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rick gates, george papadopoulos, and michael flynn all traded some pieces of information for their respectivels. that's presumably incredibly important information. >> reporter: one crucial remaining question, what has mueller found out about that june 2016 trump tower meeting between donald trump jr., paul manafort, jared kushner, and russians who promised to share dirt on hillary clinton? trump junior has said that he never told his father about the meeting. >> there was nothing to tell. it was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame. >> reporter: but sources tell cnn that trump's former personal attorney michael cohen is now claiming that trump knew of the meeting in advance and that cohen is prepared to tell mueller. cohen himself may not be on mueller's to-do list, though, having referred his case to federal investigators in new york. >> so it effectively brings the issue of collusion or conspiracy right to the president's feet. >> reporter: mueller's latest indictment of the russian hackers hinted that he may still be looks at the role of other u.s. persons. >> the conspir

paul manafort's long time deputy rick gates facing prosecution on tuesday. and michael.s. attorney for the middle district of georgia. hello, both of you. thank you for coming on. so julia, the defense got their first crack at cross examining rick gates. how did he hold up? >> well, vbts we're all interpreting this from the outside, but it appears a couple of things happened that are worth repeating here. one is that he was contrite. he addresses the jury, apologizes, says he's trying to make things right. and at no stage during this cross examination was the defense able to separate gates from manafort. in other words, the defense strategy has got to be gates acted by himself, that he was doing this all on his own. and i think just from the testimony we've seen so far the defense failed in that regard. manafort is clearly pushing gates or conspiring with gates to do all of these illegalities. in fact there's a liep in one of the documents where manafort says to gates, you told me you were on top of this. that's the statement from the leader to the worker bee, fix this.

michael cohen, paul manafort, rick gates, michael flynn and george papadopoulos. headlines around the world shouting trump hell hour, a dark day for trump, the darkest day for the presidency since watergate. cohen pleads guilty. trump's former lawyer happy to testify. the president implicated. the president's campaign manager, let's walk over here with me was found guilty in alexandria, virginia, courtroom within minutes of the president's personal lawyer pleading guilty in a new york city courtroom implicating the president in his crimes. all of it bringing impeachment back to the forefront. let's take a look at the process of impeachment. the house of representatives let's do that -- let's open that up. there we go. first of all, the house of representatives draws up articles of impeachment. think of the house as the prosecutor, the document details any, quote, high crimes and merchandise that the president is believed to be guilty of. only the house can bring charges against a president but any individual congress person can start this process. next, the house

meanwhile, both men now join rick gates, michael flynn, george papadopoulos on the roster of trump associates who faced criminal charges. on that, let us bring in our expanded leadoff panel for a consequential tuesday evening. nicolle wallace returned to the night shift. the veteran of the bush white house and host of "deadline white house." and here in new york michael smith. emily jane fox senior reporter for "vanity fair." and down in washington tonight chuck rosenberg a former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of virginia. also happens to be a senior official at the fbi. and daniel goldman, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. the jurisdiction at the center of much of today's news. welcome to you all. nicole, i would like to begin with you. mr. goldman's former boss, the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, said on twitter today just a plain statement of fact. michael cohen in a courtroom in the southern district of new york under oath, declared that the president directed him to commit a federal crime. a lot of this, all of thi

we know about the cooperation agreements of rick gates, michael flynn, where they plead guilty to crimes and agree to cooperate. there is an in-between angle called the nonprosecution agreement, which is really just an agreement with the u.s. attorney's office that you will not be prosecuted as long as you continue to cooperate. what is interesting to me is whether this is truly a grant of immunity and he was put in the grand jury to testify, or whether he is cooperating with the southern district of new york, perhaps pursuant to a nonprosecution agreement. and the reason why that matters is that weisselberg not only would have the information that tom just referenced in michael cohen's case related to the campaign finance fraud and the stormy daniels payment, but he also knows where all the financial bodies are buried in the trump organization. and to the extent that the southern district, who has already subpoenaed the trump organization, is interested in criminal conduct that goes beyond michael cohen's campaign finance involvement, which may or may not -- which he has implicated the

