cohen in the oval office according to michael cohen. i noticed lanny, that the one the president signed is not from a business account. it is not from a trump company account. it simply has the name donald j. trump on it that looks to me like a personal check. that would be a very odd source for a business payment, for if michael cohen is being retained by the business in a retainer agreement, it strikes me as odd that the trump business isn't paying for those legal services. >> well, first of all, i'm a lawyer and i always try to use the word alleged if we're talking about crime because everyone is entitled to due process including donald trump but there is literally no way to despite thcembe dispute he committed a crime. he not only wrote a personal check but invented a coverup story it was a retainer check. the word invented and fictional or bogus was not my opinion, it is a fact there was no retainer agreement. it was a scheme concocted by michael, by donald trump and by mr. weisselberg as a way of avoiding tracing the pay off money

cohen in the oval office according to michael cohen. i noticed lanny, that the one the president signed is not from a business account. it is not from a trump company account. it simply has the name donald j. trump on it that looks to me like a personal check. that would be a very odd source for a business payment, for if michael cohen is being retained by the business in a retainer agreement, it strikes me as odd that the trump business isn't paying for those legal services. >> well, first of all, i'm a lawyer and i always try to use the word alleged if we're talking about crime because everyone is entitled to due process including donald trump but there is literally no way to dispute he committed a crime. he not only wrote a personal check but invented a coverup story it was a retainer check. the word invented and fictional or bogus was not my opinion, it is a fact there was no retainer agreement. it was a scheme concocted by michael, by donald trump and by mr. weisselberg as a way of avoiding tracing the pay off money, the hush money

michael cohen is indeed a lawyer. but you have all these public statements from donald trump himself saying that, oh, michael cohen didn't do anything for me. he was just this guy i let hang around. he didn't really do anything. as usual, on the record, we have trump statements that sort of contradict a trump theory of defense. the other issue is if you're a lawyer in a retainer agreement, those things are written. i've seen retainer agreements for lawyers. they're pretty simple. >> yes. >> there's got to be a retainer agreement that you produce or there isn't. if allen weissleberg can't produce that retainer agreement, i don't know how he justifies signing these checks. >> well, then we'd be shocked again to discover that members of the trump trio are lying about what's occurred here. you know, it's interesting that that irrevocable trust is in place here. it was essentially this fig leaf that was established to give the appearance that the trump family was insulating the trump family businesses from the white house

he didn't ask did michael cohen do this on his own. sean hannity sat there and told the president that michael cohen, you know, did this payment to stormy daniels on his own. and then the president just agreed with that. that sounds like testimony that the committees are going to want to hear. >> they may. >> under oath, i meant to add. under oath. >> right. and under oath is a big distinction. it's an important thing. but i wanted to build on what bill said. it's not just the stupid party but it is a party that has been corrupt in a lot of ways. and that's not an easy thing to say for be? like me and bill, who've been lifelong republicans. but it's just been stunning to watch this unfold. and i think what happened was an original sin, which is that the party tied itself to donald trump and they decided they would follow him wherever he went. and so his moral and intellectual failures and defects became theirs. and what's happened is that they will not stand up to him at any point regardless of what he says. when he said during the cam

michael cohen is a convicted liar. the president has certainly lied and stretched the truth and we all know his record on that. with so many people with difficulty telling the truth, is it even possible to figure out conclusively where the truth actually lies? >> sure it is. and i would point to the -- to michael cohen showing up and handing over checks signed by the president backing up his statement that i was reimbursed by the president for paying hush money to stormy daniels. there is documentation, and again i don't want to get into too much detail, but he provided documentation to the committee, these are people who communicate by e-mail and they communicate by text. though the president does not, the president's people do. and again, i think there is much more to the story that -- part of the reason we're being quiet about exactly what happened in the testimony of michael cohen is that his testimony and the information that he provided will probably cause us to call in some of those people. and we don't want the

no. >> why did michael cohen make it if there were -- >> you'd have to ask michael cohen. michael's my attorney. and you'll have to ask michael cohen. >> do you know where he got the money to make that payment? >> i don't know. no. >> well, that wasn't true. eventually, the president's other tv lawyer, rudy giuliani, admitted that the daniels hush money had, in fact, been funneled to cohen through a law firm and repaid by the president. so the takeaway tonight, the president of the united states was not telling the truth while saying he didn't know about the payments to a porn star. we now know he was working as the president of the united states from the oval office while actually making payments to the porn star. as we've said before, this is not normal. joining us now with new information on the cohen story, cnn chief political analyst gloriaborger. what have you been learning about the drafting of michael coh cohen's original testimony to congress? >> we have sourcing that says michael cohen wrote his original testimony himself. it was then edited by his attorney then

