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Insist that he at least partially testify publicly. >> right. look, he does not want to appear political. this was an investigation into a president of the united states in a presidential campaign. that ship has sailed. there are going to be political consequences to this. you have to get beyond it. one such way that will happen is congress will have a huge interest in testimony being public. so i see why congress wants the testimony public. frankly, as a former doj official, i see why he wants to testify in private, given some of the law enforcement sensitivities. given all the factors, i jus...

Public. so i see why congress wants the testimony public. frankly, as a former doj official, i see why he wants to testify in private, given some of the law enforcement sensitivities. given all the factors, i just think this has to end in public testimony for the reasons we've talked about here. one, the huge public interest. number two, the nature of the conduct. and number three, we have a congress that could potentially preparing impeachment proceedings against a president of the united states and public testimony is going to be a necessary component of that. >> garrett, i know you said you...

Away. those lawyers tended to come and go over the years with trump, but allen weisselberg is the one continuing central force in that organization. >> ariana, let me ask you about the house intel committee expecting to question felix saider later this month. he's a russian-born business associate of president trump's. he worked with cohen on the trump tower moscow project. his name came up a couple of times in cohen's testimony. how important is this? >> well, i would say it's very important. he's coming to testify apparently march 14th. adam schiff says he expects most of that testimony or h...

Was true. >> you just acknowledged that it's possible that president trump talked to michael cohen about his testimony. >> which would be perfectly normal. which the president believed was true. >> so it's possible that that happened? that president trump talked to -- >> i don't know it happened or didn't happen, and it might be attorney/client privilege if it happened where i can'ting a toj acknowledge it. i'm telling you -- >> you just acknowledged president trump may have talked to him about his testimony. >> so what if he talked to him -- >> is it not -- >> so what, the president said. sus...

That having this testimony public this week might be too soon, too fast. >> no question that it is. let's have a conference call, there have been suggestions, with the chairman of the committee and perhaps senator feinstein. they can talk to the people and that will be the end of it. i don't think that's sufficient. and the statement by miss katz this morning, representing dr. ford, says that she is prepared to testify publicly. >> and she said that to alisyn right here. if, for instance, chuck grassley would say i'm clearing the calendar for tomorrow. let's have them both up here tomorrow. >>...