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There is still a lot to absorb about what we the country just learned today from the president's longtime personal lawyer, somebody who worked for a decade at his business, who was his -- not only his legal counsel but was his fixer. it's a lot to learn and a lot to absorb still about what michael cohen laid out in terms of evidence and what he alleged today about the president, the president's character and the president's potential involvement in multiple crimes, including since he has been president. there's just one last piece of it that i want to play for you today. it happened at the ver...

Counsel but was his fixer. it's a lot to learn and a lot to absorb still about what michael cohen laid out in terms of evidence and what he alleged today about the president, the president's character and the president's potential involvement in multiple crimes, including since he has been president. there's just one last piece of it that i want to play for you today. it happened at the very end when michael cohen gave a short closing statement. he got to the part about why he testified the way he did today, and then he said this. >> my loyalty to mr. trump has cost me everything. my family's ...

Any more information than the rest of you do in terms of what exactly those look like because we are trying to do everything we can to not interfere and to not get in the way of that and make sure that nothing gets out. and one thing i've learned in my short time here is there seems to be no shortage of ways that things get to members of congress and then get out to the press. so i can see why they are doing everything they can to make sure that none of us know what that's all about. >> cohen was precise in his words. he says that the president never, his word, directed him to lie to congress ...

To share some final thoughts. i knowledged i have made my own mistakes and i have owned up to them publicly and under oath but silence and complicity in the face of the daily destruction of the our basic norms and civility to one another will not be one of them. i did things and i acted improperly. i blindly followed his demands. my loyalty has cost me everythin everything, my family's happiness, my law license, my company, my livelihood, my honor, my reputation and soon my tr freedom. i will not sit back and allow him to do the same to the country. given my experience working for plfrmt trump...

That started at 10:00 a.m. it just wrapped up with an hour break. >> there was a bomb shell about russia too, particularly the wikileaks part of the story. cohen testified that he was sitting in donald trump's office before the democratic convention and roger stone called and the president as apparently he often did, put stone on the speakerphone and stone said i just got off the phone with assange and he says they will drop disclosures that are damaging to hillary clinton. trump says words to the effect of wouldn't that be great. trump denied this. roger stone denied this. that's michael's te...