let's talk about michael cohen. he claims the president made it clear he was expected to lie under oath to congress about that moscow trump tower deal and his legal team reviewed and edited the statement ahead of time. do you expect the documents to support that claim? >> they are expected to support it. michael cohen has problems with his own credibility having lied to congress. now he is explaining that lie and involving not only the president's lawyers but the president himself in his contention that the president by code by implicit encouragement lead him to lie and the important point here is we are reaching a moment of reckoning for the lawyers if there's a fraud or a federal felony that privilege goes out the window. they going to have answers now. they will have to give to congressional committees and to grand juries. >> what should congress do with this information? >> congress has to hear from those lawyers. it has to review the documents because they provide essential cooberation. there have others that h

do we know michael cohen for sure -- that the president knew for sure michael cohen was going in line. >> what we know is his attorneys actually reviewed this particular document and those attorneys are obviously representing the president and they presumably knew what the timeline was that michael cohen was presenting as well as what the president did during 2016 and those things contradict each other. >> i appreciate you letting me press you on this. these details really do matter. they get to michael cohen's credibility and the potential culpability of the president and his legal team. let me ask you as you are a member of both key committees, what do you think the next most important single thing is to focus on? >> with regard to this particular timeline or generally? >> generally. >> the next thing generally is there were various witnesses that were actually called out by michael cohen within his open testimony and the oversight committee as well as the intel committee. the next logical steps would be to call the witnesses in and ask them to testify as to the particular events in

michael cohen is a convicted liar. the president has certainly lied and stretched the truth and we all know his record on that. with so many people with difficulty telling the truth, is it even possible to figure out conclusively where the truth actually lies? >> sure it is. and i would point to the -- to michael cohen showing up and handing over checks signed by the president backing up his statement that i was reimburse the by the president for paying hush money to stormy daniels. there is documentation and again i don't want to get into too much detail but he provided documentation to the committee, these are people who communicate by e-mail and they communicate by text. though the president does not, the president's people do. and again, i think there is much more to the story that -- part of the reason we're being quiet about exactly what happened in the testimony of michael cohen is that his testimony and the information that he provided will probably cause us to call in some of those people. and we don't want th

a russian connection with michael cohen. michael cohen being personal counsel to the president would be directly relevant to mueller's investigation. in the end though he tosses this over to the southern district of new york who are just the local federal prosecutors because the larger crimes that were developed were crimes relating to cohen in other respects and other felonies cohen pled guilty to. i'm seeing a second thing developing that i have been looking for for a long time. why did trump throw cohen under the bus? what was the reason for this? remember, this is the guy who went out and did the dirty work for trump who knows where all of the secrets are buried. all of the sudden it is clear the president won't give him a pardon. the two men hate each other. what caused that? we are beginning to see hints of what caused that. michael cohen was capitalizing on his relationship with the president to make money as a consultant from russians and from others. i'm betting the president became very resentful of that, that he w

also breaking, a new problem for former trump fictioner michael cohen. sources say he raised the idea of a pardon more than once with the legal team but cohen told congress he never, never asked for a pardon. now the powerful house oversight committee chairman said he warned cohen he would nail him to a cross if he lied. i'll speak to congresswoman jackie spear of the oversight and intelligence committees. and our correspondents and analysts will have full coverage of the day's top stories. >>> let's begin with the manafort sentencing. shimon prokupecz is outside the courthouse and joining us in the situation room, susan hennessy. shimon, he has been in prison nine months, his lawyers say his condition is deteriorating. he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. what's the latest? >> reporter: he certainly can, wolf. just to give our viewers the latest, the judge just took a 15-minute break. he asked for a recess after hearing some arguments from the attorneys inside the courtroom. he has now taken a 15-minute break. we have now well over an hour u

michael cohen was donald trump's fixer.mind the american people, michael cohen is going to prison because he did two felonies. one was hush money illegal payments. he inflated assets to secure loans. that's bank fraud. with donald trump, it looks like he did the same thing. donald trump wrote the checks for these hush money payments and based on public reporting, he inflated his assets to get loans from deutsche bank. >> he committed perjury, lying to congress. that's a federal crime. he begins his three-year sentence may 6 in a federal penitentiary in upstate new york. do the redactions on these pages -- there are 20 pages that are fully blacked out, do they indicate that the hush money payment scheme in this investigation is still ongoing? >> absolutely. you have ongoing investigations. we know from documents provided by michael cohen that donald trump is implicated. he is viindividual one. >> what new questions does all this raise, the new information we got today about michael cohen's lobbying for foreign entities? >> we also know from the search warrants that about a month before the

