Trump's Attorney Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty & Paul Manafort Found Guilty By Jury

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🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, has pleaded guilty to eight counts in federal court. The counts related to campaign finance violations involved payments that were made to keep two women quiet during the 2016 campaign. And a federal jury found Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, guilty in eight counts of tax and bank fraud. This episode: Congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, justice correspondent Ryan Lucas, and political editor Domenico Montanaro. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Joshua Milliken on my 17th birthday at the museum.
0:05.9	This podcast was recorded at 6.52 Eastern on August 21st.
0:11.4	Things probably have changed by the time you hear it, so keep up with all of NPR's coverage
0:16.7	at NPR.org.
0:17.7	Alright, here's the show.
0:20.2	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:25.3	This afternoon in a federal courtroom in Virginia, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Maniford
0:30.4	was found guilty on eight different counts, and it had almost the exact same time in
0:36.3	a New York City federal courtroom.
0:38.9	President Trump's longtime lawyer and fixer and close aide Michael Cohen pleaded guilty
0:43.8	to eight different counts.
0:45.6	I'm Scott Detrello, I cover Congress.
0:46.9	I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
0:48.7	I'm Kerry Johnson, I cover the Justice Department.
0:50.9	I'm Roy Lucas, I also cover the Justice Department.
0:53.5	So we for the past couple years have spent so much time reading tealies, conjecturing,
1:00.0	having hypotheses of what's going on with the various investigations here, but we have
1:04.8	a lot of facts to talk about today.
1:06.9	Cold, hard facts, and they are convictions and guilty pleas.
1:11.3	That's not all that happens, Scott Detrello.
1:13.3	Everything that happened today.
1:14.3	What else happened?
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