen told congress last fall that the moscow project ended in january, 2016, he now admits discussions about the project lasted as late as approximately june, 2016. when trump was the presumptive republican presidential nominee. cohen now admits he made the false stateme

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 ye