whitaker did not deny that the president called him to discuss michael cohen -- the michael cohen case and personnel decisions in the southern district. two, while he was acting attorney general, mr. whitaker was directly involved in conversations about whether to fire one or more u.s. attorneys. three, while he was attorney general -- acting attorney general, mr. whitaker was involved in conversations about the scope of the southern district of new york u.s. attorney berman's recusal and whether the southern district went too far many pursuing the campaign finance case in which the president was listed as individual number one. those are the three takeaways from our -- from today. >> what do you mean that he did not deny -- the president -- he did not deny the president's involvement -- or the president interest ee e-- >> he did not deny it. >> the top republican on the committee had a very different ta takeaway from the same closed door session with whitaker. take a listen to what he told manu raju a short time ago. >> mr. nadler said the president -- whitaker did not deny the presid

it came down to michael cohen. even at this late date people thought he was the linchpin and he was. according to the dossier, he was the guy who went to prague and had a secret meeting with the russians. he had all of they w informatio. the only way yesterday's hearing make sense was if they were trying to interrogate this russian collusion theory. it doesn't make sense to ask questions about donald trump as a businessman because that's not proper for government oversight. it's not seamly to have congressional investigators with an attorney-client privilege. the only way it makes sense to give the goods on the russian inclusion theory. he did exactly the opposite and yet you don't hear people realizing what happened. >> tucker: when they raided his office, i remember thinking, if i'm not committing any felonies, someone raided my lawyer's office or tortured my wife, this is an intimate person in trump's life. he doesn't have the goods and they have all of this documents. and all of these communications. and i'm li

the defendant, michael cohen, yes, your honor. the judge, and you omitted those statements, did you not, for the purpose of influencing action by a financial institution? the defendant, michael cohen, yes, your honor, yes, i understand this is felony bank fraud to lie to the bank for the purpose of getting a loan, to lie to them about my real financial situation. even if all you've been doing for the last couple of years is occasionally watching the news about this administration, which means you've occasionally been watching people connected to the president go to prison for felonies. one of the things we've become intimately aware of is the types of financial crimes for which people go to prison sort of on the regular. now what we have as a country is we've got this testimony under oath of the president's longtime personal lawyer, we've got his testimony and we've got some documentary evidence to back it up, which would seem to indicate that the president potentially has done the same kind of bank fraud that his campaign chair a

did michael cohen really do that? here's his act again. >> did the president in any way coach you in terms of how to respond to questions or the contents of your testimony before a house committee? >> again it's difficult to answer. he doesn't tell you what he wants. what he does, again, michael, there is no russia. there is no collusion. there is no interference. i know what he means because i have been around him for so long. if you are asking me whether or not that's the message on point, that's the party line that he created that so many others are now touting, yes, that's the message he wanted to reinforce. >> tucker: that's the message. michael cohen said that trump claimed there was no russian collusion and no interference in the 2016 presidential election. that's exactly what trump has been telling the world for 2 years. every day in a loud voice to anyone who will listen. buzz feed claims that this is somehow proof its original story was accurate. ben smith is the editor and chief of buzz feed news. he was ga

cohen, matt gaetz has to be michael cohen who michael cohen said to them, i was this for ten years, matt gaetz has to do it to get re-elected. he got elected by a huge margin. his district is ruby red. it doesn't feel like re-election is the reason to be so uber loyal you would potentially commit witness tampering. he's being investigated by the florida bar and could lose his law license. why risk all that if you're in such a safe seat. why are republicans doing this? >> well, you know, and thanks for my friend for painting all republicans with a very broad brush. i hope you exclude me from that. >> house republicans. not the doctor, of course. >> you know, for my perspective, look, i think what you have with the congressman here is the congressman is voting how or behaving in a way that is what his district expects. the loyalty i think is to his base. the loyalty i think is to the voters who put him in office. unlike michael cohen who was not elected to anything, he has a constituency to respond to. yes, it is a ruby red district but the congressman represents his people and he fun

who is michael cohen? sort of an annoying sideache or predictor of the beginning of the end, or just another brick in the wall? >> he's certainly annoying to this white house. he's somebody that the white house would not want to be out there, but every day that he's making more disclosures, and especially as he's providing documentation, the checks, showing some sort of evidence or corroboration for the claims he's been making, he becomes more and more a threat to the president, a threat to the president's organizations, and he's very, you know, well could turn out to be the person who puts this presidency in peril, and that's the fear that some in the white house have. it's why you've seen the president, his aides and his surrogates really go after cohen as aggressively as they have last week and into this week, because they know what a threat he poses to president trump. >> phil rucker, joyce vance and dan o'dell, thank you. sto >>> after the break, the wheels come off as the president tries to advance h

