lies. >> washington. >> lies. lies.r this presidency. why are there so many lies about russia? lies, lies, and more lies. lies to investigators, lies to grand juries, lies to congress, lies to the american people, lies before convictions and now after convictions. and not just any lies, lies about meetings with people linked to russian intelligence. the mueller team says those are big lies. a federal judge ruled a former trump campaign chair paul manafort intentionally lied to the fbi, the special counsel, and the grand jury. lied to them about som

lie after lie -- lies upon -- lies, lies, and more lies. >> and that's why it's tough for these republicans rightfully so. they have every right to grim h grill him. -- >> but they don't have every right to defend him. so why do michael cohen's lies matter and donald trump's lies don't? >> that's right. because one of them they're afraid of, and one of them they're not. that's why. but that's the problem for them tomorrow. and that's why if they come out about him, just as a point of credibility and he's actually to show things that corroborate things, it's going to come back to haunt them. because they're not going to be able to keep to that standard with this president. and many, in fact, have abused it. they ignore what he does on a regular basis. so tomorrow they want to get righteous, it's going to be a little bit of an obvious hypocrisy, but that's politics. >> little bit of an -- it's amazing to sit here and just watch the hypocrisy happen. i mean, it is just amazing. we don't need this kind of oversight of a president. okay, remember when a very similar thing happened to bill clinto

. >> william li: hi, holly. >> williams: hi, william. >> williams: nio's founder is william li...liams: ...a 44-year-old billionaire entrepreneur, who we met last year in beijing. nio is china's only all-electric luxury car brand... it's sort of similar to a tesla. ...and the similarity to a tesla is no coincidence. nio's es-8 is competing with american-made tesla for wealthy, status-conscious chinese. their conspicuous consumption has made china one of the biggest markets for luxury goods in the world. with no import costs, at $60,000 u.s. dollars, the nio is about half the price of a tesla. i heard that you were the one to call this car the "tesla killer?" >> li ( translated ): all right, all right. >> williams: maybe it was you. >> li: maybe, maybe. >> williams: it doesn't look like a killer. should we take it for a spin? >> li: yeah. >> williams: what is the acceleration like on this? li claims his car goes from zero to 60 in 4.4 seconds. 650 horse power? and about 220 miles on a full charge. plus the car has a built-in personal assistant called "nomi"... can we try nomi? >> l

lies. >> washington. >> lies. lies. it maybe the single biggest question hanging over this presidency. why are there so many lies about russia? lies, lies, and more lies. lies to investigators, lies to grand juries, lies to congress, lies to the american people, lies before convictions and now after convictions. and not just any lies, lies about meetings with people linked to russian intelligence. the mueller team says those are big lies. a federal judge ruled a former trump campaign chair paul manafort intentionally lied to the fbi, the special counsel, and the grand jury. lied to them about something central to the probe. meetings with someone linked to russian intelligence with whom he shared polling data and conversations about pro russian policy. he lied about this after he had already reached a plea deal. that plea deal is now a dead letter. manafort is in even bigger trouble facing an even stiffer sentence, but most of tall gets to t all it gets to the bigger question of why. we will discuss that. >>> and on the

what he lied about matters? what he lied about matters. so you're okay that the number two, in fact, the acting director of the fbi -- >> of course i'm not. that's why i keep asking you about this president's lies every time you come on. >> that's just crazy. >> that's why i'm worried about the president. when leaders lie, it matters. >> no, let's talk about this guy selling a book. let's talk about this guy selling a book. he tried to subvert the will of a people. a democratically elected president. donald trump gets elected there must be a reason for that other than you had hillary blaming comey and mccabe saying it's russia. get off it. >> he got rid of comey. >> folks, donald trump is the president. it's been going on a couple of years now and get used to it. it's going to last another six. next. >> i like your word next. the idea of what has been going on here. you saw the times reporting today, kellyanne. do you believe that the president wanted burman in charge of the southern district investigations? >> the president says he denied