paul manafort, rick gates, michael flynn, george papadopoulos and now michael cohen who for the laste or dozen years was the president's personal attorney and fixer. what does that say to you? >> to say nothing of the two members of congress who were first to support his presidential campaign, chris collins and duncan hunter under indictment for matters unrelated to donald trump. so it's not a good gang to be hanging around with. but it says that there's been a lot of cooperation from people who have a lot of information about donald trump's 2016 campaign who are now cooperate with authorities. and that should give donald trump some pause. >> david swerdlick? >> this is not only legal jeopardy for him. but when president trump came in, he was going to have a dream team, the best people. now a bunch of people who have plead guilty or been convicted of serious federal crimes. >> this is turning out to be a real nightmare for the president. >> mueller has brought indictments against 32 individuals, three companies and we've seen five guilty pleas. and that's before the events of today w

rick gates, manafort‘s deputy. michael cohen, his personal lawyer.campaign aide. manafort is the only one of the five who hasn't rolled over. he rejected a plea deal. paul manafort is a good man and this has nothing to do with russian collusion. 0n the face of it, president trump is right, paul manafort‘s tax fraud predates the campaign, but, if the russians knew about it, would they have had a hold over trump's campaign manager? the president will be far more worried about michael cohen, for years the keeper of his most important secrets. cohen was trump's fixer and bagman. he paid off models and porn stars, and told troublesome journalists where to get off. no—one in america will be shocked if donald trump slept with a porn star or two, but the hush money was paid just before the election. cohen's indictment says this was an illegal campaign contribution done at the request of a candidate. what cohen might know about russia will be of far more interest to the special prosecutor. the former mi6 officer, christopher steele, wrote in his dossier that

announcing new charge in an insider's case >> the lead targets is michael contend ricks, a starter onhe defensive line, for the eagles he's now a member of the cleveland browns together with a former harvard graduate who worked at goldman sachs four years ago, the two were participating in insider trading based on some of the mergers and acquisitions that the goldman analyst had a heads-up on. he was charged with criminal information, that usually means a guilty plea is forth coming as is published by kendrick's attorney in "the philadelphia inquirer." back to you. >> wow thanks, eric >>> we're getting european close in about five minutes. seema, how is europe going to close today? >> carl, it's basically a mixed picture across the board spain and portugal is lower, impressed by my geography? you should be. it's trade negotiation that's the big topic of discussion, between the united states, canada and mexico, and what it could mean for the europe. the pound soaring to a three-week high on upbeat comments from the european union negotiator, saying the bloc was prepared to offer a clos

michael cohen did that. doesn't that -- >> make a difference? >> not in -- when you -- what ricke president calls this whole thing a witch hunt, what he's referring to is the mueller investigation trying to create a conspiracy case around the president's campaign, and he's repeatedly said there was no such thing, and now we're saying, oh, my gosh, two people around him have gotten into trouble. neither one of them has anything to do with what that was originally about. and what democrats talk about every time they can, about mueller, which is russian collusion, neither one of these two things has anything to do with that. >> go ahead, rick, what were you saying? >> this is the first couple steps in a long waltz. and this is never going to get better. and robert mueller is circling around closer and closer, the cohen thing was ancillary. because it was ancillary, the individual charges and case issues were ancillary to the overall investigation. mueller's charter was to explore russian interference and the role the trump campaign may have played with it, any other crimes that may

michael cohen being indicted. rickes admit today money laumoney -- admitted to money laundering. >> when you reach the presidency you have thousands of people who helped you along the way in 50 states. and there are bad apples along the way. i would not draw that nexus here. >> we are talking about this is the first person in the united states congress to endorse donald trump. we are talking about trump's campaign chairman paul manafort. his deputy campaign manager rick gates, his national security adviser michael flynn. it is a reflection of the question donald trump says he will surround himself by the best people. why are all of his people ending up indicted or in jail? the top people in his administration are under investigation or being indicted or are in jail and other people have left the administration in a cloud of scandal. why is this happening to someone who said he would drain the swamp? you can't say clinton did it. even if it is true, this is a guy held to a higher standard. >> paul manafort was bob dole'