no. >> why did michael cohen make it if there were -- >> you'd have to ask michael cohen. michael's my attorney. and you'll have to ask michael cohen. >> do you know where he got the money to make that payment? >> i don't know. no. >> well, that wasn't true. eventually, the president's other tv lawyer, rudy giuliani, admitted that the daniels hush money had, in fact, been funneled to cohen through a law firm and repaid by the president. so the takeaway tonight, the president of the united states was not telling the truth while saying he didn't know about the payments to a porn star. we now know he was working as the president of the united states from the oval office while actually making payments to the porn star. as we've said before, this is not normal. joining us now with new information on the cohen story, cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. so, gloria, what have you been learning about the drafting of michael cohen's original testimony to congress? >> well, we have sourcing that says, first of all, michael cohen wrote his original testimony himself. it was the

you looked at michael cohen. the public is obsess because they recognize an every-man quality in cohen >> cohen gave us a picture, a building -- believable picture of the mna. >> we are seed a humbled michael cohen. a lot of it rings true. >> i was very troughed of him. of i was really proud. sean what happened yesterday was a disgrace. -- you would think they would be more interested in the safety and security of people around the world. i thought politics was supposed to stop at the water's edge. that's what top democrats told us when obama was negotiating the deal that would give iran who wanted to wipe israel off the map, he was negotiating giving them 150-million dollars. he had a different opinion. >> the cost to our reputation in the world. we get a new president. we will find a reason to impeach him. >> it's unprecedented for a political party to interview to intervene to embarrass the president of the united states. >> some members of congress want to make progress with the hard liners in iran. it's unus

jeffrey toobin, here is what michael cohen -- this is what the president tweeted about michael cohen. bad lawyer and fraudster michael cohen said under sworn testimony he never issed f easked for a p. he lied. he directly asked me for a pardon. i said no. he lied again. if he really knew, the president, that cohen lied under oath, which is perjury, another crime, why are we just hearing about this now? >> well, that's a good question. another good question is, why isn't he telling this to robert mueller? this is relevant evidence to mueller's investigation. whatever conversations they did have about a pardon or anything else. if robert mueller was still thinking about the possibility of subpoenaing the president, getting a verbal interview with him, this would be further evidence in his arsenal. the other question is, who is telling the truth here? if michael cohen is someone who has admitted he lielied and fac severe consequences if he lies again. donald trump's record on this in particular is particularly bad. i think that's something people can figure in in their calculation. >> yo

but that's what michael cohen says. and then a current lawyer says a former lawyer said something about what cohen did another time, that's not the same thing as, like, direct evidence that would suggest that he's not being truthful. it would be something that i think you'd want continue to in into. but the telephone game, somebody says something and you get down the line and it's different. but who knows. but it's something to look into. >> let me ask you about an issue that you've cared about for a long time, which is more powers and the authorization of use of force. and you along with the republican senator are proposing revoking ending the authorizations for the u.s. war with iraq, you know, the invasion because of kuwait, the gulf war. >> right. >> and then also the 2002 authorization to go after saddam hussein. why now? why do this? >> well, it was interesting. we had a hearing yesterday with embassy actualer, the current embassy of yemen who was iraq.ated to be the embassy of - i said is iraq an ally? is iraq a

michael cohen testified last week. he was asked, to your knowledge did the president provide inflated assets to an insurance company? cohen said yes. >> under oath, michael cohen implicated the president in potential insurance fraud, bank fraud and other fraudulent activity with regard to his charity. cohen said the president inflated his assets to insurance companies as well as in order to get a loan from a bank. so i think this is really of concern for the white house, because we were talking earlier about this notion of executive privilege. when it comes to the president's business, there's no real claim for executive privilege. there's another aspect that concerns them. the special counsel has certain limitations with respect to the scope of the mueller investigation. when it comes to prosecutors in the southern district of new york, there's no real clear mandate. they can pursue inquiry that comes to their attention. there's a lot to follow up on. >> i can only imagine how angry the president must be that new york

sean hannity says he paid michael cohen to be his lawyer. that right there is a huge interest for that interview. number two, of course, is the longer question to you. if michael cohen is right and the checks are right and they're in evidence -- and this is ultimately going to be resolved in evidentiary proceedings, not in the two clients of michael cohen interviewing each other proceedings, what does it mean legally, barbara, that he brought those checks and there was a multi-person -- i don't want to use the word conspiracy, but multi-person project to trump money to help a campaign? >> anybody who helped in a conspiracy to pay these moneys back knowing they wouldn't be disclosed on campaign finance forms could be guilty of a conspiracy. how you prove that, we don't have to rely solely on the word of michael cohen. there will be other evidence. they can talk to allen weisselberg, for example, who according to that recording participated in that conversation as well. the checks are some evidence. one thing you have to prove for campaign fin

