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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected on Friday to provide new details on how two of President Donald Trump's closest former aides have helped or hindered his probe into possible collusion between Russia and Trump's 2016 e******n campaign.

Mueller last month accused Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, of breaching a plea bargain agreement by lying to prosecutors, and he will submit information on those alleged lies in a filing to a federal court in Washington.

The filing could shed new light on Manafort's business dealings or his consulting for pro-Kremlin interests in Ukraine.

Manafort, who maintains he has been t***hful with Mueller, managed Trump's campaign for three months in 2016.

Also on Friday, Mueller's office and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York are scheduled to file sentencing memos on Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer.
Cohen pleaded guilty to financial crimes in a federal court in New York in August, and last week he pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in a Mueller case. Sentencing for all of those charges will be handled by one judge in New York.

Mueller may disclose new information to supplement Cohen's admission last week that he sought help from the Kremlin for the proposed construction of a Trump skyscraper in Moscow late into the 2016 campaign.

The Mueller probe has infuriated Trump, who has regularly issued tweets criticizing the special counsel and his team.

The president has denied any collusion between his campaign and Russia, and accuses Mueller's prosecutors of pressuring his former aides to lie about him, his e******n campaign and his business dealings. Russia has denied meddling in the 2016 U.S. e******n.
Trump said his lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, would release a response to the report that Mueller is expected to finalize in the coming months.

"We will be doing a major Counter Report to the Mueller Report," Trump tweeted. [nL1N1YC0N7]

Representatives for the U.S. Justice Department and Mueller's office declined to comment on Trump's tweets.

Renato Mar**tti, a former federal prosecutor, said he was looking to see if Mueller's prosecutors offer evidence that directly or tacitly support Cohen's assertions that Trump directed him to make hush payments to women in violation of campaign finance law and that he let the White House know what he planned to tell Congress about the Moscow skyscraper project. Cohen now says he lied in that testimony.

"If the government does not contest that, it indicates that it is consistent with the evidence that they do have," Mar**tti said, referring to Cohen's assertions. "It could be a big day."
The president has called Cohen a liar and "weak person."

In new tweets on Friday, Trump again questioned prosecutors and accused federal investigators and senior officials of having conflicts of interest, without offering any evidence.