>>> paul manafort lied and broke his plea deal. he could go to jail for life. >>> lawmakers prepare to vote on the border deal today. will the president sign it before another shutdown. >>> high stakes trade talks underway in beijing. will the president extend a key tariff truce to help china. >>> former air force intelligence officer accused of spilling u.s. secrets and spying for iran. good morning. welcome to ear"early start." good to see you this morning. >> happy valentine's day. that's right. >> are the kids' back packs full of -- >> the valentine's. >> it's changed. intimate dinner for two. do the kids have valentine's ready? thursday, february 14th. >> there are no flowers, there are kids' val len times. >> 4:00 a.m. in the east. paul manafort's plea deal voided. a judge ruling that he intentionally lied to the special counsel, the grand jury making multiple false statements about several material matters including his interactions with long-time russian associate constantine kalymnic. >> reporter: a judge voided the plea d

manafort lied to the feds, lied to the mueller investigation, he lied to the grand jury. he lied to your beloved fbi. what do you make of today's news that this kind of thing could happen to a guy who had flipped and was cooperating with the home team as they call it? >> well, unfortunately, brian, this isn't something if you have been in the business as long as i was, that, you know, is not routine, some people think that they are smarter than the people that are actually investigating them. and the one thing that you and your guests earlier were right on the money about is once those cooperation agreements are made, and the government is relying on your truthful testimony, when you divulge information that has absolutely led to mislead the government, that is unbelievably frowned upon. when i saw what i saw being reported about the mueller investigation and him, and it's unfortunate but does not surprise me. i have seen it before. >> a final question to you, as i asked mimi rocca, we throw around the term feds overnight. when this is over what do you hope people learn a

not just lied but lied about his meeting with the russians. particularly that night in august of 2016. at that 5th avenue way above the street meeting with cigars. when i say, "drivers who switched from geico to esurance saved an average of $412," you probably won't believe me. but you can believe this, real esurance employee nancy abraham. look her up online. esurance, it's surprisingly painless. just as important as what you get out of it? our broccoli cheddar is made with aged melted cheddar, simmered broccoli, and no artificial flavors. enjoy 100% clean soup today. panera. food as it should be. ♪ don't fence me in. ♪ let me be by myself ♪ in the evenin' breeze, ♪ listen to the murmur of the tall concrete, ♪ ♪ send me off forever, but i ask you please ♪ ♪ don't fence me in. special offers available at your local mini dealer. for each family member? so with xfinity mobile i can customize each line yup. and since it comes with your internet, you can switch wireless carriers and save hundreds of dollars a year. are you pullin' my leg? nope. yo

keep in mind cohen has lied and lied a lot. he lied on tv promoting trump's campaign and he lied under oath to congress. he's a convicted felon. the difference between him and president trump is that cohen has admitted to lying. the president has not. cohen has apparently now apologized for lying. the president's never really apologized for anything except the "access hollywood" tape which he reportedly subsequently suggested he never really said those thing, which he did. there's an important question we don't quite know the answer to. why did michael cohen lie so much for donald trump. he suggested it was out of blind loyalty to another liar. >> i will use my legal skills within which to protect mr. trump to the best of my ability. i protect mr. trump. i'll do anything to protect mr. trump. i'm obviously vore loyery loyal dedicated to mr. trump. >> that loyalty and dedication does not exist anymore, therefore neither does cohen's motivation to lie for the president. the white house statement ignores that part of its once a li

the fbi lied to a grand jury, lied to robert mueller's investigators, lied, intentionally, on multipleed about contact with russians. he's supposed to be a cooperating witness. as you might imagine, as we so often find ourselves saying, this is a big development. cnn's evan perez joins us with the latest. walk us through exactly what was and what was not in this ruling. >> reporter: anderson, prosecutors from the special counsel's office accused manafort of lying on five different

to them or lied to the fbi or lied to a grand jury that in three of those five instances he did thatand what that really means is that the plea agreement, the cooperation agreement, everything that paul manafort gained back in september of last year by avoiding a trial in d.c., he's lost all of those benefits and most importantly downward reduction in his sentence. so this is a pretty big blow to his strategy. he faces a jail term in d.c. but also in virginia. that trial last summer, he's admitted his guilt as a result of that cooperation agreement in that case. so now the judge there can sentence him not for the eight that the jury convicted him on, but the entire thing. the entire case that was brought in virginia. this is a really big development for paul manafort also interesting as far as what he lied about some of the things that you out laid. >> let me follow up on that and then we'll move to some of the substance here. he's on the hook -- he could spend the rest of his life in jail is what we're looking at. >> exactly right. it's not a life sentence but based on everything th