. >> michael cohen is a broken man. he's broken because he committed crimes and he's getting nailed for it and now he's doing everything to make things easier for himself. >> if michael cohen had the dime he would drop it, but he doesn't. it was all a lie. howie: what exactly did cohen prove about trump? the president walks away from his second sit-down withrun. -- certaindown with kim jong-un. president trump: we decided we wanted to walk. >> this was an embarrassing defeat for the president of the united states on the world stage. >> i think he did the right thing in walking away with no deal. my guess is donald trump invested way too much in terms of his personal relationship with kim. >> i think it's a positive step and not a setback. howie: does he deserve credit for rejecting a bad deal. nancy pelosi and alexandria ocasio-cortez warn moderate democrats after a gun control vote, they could face consequences. plus an exposee on facebook censors, they say they are so traumatized they are smoking dope, having sex in s

he was somebody joining michael cohen's defense or wanted to join michael cohen's defense. they large ri about michael cohen's relationship with the president and with the white house. i want to give you a little phrase from it. he describes this and said it was very very positive. you are loved. sleep well. you friends in high places. so these are part of the documents that cohen gave over to congressional committees. the interpretation of what's being said in those e-mails is really -- it differs depending whom you ask. >> you had a chance to speak with giuliani. what did he say? >> he said it has nothing to do with pardons. that was not part of the discussion cost dpello said coh is concerned the president was mad at him. he said there were personally and also legally. and so what giuliani was trying to do in response was to try to calm cohen down to say he's not mad. there was also concern according to giuliani about cohen's emotional state. he was very upset. it was after the raid. it was effectively. we i should point out we don't have pliek l cohen's responses which

it is not just michael cohen's testimony or hearsay michael cohen had tapes that came out july of last year which he discussed with president trump how should we structure this and president trump said to cohen that you should talk to alan. >> alan can be in multiple interests of multiple investigations. >> well, potentially far more leverage than michael cohen. michael cohen joined in 2006, trump treated him as an enforcer. weisselberg has been there since the 1970s. he prepares the president's personal income tax returns and the person signing off most of the deals at the trump organization of substance or size. he has long standing institutional knowledge that investigators are looking into things beyond campaign finance, looking into things like tax problems or insurance fraud. alan weisselberg has a front row seat. >> which why he'll insist on immunity before he testifies. >> do you think he'll sit on immunity? >> they'll probably have to give it to him, that's right. >> let's listen to michael cohen describing his first visit to the white house. donald trump assured him the reimb

michael cohen, he's the fixer. he knows what's going on with the president for the last ten years, but because anything he says has to be corroborated, a lot of their questions were about other documents and witnesses who might robert cohen's very incriminating testimony against the president. >> paul, let me go back to you a minute, joe. at one point congressman meadows who ran for congress accusing president obama of not being born in the country, at one point saying the point of the election was to send him back to kenya or wherever. he had a black female hud executive standing there. she couldn't get to the microphone because she was not a member of congress sitting there, and she couldn't be a witness because there was a witness on the stand. so many, including me, said she was just there as a prop. how do you react to her being there and do you, as a republican, see her as having been used as a prop during this hearing? >> i'm a republican and i'm also an african-american man. i saw her being used as a prop.

michael cohen has had some sort of shoulder surgery. so he was actually in a lot of pain as he did there. he soldiers through specific questions, very different than the public oversight hearing which the american public got to see last week. of course, because it's behind closed doors without news cameras running as such, it was very factually driven. lots of information covered. as our chairman said, new information and new documents provided. >> the chairman said it was very productive.times. you agree? >> i agree. we were able to get into details and sadly, i'm going to respect the chairman's wish we not discuss, for a bunch of reasons, the substance of what was said. we may call follow-on witnesses as a result of what we learned today to come testify before the committee. therefore, it's important that we keep what happened in that room in that room. it was productive. we learned a lot. the transcript will be released and made public. all of these questions and some of the things that cnn is reporting will be known sometime in the

let's talk more about michael cohen and manafort. since the president claims cohen personally and directly asked him about a pardon is mr. trump now potentially a witness if this becomes a major legal case? >> he could be. they both kind of have issues of telling the truth. one prosecutor would use them in any kind of a case without any kind of cooberation without thinking about bringing any kind of perjury clarharges. it is whether or not he lied when he testified. if there is cooberation out there but without that you can't really trust either one of these guys. >> in addition to congress will they look into this allegation that michael cohen may have lied under oath before congress the other day? >> what would happen in this case it would have to be members of congress. they would have to make a referral to the department of justice and then the department of justice would then most likely if they close to take it on would send it to the washington u.s. attorney who would then investigate any potential perjury. it would not be the