rick gates and michael flynn cooperating.ollective weight of those things leads to what we're seeing. this is a long time coming. remember, manafort was initially charged in february. they raided michael cohen's apartment in april. so, we're just now getting to it. and the mueller probe, are they going to sit down with him or not is ongoing. we are coming a head here and i think he feels it. >> if he's charged, michael cohen, puts leverage on him to go ahead and fully cooperate. >> well, just look at the change in behavior that we have seen from michael cohen. mind you that he has been a part of the president or donald trump's orbit before becoming president for decades. for three years, throughout the campaign, he was on tv day in and day out defending the president saying that he would take a bullet for him. last year we started to see things change. we hear he's upset that the president didn't bring him to washington. the stormy daniels' crisis erupts and only good things of the fb. i put my family and everyone else first

this is a methodical and detailed and thorough investigation aided by people like rick gates and michael flynn who are cooperating with bob mueller and who know a lot more than what we know right now and a lot more that came out in this case. so i think if i'm trump and if i'm the administration and anyone worked on the campaign, i'm very nervous right now. >> jonathan lemire, i heard from a trump ally that between paul manafort and rick gates, if one of them is going to flip, the one that could do the most damage to this president and his inner white house circle was rick gates because of his proximity to this west wing staff long after inauguration and, again, up through that -- really that devastating spring where comey was fired, the obstruction of justice investigation, really in full swing by the time he was indicted. and the people that are now swept up in the mueller probe very much swirling around with rick gates up until that day that his indictment was unsealed. >> completely right. that proximity extends beyond the inauguration and inauguration committee. reporters in the wes

sham wu who was a former attorney for rick gates, when they have michael cohen talking about the payment they made, when they have stormy daniels, when they have karen mcdoogle, they have wire transfers, why do they need to grant immunimmunit? >> it is not lightly conferred nor should be lightly accepted. it is a tearfairly complex appr process. they need to feel there is a high value to the testimony that mr. pecker might give them. that could include certainly a safe of secrets but most importantly i think they want evidence of the payments. prosecutors would be very eager for that. >> and if you believe "the wall street journal" reporting, david pecker is saying that the president knew about the payments. that says that the president and kellyanne conway who spoke last night, are lying. these are people close to the president who are now to an extent turning on him. that is a big deal. >> when these stories unfolded, what if the american people knew about the developments at the time they were occurring in the critical days right before the 2016 election. the consequences of this beha

cohen joins a growing number of the president's associate who have flipped, rick gates, george papadopoulos, michael flynn, national security adviser on the campaign trail and inside the white house. it's no wonder the president doesn't think highly of, quote unquote, flippers. >> this whole thing about flipping they call it, i know all about flipping. for 30, 40 years i've been watching flippers. everything is wonderful and then they get ten years in jail and flip on whoever the next highest one is or as high as you can go. it almost ought to be outlawed. it's not fair. if somebody's going to spend five years like michael cohen or 10 or 15 years in jail because of a taxicab industry because he defrauded some bank, if you can say something bad about donald trump and you go down to two or three years, which is the deal he made, in all fairness to him, if most people are going to do that. i've seen it many times. i've had many friends involved in this stuff. it's called flipping and almost ought to be illegal. >> investigative reporter tom winter joins me now. i want to start with something the presid

people that pleaded guilty, michael cohen, michael flynn, rick gates, george papadopoulos. we'll get a verdict today with paul manafort. and indicted his first endorser in congress, chris collins. so this is the best people for you. >> this is what you elect donald trump as president of the united states. this is who he is -- >> a criminal enterprise? >> this is the kind of people he surrounded himself with. you know, paul manafort is on trial for tax fraud, bank fraud. everybody around this table knew about paul manafort, knew about his reputation. you know, and so this wasn't -- this is not at all far-fetched. >> it was an open secret in washington. he had a dirty book of business. sman th explain that. >> that was an open secret. he represented a string of bad guys. he was that kind of lobbyist and influence peddler for bad people basically. that was well known. and you could -- it's not a leap to wonder about suspicious financial transactions. people kind of -- he was buying and selling a lot of real estate. we should be cautious since we don't know what the verdict is.

