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Phase because all of those crimes you indicated in the investigation, not only by robert mueller but also in the southern district of new york, in the eastern district of virginia, these criminal investigations are spread among them and cohen has been a powerful and compelling witness. >> you believed him yesterday? >> he has credibility problems because he lied to congress before. >> lied to congress before but has a long record of lying all over the place. >> he has a long record of lying and ...

Evidence to corroborate his oral evidence. whenever the republicans kept jumping up and down screaming he was a liar, its very interesting that not once did they impugn the integrity of the evidence or say that it was somehow false. in fact, it was very hard for them to do so. >> i just want to show the moment that you had yesterday in that hearing which changed our understanding of what might be happening next in this story when you asked michael cohen about any other possible evidence. >> is t...

Environment than it was 20 years ago with the clinton impeachment. clinton impeachment as you said never fully succeeded because he had strong popularity ratings throughout. 60% and above. the public didnt want to do it. even though many democrats agreed that he had conducted a lot of wrongdoing and perhaps even violated the law. so the difference is that president trumps numbers are not anywhere near as high. the difference is though that they are strong monday republicans. and unless you get a...

Evidence. whenever the republicans kept jumping up and down screaming he was a liar, its very interesting that not once did they impugn the integrity of the evidence or say that it was somehow false. in fact, it was very hard for them to do so. >> i just want to show the moment that you had yesterday in that hearing which changed our understanding of what might be happening next in this story when you asked michael cohen about any other possible evidence. >> is there any other wrongdoing or ille...

Tip of the iceberg. >> is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we havent yet discussed today? >> yes, and again, those are part of the investigation thats currently being looked at by the southern district of new york. >> those potential crimes anything to do at all with the investigation by special counsel robert mueller and on that front, cohen dropped a bombshell that suggested mueller could be sitting on much more explosive information t...

About the business. we already knew the president was implicated in the criminal scheme to violate campaign finance law to which cohen pleaded guilty last year. identified as individual one in those court documents. it now brings the skecheme insi the white house. a reimbursement check for the illegal stormy daniels hush money payment signed and dated august 1st, 2017 while donald trump was in august. but thats just one of the many potential crimes of which cohen accused his former boss. despite...

We make them with people who were involved and they have criminal wrongdoing in their background and he directly linked donald trump to very serious criminal wrongdoing, which is corroborated by other witnesses and documents. >> joyce, the one person i thought must have been pulling their hair out there yesterday or calling their lawyer was allen weisselberg. what do you think his future is in front of congress and southern district? >> well, i think youre right. it wasnt a very good day for mr....

With the silly donald trump signature on them. its really, really hard and looking problematic for the president. remember, this is a president who unlike members of the public understood the southern district investigation poses a mortal threat to him. last week the "new york times" reported that president trump tried to remove the u.s. attorney overseeing the investigation install his own person though his own person recused for ethics reasons. so the president is aware of how serious it is. a...

But if this is true, that would mean that was something that would appear to me that donald trump would have done all the time, if youre willing to lie to a bank once, then youre willing to lie. >> in fact, we know that donald in the past has entered false financial statements. hes hidden records from auditors in my biography, "the making of donald trump," theres the whole hilarious -- dark hilarious, of hiding records to avoid an audit by the city of new york and coming up with stories to hide ...

>> is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we havent yet discussed today? >> yes. and again, those are part of the investigation that is currently being looked at by the southern district of new york. >> okay. we are back with jeff zeleny, jennifer rogers, jeff lockhart. what did that mean? >> we dont know. that is the tant lalizing part. there are a few things that he said that could cause the president and those around him grave concern. h...