cohen has cooperated. mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> cohen pled guilty in federal court today admitting to misleading congressional investigators saying he lied to be consistent with the president's political messaging and out of loyalty to the president. cohen has already met with investigators seven times since august, the most recent meeting just last week. one source saying the details about trump tower moscow were just one of the many topics involving the president that cohen divulged in more than 70 hours of questioning. >> there's no relationship. >> cohen told the house and senate intelligence committees last year that all talks around the deal were done by january to 16, but he now admits discussions about the moscow project continued as late as june 2016 after donald trump became the presumptive republican nominee and just one month before the convention. cohen saying he told congress the deal, dubbed the moscow project, ended before the iowa caucus and the very first primary in hopes of li

trump is firing back at cohen. he's also canceling, canceling a planned meeting with vladimir putin. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us from buenos aires. the president lands where you are fairly soon, and we're told that he's in a pretty terrible mood right now, quote, spooked and completely distracted. >> reporter: wolf, he has good reason to be in a terrible mood. president trump, as you said, he's on his way to argentina for the g20 summit. the president will arrive at the summit facing new questions, as you were saying a moment ago, about his business ties to russia during the 2016 campaign. after that bombshell that his former attorney michael cohen dropped in new york earlier today, pleading guilty to lying to congress about mr. trump's dealings in moscow. president trump's former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, has left his old boss in a fix. leaving for the g20 summit, the president lashed out at cohen's decision to plead guilty to lying to congress about mr. trump's business dea

michael cohen is a liar. its no surprise that cohen lied to congress. he's a proven liar who is doing everything he can to get out of a long-term prison sentence for serious crimes of bank and tax fraud that had nothing to do with the trump organization. the documents the special counsel is using to show that cohen used to lie to congress, its hardly coincidental that special counsel files a charges as the president is leaving for argentina. he did the same thing as he was leaving for the world a summit in helsinki with regard to the hotel proposal. the president has been open and transparent. there's a lot there. grab what you will. >> well, what matters is not what the president and his attorneys think about michael cohen's credibility, what matters is what the special counsel thinks and, more importantly, what the special counsel believes he and his team can prove about michael cohen's credibility in a court of law or in the short-term as this investigation winds its way wherever its going to head. that's all that matters. sure, maybe they gave the t

cohen has to say, we don't know.uld be very interested at the appropriate time in inviting mr. cohen to come back to our committee to share any additional information and incites to clarify his prior testimony, so there's a lot more that warrants investigation here. >> adam schiff making two points, one it gets to possible lying by the president but also possible russian attempts to hold leverage over the president as he was the presumptive nominee. >> and he'll have the power to subpoena more people when he chairs that committee come january. >> absolutely. shan wu who represented a defendant prior in this case, the former deputy chairman in the trump campaign, your reaction to what you've heard today. >> this is really a huge development and in skimming over this information, i was particularly struck by paragraph seven, in particular, 7 a, in which it references the fact that there had been the multiple discussions with individual one, of course, but also with family members who were inside the company. so that's,

cohen? michael cohen says, i do, your honor. the judge, do you have any questions for me before we continue? no, your honor. defense counsel, are you aware of any reason why your client should not plead guilty? defense counsel guy petrillo says, no, your honor. the judge says, are you aware of any legal defense to the charge? cohen's defense lawyer guy petrillo says, not that would prevail at trial. the judge says, mr. cohen, are you satisfied with your legal representation up to this point? michael cohen, yes, your honor. the judge, mr. cohen, are you willing to give up your rights to a trial and all the other rights we have discussed? cohen, yes, sir. the judge, how do you plead to the sole count of the information? michael cohen, guilty, your honor. and then it gets a little confusing. so the judge says how do you plead? michael cohen says, guilty, your honor. the judge says guilty or not guilty? and then michael cohen says, sorry. the judge says, that's fine. guilty? michael cohen says, yes, sir. real quick, i'm here to plea