about all of the liars that they have from the president of the united states, papadopoulos, michael flynn, rick manafort, jeff sessions, melania trump and her plagiarism. i mean the list goes on and on and on. so this isn't a one-off. this is a culture in the white house. and so right now that culture is meeting the rule of law. and all donald trump has is his bully pulpit where he's going to stand up and say i'm going to take over the investigation. i'm going to do this. i'm going to do that. but the rule of law in this country wins. so we can have these as i nine or absurd debates about what truth is. to quote stephen colbert, truthiness. we can have all of these fickle debates but the point is the truth is what it is. and donald trump and his white house have a culture of not telling the truth. when you sit down across -- because i've been in this room many times before -- across from a federal investigator, i remind my clients all the time. martha stewart did not go to jail for insider trading. martha stewart went to jail for lying to federal investigators. every single one of them who have

that is what today's reporting -- >> michael cohen and paul manafort added to that list, rick gates has pleaded guilty. michael flynn has pleaded guilty. george papadopoulos, unless he changes his plea, has pleaded guilty. he sent out a tweet suggesting that might happen. lanny davis is an articulate guy. he captured the sentiment of a lot of people saying, today michael cohen stood up and testified under oath that donald trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women for the principal purpose of influencing an election. if those payments were a crime for michael cohen, then why wouldn't they be a crime for donald trump? >>> hallie, i think you can't overstate the degree to which this is a serious issue. a crime has been laid at the doorstep of the white house. >> reporter: that's right. what is the response? the white house has been picking up what's on its doorstep and referring it to the president's outside legal counsel. they're saying anything related to the michael cohen issue goes to the outside team. i can tell you this. we heard from rudy giuliani, the pre

. >> michael flynn pled guilty. >> phony witchhunt. >> rick gates pleaded guilty. >> it is a total witchhunt>> george papadopoulos pleaded guilty. >> the entire thing has been a witchhunt. >> paul manafort found guilty on eight counts. >> michael cohen pleading guilty to criminal charges. >> the mueller investigation is not a witchhunt. stop the attacks on the special counsel. host: there is this from "the washington post," written a couple of days ago by michael garrison. "every time we gain a peek into the inner workings of the trump world, we see the ethics of an atlantic city casino owner who surrounds himself with people chosen for their willingness to lie and cheat at his bidding." michael gerson writing there. let's go to susan in florida. caller: hi. a lot of interesting things there. none of this would have happened as far as the so-called witchhunt if he had released his tax returns at the very beginning. those papers are what he's trying to hide. those papers are what robert mueller is trying to uncover. he is forced to uncover those facts and figures. --elieve trump deserves an f

michael flynn pleaded guilty of lying to the fbi. one-time foreign policy advisor george papadopoulo plead guilty of lying to federal authorities. hairman rick gn gates pleaded guilty to financial fraud. his former personal lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasnd campaign finance violations. while his former campaign chairman paul manafort was found ilty of fraud and financial crimes. the press secretary on defense about that vow to hire only the top tier. >> he failed to live up t that promise? >> the president has employed thousands of people in h lifetime and had incredible successes both in business and in the public service. >> reporter: but could the optics of all the president's men impact the president's ability to govern? >> he always thinks he can survive. why? because he's been houdini in tht the question is this time is bob mueller and michael cohen and paul manafort enough to trump ways?oudini >> reporter: the president's support among his base is still strong. he's planning t campaign in at least 15 states after labor day. >> our thanks to kristen for that report. >> hundreds of classmates and loved ones gathered at t