sean hannity says he paid michael cohen to be his lawyer. that right there is a huge interest for that interview. question number two is the longer question for you. if michael cohen is right and the checks are right and they're in evidence -- and this is ultimately going to be resolved in evidentiary proceedings, not in the michael cohen proceedings, what does it mean to you, barbara, that he brought those checks and there is a multi-person -- i don't want to use conspiracy, but multi-person project for trump money to help a campaign? >> anybody who helped in a conspiracy to pay these moneys back knowing they wouldn't be disclosed on campaign finance forms could be guilty of a conspiracy. how you prove that, we don't have to rely solely on the word of michael cohen. there will be other evidence. they can talk to alan weisselberg, for example, who according to that recording participated in that conversation as well. the checks are some evidence. one thing you have to prove for campaign finance violations, it's a little different than other

his former personal attorney and fixer michael cohen. maybe because cohen's bombshell testimony triggered more house inquiries to come which could potentially reach the man who knows what's in the books. trump organization chief financial officer alan weisselberg as well as trump's long time assistant rona graph and maybe his grown children. ro khanna joins me now. congressman, thank you very much for being here. one of our guests will be on after you said in his view -- and this is tim o'brien -- you asked the single best question of the entire spectacle of the cohen inquiry. i will play it for you now. >> are you telling us, mr. cohen, that the president directed in conspiracy with alan weisselberg and his son donald trump, jr., as part of is criminal conspiracy of financial fraud? is that your testimony today? >> yes. >> succinctly answered as many of the answers were. congressman, at this point having heard all of the testimony from michael cohen and we know he's done closed door testimony. do you now believe the president directed a

tonight michael cohen sings. now congress listens to whether he and the white house discussed pardons. and i'm joined live by shawn patrick mahoney, who was behind closed doors with the president's former lawyer. plus, the president leaves a long shot summit with kim jong-un early as talks fall apart. >>>

go ahead, gloria. >> and we don't even know what michael cohen's response -- i do not have michael cohen's response to these e-mails. but there's another explanation, his sympathizers point to, which is, you know, maybe what team trump was trying to do was effectively using this attorney as an intermediary between team trump and cohen, so that team trump would know exactly what team trump was thinking at any given moment. >> gloria borger, nicole argentieri and asha rangappa, thank you for being with us. >>> in a few minutes, lori loughlin will make an appearance in court. >>> plus, more on our breaking news. flights right now landing after the president grounded boeing 737 max 8 and max 9 jets. this is not a bed... it's a revolution in sleep. the sleep number 360 smart bed, from $999... senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. and snoring? how smart is that? smarter sleep. so you can come out swinging, maintain your inner focus, and wake up rested and ready for anything. only at a sleep number store, save $500 on select sleep number 360 sma

michael cohen's attorney is supportive of this. i mean, he goes so far as to say it will help michael cohen and his desire to continue to cooperate here. why? >> well, it's really interesting. they redacted everything. surely there are some things that michael cohen has already testified about and that were contained in the sentencing documents for michael cohen that are already in the public realm and could have been left unredacted. prosecutors felt strongly that this is ongoing, that they have work to do and people and facts that they don't want out which means that it looks like they are planning to charge more people. he told prosecutors they needed to come back in may to identify again why at that point these documents can't be unredacted than they are now. everyone seems to be on top of this. prosecutors must have convinced the judge that it would jeopardize the investigation to unredact this material. i think they are looking to charge some more folks in this. >> when you look at some of the details that we are getting here

did michael cohen really do that?ro here's his act again. >> did the president in any way coach you in terms of how to respond to questions or the contents of your testimony before a house committee? >> again it's difficult to answer. he doesn't tell you what he wants. what he does, again, michael, there is no russia. there is no collusion. there is no interference. i know what he means because i have been around him for so long. if you are asking me whether or not that's the message on point, that's the party line that he created that so many others are now touting, yes, that's the message he wanted to reinforce. >> tucker: that's the message. michael cohen said that trump claimed there was no russian collusion and no interference in the 2016 presidential election. if that sounds familiar, that's exactly what trump has been telling the world for 2 years. every day ind a loud voice to anyone who will listen. buzz feed claims that this is somehow proof its original story was accurate. 19 adorable siamese kittens, we ar

