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Congress. just after he was sentenced in december, he responded to the presidents claims. >> his claim, you are lying about him to protect your wife, to protect your father-in-law. >> inaccurate. he knows the truth. i know the truth. >> reporter: before they postponed his testimony, his attorney alluded to the fear cohen and his family face. >> theres fear that mr. trump has supporters either in this country or maybe abroad that have a motivation to harm. >> reporter: time could be running out i...

>> i would say hes been threatened by the truth. hes only been threatened by the truth. and he doesnt want to do that probably for me or other of his clients. he has other clients also, i assume, and he doesnt want to tell the truth for me or other of his clients. >> said the president, whos now lied more than 8,000 times. the chairman of the house intel and oversight committees stressing their sympathy for cohen and his family in a statement out this afternoon -- we understand mr. cohens wife a...

President to a mob boss? >> very strange, and i dont do it lightly. and im not trying to, by that, by the way suggest president trump is out breaking legs and shaking down shop keepers. instead what im talking about is that leadership culture constantly comes back to me when i think about my experience with the trump administration. >> thats exactly right. thats how he ran the trump organization. at that point michael cohen was very much part of that mob mentality. >> leg breaker. >> hes running...

But hes probably got evidence about other things that may not rise to the standard of criminality, but would be grossly inappropriate behavior for someone holding the highest office in the land. for him to come testify to that publicly i think represents a grave threat to the president. thats why youve seen him and his attorney act the way they have over the past few weeks. corinne, we dont know what crimes mueller has unearthed around occlusion but we do know what crimes were implicated in new ...

The shutdown talking about how cohen is afraid of the truth. all cohen has now is the truth. only way to spend less time in jail, only way to protect his family is to tell the truth. >> a lot of people didnt know what rudy giuliani was talking about when he referred to tapes but i think the illusion youre making is right. i suspect was he was referring to was the evidence seized from cohens office bid the fbi and turned over to trumps legal team as part of their to sift out what is privilege and...

>> we think he will talk in some form before then. >> he wants to. im not sure what congress plans on doing. >> as you said, congress plans to compel to. just detailing how individual one committed a crime, the crime of campaign finance -- the crime of campaign finance violation, not just paying somebody inappropriately or illegally but in a way that could have affected the outcome of the election, seems like a pretty big deal. >> it is a huge deal. but it reminds me when youre reading that, rem...

Much new in the investigation. but michael cohen have credibility issues? no doubt. but there will be a human face there whos going to tell in vivid detail conversations he with the president, and theres something different about reading it on a paper, hearing it in a court document, discussing it on a show like this and having someone there in front of congress talk about the president of the united states, instructing him to break the law. >> you know, matt miller, im reminded of rudy giuliani...

Thats the money in the family. i guess he didnt want 0 tato t about his father-in-law. hes trying to get his sentenced reduced. its pretty sad, weak. very sad to watch a thing like that. i couldnt care less. >> what is this father-in-laws name? >> i dont know but you will find out and you will look into it because nobody knows whats going on over there. >> why does the president fear cohens testimony so much that hes targeting cohens family? maybe because cohen implicated the president in a hush...