lanny davis at the recommendation of my former counsel over at. mcdermott will and emory who knew mr davis and who's to say you reached out to mr davis and i did yes initially ok so did did you want to testify before congress or did he urged you to testify or i was asked to come here and i am here sir voluntarily because it's my you are asking i who my question of did did he ask you to come here no sir ok because he is. you're watching al-jazeera michael cohen trump's former personal lawyer testifying before congress right now he's been answering questions from committee members both democrats as well as republicans for the past thirty minutes or so and he has been questions on the president's debts and payments relating to efforts to influence the twenty six thousand election that's russia's influence on the election he's also been questioned on the president's business practices as well as the accuracy of some of the president's public statements as well as some of his private statements that he's made before he faced the questions from committe

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 democrat 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. >> did you prepare with chairman cummings or anyone on your team? >> i'm sorry. what do you mean by prepare? >> prepare for this hearing. >> prepare? i prepared with my counsel. i spoke -- >> did you prepare with the democrat majority or chairman cummings? >> we spoke with chairman cummings and the party. >> with chairman schiff? >> spoke with chairman schiff and his -- and his people as well. >> were there any other individuals acting as a liaise for you with the majority party? >> i'm sorry, sir. what are you saying? >> did you have a liaison other than -- that you've mentioned who were working with the majority to p

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 his people, as well. >> were there any other individuals acting as a liaise for you and your party. >> i'm sorry, sorry, what did you say? >> did you have a liaison other than who you mentioned that were working with the majority to prepare for this hearing? >> liaison.

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 mentioned who w working with the majority to prepare for this hearing? >> we spoke with the various individuals that you just raised, yes. ga >> tom stier, ing him or any of his representatives, anyone a

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? >> i'm sorry, what do you mean prepare? >> prepare for this hearing. >> prepare. i prepared with my counsel. >> did you prepare with democrat majority or chairman cummings? >> we spoke with chairman cummings and the party. >> with chairman schiff? >> spoke with chairman schiff and his -- and his people as well. >> were there any other individuals acting as a liaze for you with the majority party? >> i'm sorry, sir. what are you saying? >> did you have a liaison other than these that mentioned that were working with the majority to prepare for thi

>> i reached out to lanny davis at the recommendation of my former counsel over at mcderm t mcdermott, will and emery who knew mr. davis. >> you reached out to mr. davis. i did, yes, initially. >> okay, so, d yify bor congres he urge you to testify here? >> i was asked to come here and i'm here voluntarily because it's my -- >> you were asked by who? did he ask you to come here? >> no, sir. >> because he says that he did ask you to come here and that he convinced you and he did the same with the chairman cummings as well. so your testimony here is that you approached lanny davis to represent you and to come here, he did not persuade you to come here. >> he didn't persuade here. actually, chairman cummings, as well as chairman schiff and others, they spoke in in order for me to come here voluntarily. >> i find the connecting of the dots here with mr. davis and you and frankly the chairman and perhaps others to be rather stunning that there's angea rankly tha to bring the president down, to impugn the president. you made an oath last time you were here and that oath meant nothing to you

they didn't find him lanny davis did. i'll say one thing about the democrats they stick to the playbook. remember how this started. the clinton campaign hired perkins cooy law firm who hired

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? >> i'm sorry. 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? >> spoke with chairman schiff and his -- and his people, as well. >> were there any other individuals acting as a liaison for you with the majority party? >> i'm sorry, sir. what are you saying? >> did you have a liaison other than these -- that you've mentioned who were working with the majority

they didn't find him lanny davis did. i'll say one thing about the democrats they stick to the playbook. remember how this started. the clinton campaign hired perkins cooy law firm who hired glenn sifrpd who hired

they didn't find him lanny davis did. i'll say one thing about the democrats they stick to the playbook. remember how this started. the clinton campaign hired perkins cooy law firm who hired glenn sifrpd who hired christopher stooefl who put together the fake dossier though that the fiflk used to get a warrant oh spy on the trump campaign. when the scheme failed and the american people said we're making donald trump president, they said we got to do something else. so now clinton oilist clinton operative lanny davis persuaded the chairman of the oversight committee to give a convicted felon a forum to tell stories and lie about the president of the united states. so they can all start their impeachment process. mr. chairman, we are better than this. we are better than this. i yield back. >> i wanted to note. >> mr. chairman, upper-level -- i have a motion. >> yield back. >> i have a motion. the gentlemen is recognized. >> i have a motion under rule 2 k zblieks you fielded back, zblier mr. chairman you took 7 minutes i too

some of the things lanny davis said during the interview. give colleague hallie jackson credit for pushing back on some of the points he made. but when you have somebody that is making that many inaccurate statements then follows it up and says, you can rest assured my client is going to testify three times in the next how next two and a half three weeksz as he's preparing for jail. it raises significant questions. >> i think we could rename our station or network, it does strain credibility. >> you're saying the same thing in a different way. >> everybody gets in trouble, this business of lying to the bank about your assets. it's 2019. we have a mars rover like in mars. don't lie about your assets. it's too easy to prove. >> yes. if you are a random person in society, you -- >> that's correct. >> you chose not to be a random person in society. you wanted to be the president of the united states of america's fixer. and by the way, even now in the last few months, michael cohen is traipsing around new york city at some of the most famous rest

