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Its been a heavy twitter week for the president about the various investigations including 811 letters and quoting now they realize the only collusion with russia was done by crooked Hillary Clinton and the democrats, the shift heads of the committees have gone stone cold crazy. 81 letters sent to innocent people to harass them, they wont get anything done for our country. Just to be clear, some of those people the president called innocent include convicted or admitted felons. Joining us is congresswoman katy hill of the Oversight Committee and david who sits on the judiciary and Foreign Affairs committee. Appreciate both of you. The president is calling Michael Cohen a liar. Michael is calling the president a liar. Both men have a very complicated relationship with the truth. Yeah, i mean, the reality is that we have one man who lied to protect the president. We have a president whose calling him a liar over and over again because he thats the only thing hes got to destroy the credibility that exists, what limited credibility exists but the reality is we dont have any were never going to rest our entire case on Michael Cohens testimony. We were never going to. But what we do have is the evidence he brought in. We have the 15 checks he brought that show the fraud. Does it matter he said maybe he didnt, i dont know, before he started cooperating with the special counsel and stopped trying to cover up for trump that he had tried to possibly let his lawyers investigate a potential pardon . I dont know. I dont think this matters. I think we have to look at the Bigger Picture and thats what we got to stay focused on. Congressman, president obamas former Senior AdvisorDavid Axelrod tweeted this week about the document request from your committee saying quote, the wide ranging nature of it easily plays into the witch hunt meme. Would a targeted request be a better strategy or good with the 81 contacts . No, look, we should be clear about this. During the Obama Administration, just as a contrast, republicans during the Obama Administration made requests for literally millions of documents. Thats not an exaggeration. This is the beginning of the judiciary investigati investigation. We requested documents from 81 individuals very targeted and asked for initial responses, give us what you have given to the special counsel so they have done their review of these documents. Their lawyers looked at them. They are probably on a thumb drive. Let us start with that to get caught up to speed. Part of the problem is the Judiciary Committee hasnt done oversight at all. We had over 500page document detailing efforts to persuade the republicans to do oversight and refused. So were doing this work and we have to begin by gathering these documents so that we did make determinations to how we proceed from here this is our responsibility. We take it seriously. The good news is, the president keeps saying all well do is investigate. While were doing these investigations, we pass the most comprehensive Ethics Reform bill since watergate today and pass two common sense gun safety pieces of legislation and begun hearings to drive down the cost of prescription drugs. The good news is we can do both. Move forward on the agenda and hold this administration accountable. Congresswoman hill, you said there are whistleblowers as in more than one in touch with your committee. Generally, what kind if you can say, what kind of things are they providing the committee and has it yielded anything useful yet . This is around the security clearances and information requested by the committee and by the chairman to really clear up what that process looks like and why the president over ruled a decision and recommendation made to not issue security clearances to members of his family. So this is, you know, that got reported by a whistle blower. We got other things reported by whistleblowers around the arrangement of saudi arabia and potential Nuclear Capabilities that are going to be transferred to saudi arabia. There are so many instances where were getting information from possible whistleblowers and this is something that we have to investigate fully, and are they sorry, are these whistleblowers alleging wrongdoing . Oh, well, i mean, yeah. Thats why they are whistle blowers. Yeah. I mean, seems obvious but i had to ask. Has the Judiciary Committee had any interactions with whistleblowers inside administration that want to provide information to your committee . We just made our document request as you know this past week. I think the good news is the Trump Administration is learning that there are people within his administration very concerned about the misconduct and about some of the decisions made and the potential conflicts of interest and criminality. They are sharing fineinformatio. This is about the security of our country. The president not only over ruled the intelligence but lied about it and said he had nothing to do with it. Thats not true. Jared kushner, his family was financed in the fifth Avenue Property by the same company trying to sell Nuclear Products to the saudis and got chinese trade. There is a lot of reason to be concerned about the issuing of these security clearances that go to the heart of our response to keep america safe and protect the National Security of our country. I expect well continue to see people who are conscience whistleblowers and be sure the American People know the truth and all jurisdictions will have to rely on that to resist efforts to get this document and get this information. And my colleague is absolutely right. This does come down to the safety of the American People. You dont have whistleblowers doing this to cause pdrama but fear what our president is doing to jeopardize american lives and alliances and right now, that is exactly what we dont know. We had a congress for the last two years that has been doing everything it can to protect this president and to make sure that the information thats out there is not being made available to the public and what were doing right now is trying to make sure were able to show that and to really get to the bottom of this and expose the truth. Were not out to get anyone. We want to make sure that information is known, and take that path wherever it leads us. Congresswoman hill, appreciate it. Thank you so much. I want to dig deeper into the question of Michael Cohen, his credibility, pardons and another big week development in washington and Southern District of new york. Joining me is pete who served as u. S. Attorney for the Southern District. When you were a federal prosecutor, how did you handle situations where two people have a history of lying are both accusing the other of not telling the truth . It happens from time to time. When you decide to arrest someone part of an organization or group or crime family where both the party that is trying to flip and the party against whom that person flipped have committed crimes and crimes of deception including lying, then you have your work cut out for you and you have to make sure when you decide to sign someone up and rely on their testimony and more importantly, ask someone else namely a jury or finder of fact to rely on testimony, you have to corroborate it and make sure that when this person goes and testifies, in other context Like Congress for example that hes not subject to criticism after having pled guilty to lying he is not still lying. You have again, i think overall, i agree with the person who say Michael Cohen was generally speaking credible on the important points and material points but he has some troubles and thats not great for him. Michael cohens attorney lanny davis confirmed in fact that cohen had