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Investigations at least that we can see in which those breadcrumbs are being used, does congress take those up? make a snack of them. joining us now is congressman david cicilline. hes democrat of rhode island. hes a member of the judiciary committee. congressman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. its nice to have you here. >> my pleasure. >> it is a historic day. weve never before had a sitting president have his campaign chair be sentenced to federal prison. i want to get your reacti...

Middle of his case. if we dont hear anything more about that in court because the manafort case is wrapping up, what happens to that? does that part of the story become sort of breadcrumbs for other investigators for potentially congressional investigators to pick up? who runs with that? i mean, manafort didnt get charged for it. it only accidentally got spelled out in a publicly-facing filing because of a botched redaction. we only learned about it because lawyers for manafort failed to redact ...

Manafort 47 months instead of a possible 24 years under those guidelines, as i mentioned earlier there remains some interesting and potentially important dangling threads when it comes to the special counsels case against paul manafort. one of them is about konstantin kilimnik thats russian and have active ties to russian military intelligence. as part of their case against manafort in d.c., prosecutors said in court that manafort shared trump polling data with kilimnik related to the 2016 campa...

They can obtain confidential congressional information? i mean, doesnt that have to be -- who has access to congressional staff and congressional information. is that a member of congress? is that a congressional staffer? thats left dangling, as well. is there somebody else out there that takes up with that question? i mean, we now know what paul manaforts sentence is and next week well learn from the second trial but when it comes to loose and dangling threads and questions raised and unanswere...

Nexus of the trump organization he has. theres a domino affect in terms of the investigations have progressed since cohens testimony. i think we obviously -- as preet and gloria said there are questions to answer here. the way in which cohen moves the ball forward is that he is leaving this trail of bread crumbs to corroborate these pieces. jerry nadler, the chairman of the judiciary committee, issued a request for 81 different people involved in this investigation. if any of those people put fo...

That did not show him and thus blew up his alibi. nailahs friends testified she showed them e-mails and played a voicemail in which he threatened her. >> nailah played that voicemail for them because she was so terrified. and essentially, in that voice mail, he said to nailah, im going to have you erased. im going to make you disappear. >> in fact, said the prosecutors, thats exactly what he did. snuck into her building, led her terrified to the garage where he strangled her, stuffed her body in...

With me now is ron brownstein, senior editor for the atlantic and cnn senior political analyst, and margaret tolev, a cnn political analyst. thank you for joining me. ron, just getting your reaction to congressman nadley, what you heard there, saying michael cohens testimony implicated the president in various crimes. he said it was clear there was obstruction by the president. does this take the investigation to a whole new legal and political level for the president? >> well, look, i think the...

Life before the presidency. michael cohen, quote, set a very rich table. he continues, were now looking at a ten-course meal. more from cohen next week and then it will question felix satyr who has close ties to trump tower moscow. >> i was at that time with allen weisselberg. the bottom signature i believe is allen weisselberg. allen weisselberg. thats signed by allen weisselberg. >> that same came up more than 30 times during the course of that hearing. joel, let me start with you and get your...

Productive, as i said, im committed to telling the truth. and i will be back on march 6 to finish up. theres more to discuss. >> the committee said they will only release a transcript of his testimony after all questioning is done. "the washington post" points out, quote, while it is not clear what precisely was discussed, trumps pardon power and how hes attempted to wield it, has been an area of interest for lawmakers and investigators. during his hearing michael cohen said never asked for nor ...

Weisselberg there can help. >> and water hearing reports that weisselberg has been given limited immunity and it seems to be about things to do with michael cohen so hed help the governments case against michael cohen. do you think michael cohen was trying to achieve anything by bringing up weisselbergs name in testimony, is he just mad at weisselberg for working against him? >> i dont know. he may be trying to suggest krob bra corroborating witnesses. when you have someone like michael cohen wh...