he can answer questions about that. >> good morning, chair cohen, kevin cohen from the airport. on the international terminals going through a refresh, the building was opened in the 2000s, so we're 18 years old now. so the improvement we're doing -- >> president cohen: it's a shame that 18-year-old need ago refresh. can you imagine an 18-year-old version of yourself needing a refresh? my god. >> we've increased the customer experience to new furniture, outlets for plug-in for smart devices. upgrading the concessions. expanding the duty-free offerings to generate more revenue which results in the annual service payment increase to the city. >> president cohen: i like that part. >> addition of bathrooms including gender neutral. expanding areas of that. also in the long-term, an expansion of the check points on the a side and the g side to facilitate better passenger flow. >> president cohen: i understand that zero dollars will be spent toward the airport hotel? >> that is not correct. the airport has sold general airport revenue bonds to finance the hotel, so the city and county

there he is. >> michael cohen! >> mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> mr.en, how are you feeling? how are you feeling? sir, do you want to say anything? are you happy? mr. cohen? >> come this way. >> as expected. >> thank you. >>> all right. so not a word from michael cohen there who has pleaded guilty there in federal court in lower manhattan to lying to congress. however we just heard from his attorney, jeffrey toobin come back in with me and jim, what was really significant was the few words that was said, michael cohen has cooperated and will continue to cooperate. to your point, jeff? >> this is, you know, a collapsing story that -- remember, the core of donald trump's view -- donald trump's statements about his relationship with russia, business relationship with russia is at any time have one, that there was nothing there and here we have michael cohen saying, under oath, admitting that he lied previously saying, there was this business relationship and it was going on during the campaign, during the time that the candidate trump now president trump

cohen, mr. cohen, mr. cohen. can you just talk to us? mr. cohen, just -- >> mr.o has known the president's deepest secrets for years and years. today the man who once vowed to take a bullet for trump filed a play agreement admitting that he lied to congress. this is not the first guilty plea for cohen, but this is the difference -- this is the first plea deal with mueller's prosecutors. today's deal was about a proposed trump to you are project in moscow. he testified the moscow project ended in january 2016 and was not discussed extensively with others in the company. however, court documents detail cohen was talking and coordinating about the project as late as june of that very same year with multiple

all of this obviously was a concern for michael cohen and not only michael cohen, but other people around the president who were concerned about the impact of this investigation, perhaps the optics and other things. we are seeing people lie, this cover up. michael cohen is little by little unraveling this cover up that we have seen in this investigation. the other thing i think that is notable is what we heard from michael cohen's lawyer is he is cooperating and that he is going to continue to cooperate with the special counsel and with the u.s. attorney here in new york. whether or not the special counsel's investigation ends and this is likely to go on in new york from the u.s. attorney's office and fbi who are overseeing parts was investigation. >> a very important day. straight from the courthouse. come back to us if you get new information. live in buenos aires where the president is on the way. the timing is interesting to say the least. big news from the president. not just calling michael cohen a liar, but more news. >> no question about it. the president just shortly after saying

cohen did. in other words, think about this, the president's bag man and putin's deputy were both working on the same coverup. confronted with cohen's testimony today trump displayed one of his truly distinct skills, which is to pretend like he has not been caught when he so obviously has been. >> there would have been nothing wrong if i did do it. if i did do it, there would have been nothing wrong. when i run for president that doesn't mean i'm not allowed to do business. i was doing a lot of different things when i was running. even if he was right, it doesn't matter. because i was allowed to do whatever i wanted during the campaign. >> joining me now, latest nbc news investigation reporter, tom winter, who was inside the courthouse when michael cohen pleaded guilty today. and a reporter with the "washington post" whose new piece extends trump's quest to expand business in russia. what was that scene like this morning? >> in past scenes we've had a heads up. shortly after 8:15 this morning we

thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim: i want to congratulate supervisor brown for bringing this ordinance before the board for, i believe, three years and commend you for raising the affordability to the maximum that we believe the project sponsors could provide ensuring that housing will get built. i want to support this. i do want to note that supervisor brown is increasing to between 10 to 24 and goes above and beyond our current section. happy to see it move forward and excited for the plan and i will not be here, but i look forward to to what will come as a next step. >> president cohen: any other members? seeing none. same house, same call? all right. without objection. this ordinance is passed on the first reading. congratulations, supervisor brown. madam clerk, it's 2:31. can we pivot it our 2:30 order? >> clerk: yes. >> president cohen: we have four commendations. supervisor safai will recognize someone very special. >> supervisor safai: i rise to give a special certificate to carolyn teng from

mueller says he believes cohen's story even as president trump refutes cohen's claims calling him a liarrson, trying to lessen the sentence, but tonight trump lawyer rudy giuliani says the president's recollection is the same as cohen's. so who is telling

cohen had lied. if cohen was lying today, then he's actually in disagreement with the president. i guess a little trumpian kind of incident there where you get confused but at the end of the day, the president's lawyer saying, look, we're fine. >> i say this with all respect to "the new york times." the last four paragraphs of your story reads like something out of the onion. let me read it to you. so you guys report so he's lying very simply in order to get a reduced sentence, okay. that was the president. the clip we just showed. he was leaving the white house for the group of 20 meeting in buenos aires. mr. giuliani sought to explain why mr. trump could attack mr. cohen, sfrn they had the same understanding of the facts. he had so many different versions of the same story so by definition he's a liar. and we can't trust him, giuliani said of cohen. he's lied. how can we believe him? he added cohen has just told us he's a liar. given the fact he's a liar i can't tell you what heess lying about. is

[applause] so i want to thank you, supervisor cohen, thank you so much for this honor. >> president cohen: thank you. and thank you, ms. tatum. [cheers and applause] i'm going to make two more commendations and then i will come down and take pictures and present you with your certificate of honor. the next person i want to recognize is, two folks leaving us, sonali bowes and dylan mang. both of those two fine people will leave city service. dylan has been an angle. he's been with the sfmta for four years. and he has left us as the local government affairs manager. he was liaison between us and the city. dylan has been fielding constituent issues. emailing us follow-ups and checking in via text message for any issues he's been invaluable to each and every one of us on the board. and, dylan, we are sad to see you go. you have big shoes to fill for the next permanent person to take on that position. he is going to comcast. he will be advocating and connecting communities. we're very happy to have a familiar face managing the relationships with comcast. dylan, i want to give you an opportunit

what do we know about cohen?ver went to the white house, but he was in trump's office when the campaign was largely run out of it for a long time, and he was with him many years before that, what the president may know about the trump tower meeting with a russian operative, when the wikileaks e-mail dumps were coming, could all be in cohen's wheel house. and remember, cohen can just be a corroborator, adding to what others have told mueller. he's seen 100 people. he also has some kind of deal between the prosecutors and the chief financial officer of the trump organization. so while not a primary source, michael cohen or others could offer documents, anecdotes, proof that the president says things that he doesn't now want to own. the president says he kept michael cohen around for so long, because he did him a favor. to be sure, michael cohen is not doing any more favors for this president. now, my next guest says the worst may be yet to come for donald j. trump. is he right? former white house ethics czar norm e

the thing that changed is the michael cohen guilty plea. remember what the president said as he was getting out of the white house, getting on to the chopper and heading here to argenti argentina. he said i'm going to be reading that finalized report, right? this report that the white house staff had presumably put together related to the activities that happened over the weekend. so what i imagine happening is the president and white house aides when we get a chance to do more reporting with him, will say the president read the reports. had the concerns, he said he canceled it for this reason, and that is why he called off the meeting. as early as this morning the kremlin was saying the meeting is still moving forward. the meeting is happening. it is possible the president has in the span of time between getting on air force one, and sending that tweet, read this report. that said, the details of this incident have been known for several days now the i asked the ambassador john bolton, the national security adviser, who will be making his