he lied to congress through the testimony. he then amplified his false statements releasing the lies to the public and the other witnesses. yet now, we on this committee and the american people are expected to believe mr. cohen's testimony. i don't know a juror in america that would believe anything he says given his past actions and lies. mr. cohen, you stood before multiple congressional committees before today and raised your right hand and swore an oath to be honest. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> you lied to nose committees. is that correct? >> previously? >> correct. >> yes, sir. >> you stated that trump never directed you to lie to congress. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> therefore, you lied to congress on your own accord and then admitted to lying to congress. correct? >> i've already stated my piece on that. i knew what he wanted me to do. i was staying on party line. >> but he never directed you to lie to congress. >> he did not use those words, in. >> in the evidence you provided this committee two

tlnch . >>> there is no mistaking lies.manafort misled the fbi, grand jury and the judge after a plea deal. no chance of a shoert sentence for trump's former campaign chairman. significance. let's go to a krot democrat on house judiciary committee. so answer this question. very easy. why did paul manafort lie about these things after making a plea deal if he has nothing to hide? >> well, that is the million dollar question. and all i can think is that he is covering up something. perhaps something he was told to do at the trection of tdirectio president and he is now protecting his ability to get a pardon from the president by not actually telling the truth. i don't understand it completely. but that is all i can surmize. that's what you said earlier, chris, that if he was just having meetings or just talking about foreign policy, that would be one thing. but he is telling the special prosecutor one thing. he is lying about it. even though the special prosecutor has told him they will know that he is lying. and so that, of

, the judge also says he lied to the fbi and grand jury. here's the main question. why did he lie if he had nothing to hide? when he had already cut a plea deal? why? let's bring cuomo's court into session. we have mike rogers. just so we're on the same page, gentlemen, thank you for doing this short notice. three of the five things. where they say i don't think did he lie. i judge said i don't think did he lie is one about his contacts with the administration and, two, about whether or not he was involved with trying to miss with the other witnesses. that is one thing. both of those are really irrelevant. it would have been bad if he was lying about the contacts. garret, when you look at this, the judge coming through and saying mueller was right. he's lying about these things. why is it relevant to you with the overall scope of the investigation? we're not that concerned about paul manafort. the sentence is the sentence. it's what he means to the over all probe. what's your take. >> it's not irrelevant that all of this seems to involve th

now we're going to find out if michael cohen lies to his own family. >> because, i mean, if a guy lies to his own family that does it, right? in congressman gaetz's world, who's not currently married, is obviously going to make the case if michael cohen has ever lied to his family, anyone in his family he cannot be believed about anything. that same congressman gaetz worship at the alter of donald trump as if donald trump is a god and donald trump has lied to everyone he's ever been married to. donald trump has lied to his children. one of his sons depzed his father's lies so much that he stopped talking to his father for a year. so not only has matt gaetz risked indictment today in this crazed defense of donald trump, the man who lies to his family nonstop, congressman gaetz has announced a standard of credibility for michael cohen that donald trump could never pass, not for one day in donald trump's life. we already have leaks about what michael cohen will testify to tomorrow, and the leaks are block busters before we even hear the specifics of the testimony tomorrow. a knowledgeable

you lied, but are not a liar. if you lied you are a liar by definition. you also said a moment ago that the facts are accurate. if they are facts they are accurate and that would make you inaccurate, but i would like to take a moment and i would like to know who you consulted with to prepare for today's hearing? lanny davis and who else? >> i consulted with my counsel, lanny davis as well as michael monaco. >> all right. >> did you or michael or lanny davis or anyone else cooperate with the democratic majority to prepare for this hearing? >> i'm sorry, say that again, please? >> did you or anyone else on your team cooperate with the democrat party in preparing for this hearing? >> we've spoken to the party. >> okay. did you prepare with chairman cummings or anyone on your team? >> what do you mean by prepare? >> prepare for this hearing? >> prepare? i prepared with my counsel. >> did you prepare with the democrat majority or chairman cummings. >> we spoke with chairman cummings and the party. >> with chairman schiff? >> i spoke with chairman schiff and hi