explored a pardon with the president s attorneys in the past but that the quote new Michael Cohen wouldnt accept a pardon if the president offered it. The new Michael Cohen, i mean, it certainly is a defense i havent heard before. Have you . No, i havent. Again, i dont think it goes necessarily to the core of the testimony. What happens in court all the time, this was not a Court Proceeding but a congressional hearing. This is a far cry. Youll have cooperating witnesses who will have hick jumsjum ups along the way if its a complicated scheme. At the end of the day, the prosecutor asked the jury to consider the entirety of the testimony and the materiality of the testimony and says look, with respect to the couple of things, you know, in the hypothetic hypothetical, he seemed to stumble a little bit but look at what the other testimony was and look how it was corroborated and testified and spoke confidently and honestly about the payment to Stormy Daniels and the other woman and had the checks to show it and those checks clearly showed Donald Trumps signature. So focus on that, ladies and gentlemen. Dont focus on this sort of sbak and forth whether or not he talked about a pardon, who asked for the pardon first. Thats not important. That sometimes works and it sometimes doesnt. Right. Isnt the counter argument, if youre willing to lie in front of congress about things that arent important and asking for a pardon or whether or not you wanted a job in the white house then what does that mean about, you know, the things that are really important . Look, at the end of a trial, a judge says to the jury, Something Like you are allowed to consider the overall credibility of the witness based on particular untruths they may have told but youre also allowed to consider whether or not the person was truthful about a number of things and maybe fudged or had problematic testimony on others and thats the job of the persuader whether its a prosecutor or member of congress and an impeachment type proceeding to make the argument. Overall, the people who are watching and paying attention have to be persuaded on the points that are important, the truth was told. We still dont have a report from Robert Mueller but regardless of what he finds, the reality is the president is facing tremendous legal exposure from these other investigations. Is it one being run by the sdny that would likely concern him the most or should likely concern him the most . I think so. There is lots of things swirling around but on the one issue in which there has been clarity from both someone who decided to cooperate who pled guilty, talking about Michael Cohen and his view has been endorsed by my former office of the Southern District of new york and the plea allocution is approved by sitting federal court judge is the assertion that donald trump committed a crime in directing Michael Cohen to make certain payments on the eve of the election. Thats a flat statement by Michael Cohen. He said it multiple times. Its been endorsed by the Prosecutors Office and court and you have based on the congressional testimony, other evidence including the checks that were provided including common sense, you know, why would it be the case that payments would be made by a lawyer through some complicated thing like an agreement an agreement with the lawyer if it wasnt for the benefit of the client and the client knew about it . So yeah. I think if he didnt have that document in the department of justice, in the olc office that says a sitting president cant be prosecuted, if you are an ordinary person, im coming closer and closer to the view that the president of the united states, if he were not the president but an ordinary person with common sense evidence and documentary evidence and with witness testimony, even from someone who is a little problematic, he probably would be chargeable today. Wow. If he was a regular citizen, he would be chargeable today. I said im getting very close to believing that to be true. I dont know all the evidence and know all the problems and looked at all the comparable case law. It one thing to accept a guilty plea for a particular crime when youre charging him with something else. It different to go to trial against someone else involved in that scheme. Those are Different Things and some gap there, but the more i hear and the more we learn and the more we hear about the lies that were told about those payments, the closer i get to te determining if the president were an ordinary person, he would be worried about getting arrested, yeah. Appreciate it. Thank you. Coming up next, the storm over congresswomans troeps and the questions about the anti hate resolution passed in the house. President trump fueled the flames again today. Well bring you that. Jussie smolletts legal problems got a whole lot worse. Well tell you exactly why ahead. Allergies with sinus congestion and pressure . 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The democratic congresswoman omar says i want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country, meaning israel. Prior to that responding to a tweet about defending israel, he says at the cost of free speech in this country, congresswoman omar replayed with a tweet of her own quote, its all about the benjamins, baby. She since apologized but also tried to change the subject saying at the same time i reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyist in politics whether it be apac, its gone on too long. Thats the backdrop to the house measure the president criticized earlier today. I thought that vote was a disgrace and so does everybody else if you get an honest answer. If you get an honest answer from politicians, they thought it was a disgrace. The democrats have become an antiisrael party and antijewish party. Thats too bad. He has just written an op ed piece and also why i left the right. So max i enjoyed reading your piece. You say that democrats in congress missed an opportunity to show that theyre more honorable and righteous than their republican colleagues. Can you explain what you mean . What she said is really to my mind textbook antisemitism because she was saying that people that support israel are pledging loyalty to a foreign country. This is not something that anybody says about advocates for the u. S. British alliance or the u. S. Alliance with poland or any other country around the world. This is only something that people say about supporters of israel basically reviving this old antisemitic thing about dual loyalty. Democrats know what she is saying but what youre seeing now is that while democrats are comfortable calling out President Trump and the republicans for their risk schism and rightly so. I call them out for their racism too. Its disgraceful and despicable what President Trump and the republicans are saying, unfortunately, democrats are being just as tribalistic as republicans and theyre hesitating to call out one of their own. And giving President Trump a chance to turn the tables and be the voice calling out antisemitism which is obviously i dont know if ironic isnt the right word but stands in stark contrast in what he said about there being good people on both sides talking about neo nazis. Exactly. The democrats are giving donald trump an opportunity to posture as an enemy of bigotry. The marchers saying jews will not replace us, those are the people that donald trump is praising as fine people. Donald trump built his whole career around racism. Remember, he came to political prominens pushing the birther conspiracy against president obama. He has no credibility and yet because of this selfinflicted wound, democrats are giving him the opportunity to do just that. 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