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By the special counsel over statements to lawmakers about a 2015 trump moscow real estate project. then, of course, there was a separate case over hush money payments and tax evasion. the other foot note i would make is cohen's appearance on capitol hill is still expected later this week, though the ground rules remain in flux. >> dana: thank you for that. >> you're welcome. >> dana: a memorable speech. i will talk to a pair of presidential speech writers and get their take on what could be a tense time in any west wing. follow us on social media on twitter at daily briefing and daily briefing...

>> yes. the importance of today's event cannot be understated. it is history playing in front of our eyes. the united states waged huge influence here in terms of commercial influence. a lot of oil trade going on president trump throwing behind that's definitely a historical moment. >> he declared himself president. what needs to happen for maduro to leave? reserving the right to use military force if need be. he said that in the past. >> yes. but what afternoon is looking at right now is how will the military react?

No. >> so it's okay go after -- >> of course it is. if the father in law is a criminal. >> cohen pleaded guilty to lie to go congress as well as campaign finance violations. cnn crime and justice reporter joins me now. what threats from the president is cohen specifically referring to? >> you have this over this weekend. there have been many instances in which the president himself has eluded to the fact that michael cohen's father in law could be in trouble. it was just in a tweet recently where they were talking about a wall street journal story about potentially his father in law and he say...

Him, his lawyer citing ongoing threats as recent as this week. we heard the language that the president and his team used to describe cohen, u but what is h argument here? >> the attention he is bringing, the questions of his credibility throughout. and when we wut these to the president as my colleague peter alexander just did, he said the only thing he is threatened by is the truth, have a listen. >> he says he was threatened by you -- >> he has only been threatened by the truth. he doesn't want to do that probably for me or other clients. he has other clients also, i

Intimidation tactics employed by the president or his team that prevented him from appearing on february 7th. so we have to work with him, assure his safety, and make it clear that mob tactics are unacceptable. they are completely unacceptable in our system of government. >> from what you have seen so far, do you feel he has reached the level of witness intimidation, witness tampering, and what he said about michael cohen? >> what i do know is that he is already being investigated for obstruction of justice. and this type of behavior will just cause more investigations. i don't know the nature...