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At 1600 pennsylvania avenue, this is going to be a very, very uncomfortable piece of testimony and maybe more uncomfortable than comeys was and maybe better watched than comeys was, but i think thats the argument that youre going to hear from michael cohen, which is, you know, i didnt do it for me. i was dumb and i did it for him and now im trying to set it right. >> and michael zeldin coming in on this conversation now, you used to work with robert mueller. when he was charged in court, right, ...

Weaponizing social media, putting out targeted ads, they were putting posts on facebook and youtube, you know, and if they were doing that in a targeted way with the information that the trump campaign had about, you know, what areas you should do that, what type of voters you should do that, that would be collusion. >> lets discuss now. former white house counsel john dean is here. john, good evening to you. >> good evening. >> so, listen, his campaign chairman shared polling data with a man ti...

And youtube, you know, and if they were doing that in a targeted way with the information that the trump campaign had about, you know, what areas you should do that, what type of voters you should do that, that would be collusion. >> lets discuss now. former white house counsel john dean is here. john, good evening to you. >> good evening. >> so, listen, his campaign chairman shared polling data with a man tied to russian intelligence, allegedly tied to russian intelligence during the campaign, ...

Somebody down, and then you talk to a witness, they may not be explaining things as they saw them in realtime, they may be p parrotting something back they heard on the news. they want to be very, very careful about that. secondly, i think the police alluded to this last night. they are in the process right now of corroborating things. thats very important in these type of cases. you cant take one piece of evidence, and to get past statements, traffic cameras, license plate scanners, digital exh...

Came about two weeks or so before the election post the billy bush comments, so, yes, he was very concerned about how this would affect the election. >> to help his campaign. >> to help him and the campaign. >> heres what michael cohen said in that interview about why federal prosecutors believe him now after he has pleaded guilty to lying to congress. >> the special counsel stated emphatically that the information that i gave to them was credible and helpful. theres a substantial amount of info...

Compromised the interests of the united states in order to pursue a financial opportunity in russia is arguably way more serious than the campaign violations he committed in the waiting days of the campaign because he was so desperate to get the presidency and have all the power behind him of course that comes with that. >> yep. >> i also think it is important to realize that michael cohen, going back to this defense that hes not a reliable narrator, no, hes not. but up until this point, he has ...

Whatever they could to try to win the election. >> let me ask you this, because you were in a public integrity unit, and most of the prosecutions are not the president of the united states. their state reps, city council members, members of congress sometimes. if someone comes to you with this set of facts and this evidence, these people with a city council member or a state rep, a member of congress who does this, theyre probably getting prosecuted. >> absolutely. theres no question. again, the...

Theres no question. again, the only reason that president trump is not getting prosecuted is because he is president trump. >> the president. >> the department of justice has this policy position that a sitting president cant be indicted. >> yeah. go ahead. >> he could be indicted after he leaves office. >> he sure could. >> right. >> one of the last things here that i think is important in terms of why this transparency matters in the federal election laws, american voters were robbed of corrob...

Said in that interview about why federal prosecutors believe him now after he has pleaded guilty to lying to congress. >> the special counsel stated emphatically that the information that i gave to them was credible and helpful. theres a substantial amount of information that they possess that kraubcorroborates the fact telling the truth. >> president trump has to be worrying what that corroborating information is. did michael cohen make tapes of candidate donald trump saying that the payments t...

Brian bennett, nelson cunningham. so congresswoman, i promised to start with you. first of all, do you think cohen is capable of migrating in the public mind to become a credible and sympathetic character? we certainly have seen a migration of the presidents answers on this top kick from i didnt know about the payments to i learned about it later to where we are now. >> if anybody has lied, frankly, all along, its really been the president. so much so that hes had to abandon one defense after th...