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Thats significant because don jr. and ivanka have always denied any substantial participation, anything that has to do with the project. >> listen, there is a lot going on in this story here. we have seen a response now from ivanka at least to this. >> this is coming from the spokesperson for her attorney. essentially they are denying she had any big role in the project because the buzzfeed story is saying she did have a much bigger answer. her spokesperson says ms. trump did not know about this...

Not. >> listen to the exchange that william barr had during the cop f copconfirmation hearing. >> you talked about the comey decision. you talked about obstruction of z justice. you wrote on page one that a president presueersuading a pero commit perjury would be -- >> any person. >> you said a president or any person convincing a witness to change testimony would be obstruction. is that right? >> yes. >> she issued a statement saying her questioning of barr -- she had no idea what buzzfeed was ...

The business and why should i lose the opportunity. cnn has not yet independently confirm this reporting. josh campbell and phillip mud is back with us. welcome to the program. it is the same thing that rudy giuliani did. collusion is not a crime and even if he did it is a long time ago. he said even if i did it, it was not illegal. what the hell is going on here? >> i have no reason to doubt this when it comes to buzzfeed. if you are directing someone to lie to congress, thats a crime. whats in...

>> right. >> so the other thing in the buzz feed story is that the ivanka trump and don junior they say played a bigger roll roel as well. don junior testified also before congress. he tried to minimize his role in the entire project, buzz feed saying not so, he was much more involved. obviously many, many questions. were going to hear a lot today and the big day really will be when michael cohen, as you guys say, finally testifies before members of congress on february 7th. >> okay, shimon, tha...

Directing somebody to commit a crime means you are guilty of a crime. this is how a crime boss gets in trouble. you direct other people to deal drugs. directing other people to lie to congress is a crime. you dont need to get to the obstruction of justice issue. the legal issue is very straightforward. as long as michael cohen was directed to lie as to a material issue, something that was important to the united states congress, that is a federal crime. >> in terms of the lie itself, that lie th...

Project the efforts began in 2015 and remember they lasted much longer than initially indicated by the president and others. thats what sort of started a lot of the controversy surrounding the project because the president had indicated that talks ended earlier. michael cohen when he pleaded guilty in manhattan to lying to members of congress admitted that the conversations and activities surrounding the project went on much longer and that the president was being brief. certainly, a lot of ques...

From buzzfeed which has done some really good work on the trump tower part of this investigation, but a buzzfeed report thats based on two anonymous officials and a denial from rudy giuliani. thats where we are right now and there is a lot of space in between to try to bridge the gap between the report and this denial. >> thats basically what theyre going to be trying to do in trying to either replicate their reporting that buzzfeed did or find other sources to corroborate or find that they dont...

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Two law enforcement sources, donald trump asking michael cohen to lie to congress. is that an impeachable offense if you can prove it? >> first of all, it is a crime. and so yes, it is a crime and if you can prove that the president ordered it, not that some other person said that the president ordered it, but you prove that the president ordered it, that certainly rises to the level of an impeachable offense. i think the bar is higher to impeach someone and remove them than the bar would be if ...

Has nothing to do with michael cohen. there is text messages indicating this activity. there is documents. they have talked to other witnesses according to buzz feed, witnesses from the trump organization who have come in and talked to the fbi. there are internal company e-mails talking about this. so certainly a lot more information that would corroborate what buzz feed says that michael cohen has told the special counsel that he was directed by the president to go before members of congress an...