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Discrediting the president. its about the oath of office that we take as members of congress to have checks and balances and to meet the laws and policy of this country to serve. thank you, and i kwraoel back. >> mr. cohen, i do want to offer my heart felt thoughts for your family and what theyre going through. i know its tough for you to sit here in front of this committee. chairman suggested you volunteered to come here. you testified you were asked to come here. is it correct that you were as...

Fraud. not parsing different statutes, are you or are you not guilty of making false statements to a financial institution, yes or no? >> yes. i plead guilty. >> you said to mr. cloud and mr. jordan that lawyers were being untruthful characterizing your desire the work in the administration. do you say again that the lawyers are being untruthful making that characterization yes or no? >> its not accurate. >> youre saying theyre being untruthful. >> im not using the word untruthful. thats yours. ...

Phone. i received some, and im sure youll understand, i received some tweets. i received some facebook messenger, all sorts of social media attacks upon me, whether its a private direct message, that i have had to turn over to secret service because they are the most vile, disgusting statements that anyone could ever receive. when it starts to affect your children, thats when it really affects you. >> january 20, 2019, mr. giuliani called your father-in-law, quote, a criminal and said that he ma...

While lot of it doesnt have proof or corroboration, there were definitely some smoke here. >> dana: yes. chris, thank you very much. i do want to get marthas take on this. i want to play one piece of sound. republicans trying to tarnish michael cohen. hes not a perfect witness, of course. we all know hes a liar. thats why hes going to prison in two month. theres one lie republicans will be able to think he lied to us again. this is a question of whether he ever wanted a job at the white house. w...

Government. yet, here we are taking testimony from a convicted liar and not someone who has just lied to his clients or family and friends, but testimony from an individual deliberately and premeditatedly lied to this body. he lied to congress through false statements and written statements, through his testimony. he then amplified his false statements by releasing and repeating his lies to the public, including the other potential witnesses. yet now we on this committee and the american people ...

For $35,000 from august of 2017 from donald trump personally, signed by donald trump, to michael cohen. cohen says this was allegedly supposed to be or the cover story was that it was part of a retainer, but he said that retainer never existed and that the whole retainer fiction, theres the check, these 11 payments that added up to, what, $35,000 a month, that they were basically a way to cover up the fact that donald trump was reimbursing michael cohen for the payment to stormy daniels and he h...

Accurate. i dont feel good about any of this. this was not my intention. >> mr. lawrence. >> sorry. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i just want to put on the record being black american and having endured the public comments of racism from the sitting president as being a black person, i can only imagine whats being said in private. and to prop up one member of our entire race of black people and say that that nullifies that is totally insulting and in this environment of expecting a president to be...

Installments? >> that was in order to hide what the payment was. i obviously wanted the money in one shot. i would have preferred it that way. in order to be able to put it onto the books, alan weiselberg made the decision that he should be paid over the 12 months so that it would look like a retainer. >> did mr. trump know about this reimbursement method? >> oh, he knew about everything, yes. >> thank you, mr. cohen. so the president not only knew about the payment, he knew and helped hide the ...

Of last year, federal prosecutors stated that a truth and in fact there was no such retainer agreement. did you ever have a retainer agreement in place with the president for the payment to miss clifford? >> no. >> was mr. giulianis statement inaccurate? >> yes. >> was miss dillans statement inaccurate about the retainer agreement? >> her statement is what? >> her statement to them was, quote, not to permit oge staff to read the agreement because its privileged. >> there was no agreement. >> is ...

>> i believe so. >> mr. chair, i think those are the individuals that we should be speaking with. i yield back this time. >> committee will now stand in recess again. we will come back. 35 minutes after the last vote begins. for mr. cohen, mr. cohen, were talking about probably an hour or so. >> dana: all right. an explosive and very partisan hearing. weve been watching it all morning. michael cohen, the presidents former lawyer and also called his fixer, is front and center in front of the hous...