cohen koen -- >> president cohen: thank you, i appreciate that. i'm going to go to public comment. i don't have any further questions. so if there is a member of the public that would like to talk on item 6. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you. severin, were there amendments? no? no amendments? >> no, there are amendments from the department themselves. >> president cohen: ok, i'll make a motion to accept the amendments. and approve with a positive recommendation and send that to the full board. without objection, thank you. please all item 7 and 8 together. >> item 7, resolution authorizing the office of the treasurer and the tax collector of enter into a contract with grant street group to implement and configure a fully integrated pro-property tax. resolution authorizing the office of the assessor recorder to enter into two contracts, one in implementation services and ongoing support agreement in amount not to exceed $21.4 million and a contract for licenses to software as a service with 12-year term in amount not to exceed $14.4 million all to implement and config

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cohen, there's been questions about cohen's tries to russia for some time. about whether he was truthful to congress. if you're looking at the ties between campaign and russia and you are trying to understand, cohen was a very important person to talk to. you would not want to close the investigation without talking to him. there were allegations in the dossier that had been given to mueller, the federal government, by the former british spy who looked at russia. there were a lot of different questions for that. for mueller to wrap things up, he needed to talk to cohen. it looks like this deal was put into place to make sure that happened. >> it was not mueller's team that was involved with michael cohen months ago, it was completely separate, correct? >> correct. that was different. prosecutors from the u.s. attorney's office in new york who had been investigating the payments that have been made to these women during the campaign. that was a campaign finance investigation that looked at also wrapped into other fraud charges that cohen had committed. this i

cohen, can you just talk to us?as known trump's deepest secrets for years as his personal attorney, michael cohen. today cohen signed a plea agreement in court after admitting that he lied to congress. and, ,

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now cohen says he lied. his plea reads, quote, the moscow project was discussed multiple times within the company and did not end in january, 2016. instead, as late as approximately june, 2016, cohen and individual two discussed efforts to obtain russian governmental approval for the moscow project. individual two is presumed to be this man, felix seder. seder is a russian born brooklyn bred real estate investor once connected to a russian mafia stock fraud. he was a significant player in the trump's so he hho tour proj. to attract internationals in a zoning, skirting scheme. seder spearheaded this trump tower project with michael cohen. in twist, seder promised to engineer the moscow deal with the help of russian president vladimir putin. in the summer of last year, the "new york times" published portions of e-mail exchanges between coen and seder, including this one dated november 3rd, 2015. seder wrote to cohen in part, quote, michael, i arranged for ivanka to sit in putin's private chair at his desk and

cohen has more stories to tell. this is someone who is intimate with then candidate and business leader trump. whose name has popped nup a variety of places, and again, not knowing what he is has shared with the special prosecutor and he is clearly one of the individuals that our committee has want ted to come back, and will want to come back, and testify. as well after he has been appropriately plead and sentenced by the justice department activities. but i have to believe that he has more to tell. >> there is another sentence in the criminal investigation that michael cohen discussed the trump tower deal with members of the family, the members of the trump organization, and the members of the family, and that is a small universe, and do you want to call the members of the family back to testify before you and we are talking about now conceivably don jr. >> well, i would hope that we with would get a little bit more clarity on that as to who that was or which members. but there are a host of the sessions where this

my name is malia cohen. to my right is supervisor sandra fewer, and to my left is supervisor cakathrin stefani. mr. clerk are there any announcements? >>clerk: yes. items acted upon today will appear on the november 13 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise noted. >> president cohen: all right. thank you very much. want to thank jessie larson and matthew ignaio for their assistance today, and again, our clerk today is mr. victor young. mr. young, could you call items number two and three together? >> item 2 is 200 million of special tax bond series 2013 a and b for financing related to the transbay transit center project in 201819. item number three is a resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of one or more series of special tax bond for the city and county of san francisco community facilities district 2014-1 in an aggregate amount not to exceed $2 million. >> president cohen: thank you. colleagues, we will continue these items to the call of the chair. mr. deputy city attorney, do we need to ta

