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The parallel to congressional inquiries. the point of it, it is public. >> its still the case, if i may, that if the issue is someone who lied to congress, then congress ought to be a little motivated to get to the bet tm of it. >> i thought i saw a turn in the initial response of the the story on precisely those grounds. members of congress all say, and i think this is a consensus to you. everyone has said this, even william barr. it is a black and white impeachable offense. if you say to someo...

Published by "buzzfeed" news, reporting that the president directed his attorney michael cohen to lie to congress about the trump tower moscow project and reporting that the special counsel learned this both from cohen but also from other witnesses and from other documents. then suddenly late tonight the special counsels office issued a statement disputing at least the part of the story that has to do with the special counsel. muellers office saying in this, again, rare statement tonight that "b...

Congressional investigation that went along with the special counsel one. the only one that didnt. jummy carters peanut farm investigations. when the special prosecutor issued a public 180-page report of his findings. theres a question of whether theyll release the report, theres a precedent. and the reason for the hearings is the american people need be brought along to understand what happened. i remember my father talking about watching john dean testifying on television every day, slowly rev...

May not have a strong asylum claim to apply and so it is not good as a deterrent as well. these are the kind of things that democrats and republicans could be talking about, how to make it work in a timely way thats fair to asylum seekers but also timely enough that its a deterrent for people that dont have cases. weve seen the administration try and limit access to asylum, try and do things to make it harder for people to apply. you can make it a timely system again. and try and have decisions ...

The united states president. >> if the president did what hes being accused of then he will be held accountable. >> look, does it illustrate the possibility that democrats in general might have overplayed their hand when it comes to impeachment talk relevant to this story? >> it illustrates the story that impeachment is active now in the political discourse and the real possibility for democrats and lets not, you know, forget that theres a large portion of the base of progressives who would like...

Im going to prosecute your father in law. can he keep the witness from appearing before the oversight committee? >> one thing prosecutors look for is we look for something called consciousness of guilt. what would a guilty person do that an innocent would not? hes had a lot of time to respond and has he denied them personally? no, he has not. instead he tries to intumdate the key witness and that is a possible felony. michael cohens attorney clearly believes donald trump is trying to intimidate ...

They have said this, pushing back on "buzzfeeds" big scoop today. now, i should say that the "buzzfeed" editor-in-chief is going to be here tonight to respond to this, but this is what we got from the special counsels office from peter carr. ""buzzfeeds" description of specific statements to the special counsels office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohens congressional testimony are not accurate." thats what we got from the special coun...

Thats why it was so carefully worded. it was talking about what buzzfeed said about what the special counsel had accumulated. but all that said, i just want to make one point. the unfortunate thing about a story like this is, it distracts from what we do know and what is real and what is significant. and thats what cohen pled to in the first place. he was the personal lawyer for donald trump. he was in direct communication during the presidential campaign with a kremlin official about securing l...

Updates from cohen on the status of the project which the president defended after cohens sentencing. >> there would be nothing wrong if i did do it. i was running my business while i was campaigning. there was a good chance i wouldnt have won in which case i would have got back into the business and why should i lose lots of opportunities? >> the special counsels office learned about trumps director to lie to congress through interviews with multiple witnesses in the trump organization and inte...

Tower moscow project and how involved trump and his family were. remember, mike the cohen has pled guilty lying to congress about that. the "buzzfeed" reporting is that trump directed cohen to make those false statements. "buzzfeed" reports that, quote, the special counsels office learned about trumps directive for cohen to lie to congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization and internal company e-mails, text messages and a cache of other documents, and "buzzfe...