cohen, you claim at you lied but you are not a liar. if you lied, you are a liar by definition. you said the facte are inaccu if they are facts they are accurate and that would make you inaccurate. i would like to know who you consulted with to prepare for y' tohearing. lanny davis and who else? >> i consulted with my counsel, lanny davis as well as michael monaco. >> did you or michael or lanny lanny davis or anyone else cooperate with the democrat majority to prepare. >> i'm sorry? >> did anyone else on your team cooperate with the democrat party? >> we have spoken to the party.p >> did ypare with chairman cummings or anyone on your teamu >> what doean by prepare? >> prepare for this hearing. >> i prepared with my counsel. >> did you prepare with democrat majority or chairman cummings? >> we spoke with chaman cummings and the party. >> with chairman schiff? >> spoke with chairman schiff and his people, as well. e >> were thy other individuals acting as a liaison for you with the majority party? >> i'm sorry, sir. what are y saying? >> did you have a liaison other e than you me

they have been lied to by a president drop they've been lied to by the president's children they have been lied to by the president's legal representatives and it pains me to say that they have been even lied to by his congressional enablers who are still devoted to pervert perpetuating and protecting this giant con game on the american people now mr cohen i dry to talk to you about the president's assets since by law these must be reported accurately on his federal financial disclosure and when he submitted them for a bank loan mr cohen you serve a nearly a decade as then businessmen drops personal attack attorney and so-called fixer did you had did you also have an understanding of the president's assets and how he valued those items yes and november twenty seventh a crain's new york business reported that the drop on is ation provide a quote flagrantly untrue revenue figures going back to at least twenty. to influence cranes ranking of the largest private companies in new york according to the report wow to tromp argues ation reported nearly nine four point five billion in revenues

that's the american people are tired of being lied to. they have been lied to by president trump. they've been lied to by the president's children. they have been lied to by the president's legal representatives. it pains me to say that they have been even lied to by his congressional enablers who are still devoted to perpetuating and protecting this giant con game on the american people. now, mr. cohen, i'd like to talk to you about the president's assets. since by law, these must be reported accurately on his federal financial disclosure and when he submits them for a bank loan. mr. cohen, you served for nearly a decade as then businessman's trump's fixer. did you have an understanding of the president's assets and how he valued those items? >> yes. >> in november of 2017, it was reported that the trump organization provided untrue revenue figures going back to at least 2010 to influence crane's ranking of the largest private company in new york. according to the reports, with while the trump organization reported nearly $9.5 billion in revenues in 2016, public filings suggests

if you're admitting that he lied to congress about hush money payments, that means the president lied, but you don't care about that lie. that is total and complete hypocrisy. >> i'll tell you, it's interesting. we had congressman higgins here from louisiana. >> i saw him. >> colorful character. >> i'm from louisiana, by the way. let me tell you -- here's what he said. here's what my family visits here or we go to other places, and they say they feel like they're in an alternative universe when they travel outside of louisiana because a lot of people are sucked in, have been conned by what's going on now and are living in a state of hypocrisy. >> so higgins says today, very hard on cohen. he doesn't believe him. he didn't believe cohen about -- >> he doesn't believe evidence. >> right. he didn't believe the production of the documents. what i said to him is you've got cohen agoing back to jail because if he lied to you about where he got the stuff today, he's a dead man. what's interesting, on the credibility point you're making, i said, what do you do with the president? they're lyin

and so i lied about it too. because mr. trump had made clear to me through his personal statements to me that we both knew to be false. and threw his lies to the country that he wanted me to lie. and he made it clear to me because his personal attorneys reviewed my statement before i gave it to congress. over the past two years i have been smeared as a rat by the president of the united states. the truth is much different. and let me take a brief moment to introduce myself. my name is michael dean cohen. and i am a blessed husband of 24 years and a father to an incredible daughter and son. when i married my wife, i promised her that i would love her. i would cherish her, and i would protect her. as my father said countless times throughout my childhood, you my wife and you my children are the air that i breathe. so my laura and to my sami and to my jake, there is nothing i wouldn't do to protect you. i have always tried to live a life of loyalty, friendship, generosity and compassion. it's qualities my parents ingrained in

