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Over the years. i have no reason to believe that that tape exists. we went the great jamie raskin, ladies and gentlemen, thank you mr. raskin for clearing that up. so the tape is not real. there goes the juiciest part of the tromp dossier which you will remember another highly publicized group from yes, buzzfeed. good time to be back to those cat videos, fellows but wait what about the trip to prague that cohen took part of collusion with dark forces of the russian empire. that was in the dossie...

Barrier, illegal immigration went down. the data is clear. but the democrats are ignoring the data. its there. they can talk to the experts. president trump didnt pull this out of his pocket. he talked to the men and women on the front line that have been there. we stood on the line in the middle of the night taking on drug smugglers. you sit there at 3:00 a.m., you dont know if its an illegal alien or a drug smuggler. these agents need the help and they got the ideas and this president is liste...

A lot of what we will be able to discuss today. a lot more to say. >> its important to break down cohen seven hours of testimony when you are looking at the issue of collusion. his testimony undercut the recent buzzfeed report that alleged president trump had directed of michael cohen to lie to congress about moscow real estate project in 2016. cohens testimony also undercut the dossier that was funded by the dnc and the clinton campaign. the central allegation against cohen is that he had trave...

Of criminality committed by the president that needs to follow not only by the special counsel but by other prosecuting offices. right now no aspect of trump world is not under investigation. >> harris: so what is going on behind closed doors now? chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is on capitol hill to get us the news. catherine? >> michael cohen has been in a secure facility by me for about three hours. as you mentioned, this is his third day of testimony and capitol hill. its...

Pieces of information to congress. one missing role here is john mccain and his role of david cramer. how they worked to get the dossier toe the fbi and whether cramer may have been the one to provide the dossier to buzz feed. remember, it was the report in buzz feed that opened the pandoras box in january 2017 that helped kick start the public discussion about russian collusion. >> neil: and heres what our judge says about michael cohen. >> the president could fire the attorney general could sh...

Break down a little bit. if michael cohen never went to prague as buzzfeed and adam schiff and prime time lineup of nbc has told us repeatedly that you did, how is that lead to michael cohen when colluded with the russians to steal the 2016 presidential election from its rightful winner hillary clinton? that is a good question, isnt it, debbie wasser scholz at the democrat to have 100 that too. here is the exchange. >> based on what you know, with mr. trump or did he lie about colluding and coor...

Latest buzzfeed and 15 cats that look like ruth bader ginsburg look carefully. what about russian blackmail you have been hearing about that for years. trump they have told you again and again has somehow been compromised by the russians. that is why he has been spying for them. putin has something horrible incriminating on donald trump he must. the president of in a bat -- or doing something weird. certainly michael cohen when wed know about that kind of thing, that is his world. luckily a sitt...

To toe the line. the story comes out that buzzfeed that he was directed to lie to congress and the special counsels office knocks it down. and here is a kind of threading of the needle as cohen explains it that i thought was interesting. id like the get your response. take a listen. >> mr. trump did not directly tell me to lie to congress. thats not how he operates. in conversations we had during the campaign, at the same time i was actively negotiating in russia for him, he would look me in the...

About it. remember that explosive buzzfeed account that got so much attention that then robert mueller actually distanced himself from and said it wasnt true. that was saying the president of the united states had directed michael cohen to lie. you seized on it and said that was one of the most serious accusations to date you heard, you tweeted. well, he puts more details on that in his opening statement. mr. trump did not directly tell me to lie to congress. thats not how he operates. in conver...

But i have my suspicions. and then he goes into the trump tower stuff and other things -- and also the one thing that troubles me by some of this is we know what the special counsel has kind of been looking at. theres been no evidence suggested by the special counsel to this point, were two years into this, that theres any evidence that julian assange communicated directly with roger stone. theres no direct evidence or suggestion from the special counsel that the president knew anything about th...