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Reached out to express dissatisfaction about the cohen investigation. >> did they reach out in some way to express dissatisfaction? >> no. >> joseph marine eois a former federal prosecutor and a msnbc political analyst. and michael schmidt, he joins me now by phone. let me start with you. you and your colleague's reporting that we're talking about here. on that exchange that we played from the hearings a couple weeks ago with whitaker. whitaker asked if anybody at the white house reached out to express dissatisfaction with the way the cohen case was being handled. is your reporting that dissat...

To give the president the moniker "individual one" in the cohen case. those prosecutors being willing to spell out in court explicitly that individual one is, in fact, the president of the united states, and he directed the commission of these felonies. that forward-leaning posture for this u.s. attorney's office in the southern district of new york has led to recent speculation that that prosecutor's office might ultimately decide that they're going to ignore justice department internal policy which says you're not supposed to indict a sitting president while that president is still in office...

Investigations that appear to be still under way. for example, it's prosecutors from the sound district of new york that subpoenaed the trump inaugural committee a couple of weeks ago. did that cooperation and non-prosecution deal with american media, the publisher of the "national enquirer" supermarket tabloid and with its chief executive, the president's longtime friend david pecker. southern district of new york prosecutors are also prosecutors who brought charges against michael cohen, the president's longtime lawyer and a longtime executive as his business. include those campaign finance ...

Go ahead and reschedule him to testify february 28th. by deduction, we can tell that means they think something's going to happen between now and february 28th, something that needs to be done and out of the way before they take michael cohen's testimony at the intelligence committee. we don't know what that is -- what that thing is. what's going to happen between now and february 28th that will make it possible for him to testify, but presumably we just have to wait and see. tick-tock. there is also further evidence today that something else is going on with michael cohen and his case and his...

Going to be obstructing or invoking executive privilege so we could be ready. they never responded. that's why we wanted to be ready with the subpoena in case that's necessary. i hope it doesn't come to that. i hope the take away is the rule of law still stands and he is honoring the mueller investigation and just letting it follow the evidence. >> congressman from the great state of california, thanks for being here. much more to get to tonight. busy night. stay with us. get to tonight. busy night stay with us erve pain these feet raised a bouncing boy and climbed the ladder in the hardware...