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Testimony, this past week, on payments made to women before the election. joining me right now is democratic congresswoman from new york, carolyn malone she sits on the house oversight committee and wearing a jacket given to her from the fire department of new york. good to see you. >> good to see you maria. maria: i want to get to the compensation fund for the 9/11 victims in a second because that's why you're wearing the jacket and good for you that you're wearing that jacket. i was there, at the new york stock exchange and it's a horrible day we'll never forget but let me ask you first abou...

Federal prosecutions and investigations in addition to congress and in addition to mueller. but mflgany of that was private. and the answer that he gave really implicated him in many serious ways because he always says i didn't know about wikileaks, i didn't know about -- >> you're talking about the president? >> yeah. he says i didn't know about this, i didn't know about the meetings at trump tower, about the russians, he claims he didn't know any of this. but mr. cohen said they had to brief him before every important meeting and after every important meeting. and he gave us a list of other ...

Forward. thanks very much. quite a moment yesterday. we will be digesting that for some time. >> we certainly will. we'll see what we will learn from the closed door hearing. let's discuss all of it. good morning to you. thank you for being here. do you believe hearing what you heard from michael cohen yesterday that the president committed crimes while in office? >> well, i found cohen's testimony absolutely alarming. he pointed out possible campaign finance violations, ethics violations, tax and insurance fraud and other criminal activity. yes. >> so the answer to that is yes. so do you beli...

Fraud, the campaign finance violations and the ethics violations. i would have to -- there are so many leads. i guess i would go to the russian collusion interaction area to question him. >> i'm interested finally congresswoman in where congress goes from here. what did you learn yesterday that was most critical to where you believe congress should take this next? >> well, what i learned was how deeply he was involved meaning the president in all of the decisions. and there was concrete proof of shown in my opinion of a campaign finance violation with the payments right before the election to ...

Rights, your analysis? >> it is an absolutely horrible thought that a sitting u.s. attorney could have directed his office to give someone guilty of this kingd of human trafficking crime a pass. it is outrageous. there needs to be accountability. this civil lawsuit is one mechanism for that. this is a group that looks at ethics violations, but acosta is no longer a doj employee and could not be disciplined by doj they could turn their findings over to florida's bar disciplinary committee and they could take action against acosta, it doesn't sound very serious for what he has done or alleged to...