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And anything else you think we should be focusing on. >> well, that check is absolutely a smoking gun, and im glad that emily jane has this terrific story. it shows what good reporting is going on here by journalists. by my count michael cohen identified potentially 14 different crimes in his testimony. my concern is that a lot of that the dots were not connected. and a lot of the examination was very poor. now, the congressman whos on our panel and two other congress members, miss ocasio cortez...

Trump carried on talks. now somebody can connect the dots about the influence and what putin was. this may be a matter of impatience. congress is saying, we have had enough. we will talk to you. >> now significant, would the trump organization chief financial officer, how significant would his testimony be assuming he will be called and everybody is agreeing he will be called to testify in. >> very significant. he came up more than once during michael cohens testimony yesterday in the open heari...

>> for more than 30, you have been looking into donald trumps finances. so what for you, what was the moment for you listening to michael cohen yesterday that made your jaw drop? >> well, there were a bunch of them. he laid out and democrats did not connect the dots well a whole number of crimes or potential crimes if he is telling the truth. tax fraud, bank fraud, insurance fraud, wire fraud, property tax fraud potentially. and perjury. he said that he was instructed to lie to congress. and dea...

Person heard from cohen, but when you look at all of it together, might it be used, the whole thread, to charge someone, the president, with being a co-conspirator? >> certainly a possibility. if theres any silver lining in yesterday, its what president trump just picked up on. michael cohen could not help connect the dots with respect to russia collusion which is a very general term. it doesnt even have its own legal significance. thats all i saw as far as the silver lining. i dont see how any ...

There were several thing that were legally, politically and personally consequential. seeing the checks presented on slides in that room where the president had son and a cheigne from the oval office, seeing the check with donald trump jr.s name on it, seeing the evidence in front of you is sort of spectacular to see. its not really hard to connect the dots between a signature on a check and a payment that is potentially illegal. so those were really moving moles and i thought one moment that st...

Because its my decision -- >> by who? my question, did he ask you to come here? >> no, sir. >> okay because he says that he did ask you to come here and that he convinced you and also that he did the same with chairman cummings, as well. so your testimony here is that you approached lanny davis to represent you and to come here. he did not persuade you to come here? >> he did not persuade me. actually, chairman cummings, which was part of the conversations that we engaged in with his people as w...

Gaetz among them. he has a lot of tools to gather electronic evidence of those things. this is a significant moment in the russia investigation. >> garrett graff, you have a book called the threat matrix where you have been connecting these dots for us and everyone for months now. what do you see in michael cohens testimony today? >>? >> yeah, think jim is right to draw our attention to that summertime frame. because part of what is significant about the idea that the president might have been a...

Of america and our democracy. i have a series of questions that i hope will connect more of these dots. mr. cohen, is it your testimony that mr. trump had advanced knowledge of the russia wikileaks release of the dncs e-mails? >> i cannot answer that in a yes or no. he had advanced notice that there was going to be a dump of e-mails, but at no time did i hear the specificity of what those e-mails were going to be. >> but you do testify today that he had advanced knowledge of their imminent relea...

Yes. but im not really sure that i can answer that question in terms of collusion. i was not part of the campaign. i dont know the other conversations that mr. trump had with other individuals. theres just so many dots that all seem to lead to the same direction. >> finally, before my time expires, mr. cohen, the campaign and the entire trump organization appeared to be filthy with russian contact. there are russian business contacts, there are campaign russian contacts, there are lies about all...

This is somebody coming back before congress whos been convicted of lying to congress. what about his credibility? how does he handle that tomorrow? >> youre right. hes about at the lowest eb of credibility having not only lied and admitted but lying to congress, the very place where he will be. the way prosecutors deal with known liars dont take my word for it. i will narrate these documents but i will show oyou in documents or point to the testimony of other people so you can believe the word ...