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Not. what more mr. cohen has to say, we dont know. we would be very interested at the appropriate time in inviting mr. cohen to come back to our committee to share any additional information and incites to clarify his prior testimony, so theres a lot more that warrants investigation here. >> adam schiff making two points, one it gets to possible lying by the president but also possible russian attempts to hold leverage over the president as he was the presumptive nominee. >> and hell have the po...

Crossed. >> in that interview, he said this is the red line. >> this is directly related to the question of russian election interference and heres why. not just because the lack of transparency did not provide people with, you know, full information on why he was taking certain steps, but that at every step by keeping it secret, russia has had leverage over him and compromise. every lie told to keep it secret is even more leverage. this is a national security issue and that is what mueller is i...

And of course that turns out not to be truthful. and this is damaging to the president because of what you exactly pointed out before, brooke, which is the russians knew this. did they have any kind of leverage then over candidate trump, someone who could be president trump, i think is a really, really big question here. and i guarantee you the members of congress are going to say, okay, lets see your tax returns. i want to see more. i want to know more. >> yup. i talked to senator ben cardin, t...

Mr. whitaker. when the report is actually issued, it will be mr. whitakers job to decide what the congress sees and what it doesnt see. so those kind of things are very much in question. and i think it behooves us to move in the senate. >> you have roughly a month and a half left in office. is this the end of the road for you in terms of trying to protect mueller? >> i can speak out as a private citizen. right now i have leverage because there are a number of judges about 25 or so that we havent...

Is in regards to putting together a deal between daca and the wall which almost came to fruition a year ago and fell apart, the president saying of the court rules in favor of obama, having that right, it is going to be a disaster because we will get nothing done. the president is hoping when the justice department takes it they will rules that we cant protect these kids and he can use that as a bargaining chip to get his wall. what are the chances the supreme court rules against daca and donald...

Discussed approval for the moscow project. back in january of 2017, president trump tweeted this he also talked about it but we did this: "russia has never tried to use leverage over me. i have nothing to do with russia, no deals, no loans, no nothing." former white house press secretary ari fleischer and mollie hemingway, senior writer at the federalist. your impressions today, how significant about what it means for the president. >> as charles krauthammer used to say, it feels like a cover-up...

Of this down. this is not a man that would traditionally someone who would be bringing justice. this is a guy pleaded three months ago to 8 counts of federal crimes. now he is in a courtroom potentially bringing down a part of the mueller investigation. >> jeremy bash, take me inside what muellers team would have spent 70 hours asking michael cohen about. >> i think theyre following the money. theyre following every bit of evidence that shows financial ties and renleverage that they e over donal...

Seats in january will will be a more conservative and a more republican body. meaning that the votes of collins and murkowski, seen as bulwarks against extreme conservative picks, theyre not going to have the leverage they had before. and if president trump wants to nominate somebody who is like farr, its going to take a lot more republican senators now to block him. >> thats the thought that gives every liberal chills. and kelsey, as an offshoot of that, will a bill that protects mueller ever g...

>> also raises the question if he were to have had the meeting and done what i suggested he should do, vladimir putin is sitting there. >> if he has leverage. >> if he has leverage, he has a big stack of it to tell the president to go jump in the black sea. >> in fairness to president trump, though, you are seeing presidential decision making in real time, which journalists have never experienced ever. he was considering it. they had the meeting on the plane, he decided not to. you saw the whole...

Making this up, the russians may be in a position to say actually theres quite self evidence that he is not. that is leverage over the president of the united states. and of course our most serious concern is is there other financial leverage the russians have, and this is why i continue to emphasize the money laundering issue. if there was laundering of russian money, the russians would be aware of it. that would be criminal activity, the most compromising. >> thats a big leap, congressman. whe...