person. he's a weak person, and not a very smart person. >> of course, the weaker cohen appears to be, the more it makes the case that he was doing the bidding of someone stronger, someone who called the shots, like his boss. donald j. trump. well, manu raju is outfront on capitol hill tonight. and manu, when you talk about cohen's been cooperating with the mueller investigation, mueller did sign off on cohen deciding to testify publicly. >> reporter: yeah. this is according to elijah cummings, the chairman of the house oversight committee, who told me just moments ago that, kin deed, the special counsel's team totally cleared michael cohen's testimony in a public setting, in february. now, what cummings and adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, both told me separately today is that he will not be testifying about the russia investigation in a public setting, because of the fact that this investigation, the mueller investigation, is still ongoing and in cummings' words, he does not want to interfere with the