we know that michael cohen lied about it. he was engaging with donald trump about it and it required the approval of vladmir putin. nothing like this gets built without putin's say so. this was hidden from the american voter. he deniy eied any business inte with russia. sgr thi >> think about the timeline. you have plimichael cohen havin these meetings as late as june 2016. some other dates should pop into your head. donald trump arranging for and having a meeting with a russian lawyer who was offering dirt on hillary clinton. i imagine if donald trump wants a moscow trump tower and they're working on that and russia wants donald trump to win, which is what our intelligence agencies have concluded, russia would try to sweeten the deal to do this. to make sure that donald trump did win and dangle that trump tower in front of donald trump's head. the next day julian asasange is talk about how he has more e-mails. the day before don junior didn't get any dirt is tweeting about how he has a big announcement and a big speech about

the language that cohen used struck me. in one of the statements, he said i never considered asking individual one, who we know to be trump, to travel for the project. if he had used instead, i decided not to ask individual one to travel but instead he said, i never even considered it. when you make those kind of overreaching, overconfident statement, i can almost hear michael cohen saying them. those are the types of things that come back to bite you. when cohen gave this testimony, or when he made these statements he's being charged with, that he was confident that no one would over find out they may be false. stunning. okay. before the news broke the president tweeted this on the investigation, asking, did you ever see an investigation more in search of a crime? i would say yes, mr. president, your voter fraud commission led by chris coback, that would be one. the president forgets the fact there are now 32 indictments, seven guilty pleas. while we said this investigation is going on and on, benghazi took four years. the

cohen come back to the committee.sed a desire to come back and talk to us without any form of immunity. so just the top of my head, did you meet with russians at any time during the course of the campaign and discuss the campaign, give an exchange of information as was talked about, for example, in trump tower, the sanctions that were imposed by the obama administration. those are all fair game. and any connection with the russians and financial gain as it relates to, perhaps, trump tower or the money laundering issue that we're all too familiar with. >> and has he -- when you say that he wants to come back, has he explicitly said that to you? >> no. there was public reporting that he was willing to come back and talk to congress without immunity. i think that was after his first plea deal and his willingness to volunteer and cooperate. we're now -- have heard in today's reporting, just the breadth and width of his cooperation with the mueller investigation, it's incumbent upon us to make sure that we coordinate with

here's what it says about cohen. cohen played a key role in the trump russia relationship maintaining a koefr maintaining a covert relationship, and his role had grown after manafort left the campaign. another piece from the dossier, cohen is heavily engaged in cover up and damage limitation operation to prevent the full details of trump's relationship with russia being exposed. just because you keep proving one piece of the dossier true doesn't make it all true. once again, another piece of the dossier starts to come into focus. >> right. and every time that happens, people say we should have not discounted it so quickly. i think it is important what we're talking about here is mueller though is looking for evidence, and the steele dossier may tell a story that may very much turn out to be true, but bob mueller, the special counsel, and all of the other prosecutor offices involved in the different arms and legs of the cases are relying on evidence, not just a coopera cooperator or witness. they quote e-mails. we kno

the president called cohen a liar.ide the federal courthouse in manhattan where cohen pleaded guilty this morning. rick? >> shep, today's plea came after a reported 70 hours of interviews with mueller's team and could land cohen up to five years in federal prison. he seemed relaxed in court this morning according to our producer that was seated in the jury box because of the overflow crowd. she said that cohen was smiling and waving at people and talking to his attorneys and to prosecutors. at one point near the end of the 34-minute court appearance, he asked the judge to stand and speak. he said the acoustics were nod good so he should stay seated. even though he topped worked for trump in 2016, he still had ties to candidate trump and was looking out for him and his political messaging when he lied to congress about the contact with russians regarding that moscow project. when the president was asked about why he hired cohen in the day, here's what he told reporters. >> if cohen is a bum, why did you hire him, have h