his former national security advisor michael flynn, george papadopoulos, rick gates. so many compartments can flood. how many convictions can trump take? >> with manafort being convicted and cohen pleading guilty, there is a legal system that is immune to legal spin and it is proceeding. >> you mean evidence and juries. >> evidence, juries, facts, documents, cooperating witnesses. and this was of course the special counsel's first prosecution in court. and this is not going to be his last. so i think your question is a good one >> i asked the wrong question, do they care if he tells the truth or not? >> as far as supporters, there isn't a lot of appetite once we leave d.c. >> they believe he didn't have the affair with these women and pay them off? come on. >> even if they believe it, his core supporters do not care as long as he is helping the economy grow and as long as he is creating jobs. that is all things people care about when it comes to trump. >> when they say get her, put her in jail and covered it up. >> there is not a lot of logic behind it when you have c

he joins former national security advisor michael flynn metro's former campaign deputy campaign manager rick gates, and former trump foreign-policy advisor george papadopoulos. michael cohen will be sentenced on december 12. he will likely be sentenced to 4-5 years in prison. meanwhile, in virginia, a jury convicted manafort on eight of 18 charges but the jury could not reach a verdict on the other counts. sentencing experts expect him to receive a prison term of about 10 years. the manafofort charges stemmed from special counsel robert mueller's investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election, but the case against manafort focused on work he did before he became president trump's campaign manager. manafort was accused of hiding millions of dollars earned in ukraine in overseas bank accounts and failing to pay taxes on the money. on tuesday, president trump briefly spoke with reporters about the manafort verdict. pres. trump: i feel badly. i must tell you paul manafort is a good man. he was with ronald reagan. he was with a lot of different people over the years. i feel very sad abo

. >> shepard: dramatic evolution from last summer when michael cohen said he was so loyal to the president he'd take a bullet for him. no more. rick lefb that will has the latest. >> michael cohen could have spent the rest of his life in federal prison. with this plea deal he's looking at three to five years. nothing in the deal excel him to cooperate with the mueller -- compels him to cooperate with the mueller investigation but doesn't preclude it. lanny davis said cohen appears ready to cooperate. he's free on $500,000 bond, admitted under oath to hiding $4 million in income from the irs, hiding a debt to secure a home equity loan, paying off two women to protect his boss and help win the white house. as you heard john roberts report, cohen told the judge in the summer of 2016 he arranged a reimburse a tabloid for buying and then burying a story about former playboy model karen mccuingal who claimed an affair with mr. trump and said he paid $130 no steffi clifford, stormy daniels, she was ready to go public with the claimed affair. both cases cohen said he did so in coordination and direction for candidate for federal office, p

that's already led to indictments or plea deals involving michael flynn, paul manafort, rick gates, george papadopoulos, a dozen russian intelligence officers, more than a dozen russian nationals, and three russian companies. along the way mueller also referred the matter of michael cohen to the southern district of new york since cohen's crimes didn't appear to come under the umbrella of mueller's russia investigation. but just look what that now has led to. not only to michael cohen pleading guilty to eight felony counts but to a criminal investigation which may implicate both the trump organization and certain unnamed executives who aided in the illegal hush money scheme. that also led to a grant of immunity to "national enquirer" publisher david pecker and to trump orc cfo allen weisselberg. meanwhile, the state of new york started its own line of inquiry. they filed a civil suit against the trump foundation as well as referring its findings to both the irs and the f.e.c., which may or may not act on the information. and now we know the manhattan d.a. is also eyeing the trump organizat

. >> and michael flynn. and rick gates. so -- >> and pretty much everybody except paul manafort has flipped. >> so they're aware that people can change when they're getting pressed by the feds. when you have someone, self described colorful character, practitioner of the dark arts like roger stone who relishes in that image and plays up that idea of himself, it's never great if he ends up going before mueller's team. >> he does have these long ties to donald trump. it doesn't seem like a good fact, good piece of the pattern. the person who arguably was around him in the context of politics the longest was the colluder. >> right. >> not a good fact. >> not a good fact. >> frank, what would you do as an investigator if you were able to put roger stone in the category of people who you can prosecute beyond a reasonable doubt if you were able to do that, able to charge him? where does he fit into this collusion puzzle? >> yeah, i think we've been -- because there's been so many people to focus on, we've been ignoring the signif

