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Cautious because cohens already obviously got an issue related to credibility. if you start hammering him during the couple of days i dont think hes going to be a terrific witness. i do think hes going to be fas sthating. but if democrats go too far after him im going to look at this as a sxrur former fbi guy and say be careful about undercutting him further. for everybody who says hes not reliable, if he says something different during these days than what he told federal prosecutors under muel...

Not unusual. we frequently conduct investigations and build cases and prosecutions on the basis of cooperators and witnesses who have credibility problems. there are ways to address those problems in court, as long as the witness has admitted the misdeeds and the lies that hes stated prior to that fact and has taken some sort of responsibility and culpability for it. they can still provide testimony that is compelling and relevant to a prosecution. >> with what youve heard from the southern dist...

Credibility problems. hes admitted to lying to congress. m manu raju reported he apologized for that. >> and michael cohen has already stood up in a new york courtroom and said that the president of the united states directed him to commit a crime, not just any kind of crime, a crime to hide material information from the american people in order to influence the leelection in whi he was elected president. >> hold on. theres more breaking news unfolding up on capitol hill. the house of representa...

Certain things, do you think thats going to matter on wednesday? >> hes got credibility problems, theres no question. and i agree with phil. from the republicans, youre going to see a standard sort of defense lawyer cross-examine. youve been convicted of crimes, youve lied, why should anyone trust you now? standard fare. and it can be effective. if i was advising democrats i would say you do not need to embrace this guy. hes no saint. just stick with what can be proven. stick with whats in the t...

Prosecutor by federal prosecutors in manhattan when he was cooperating partially with them as well as with special counsel robert mueller. he declined to do that, which is why he has a jail sentence rather than a cooperation agreement. what that means for our purposes is he still has a very live fifth amendment privilege and there are areas that he clearly did not want to get into with prosecutors and i imagine that at least some of the people in the congressional hearings, whether they are the ...

Potentially about this testimony and to jeffreys other point. the documentation will matter so much because of cohens own credibility problems, which the president will try to bring up at every turn and his lawyer rudy giuliani has. thats where corroboration will mean something in the eyes of the public. >> these republicans on this committee are going to come after michael cohen in a big, big way. what do you expect to see? >> one of the reasons michael cohen is going to jail is because he lied...

Trump had not been telling the truth about that deal when he said he had no dealings, no investment in the russia because in fact there was a meeting according to the plea documents in which cohen and trump discussed company mean outreach to vladimir putins government. so that will come up behind closed doors and of course the whole issue, it has long been alleged that michael cohen had meetings with russians during the campaign about election interference, he has always denied that, so you can ...

Weeks and closes down shop, then he has to pass certain prosecutions like roger stones. stone is going to be in court this afternoon on to the task of regular prosecutors. ainsley: when doj was investigating hillary clinton and james comey came out and listed all the things she had done wrong, all the laws she had broken but then he said we have decided not to indict her. its now coming out that the legal counsel there at the fbi or with doj, the one who said you cant wiretap. brian: jim baker. ...

The argument for him. youve seen klapper on cnn the former -- brennan, who is on msnbc. obviously, its almost all his criticism. im amazed these two media tours continue for the james comeys. they present gospel as gospel. they go into these to be princes and these mediators may have credibility problems just like andrew mccabe does pay living something here. so the sum of yesterday. "we dont tell michael an investigation is because we dont like someone." then how do you explain peter strzok and...

That he couldnt guess it, but hes got serious credibility problems. hes hawking a kiss and tell book as a disgraced former official and hes flailing around partly at trump and others to bring them down. >> the way the doj writes about it its that he didnt authorize any actions. do you dismiss they had real conversations? >> theres earlier statements that came out that said at best there was something that was said sarcastically. part of this is knowing rod rosenstein. he is not so foolish as to ...