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This week, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to the crime of lying to Congress.

He made that guilty plea as part of a cooperation agreement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

That guilty plea comes in the wake of serious developments in the Mueller investigation.

Trump's lawyers revealed that they learned confidential information about Mueller's investigation

from Manafort's attorneys while Paul Manafort was cooperating.

Yet none of this appears to be slowing down Mueller. The charges against Cohen reveal

explosive details regarding Trump's effort to complete a deal for Trump Tower Moscow with the aid of the Russian government

while he was running for president.

What does this mean for the Trump presidency?

Let's get on topic.

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Welcome to on topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news. My name is Renato Mariati. I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a

CNN legal analyst. And I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez, a WGM radio host who will join us regularly on this

podcast. So Patty I have to tell you after losing a lot of sleep this week

staying up late to write an op-ed for Politico magazine. of I'm like oh it's going to be a bit of a relaxing day.

Sure, the big news already happened earlier the week.

So I thought.

Well done, dust it off.

Well, and that's a thing, even when we did our podcast the other day,

within hours, more news came out and we're like okay well

I mean how do you stay on top of everything exactly right so we had a

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