Why Michael Cohen Lied to Congress

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 30 November 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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President Trump’s former lawyer has pleaded guilty to lying about Mr. Trump’s business ties to Russia and has agreed to cooperate with the special counsel investigation. It’s the second time this week that a subject of the inquiry has been charged with lying. Guest: Michael S. Schmidt, who has been covering the special counsel investigation for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarco.
0:32.6	This is the Daily.
0:39.6	Today, Michael Cohen leads guilty to lying about the president's ties to Russia and agrees
0:46.3	to cooperate with the special council.
0:49.9	What it means that a second subject of the Russia investigation has been charged with
0:54.8	lying this week.
0:59.6	It's Friday, November 30th.
1:08.2	Mike, what happened in August of 2017?
1:11.0	What was extraordinary about this week was how ordinary it was.
1:14.3	The Russia investigation heated up again.
1:16.8	There was a shake up in the White House.
1:18.4	Again, Congress couldn't get anything done again.
1:21.8	There are all of these questions about ties between Donald Trump's campaign in Russia.
1:27.7	Capitol Hill, the intelligence committees in both the Senate and the House are looking
1:32.8	into these accusations, these issues.
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