you've got michael cohen who is agreeing to work with the special prosecutor who has michael flynn, george papadopoulos, rick gates cooperating f. the president cannot billion indicted because he is a sitting president, what is the goal of mueller securing all these people. >> great question, alex. all of these men are in slightly different categories, but let me just take a step back and say, i do believe there is a narrow pathway to indictment. the code of federal regulations are the rules that governor how to department of justice operates provide that special counsel can request an exception to doj policy. that's will be decided by rod rosenstein. i think that remains as question. more as a policy matter and legal matter. going back to different circumstances that these various people find themselves in. we have seen a noncooperation agreement entered into with example michael cohen. he pled guilty to eight counts. two of those counts include conspireing with the president to violate campaign finance laws. i have a feeling they'll call for all subsequent plea agreement. and try to secure michael cohen's

national security advisor michael flynn pleaded guilty of lying to the fbi one time foreign policy advisor george papadopoulos pleaded guiltyf lying to federal authorities and rick gates to financial fraud and yesterday's stunning split screen. his former personal lawyer michael cohen tapleaded guilty t evasion and campaign finance violations while his former n campaign chairul manafort was found guilty of fraud and financial crimes. today the press secretary on defense about that vow to onre the top tier. >> did he fail to live up to that promise? t >>he president has employed thousands of peoplen his lifetime and had incredible in successes, bot business and in the public service. >> reporter: but could the optics of all the the president's act ability to govern? >> he always thinks he can survive. why? because 's been houdini in the past. the question is this time is bob muller and michael cohen and paul manafort enough to trump his houdini ways? >> reporter: the president's support among his base is still strong and he's planning to campaign in 15 states after labor y, lester? >>> capitol hill reeling in the manafort conviction. a number of republicans seeki

. >> and michael flynn. and rick gates. so -- >> and pretty much everybody except paul manafort has flipped. >> so they're aware that people can change when they're getting pressed by the feds. there is also a sense when you have someone, a sort of self-described colorful character, a practitioner of the dark arts like roger stone who sort of relishes in that image and plays up that idea of himself, it's never great if he ends up going before mueller's team. >> he does have these long ties to donald trump. it doesn't seem like a good fact, good piece of the pattern. the person who arguably was around him in the context of politics the longest was the colluder. >> right. >> not a good fact. >> not a good fact. >> frank, what would you do as an investigator if you were able to put roger stone in the category of people who you can prosecute beyond a reasonable doubt if you were able to do that, able to charge him? where does he fit into this collusion puzzle? >> yeah, i think we've been -- because there's been so many people t

along with cohen and manafort, they are former security advisor michael flynn, rick gates and george white house has been relatively silent on this issue. what is the mood from the people you have heard from? >> reporter: the mood, edgy, uncertain. downcast because the white house knows there's no way to put a positive spin on michael cohen and paul manafort's convictions. they have referred all questions to outside counsel represents the president. those here in the white house know they have a lot to do on the president's agenda are saying scarcely little about it. >> if they're saying very little, what do you hear about the question of pardons, which always seems to come up, surrounding these various officials associated with the campaign? >> it co >> reprter: it comes up because presidential pardon powers are unchecked and relatively limitless. but i talked to the president's aid all day yesterday, from the michael cohen and paul manafort convictions and they say not once did the question of pardons come up, did anyone request it of the president or even mention it casually. thos

rick gates pled guilty to similar charges. michael cohen pled guilty to campaign violations.dvisor, michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. george papadopoulos also pled guilty fbi. his second congressional endors endorser duncan hunter and his wife. joining us now. thank you all. you know, i used to like to compare mueller's investigation to the iceberg, 90% of it is under water. and it is dangerous as hell. and i compare trump to the titanic. four stacks only three work. how many compartments can flood on the titanic before it goes down. how long can this guy stay afloat? >> well. >> it is my metaphor. do what you want. >> that was quite a list there. >> they weren't metaphoric. >> here we are with a slew of indictments and all sorts of things that people are going to have to deal with the next couple of months during the midterm. how do republicans sell this to their voters. >> are they more concerned about this woman being killed out there in iowa. if anything sticks to this guy in his corral. >> i think you are absolutely right, that everything is defined by tr

