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Questions. >> of course. >> new fall out over michael cohen's capitol hill testimony. now president trump is treating that cohen asked him for a pardon contradicting what he told lawmakers. cohen in a tweet denies it. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington. we all watched this. there's evidence of one way or the other. >> that's right. the president went further on twitter saying cohen directly asked him for a pardon and was denied. he addressed this pardon issue with reporter as short time ago. >> i know it's a stone cold lie. he's lied about that part. he k...

Wasn't going to cooperate with the president's team and was instead going to cooperate with prosecutors, i no longer wanted or was seeking a pardon, so ariana, in your interpretation, did michael cohen lie to congress? >> yeah, i think this pardon issue -- i think the reason why we care about this pardon issue is for two reasons. one, is, it potentially goes to michael cohen's credibility as you mentioned he did testify in front of congress and he stated pretty definitively, he used that n-word, the never word, which as a lawyer you never instruct -- you really should instruct your client neve...

Attorney last night. what does rudy giuliani say about this pardon issue with michael cohen? >> he insists that he never offered anybody on behalf of the president or never left open the possibility of immediately promising a pardon to anybody. he said that that is true for michael cohen, for paul manafort, for george papadopoulos and others who are in a position where they are either potentially or are going to jail and could use a presidential pardon. he did leave out the notion that people have come to him to talk to him and other members of the president's legal team about pardons. so it's...

That's the nature hough thiof h work. >> i have to ask you about michael cohen and this pardon issue. you're a member of congress. do you believe michael cohen misled congress on this issue? >> hey, with him, i don't know what to believe. so when it comes to what he says currently, i think his credibility is very small. and i think if you get -- listen to him and listen to the particularities of it, i'd feel uncomfortable making any statement about him because there's been such a swirl of discussion. i don't know what the truth is and what isn't. >> sounds like you feel you've been misled. >> ...

Good. people are able to find jobs. here's the warning sign, though. the last economic growth number for the final quarter of last year began to go down. so the overall year was about 3% growth, that's good, but if the trend was going down at the end of last year, probably down at the beginning of this year because of that government shutdown, is that the beginning of something or a temporary blip? if it starts to go down in a meaningful way in an election year, that's when he's in trouble. >> all right. michael cohen was back on capitol hill yesterday, he's offering more documents. there was ...