White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will hold a briefing today to discuss President Donald Trump’s latest plans and administrative agenda. The briefing is scheduled for 2:15 p.m. ET.

It’s an absolute certainty that Sanders will face questions about Paul Manafort‘s guilty verdict and Michael Cohen‘s plea agreement with Federal prosecutors. The latter development has been especially newsworthy for the last 24 hours because Cohen implicated the president by saying he was directly involved in his campaign finance law-violating hush money schemes.

Legal experts are sorting through the plea agreement as the debate rages over whether Trump was basically named as a co-conspirator in a federal crime. The connotations have generated a renewed firestorm of controversy for the administration.

Trump, meanwhile, offered praise to Manafort on Twitter because he didn’t “break” and “make up stories” to get a plea deal when he was found guilty of various tax and bank fraud charges.

Other topics that might come up today include Microsoft’s announcement on Russian cyberactivities, his attacks on NFL anthem-kneelers last night, and the connotations that Cohen and Manafort might have for Robert Mueller‘s investigation.

Watch above, via The White House.

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