these meetings are all about those lies. december 2016 flynn, who had every right, every right as a national incoming security adviser to talk about sanctions policy did so and then lied about it. what does that look like to investigators, harry? >> right, to a prosecutor what really gets their antenna buzzing out of control is, first, this point that carol and ken have teased out and really meticulous reporting, by the way. they have this manuscript and they read it so carefully for key points. and then the attempts to hide a rich, little detail that would get prosecutors totally focused, gates, kilimnik and manafort all leave by separate exits at this now-infamous august 2, 2016 meeting. something is going on, and you want to know. and what else gets them going? that the counterpoint to russia's key interest in crimea in the sanctions are the personal interest of the player, manafort's to get out of debt with deripaska, trump to build the tower, flynn that wants the sanctions released having something to do with his lobbyi

this is a series of lies.this cooperation agreement with the special counsel and manafort done and dusted? >> yeah. that's what the judge says. she said manafort busted his cooperation agreement by lying. the judge said he intentionally lied about a payment for legal bills as well as this unnamed criminal investigation that the justice department has ongoing. there were a couple of things the judge said he didn't actually intentionally lie about or the government didn't provide enough evidence to prove it. one was his contacts with the trump administration and another also had to do with konstantin kilimn kilimnik. the judge said the things he did intentionally lie about were material to the investigation. so this is a busted deal. here is why this is a problem for paul manafort. this cooperation agreement was his best chance at getting some of his jail time reduced. he's already facing, you know, a number of convictions in virginia. he was convicted on a number of financial crimes and now has this guilty plea

i lied to the first lady. when the president called me and i was sitting in a car with a friend of mine and he had me speak to her and explain to the first lady. so the answer is, you're not accurate. i don't feel good about any of this. this was not my intention. >> mr. lawrence. >> sorry. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i just want to put on the record being black american and having endured the public comments of racism from the sitting president as being a black person, i can only imagine what's being said in private. and to prop up one member of our entire race of black people and say that that nullifies that is totally insulting and in this environment of expecting a president to be inclusive and to look at his administration speaks volumes. so i have no questions. i want to talk to you about this intimidation of witness. mr. cohen, you were initially scheduled to testify before the house oversight committee on february 7th but your legal team delayed your testimony quoting on going threats against your fami

they allege mueller hasn't s substang yated the burden of proof to show that he lied. mueller says manafort lied about ongoing contacts with someone linked to russian intel. in the new filing manafort admits to talking to konstantin kilimnick. "the washington post" says mueller is eyeing a 2016 dinner, where else, but at a private cigar room in fancy manhattan. it ended with manafort, this gentleman kilimnick and rick gates leaving through separate doors. that's not like a cigar tradition as far as we can tell. that's a thing they chose to do. manafort fighting mueller behind closed doors as roger stone goes super public, filing a motion today demanding a hearing on a conspiracy theory that mueller was effectively colluding with cnn and stone citing the, quote, premature release of the seal indictment, making his case today in front of the media at a book signing. >> at 10:00 this morning my lawyers filed a motion to show cause because we now know that the special counsel's office released my indictment to the media two and a half hours before it was unsealed by a fede

manafort lied about $125,000 in legal bills. he also lied about another probe, we have no idea what that is, that's just hanging out there. but on the interactions with konstantin kilimnik, a man with ties to russia intelligence, russian policy, and we know that the mueller team says this was central, part of the core, of the russia investigation. >> there are two main possibilities for why he lied about kilimnik. one is that he was trying to engrashia engrashiant himself with kilimnik and the russia world to get more business, it was about greed. the other possibility as far as the mueller case is concerned, is was he lying because he was colluding? he was saying to a russia emissary, here is this polling data, use it to help donald trump get elected president, and that, you know, this now famous august 2nd, 2016, meeting at the cigar club in new york were they basically trying to get donald trump elected president so that the sanctions could be lifted and, you know, russia would win and trump would win? >> and there's a great,

they have been lied to by president trump. they've been lied to by the president's children. they have been lied to by the president's legal representatives. and it pains me to say that they have been even lied to by his congressional enablers who are still devoted to perpetuate and protect this giant con game on the american people. now mr. cohen, i'd like to talk to you about the president's assets since, by law, these must be reported accurately on his federal financial disclosure. and when he submits them for a bank loan. mr. cohen, you served for nearly a decade as then businessman trump's personal attorney and so-called fixer. did you have -- did you also have an understanding of the president's assets and how he valued those items? >> yes. >> in november of 2017, crane's new york business reported that the trump organization provided, quote, flagrantly untrue revenue figures going back to at least 2010 to influence crane's ranking of the largest private companies in new york. according to the reports, while the trump organization reported nearly $9.5 billion in revenue

