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What would prevent him from showing up and pleading the fifth? >> hes already cooperating with the southern district of new york. i think he knows hes got a lot of liability out there and its very possible and hes been involved in the role he played in these fraujial assets. hes got a lot at stake and i think the prosecutors have a fair amount over him. corroborating with the committees as well may be in his interest. >> if congress is interested, is there a concern if youre congress and theres ...

Less forthcoming, a little shiftier in his answers. today he was very careful to understand the question and make sure that he was careful in his response, you know, not to say anything that he didnt know or didnt want to speculate at all. also, hes got this sword of damocles that is hanging over him. he saw paul manafort touch the hot stove as a cooperating witness, he lied and now he faces 19 to 24 years in prison. michael cohen knows if he lies as a cooperator he will face more time. he talks...

Less forthcoming, a little shiftier in his answers. today he was very careful to understand the question and make sure that he was careful in his response, you know, not to say anything that he didnt know or didnt want to speculate at all. also, hes got this sword of damocles that is hanging over him. he saw paul manafort touch the hot stove as a cooperating witness, he lied and now he faces 19 to 24 years in prison. michael cohen knows if he lies as a cooperator he will face more time. he talks...

Receipts, the fact that he had the check that donald trump wrote him while he was president in august of 2017, just shows that we dont have to take michael cohens word for any of this, really. he has evidence. he has tapes as weve seen. he recorded his conversation with the president when he was discussing paying back, you know, the money that he was owed in order to, you know, silence stormy daniels. so with all of that in mind, i really dont think we can look at michael cohen in a vacuum. ther...

People. >> i think people were sympathetic today. michael cohen came off sympathetic when he talked about his family and his dad is a holocaust survivor and he talked about his family. >> everybody talking about credibility issues, is he believable? >> for me? i thought he was believable. >> he was absolutely believable. he has done what a lot of people get in trouble dont do. he apologized and hes going to pay a price for it. >> believable? >> i am wondering how angry donald trump is sitting th...

Thats an example of a credible witness. that made me think that people will believe him. >> he said a lot of things that were exical puatory. the infamous blackmail tape. i dont think that exists. it did the president pay for medical procedures? i dont kno. every fever dream you have is true. knocking down numerous things. >> and theyre trueing to make it a big deal because this person shouldnt be relieved. the fact of the matter is this happens all the time. when i was a prosecutor, i have been...

Truth now on this, on both sides of this, that he heard the president and stone talking about wikileaks ahead of the big wikileaks dump and cnn is right that the president told mr. mueller he did no such thing, he never had that conversation, how serious is that? >> i think that that would be extremely serious. >> how would mueller go about proving that if he wanted to prove that the president had lied to the special counsel about that matter? >> so the proof issue is significant. no ones relyin...

>> so obviously the question is what youre going to be asking tomorrow, making it clear you wouldnt ask anything along those lines. what are you going to be asking? >> so i just want to get to the truth. wed like to find out whether he knows anything about illegality during this administration and lets get to the truth of it and hear what he has to say. now, hes a person who is known to be a liar and he has a lot of -- a lot to overcome there but maybe hes got corroborating evidence and wed like...

Witnesses trying to sort of help but not overstate their case. they know the information they provide has to be corroborated. im not sure this congress is doing a very good job of corroborating with mueller very well. >> lets listen to jim jordan. and an exchange that he had with michael cohen. cohen is generally -- i know him pretty well, he stuck true to the way that he is, the way he talks normally is coming off as very authentic. but he also is somebody that will push back when he feels not ...

Jim comey explained that once it shows up in a sentencing document, federal prosecutors have sponsored that information meaning theyve either corroborated it, jump in if i get any of this wrong, or verified it. >> yeah, were putting our reputation on the line, when we file something with the court saying here are the facts as we know them. so, you know, once we saw some of that in the michael cohen pleadings, thats why i think we can be comfortable that there is sufficient corroborating evidence...