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Discrediting the president. it's about the oath of office that we take as members of congress to have checks and balances and to meet the laws and policy of this country to serve. thank you, and i kwraoel back. >> mr. cohen, i do want to offer my heart felt thoughts for your family and what they're going through. i know it's tough for you to sit here in front of this committee. chairman suggested you volunteered to come here. you testified you were asked to come here. is it correct that you were asked to come here? >> yes. >> combined total of crimes which would bring 70 years. yes or no? >> y...

Fraud. not parsing different statutes, are you or are you not guilty of making false statements to a financial institution, yes or no? >> yes. i plead guilty. >> you said to mr. cloud and mr. jordan that lawyers were being untruthful characterizing your desire the work in the administration. do you say again that the lawyers are being untruthful making that characterization yes or no? >> it's not accurate. >> you're saying they're being untruthful. >> i'm not using the word untruthful. that's yours. it is not accurate. i did not want a role or title in the administration. i got the title that ...

Phone. i received some, and i'm sure you'll understand, i received some tweets. i received some facebook messenger, all sorts of social media attacks upon me, whether it's a private direct message, that i have had to turn over to secret service because they are the most vile, disgusting statements that anyone could ever receive. when it starts to affect your children, that's when it really affects you. >> january 20, 2019, mr. giuliani called your father-in-law, quote, a criminal and said that he may have ties to organized crime. mr. cohen, do you believe that the president and mr. giuliani pu...

While lot of it doesn't have proof or corroboration, there were definitely some smoke here. >> dana: yes. chris, thank you very much. i do want to get martha's take on this. i want to play one piece of sound. republicans trying to tarnish michael cohen. he's not a perfect witness, of course. we all know he's a liar. that's why he's going to prison in two month. there's one lie republicans will be able to think he lied to us again. this is a question of whether he ever wanted a job at the white house. watch this. >> i think i worked for ten years and threw track for the guy he worked with for t...

Government. yet, here we are taking testimony from a convicted liar and not someone who has just lied to his clients or family and friends, but testimony from an individual deliberately and premeditatedly lied to this body. he lied to congress through false statements and written statements, through his testimony. he then amplified his false statements by releasing and repeating his lies to the public, including the other potential witnesses. yet now we on this committee and the american people are expected to believe mr. cohen's testimony. i don't know a juror in america that would believe an...