and he lied about another criminal investigation.n we deduce from mueller's case about all of these lies? what's going on? >> we know there's another criminal investigation we don't know about which we've got. i mean, look, it really looks like they're looking at some kind of collusion, conspiracy, whatever you want to call it, between people -- i mean we know that, between people from trump's campaign and the russians. i mean you have to wonder why is manafort lying here? is he really the kind of moron who cuts a plea deal with federal prosecutors and keeps lying to them, or is there something else he's worried about? is, you know, the fact that he was in bed for many years with very questionable russian oligarchs, some of whom are more than reputed to have mafia ties and other kind of russian intelligence ties, and he's lying to kind of cover up his interactions with them. it certainly leads one to speculate -- it looks like, you know, he's afraid of something there. >> so a good question is because, you know, chris and i were talk

they have been lied to by president trump. they have been lied to by the president's children. they have been lied to by the president's legal representatives. and it pains me to say that they have been even lied to by his congressional enablers who are still devoted to perpetuating and protecting this giant con game on the american people. now, mr. cohen, i would like to talk to you about the president's assets. since by law these must be reported accurately on his federal financial disclosure. and when he submits them for a bank loan. mr. cohen, you served for nearly a decade as being businessman trump's personal attorney and so-called fixer. did you also have an understanding of the president's assets and how he valued those items? >> yes. >> in november of 2017, cranes new york business reported that the trump organization provided, quote, flagrantly untrue revenue figures going back to at least 2010 to influence ranking of the larger private companies in new york. according to the reports, while the trump organization reported nearly 9.5 billion in revenues in 2016, public

they have been lied to by president trump, they have been lied to by the president's children, they have been lied to by the president's legal representatives. and it pains me to say that they have been even lied to by his congressional enablers who are still devoted to perpetuating and protecting this giant con game on the american people. now, mr. cohen, i'd like to talk to you about the president's assets. since, by law, these must be reported accurately on its federal financial disclosure, and when he submits them for a bank loan. mr. cohen, you served for nearly a decade as then businessman trump's personal attorney and so-called fixer. did you also have an understanding of the president's assets and how he valued those items? >> yes. >> in november of 2017, crane's new york business reported that the trump organization provided, quote, flagrantly untrue revenue figures going back to at least 2010 to influence crane's ranking of the largest private companies in new york. according to the reports, while the trump organization reported nearly $9.5 billion in revenues in 2016, public f

and so i lied about it too. because mr. trump had made clear to me through his personal statements to me that we both knew to be false. and threw his lies to the country that he wanted me to lie. and he made it clear to me because his personal attorneys reviewed my statement before i gave it to congress. over the past two years i have been smeared as a rat by the president of the united states. the truth is much different. and let me take a brief moment to introduce myself. my name is michael dean cohen. and i am a blessed husband of 24 years and a father to an incredible daughter and son. when i married my wife, i promised her that i would love her. i would cherish her, and i would protect her. as my father said countless times throughout my childhood, you my wife and you my children are the air that i breathe. so my laura and to my sami and to my jake, there is nothing i wouldn't do to protect you. i have always tried to live a life of loyalty, friendship, generosity and compassion. it's qualities my parents ingrained in

speaking face-to-face with a congress, he now admits he lied to a few months ago lies that cohen claimedormer boss and on behalf of himself. >> i am ashamed that i chose to take part in concealing mr. trump's illicit acts rather than listening to my own conscience. i am ashamed because i know what mr. trump is. he is a racist. he is a conman and he is a cheat. >> cohen also gave detail and provided some documentation about the hush money payments made to adult film star and director stormy daniels. >> as exhibit 5a to my testimony shows, i am providing a copy of a $35,000 check that pre

