to get a sense. you know, it s only march, they haven t even been there 60 days yet. there s so many things people are talking about in terms of cohen testimony. and the fact that he s going back again on wednesday to talk to the senate intel committee. what does that tell you, at the end of the day, errol, about how believable he is to them? what is left to clarify after three meetings that now you have to go into a fourth? well, i mean, i m not sure exactly what the intel committee is looking for, as opposed to what we ve all seen from the oversight committee. but that alone, i think, is enough to sort of indicate that we ve got a real series of questions that the white house is going to have to answer. think about how extraordinary it is, christi, that in open testimony the president s longtime attorney produced physical evidence of a possible crime that was committed while the president was in office. i mean, that picture of that check. and the accompanying testimony
grand jury subpoenas are looking into, as we know, even money laundering. money laundering? grand jury subpoenas? wow, you know. you can t, you can t indict a sitting president, but you can indict the trump organization. that is a big something that we really hadn t been thinking about, as much, until we looked at the cohen testimony. which also helped underscore the potential reach and why his family members, who are part of the trump organization, even if they have temporarily removed themselves from day to day operations, they still are subject to, under the umbrella? absolutely, of course. they still. are employee, high directors of the organization, are still under the umbrella of that. that grand jury subpoena, and of course, grand jury is under the secret, beyond are grand jurors
he spoke tuesday to the house intelligence committee. he spoke wednesday in public. and we all saw that. thursday, he spoke to the senate intelligence committee. we only saw one-third of it. think about this. all of the pieces we have seen this week, the cohen testimony, trump s tax returns, perhaps, about to be provided, bob mueller has known all of this for months, because he had the opportunity to question cohen for months. every question that was asked of cohen this week, mueller has already asked him months ago. trump s tax returns, you have to assume that mueller had those not long after he began this investigation some 20 months ago. what we re seeing now, thanks to the house, is a slow-motion reveal of what the mueller investigation would have picked up and generated and collected over the last 20 months. i don t know when the mueller report will come out.
jeff, let s start with you. i know you re back with vietnam there with the president. how worried should he be about the potential of investigation by the sdny? i think it s notable when an ally like chris christie says that that could be more dangerous to him than the mueller report, so i think there seem to be many reasons for him to be worried. i think, you know, the president is pretty transparent sometimes when he gets riled up and you saw from his speech today. he seems riled up. he had a rough week last week. the vietnam summit not leading to a conclusion that he was hoping for. you have the cohen testimony and he s upset and i think that this could be one of the reasons why as well. jeff, that interview that you were referring to right there from chris christie, let s take a listen and get the reaction on the other end. bob mueller is not what should concern the president or the white house, it s the southern district of new york. what they re doing, i m confident, is bui
one-third of the testimony he gave this week. he spoke tuesday to the house intelligence committee. he spoke wednesday in public. and we all saw that. thursday, he spoke to the senate intelligence committee. we only saw one-third of it. think about this. all of the pieces we have seen this week, the cohen testimony, trump s tax returns, perhaps, about to be provided, bob mueller has known all of this for months, because he had the opportunity to question cohen for months. every question that was asked of cohen this week, mueller has already asked him months ago. trump s tax returns, you have to assume that mueller had those not long after he began this investigation some 20 months ago. what we re seeing now, thanks to the house, is a slow-motion reveal of what the mueller investigation would have picked up and generated and collected over the last 20 months.