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Attorney michael cohen gets some coaching from his capitol hill testimony from the staff of democratic house intelligence committee chair adam schiff. catherine herridge with the latest on that. >> thank you and good afternoon. fox news was the first to report the democratic staff from the house intelligence committee traveled to new york four times and met with cohen for more than 10 years in advance of his seven-hour public testimony. two sources told fox news the sessions with cohen were wide ranging covering "the national enquirer"'s catch and kill policy, american media c.e.o. as well as ...

Execute as well. this kind of distraction and this kind of unqualified individual at the helm, it is really an incredibly troubling situation. >> how do you think, phil mudd, officials at the justice department will react to all of this? >> believe it or not, wolf, it is 48 hours before thanksgiving day and i'm giving thanks. it is a rare moment, run the videotape, where i'm thankful. look, the president squeezed the former attorney general jeff sessions to step away from the sessions' recusal on russia. sessions stood up with a backbone and said, mr. president, no. the president pressed the f...

Then he said he doesn't know whitaker. which is it? >> i think kellyanne conway parsed statements. that of course he knows him but not like they're best friends. i guess there's degrees of no in trumpism. obviously he knows him. he was put in there as sessions' chief of staff because there was the hope and plan to get rid of sessions and to put this man in charge and his purpose is to be the attack dog, the hatchet man and that's what he's going to do. the mueller investigation is in jeopardy. i filed a bill and it's on the desk to protect mueller, similar to what the senate passed out of comm...

Probes and politically is it wise? >> democrats are salivating right now over the new subpoena powers. they've been in the minority. they are promising to conduct rigorous oversight but nancy pelosi and other democratic leaders have kept impeachment calls at arm's length. they want to choose their battles and there is the risk they could over step their bounds. what what you saw was backlash to how democrats handled it. so i think you could see the same tensions playing out within the democratic party about how far is too far and how far should they go? but tax returns, investigating the sessi...

In normal business hours? >> only yesterday did andrew mccabe meet with the staff of the deputy attorney general. so the deputy attorney general had to take his time with this and then pass it along to the attorney general, who was out of town yesterday. he was meeting with the international association of chiefs of police in nashville and then had another meeting in lieuville and didn't get back until late today. so jeff sessions didn't have a chance to look at this, we were told yeearlier today this proce was moving slowly. i think jeff sessions was in, politically for himself, a no-win situ...