who else did cohen work with? which russians knew about this, and were they working together on other things like potentially conspiracy to hack e-mails inside the united states. we know bob mueller doesn't leak but speaks through his actions and these court filings. he is speaking loudly today, signing this himself, and moving forward after getting the answers from trump down on paper on the record. i can tell you that includes a question about, yes, the trump tower moscow deal. all of this is happening at the same time trump's campaign chair was busted for lying to mueller this week and the feds and feeding that information back to trump and the same time a key roger stone tipster admitted here on the beat that he worked with roger stone to lie to congress and lie about the source of his tip on the podesta e-mails, after that they were talking into the night in the heat of the campaign when this was going down. this isn't happening in isolation. the charges are a floor, not a ceiling. that's not all. as we were

i'm talking about michael cohen. he's saying that he was lying to protect the president when he told congress that negotiations to put a trump tower in moscow ended before the iowa caucuses. cohen, as part of his surprise guilty plea today to a charge from robert mueller, now says those negotiations continued well into the presidential campaign until june of 2016. he also says he discussed the project with donald trump himself on more than three occasions and briefed trump family members working with the trump organization. that means then candidate trump was trying to do business with russia in the middle of a campaign that russia interfered in to help elect him. and get a load of this detail, which sounds like it would be straight out of the trump playbook. one idea for marketing trump tower moscow was to offer vladimir putin the $50 million penthouse. that's according to felix sater, a russian-born one time business associate of trump's who worked on the project with michael cohen. for what it's worth, rudy giulia

if it is just his word against cohen, cohen has the documents. and text messages and tape recordings. i think cohen may be flawed, but he has a lot of evidence that will hurt trump. >> all of this swirling around him and the president, we're told, is inn -- infuriated. is this the president of the united states calling the issues on trade? i'm not sure what work has been done. is the president going to wing it? >> christine, i think who is calling the shots now are the markets. the markets call the shots for fed chairman powell's speech. they were upset about the previous statements on interest rates. the markets will call the shots on china. failure to get anything this weekend will be fairly poorly received by the markets on monday and trump knows it. >> greg, thank you very much. we will talk more about michael cohen in just a moment when we come back from the quick break. thanks. take prilosec otc and take control of heartburn. so you don't have to stash antacids here... here... or here. kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. one pill a d

today they snuck in cohen. he was a john doe when they came in at first, and reporters were, you know, milling around and they realized it was mueller's team that was there. and they took this plea. and it was a way of mueller and his team looking the president in the eye and saying, we got you. it was, like this. that's what it was today. it was just a thing of beauty from somebody who has done this before. i just thought, i've had so much admiration for the manner in which it's done. it just made me smile. >> bob, about this president, the charitable way to put it is he has an agnostic view of business deals. the less charitable way is, when you balance the job of president-elect and/or president up against head of a family, you know, real estate licensing firm, those are not equal. one has to yield to the other in terms of being a steward for our nation. talk about the fact that there was some equivalence going on here. >> it's clear that he simply has never recognized the constraints on him as a public figu

but now we're learning from the cohen documents that cohen briefed family members, unnamed family members but presumably donald trump, jr. so it remains to be seen if there's anything inconsistent with his testimony. but he reported today that the senate intelligence committee and senate judiciary committee are now pouring over these transcripts and cross-checking to see whether they can detect any potential lies. and they've made a number of criminal referrals to mueller that they will not talk about, some of which can presume may be perjury, lawrence. >> is there something out there people get the feeling that in congressional testimony i can take a bigger lead off the base than i can when i'm being cross examined by mimi roca in federal court. >> well, it's different. first of all, there's not a judge. and the it's very different from the law enforcement arena where facts, evidence, judges, things like that matter. but, you know, i think whether you're talking about testimony before congress or statements to the public or whatever, the big question here, right is why are all these peop