rick leventhal. >> we spoke about how michael cohen was expected to plead guilty to to some of the charges, didn'tw he'd plead guilty to all of them. a stunning withface, one of the president's most trusted employees, telling a federal judge he lied, cheated, paid women off to help his boss. he's free on $500,000, admitted hiding income from tax business, hiding debt to secure a home equity loan and arranging payments to two women. testifying he paid $130 to stephanie clifford, northern by her porn name stormy daniels, she was ready to go public with a claimed affair with mr. trump. and reimbursed a tabloid for burying a story about karen mcdougal, claiming an affair with president trump, saying on or about the summer of 2016 in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federals of on, i and the ceo of a media company at the request of the candidate worked together to keep an individual with information that would be harmful to the candidate and to the campaign from publicly disclosing this information. >> mr. cohen, disregarded that training, disregarded that tradition, and decided tha

on the other side, those cooperating with the government that have pleaded guilty, michael flynn, papadopoulos and rick gates. from trump world, are you at all surprised that loyalty has not turned out to be as strong a force in the trump orbit, that these men are all cooperating or to some extent are willing to offer information on their bus who has always put a premium on loyalty? >> well, end of day. they've staved it off as long as they can. one of the telling things, i think, is that weisselberg, so far, trump has not tried to diss him. he's tried to say didn't matter, manafort was just there for a few days, we have not heard that allen weisselberg wasn't the main guy in charge of finances for decades. he has not said that. and he's also not -- he hasn't come out with some kind of -- kind of dissing nickname for him. >> he's distanced himself. he's distanced himself from michael cohen, saying he did small deals. distanced himself from paul manafort saying he only worked on the campaign a little bit. why hasn't he done that with allen weisselberg, and why do you think he has immunity? >> i -- there

rick gates. trial also raises questions about what happens when a trump loyalist flips, like a gates or even potentially a michaelr and contributor about the truth about trump. he joins me now from new york. michael d antonio, what do you think trump is thinking with this trial playing out in that federal courthouse in virginia, watching gates, a loyalist of his, flip, cooperate and testify in court? >> well, i'm thinking of a cartoon or a movie where someone is out on the ice and they start to see a crack forming and the crack races towards them or maybe it's a fuse lit on a stick of dynamite. this is all headed for the white house. i think donald trump is the ultimate target of all of these investigations, obviously, that's mueller's intent is to get to the bottom of russian conspiracies. and one thing that struck me in the recent testimonies is references to the bank of cypress. the owner of the bank of cypress when manafort and gates were doing their shady business there was the same russian oligarch who paid donald trump $95 million for a house. and that deal netted donald trump 50 million in profit. i think

again, this video from cnbc is michael cohen approaching 26 federal plaza in the field office for the new york fbi where he'll be booked. >> this is the same thing we saw with rick gates, same thing we saw with michael flynn for example. so this is that same process. in those particular cases we saw them go to the washington field office for the fbi. in this days we're seeing michael cohen at the new york field office because that's where he's being charged. >> very good information, thank you. the topic here, obviously the relationship between michael cohen and donald trump, the speculation now that begins furiously about what this means in terms of potential cooperation here involving donald trump. donald trump was asked recently, i think it was back earlier this summer, about the potential for michael cohen to one day flip on him and this is how the president responded at that point. >> are you worried michael cohen might flip? >> look, i did nothing wrong. you have to understand, this stuff would have come out a long time ago. i did nothing wrong. >> is michael cohen still your friend? >> i haven't spoken to michael in a long time. >> is he still your lawyer