lots of lies even about michael cohen himself. what did michael cohen gain from this hearing? that the democrats democrats -- did he gain their friendship? he gained absolutely nothing. no one who truly cared about cohen and his family would have ever let him participate in the stunt. as a result, as i predicted right here on this program, because of his testimony, now michael cohen is facing even more legal trouble. today congressman jim jordan, mark meadows each sent new criminal referrals to thee. department of justice, one for cohen not registering as a foreign agent, and another accusing michael cohen of lying to congress yet again over this claim, as you will see. we'll let you judge forse yourself. >> you wanted to work in the white house. >> no, sir. >> you didn't get brought to the dance. >> i was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the united states of america. i did d not want to go to the white house. >> is there a chance that he'll ask you to go to washington? >> there is a chance. >> would you go? >> 100%. >> i look forward to seeing your

remember, michael cohen said he had the office that michael cohen had up till the end. michael cohen's been there over ten years. if felix sater was there in the same office, it was over a decade ago. >> point well taken. one of the most consequential allegations from michael cohen that was the then candidate trump had had the advance knowledge from his long time adviser roger stone that wikileaks was going to release e-mails from the dnc. let's listen to this. >> mr. stone told mr. trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julian assange. and that mr. assange told mr. stone that within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of e-mails that would damage hillary clinton's campaign. mr. trump responded by stating to the effect, wouldn't that be great. >> okay. a couple of questions to you about roger stone. he has denied he was in contact with assange. what do you know about his interactions with assange? >> as you know, roger stone is my dear friend of 35 years. i've not spoken to him since his arrest on abundance of caution of our attorneys. i'm authoriz

our hopes are on you michael cohen it happen? the reveal. >> you lied to congressional committees, is that correct? >> previously. >> correct. >> yes, sir. >> you stated that trump never directed you to lie to congress, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> tucker: 4 for 4. game, set, match. the trump presidency continues. other team looks despondent. you could hear weeping from the press box. what about all of the lies you just heard, not from cohen from the others. blackmail and collusion and russia, russia, russia! are any of the liars going to be punished for lying? will anybody lose a job or reputation? maybe what happened to carter page? any penalty for being dishonest for 2 solid years and misleading the public in the service of a political agenda, the democratic party? is a single person going to concede what just happened much less apologize for it? of course not, it's washington. mollie hemmingway is watching. a senior editor at the federalist. the key witness shot down this conspiracy. >> it's been several years of th

they only heard from michael cohen. they want to hear from more people before they decide if, you know, whether they should impeach trump because that would be a process that would probably tear up the country a little bit in terms of very divisive -- we're still talking about the nixon era in terms of, you know, he had to resign. so this is not an easy process and democrats want to think through their 2020 implications. maybe it would be better to run against a weakened trump in 2020 than someone who is off the table. >> those democrats in the house there hoping to use that testimony we saw from michael cohen as a road map for investigations going forward. from the people that cohen mentioned in his testimony which one can offer the greatest insight into the missing pieces of these investigations? >> i'm very fascinated by the people at the top of the trump organization that he listed. when i talked to my source at the white house they always told me that one of their biggest fears, not from -- was not from the campaig

and michael cohen, the testimony of michael cohen and the president said it shows his testimony was a total lie. pundants should only use it. then another tweet, virtually everything that failed lawyer michael cohen said in his sworn testimony last week is totally contradicted in his just released manuscript for a book about me. it's a total new love letter to trump and the polls, one l, must use it now rather than his lies for sentence reduction. so the president taking out after his enemies. unclear what he's referring to in 12e7sentence reduction. michael cohen's already been sentenced. unclear what he's talking about in his book manuscript. a tumultuous 24 hours. >> it sure was, mike. you mentioned jared kushner. the white house is facing a deadline when it comes to his security clearances. what can we expect there? >> reporter: i think we can expect more stonewalling. elija cummings, we saw him on wednesday in the hearing. the democrat from baltimore. chairman of the house oversight committee. on january 23rd, phillip, he wrote to the white house asking for documentation trying t

michael cohen's attorney -- michael cohen directed his attorney to have these conversations after these were dangled in front of him. the question is whether or not he lied to congress, including in their concern from republicans who say that he did, in fact, lie to congress. jim jordan, the ranking ready on that committee, has plans to refer this to the justice department to investigate further. he told me earlier today. i caught up with elijah cummings who the oversight committee chairman who is concerned if anyone lied to his committee and plans to look into it further. >> i will nail you to the cross. i meant that. i have to look at it and see whether -- assuming there's inconsistencies. i gotta make sure they are true inconsistencies and not outright lies. >> reporter: he said i would nail you to the cross if you did lie to the committee. that's something he said he told michael cohen. he is not willing to say he lied to his committee yet. he wants to review everything, the transcript and perhaps any follow-up questions with cohen and his attorney about exactly that statement about

breaking news, michael cohen coming back. just wrapping up his third, supposed to be his last hearing before congress, but the committee says there is more to learn. he has much more to tell us. >> not much i can say other than it was very productive as i said i'm committed to telling the truth. and i will be back on march 6 to finish up. there is more to discuss. >> more to discuss next week. and even too, we are learning that cohen is not the only person who in his case was and still are in trump's inner circle who could be testifying before congress. >> there were names or records mentioned during the hearing. we'll figure out who we want to talk to and then we'll bring them in. >> would it be fair to say if any names came up multiple times in that hear -- >> who were those names? we went through and during that explosive public hearing that we all saw yesterday, let's tell you those names. >> donald trump jr., ivanka trump, eric trump. jared kushner. keith davidson, allen weisselberg, ron leaieberman an matthew calamari.

