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To the failed effort to prosecute former senator john edwards on similar charges. and this is according to gop aides who were in the room, anderson. >> i don't quite understand how nadler and -- the democrat and the republican can have such diametrically opposed accounting of what whitaker actually said and the meaning of it. is the transcript going to be released? is there any way to tell what whitaker actually said? >> well, unfortunately for us, this was behind closed doors today. there is no transcript. so like most things in life, it will come down to credibility determination and whose s...

That this didn't happen. that he, in fact, said he did not have any conversations with the president about cohen at all. >> and jeff, what whitaker denied under oath in his prior testimony, that the president lashed out at him, and he denied that, it doesn't exactly give him much cover of what constitutes lashing out could be subjective and it was -- that term was used in a report that he was basically denying. >> right. and the notion that matthew whitaker -- where it came out that he doesn't exactly remember what went on in this conversation. you know what it is when you talk to the presiden...

Southern district of new york and whether brighters there went too far in pursuing the campaign finance case against cohen. why does this matter, now that whitaker is gone? as you said, it goes to the question of whether the president was trying to put his thumb on the scale in some way or influence the investigations into cohen where he was directly implicated and in some cases whitaker was on the receiving end of these calls and maybe the only one who really knows what happened. >> so the ranking member on the committee, congressman doug collins, republican, he disputes almost the entirety o...

End of these calls and maybe the only one who really knows what happened. >> so the ranking member on the committee, congressman doug collins, republican, he disputes almost the entirety of this account, correct. >> that is right. we have two diametrically opposed versions. collins pushed back on the interview and down playing what whitaker told the committee and saying there is simply no evidence that whitaker discussed the cohen case with the president but interestingly, my colleagues manu raju and others on the hill thought some of the campaign finance charges against cohen were, quote, spe...

And so it is not hard to believe that maybe he was doing the president's bidding here. but you have the ranking republican member saying explicitly that this didn't happen. and it is hard to square that. unless he somehow really is playing with the language, but he's -- he said very clearly, that this didn't happen. that he, in fact, said he did not have any conversations with the president about cohen at all. >> and jeff, what whitaker denied under oath in his prior testimony, that the president lashed out at him, and he denied that, it doesn't exactly give him much cover of what constitutes ...