attorney, michael cohen revealing a great deal about cohen's illegal activities, but has not identified any criminal behavior by the president of the united states. fox news senior correspondent rick leventhal has the latest. >> right, let's remember that a plea deal, michael cohen could've spent the rest of his life in federal prison. he is looking at a sentence of three to five years, pleading guilty to all eight charges against him, a stunning pace for the man who was one of the most trusted employees. telling a federal judge he lied, cheated and paid women not to help his boss. cohen was free in $500,000 bond and for admitting hiding income from his taxicab business, hiding debt to secure a home-equity loan and arranging payments to two women in the run-up to the presidential election. testified he paid $130,000 to stephanie clifford, better known by her former name story mcdaniels because she was ready to go forward with it decade earlier. and he reimbursed the tablet for burying a story about former "playboy" model turned google who also claim the affair with mr. trump saying in court on or about the summer of 2016 in coordination with another direction of a candidate for fe

given his years of working sort of as, you know, donald trump's rick gates, this could be a pretty devastating push if the president faces michael cohen turning on him. after michael cohen faces serious tax or bank fraud charges, which is what he's been reported to be under investigation for. because those are very serious charges and, again, charges that can come pretty much with just some paper research and indictments. >> which harry, gets us to the point if mueller sits down sxint views with the president he said it could be about obstruction of justice. he has explicitly not said, right? it's not about any kind of fraud. but to the point garrett's making, that doesn't mean that they may not be looking at that with the president of the united states himself. because the paper trail may be more important than any interview. >> absolutely. and you know, the cooperating witness can't make a case on their own. you would never as a prosecutor just bring a case based on one person's word. you would want to have the documentary evidence and then the cooperator is the explainer. he explains how the documents fit, what actually happe

. >> dana: and rick, we're hearing more from the president about michael cohen. >> during his sit down with ainsley earhardt, the president said they don't know why he was called his fixer and downplayed cohened roles. >> he was not with me that much. they make it sound like i didn't live without him. i understood him very well. what turned out he wasn't a very good lawyer, frankly. >> the president in the interview said cohen flipped on him to cut himself a better deal, likely cutting a maximum 65-year sentence to 3 1/2 years. dana? >> dana: thank you. attorney general jeff sessions firing back at president trump after the president said sessions has lost control of the justice department. just a moment ago, i spoke to a source close to sessions saying that he won't be blackmailed to supporting trump's prison reform bill. that is in response that senator grassley, chairman of the judiciary committee and wants this criminal justice reform bill passed had said that he's changed his position thursday saying in an interview that he would make time for hearing for a new attorney general af

rick gates, in deep trouble. the president's former national security adviser michael flynn in deep trouble right now.t does that say to you? >> certainly connections to the president. one thing is the justice department is sending a strong message. we're on our game. we've got our facts. we're ready to go after these people. i think also farming some of it out to other parts of the justice department makes it a little harder for trump to play the i'm firing mueller card and calling everything off. i think that's one really important point. the other thing is -- >> because you make the point mueller referred the michael cohen case to the southern district of new york. >> exactly. the tendrils are in different places in terms of how this entire thing is being investigated and prosecuted. i know there's concern we're going to see another saturday night massacre like we saw with nixon, but i think it's a smart move to have other parts of the justice department that are answering to jeff sessions and not to rod rosenstein to address some of these issues. >> what it also says to me is they're squeezing mic

this is donald trump, why not have omarosa around you, michael flynn, paul manafort, rick gates, the care if she has no credibility. this is fodder, this is fun. look at the money michael wolf made, millions of dollars. millions of dollars in writing his book. in is just a payday for keeping her in the media. >> one important point that came out of this entire story that i think people are missing. "the washington post" reported yesterday that omarosa was offered by layer raleigh trump a $15,000 a month contract by the trump campaign to keep silent. this the same amount of money keith schiller, oval office operations, was offered. what's going on here? is this shady hush money? is the rnc and campaign being used for that? i don't know. >> i think you're asking a rhetorical question. omarosa famously said this on "front line" on pbs that set the world afire at that time. i'm wondering, what does she think about it now? let's take a look at that. >> every critic, every detractor will have to bow down to president trump. it's everyone who's ever doubted donald, whoever disagreed, whoeve