understand the lies, and go along with the lies understanding that they're liars. that he's denying anything to do with russia and at the same time asking michael cohen consistently over the campaign how's russia going? and it's not only the moscow trump tower deal that's discussed in this testimony regarding russia. there's the really bombshell revelation that cohen says that trump was aware that roger stone was communicating directly with wikileaks. that is a big deal on like five different fronts. there's also the information in here, and it's more of a recollection he has, but in the context of the famous trump tower meeting where are he says that don junior came up and whispered in his father's ear. >> audibly. >> that the meeting was on. and that is good. so there are three specific elements here that really have massive implications for questions about russia and the trump campaign. >> and if you're talk about holding up the michael cohen credibility against the president's krshcredibility, th are problems on both sides. sarah sanders told something that was

he lied. we know why there. he said no that he didn't do any business with russia. he lied.usiness with russia when he was. why lie? now, trump supporters will say, hey, none of that's a crime and while the investigation isn't over yet i'm okay with their assumption. i've always been. because i've never needed to sell you the blocked calls or anything would be a smoking gun because i don't need one. what i need is the same thing you need. the truth about what people in his campaign did with and for anyone connected to russian interference. and most of all, if the president knew and whether he lied to you about the same. only if he lied to mueller, by the way, that would be a crime. but a felony is not my bar for responsible conduct by a president nor is it the bar for removing one. remember as president gerald ford said, an impeachable offense is what congress says it is. so what we show today is what i argue could bring this president to his knees. lying about these things, if shown, would be really wrong. concealing or firing in circumstances to cover for efforts to get st

not only do we believe he lied we believe that we can prove he lied. >> why would he lie?ing years. he is almost 70 years old. he is in prison right now. it got potentially 7, 8, 10 years ahead of him. what's the point of lying at this stage in his life? >> i think it certainly leads one to believe what is he hiding? is he trying to protect the president? is he trying to hold out for some type of a pardon or some time of clemency or something here. we have to wait and see what the judge says here. it's one of the many mysteries around this. it goes back to the part of the case here, the august 2016 meeting and near the trump tower, more intrigue in an already intriguing case. >> we flow they aknow they are on the grand havana room and manafort and his deputy has also pleaded guilty to these charges. they don't want to be followed or seen together. it seems to be an important meeting there shortly aftera republican convention. he is already the republican nominee. they wondering what was going on. why did they leave trump tower and walk down the street to the other building

the fbi lied to a grand jury, lied to robert mueller's investigators, lied, intentionally, on multipleccasions, lied about contact with russians. he's supposed to be a cooperating witness. as you might imagine, as we so often find ourselves saying, this is a big development. cnn's evan perez joins us with the latest. walk us through exactly what was and what was not in this ruling. >> reporter: anderson, prosecutors from the special counsel's office accused manafort of lying on five different occasions, five different topics, during the time he was supposed to be cooperating. he had pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate as part of the investigation. he had met with prosecutors over many, many hours of what they call proffer sessions and during that time he was lying according to the prosecutors. in the judge's ruling today she said there was enough evidence to show he lied in at least three of those occasions. one had to do with a payment that he had received to help pay for some of his legal bills, and two of them had to do with constantine, a name we've heard a lot, somebody who is

they've been lied to by thepres. they have been lied to by the president's legal representatives. and it pains me to say, they have been even lied by his congressional enablers who are still devoted to perpetuating this giant con game on the american people. mr. cohen, i'd like to talk to you about the president's assets. since by law, these must be reported accurately on his federal financial disclosures and when he submits them for a bank loan. mr. cohen, you served for nearly a decade as then-businessman trump's personal attorney and so-called fixer. did you have -- did you also have an understanding of the president's assets and how he valued those items? >>>>n november of 2017, crain's business new york reported that the trump organization provided quote, flagrantly untrue business numbers going back to 2010 to influence the largest private companies in new york. according to the reports, while the trump organization reported nearly 9$9.5 billion in revenue in 2016, public filings suggestsed that revenues were actually less than 1/10th of that. to your knowledge, did the pres

also with respect to the lies, we certainly want to know who was he coordinating these lies with? i don't mean sitting down, drafting the letter together with other people. it could be as simple as, you know, getting a wink and a nod of approval from someone, including trump. those go, again, to important criminal liability issues, not just the impeachment questions. i think both here are important for them to pursue. hopefully they can -- i'm just a little concerned that the questions aren't going to get us the answers we need, particularly when they're coming to five-minute segments. >> you've clearly watched a congressional hearing before. mimi, what will you be looking for in terms of what you need in order to feel that michael cohen is credible? >> look, everyone should be skeptical of michael cohen. democrat, republicans, no matter where you fall politically, be skeptical of michael cohen. he's a liar. but he was not out there telling lies on his own. he was doing this, as far as i can tell, and this is what i think needs to be probed. was he doing this with and on behalf of