cohen on a witness stand. any defense attorney will have an hay day with him. >> dana: can we all talk about paul manafort. what happened in the situation like that? >> it's an interesting process. we hear there's a breach by the government saying he's broken the contract. it's like a contract. he's agreed to certain things like cooperating fully and honestly, and they've agreed to certain things. when you breach it, if you are proven to have breached the contract to a judge by a pro-pond repbs of the >> eddievidence, he can't go back to square one but the government no longer has any obligation to do anything. they can try to bury him and mack him out on his charges because he's in breach. but they have to prove it to a judge by not proof beyond a reasonable doubt. that makes for interesting hearings to see what the substance of those false statements are. >> dana: can you explain also the joint defense agreement and how that should have supposedly ended when manafort entered his plea? >> yeah. typically, tha

so, and what i found most consequential about all of this news about michael cohen is michael cohen spent 70 hours testifying before the grand jury. i got to tell you, i have tried complex murder cases in less than 70 hours. this is the tip of the iceberg, and there's so much more to come. >> you think there's a lot more coming from cohen? >> absolutely. >> yes. natasha, this story, my god, i -- every once in a while, it just explodes with news. all of a sudden, you got his fixer who has has intimate relations with, now he's saying i don't know the guy, he's a lightweight, almost saying low i.q. this guy has facts. >> yeah. i think when you're asking the question of why cohen felt the need to conceal all of this, as late as august and september of 2017, it just goes back to the idea that they were conscious of how bad this looked. they were conscious of the fact -- >> the smell factor. >> they were conscious of the fact this showed, this provided direct evidence that the president may have been compromised by russia when he was running his election and through the entire election -- >> yo

cohen told the house and senate intelligence committees last year. today he said he lied to help the president. i'm quoting, i was aware of individual one's repeated disavows of commercial and political ties between himself and russia and any contact with russian nationals had all terminated before the iowa caucus, on february 1st of 2016. which cohen now says was not true. the last conversation was on or about june 14th of that year. he went on to say, "i made these misstatements to be consistent with individual ones, political messaging and out of loyalty to individual one. so he's saying he was lying to congress because candidate trump was lying to the american people. the president responded today saying this about michael cohen. >> he was given a fairly long jail sentence, and he's a weak person, and by being weak, unlike other people that you watch, he's a weak person, and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about. we were very open with it. >> so that's donald trump who only hired

[inaudible] >> president cohen: okay. that's fair enough. [inaudible] >> president cohen: okay. did you hear that? we thank the b.l.a., but we're not taking the recommendations. all right. so what we're going to do is we're going to make a motion, we've already taken public comment, make a motion to approve and send to the full board with a positive recommendation and we're going to send this as a committee report. >> all right. thank you, supervisors. >> president cohen: thank you. move on, please call item 7 [ gavel ]. >> clerk: item seven, retroactively authorizing the police department to accept a grant from the united states department of justice to assist with united states reporting transition efforts september 2020 through september 2021. >> president cohen: this is just a simple resolution to accept and expend grants so that the police department can improve their data reporting system and bring it in alignment with the department of justice reform recommendation. i'm actually very excited about this, and i am supportive, as well. miss mcguire, the floor is yours. >> pr

not for michael cohen. that's where it begins, because he's going to get sentenced in december, and then life as he knew it is going to be over for his family, his wife, his kids, for him, his business, everything is going to change. >> one thing that i will tell you is that we can sit around and discuss -- before i get to that point, you know, with this whole thing about him and how much, you know, what he has to lie about, again, i don't understand why he would lie at this point, especially when you consider what this is going to do to his family. and if he is caught lying, then he is in the position of manafort, right? where he faces something that's much stronger. so that part i don't get, what people are saying. the only thing that really matters right now -- we can sit around in these groups. people can speculate on television. rudy giuliani can say what he wants to say. the president can say what he wants to say. the information that michael cohen gave to the special counsel, someone thought it was i