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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 ...

>> 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 offer...

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 hav...

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 arr...

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 pr...