they have been lied to by president trump, they've been lied to by the president's children, they have been lied to by the president's legal representatives. it pains me to say that they have been even lied to by his congressional enablers who are still devoted to perpetuating and protecting this giant con game on the american people. now mr. cohen, i would like to talk to you about the president's assets. since by law these must be reported accurately on his federal financial disclosure and when he submits them for a bank loan. mr. cohen, you served for nearly a decade as then businessman trump's personal attorney and so-called fixer. did you have -- did you also have an understanding of the president's assets and how he valued those items? >> yes. >> in november of 2017, cain's new york business reported that the trump organization provided, quote, flagrantly untrue revenue figures going back to at least 2010 to influence cane's ranking of the largest private companies in new york. according to the reports, while the trump organization reported nearly $9.5 billion in revenues in 2016

about it he lied about it because he never expected to win he also lied about it because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the moscow real estate project and so i lied about it too. because mr trump made clear to me through his personal statements to me that we both knew to be false and through his lies to the country that he wanted me to lie and he made it clear to me because his personal attorneys reviewed my statement before i gave it to congress over the best two years i have been smeared as a rat by the president of the united states the truth is much different and let me take a brief moment to introduce myself my name is michael cohen and i am a blessed husband of twenty four years and a father to an incredible daughter and son when i married my wife i promised her that i would love her i would cherish her and i would protect her as my father said countless times throughout my childhood you my wife and you my children are the air that i breathe so that my laura and my sammy and to my jake there's nothing i wouldn't do to protect you i have always tried to live

i lied to lied to congress for the negotiation of the moscow tower in russia.nitiated we stop negotiating in 2016. that was false. our negotiations continued for months later during the campaign. mr. trump did not directly tell me to lie to congress. that's not how he operates. in conversations we had during the campaign, at the same time i was actively negotiating in russia for him, he would look me in the eye and tell me there's no russian business and go on to lie to the american people by saying the same thing. in his way, he was telling me to lie. through at least half a dozen times from the iowa caucus in january 2016 and end of june when he would ask me, how's it going in russia, referring to the moscow tower project. you need to know mr. trump's personal employers reviewed and edited my statement to congress about the timing of the moscow tower negotiations before i gave it. let's be clear, mr. trump knew of and directed the trump moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. he lied about it because he never expected to win. he also li

the other point which i think is really important is he could be prosecuted if he lied. we've already seen him lie to congress once. >> each lie could be a new thing, we could be talking new prison time. >> i would expect him to be truthful tomorrow. >> so, david, cohen never became a member of the trump administration, but you just heard what john said, that he leaves that the believe there is going to be at least the allegation made that the president broke the law and committed crimes while president. you've been covering this for a very long time. do you think cohen may have information, real evidence, to share tomorrow that donald trump broke the law as president? >> well, the way the payments were made in the stormy daniels case may whab we'be what we're about. but lanny davis would not be saying what john reported and others reported unless he figured there was something substantial there to make the case. but does it really matter to us whether the president of the united states committed crimes while he was running for president, in the run-up to his running for

but i would look at the kind of lies, maybe whatever fibs, every politician lies. but i look at l.b.j. and the gulf, got us into the war, 58,000 dead, a pathetic loss. he also said he wasn't going to get into the war and he put us in the war. in terms of the combat. also, i look at obama. obama said you can keep your doctor. he said you can save $2,500 every year, every family, and he said that you could keep your policy. now, the point i'm raising is, i'd like to hear a couple of the lies donald trump has told which in any way has come close to matching those in terms of damage done to this country because those are -- it isn't -- by the way, fact checking by "the washington post," if you're using that as a historical cool, it's absolutely absurd. host: professor brinkley, i'll give you a chance to respond. doug: well, i don't think "the washington post" is absolutely absurd. i think donlt trump's lies are well documented. but the caller makes a good point, even though you don't think i would say that when he was quite nasty toward me. but the gulf of tonkin is a