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Congress. just after he was sentenced in december, he responded to the president s claims. his claim, you are lying about him to protect your wife, to protect your father-in-law. inaccurate. he knows the truth. i know the truth. reporter: before they postponed his testimony, his attorney alluded to the fear cohen and his family face. there s fear that mr. trump has supporters either in this country or maybe abroad that have a motivation to harm. reporter: time could be running out if michael cohen doesn t appear before these congressional committees sometime in february. that s because michael cohen is scheduled to report to prison on march 6. it s scheduled to be a three-year sentence. thanks very much. good report, jessica. let s go to capitol hill. we are watching the developments. democrats are calling the ....
i would say he s been threatened by the truth. he s only been threatened by the truth. and he doesn t want to do that probably for me or other of his clients. he has other clients also, i assume, and he doesn t want to tell the truth for me or other of his clients. said the president, who s now lied more than 8,000 times. the chairman of the house intel and oversight committees stressing their sympathy for cohen and his family in a statement out this afternoon we understand mr. cohen s wife and other family members fear for their safety after these attacks and we have repeatedly offered our assistance to work with law enforcement to enhance kmurt measures for mr. cohen and his family. nevertheless, not appearing before congress was never an option. we expect mr. cohen to appear before both committees and we remain engaged with his counsel about his upcoming appearances. the drama over cohen s testimony colliding with the new development in paul manafort s case, his lawyers insist ....
President to a mob boss? very strange, and i don t do it lightly. and i m not trying to, by that, by the way suggest president trump is out breaking legs and shaking down shop keepers. instead what i m talking about is that leadership culture constantly comes back to me when i think about my experience with the trump administration. that s exactly right. that s how he ran the trump organization. at that point michael cohen was very much part of that mob mentality. leg breaker. he s running the situation the same way. we know his anger at jeff sessions is he felt sessions didn t have his back, sessions betrayed him by recusing himself in the russia probe. following the law. yes, choosing the law over loyalty of the president. i think cohen will be compelled to testify. made clear, testifying before congress is not an option. maybe it will be delayed but he will have to do it at some point. with he know mueller suggested there will be walls over the russia stuff n that regard ....
But he s probably got evidence about other things that may not rise to the standard of criminality, but would be grossly inappropriate behavior for someone holding the highest office in the land. for him to come testify to that publicly i think represents a grave threat to the president. that s why you ve seen him and his attorney act the way they have over the past few weeks. corinne, we don t know what crimes mueller has unearthed around occlusion but we do know what crimes were implicated in new york. michael cohen on or about august 16 at the coordination with and direction of trump, i arranged to make a payment to a second individual with information that would be harmful to the candidate and to the campaign to keep the individual from disclosing information. that is a crime. he s been accused of it. the government sponsored that allegation in their sentencing document for cohen. before he heads to jail, which is what, march you? march 5th, i think. ....
The shutdown talking about how cohen is afraid of the truth. all cohen has now is the truth. only way to spend less time in jail, only way to protect his family is to tell the truth. a lot of people didn t know what rudy giuliani was talking about when he referred to tapes but i think the illusion you re making is right. i suspect was he was referring to was the evidence seized from cohen s office bid the fbi and turned over to trump s legal team as part of their to sift out what is privilege and what is not. i expect rudy giuliani went and listened to the tapes michael cohen made of the president. there are probably other tapes, because he didn t go into a privilege fight, he has no idea what s on them. michael cohen, having been with the president for 12 years through all of thinks real estate deals here, abroad, all over the place, being his fixer, is sitting on evidence about the president. by the way, some of the evidence almost certainly rempts to criminal behavior by the presi ....