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I imagine the fear youre picking up in your reporting has to do with the fact if there were ten conversations there, there were maybe one to ten recordings of them. >> there certainly could be. the buzzfeed report, and nbc, other places have not matched yet or corroborated, this 120st is not just built off what michael cohen said. theres evidence to back it up. >> e-mails, text messages. >> thats right. theres evidence in its possession supporting the case. we dont know if one of the things migh...

This is just new to people finding out. >> yes. >> secondly, dont expect michael cohen to talk about this when he testifies in open session before the house next month, because the house investigators have already told mueller they will not ask about any russia-related materials. russia-related questions. hes not going to be talking in public about this. thirdly, you just heard from jason saying that cohen has no interest in trying to reduce his sentence. im not sure thats true. yes, its true he...

Majority of whom are going to be running in states that hillary clinton won in 2016, then your numbers game is very different than what we saw in 2018. weve already seen 11 senators break. begin to understand that fire wall has big holes in it. its got holes in it. what mcconnells trying to do who has been awol, hes been out -- undisclosed location. hes got to come out and deal with this at some point.jason, n saying he was a businessman as a candidate, he was allowed to do this. why is it, as w...

Robert mule tore sheller to sho cards. president trump directed his attorney michael cohen to lie to congress about the moscow tower project. nbc news has not confirmed the report which cites to law enforcement officials. at the same time donald trump was denying business dealings with russia during the campaign. >> i know nothing about tiner workings on russia. i have no businesses there. i have no loans from russia. >> buzz feed says the candidate and his children j ivanka and don junior recei...

Find corroborating information to either support or refute, knock down what cohen is saying. the reporting indicates that this first came to the mueller teams attention by virtue of all that other evidence and basically, they already knew. they caught cohen red handed, lying to congress, and they asked him about it, and indeed, he confirmed, i did it at the direction of the president. that takes on a whole different flavor by way of reliable evidence. >> richard, let me get your quick thoughts o...

>> i was allowed to do whatever i wanted during the campaign. this deal was a very public deal. everybody knows about this deal. i wasnt trying to hide anything. >> two sources tell buzzfeed that is exactly what he was trying to do. they reportedly got the information from two federal element officials involved in an investigation of this very matter. this morning, the praeesidents attorney rudy giuliani, hes pushing back. he said, if you believe cohen, i can get you a great deal on a bridge. th...

In its own right. on top of that, russia knew he was hiding his involvement with them so they had leverage over here. so those facts are damaging in their on right. again, it comes back to what the republicans want to do. i think we know where democrats fall on this but what do republicans want to do? in this case the report says they were lied to at the direction of the president. they are the victims in some respect here. are they going to say i havent seen the story so i cant comment on it, a...

We all saw the president lying to the american people about the stormy daniels payments and what did the president say? you got to ask my lawyer, michael cohen. of course, he wanted his lawyer to lie for him then and it sure seems like he wanted him to lie to congress as well. >> all right, glenn, im going to ask you to stick around for me. richard painter, thank you very much. appreciate your insights as always. coming up, were going to have a lot more on this buzzfeed report and how trumps a...

Believe that thats true. if the president did what he is being accused of, then he will be held accountable, and i would also suggest that he does not underestimate the u.s. house of representatives, nor the american people. >> so, if this, in fact, is true, should mueller alert congress? should you be notified now? i mean, theres always the -- theres always two sides to this. in one, people are saying lets wait until the mueller report comes out, but if, in fact, this already is known, why isnt...

That he was directed to do so by the president of the united states. how significant, if this is reported out, and the report does say that these federal investigators, law enforcement officials say cohen is backed up by e-mails, texts and other documents from the special counsels office. >> so the story is a very big deal for three independent reasons or maybe interrelated reasons. the first is as mikas introduction suggests, this is -- if true, an obstruction of justice by anybodys standards i...