michael cohen, what he brought this week? a member of the intel house will talk to me to tell me why the new documents matter so much. >>> what does the departure of the sixth director mean going forward? and the president paying respects to an alabama home that was hit so hard. why was he seening bibles when there? >>> happening now, three major stories. growing fallout over the sentencing of former campaign paul manafort. democrats facing a growing backlash over congresswoman ilhan omar and 2020 hopefuls are making their case across the country. after touring the damage in alabama, the president signed bibles. his team sed says people in a baptist church asked him for his autograph. before leaving, the president signed with manafosided with ma. many believe it was a lenient sentence for multi-million dollar crimes. >> i feel badly for paul manafort. the judge said there was no collusion with russia. i don't even discuss it. the only one discussing it is you. i haven't discussed it. >> well, to be totally clear. judge ts ell

michael cohen himself is not a wall of evidence. and i think there are those who are pointing to michael cohen and saying see there, there is no collusion, there is no case. but he advanced the ball in many ways. first, some of the facts that he testified to and some of the documents he brought himself. but as jill just said, in the questioning, for example, congresswoman ocasio-cortez identified and drew out of him, elicited the names of additional people that should be questioned and other documents that should be reviewed. and so in that way every time you interview a witness or look at documents, you uncover additional bricks that you can use to build that wall. >> congressman lloyd doggett, i know when you became a member of the house ways and means committee, you thought as all committee members thought, that the most controversial pressurized thing that you'll ever handle is tax legislation, because that's what usually is the most pressurized think in a congress. here you are now on the ways and means committee at the very ce

after michael cohen's testimony to congress this week. cohen specifically mentioned three trump corporation executives who house investigators may now want to talk to. here is sara murray. >> reporter: some little known trump organization officials may face congressional scrutiny of their own after michael cohen suggested in his congressional testimony they could have knowledge of potential crimes. >> to your knowledge, did the president provide inflated assets to an insurance company? >> yes. >> who else knows that the president did this? >> allen weisselberg, ron lieberman. >> weisselberg has been southwest up in the investigation. he was granted immunity for providing information on cohen's role in hush money payments to women alleging affairs with president trump. trump denies those affairs. weisselberg's immunity deal doesn't guarantee he will be spared from inquiries from congress or prosecutors looking into other matters. he could be a treasurer trove of information. weisselberg knows where all the financial bodies are buried, a so

i believe michael cohen was telling the truth. if he's telling the truth, which i believe, then very clearly -- and an objective mind can tell -- shout out, i used to practice, the objective mind is that weisselber g was in the rom and he knows. he is very clearly squarely in the hot seat here. he has potential, he has very serious risk here. i'm not being as articulate as i would like. >> you said the best thing for allen wieisselberg. >> what do you think allen weisselberg cares about america? >> nothing. when you say the best thing for allen, you're right. it's important that this guy knows everything. it would be a real -- elija cummings said at the end of the hearing, this could possibly be his destiny. >> l. joy? >> i don't trust any of these jokers. >> why, why? >> why wouldn't you have a donut. >> like they're testifying in front of congress. everybody is trying to save their -- you know, save their own hides so i don't trust any of it. the other piece about all of these hearings, i agree with you. doing the investigations

now we know about michael cohen recording the president. and we considered and we have this competing -- >> you considered what? >> taping the president in our phone call. >> if you had called him back? >> yeah, i wanted to make sure, because i had a certain amount of mistrust. if he decided to say something inappropriate. >> this season the in the book, this is pretty interesting. >> yeah, that's why this whole debate about whether rod rosenstein was joking when he said, i'll wire up against the president or not, sort of rung in my ear a little bit. i tend to believe he was not joking, there's been a certain kind of conduct that happens, and when you're used to someone -- seeing someone tell untruths about your own situation, i didn't want someone to say, you had some side conversations with the president of the united states. it's something we discussed and talked about. did not think it was appropriate. >> when rosenstein discussioned that in a meeting. that is the point you think prosecutors can legitimately discuss? >> i think as a gen