lanny davis, as well as michael monico. >> all right. or michael or lanny davis or anyone else cooperate with the democratic majority to prepare for this hearing? >> mr. cohen: i'm sorry, say that again please? >> did you or anyone else on your team cooperate with the democratic party and preparing for this hearing? >> mr. cohen: we have spoken to the party. >> did you prepare with chairman cummings or anyone on your team? >> mr. cohen: what do you mean by prepare? >> prepare for this hearing. >> mr. cohen: i prepared with my counsel. >> did you prepare with the democrat majority or chairman cummings? >> mr. cohen: we spoke with chairman cummings and the party -- >> with chairman schiff? >> mr. cohen: with chairman schiff and his people as well. >> where there any under individuals acting as a liaise for you with the majority party? >> mr. cohen: what i'm sorry, what are you saying? >> did you have a liaison other than those you mention who were working with the majority to prepare for this hearing? >> mr. cohen: we spoke with various in

, lanny davis put this all together. you know how we know? he told the committee staff. he said the hearing was his idea. he selected this committee. he had to talk michael cohen into coming. and most importantly, he had to persuade the chairman to actually have it. he told us it took two months to get that job done. but here we are. he talked him into it. this might be the first time someone convicted of lying to congress has appeared again so quickly in front of congress. certainly it's the first time a convicted perjurer has been brought back to be a star witness in a hearing. and there's a reason this is a first, because no other committee would do it. think about this. with mr. cohen here, this committee -- we got lots of lawyers on this committee. this committee is actually encouraging a witness to violate attorney/client privilege. mr. chairman, when we legitimize dishonesty, we delegitimize this institution. we're supposed to pursue the truth, but you have stacked the deck against the truth. we're only allowed to

they didn't find him lanny davis did. i'll say one thing about the democrats they stick to the playbook. remember how this started. the clinton campaign hired perkins cooy law firm who hired glenn sifrpd who hired christopher stooefl who put together the fake dossier though that the fiflk used to get a warrant oh spy on the trump campaign. when the scheme failed and the american people said we're making donald trump president, they said we got to do something else. so now clinton oilist clinton operative lanny davis persuaded the chairman of the oversight committee to give a convicted felon a forum to tell stories and lie about the president of the united states. so they can all start their impeachment process. mr. chairman, we are better than this. we are better than this. i yield back. >> i wanted to note. >> mr. chairman, upper-level -- i have a motion. >> yield back. >> i have a motion. the gentlemen is recognized. >> i have a motion under rule 2 k zblieks you fielded back, zblier mr. chairman you took 7 minutes i too

lanny davis covhoreographed the whole thing. the clinton's best friend, loyalist, operate ive, lanny davis put this together. you know how we know? he told our staff. he selected this committee. he had to talk michael cohen into coming and most importantly, he had to persuade the chairman to actually have it. he told us it took two months to get that job done, but here we are. he talked him into it. this might be the first time someone convicted of lying to congress has appeared again so quickly in front of congress. certainly it's the first time a convicted perjurer has been brought back to be a star witness in a hearing. and there's a reason this is the first. because no other committee would do it. think about this. with mr. cohen here, this committee, we got lots of lawyers on this committee. this committee is actually encouraging a witness to violate attorney/client privilege. mr. chairman, when we legitimize dishonestly, we delegitimize this institution. we're supposed to pursue the truth, but you've stacked the deck again

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. >> did you prepare with chairman cummings or anyone on your team? >> what do you mean by prepare? >> prepare for this hearing. >> i prepared with my counsel. >> did you prepare with democrat majority or chairman cummings? >> we spoke with chairman cummings and the party. >> with chairman schiff? >> spoke with chairman schiff and his people, as well. >> were there any other individuals acting as a liaison for you with the majority party? >> i'm sorry, sir. what are you saying? >> did you have a liaison other than you mentioned who were working with the majority to prepare for this hearing? >> we spoke with the various individuals that you just raised, yes. >> tom stier, regarding him or any of his re

lanny davis knew that if he met the media assumptions, this thing would be a major success, so he met the media assumptions. he went through the litany of everything the media feels about trump without ever laying a hand on collusion, without ever putting any news out. we had to sit here the whole day and not talk about real news. talk about this crap. >> jesse: that last statement by michael cohen was clearly written by lanny davis. he says he fears of trump doesn't win in 2020, they won't have a peaceful transition of power >> dana: we fought a civil war for good reason and we were at each other's throats and 1968. we are a polarized nation but we are not about to go to civil war. there was a transition of power. we have had it over and over again. there's a couple things in here that were news who people who support trump should like. number one, michael cohen says under oath that he never went to prague. that story has been out there. if you are a trump person, that in the fact that he said donald trump never told me to lie under oath. i don't care about the lower thirds. >> greg:

lanny davis, choreographed the whole darn thing. clinton's best friend, loyalist, operative, lanny davis put this all together. >> sean: can you imagine if the president gets this accomplished? wow. some people might say he deserves a nobel peace prize more than obama. congressman jordan was right on. highly orchestrated by, yes, the biggest clinton supporter on the entire earth, lanny davis, who is apparently representing michael cohen for free along with democratic members of congress and michael cohen himself. here's the evidence. let's take a look. >> what did you talk to mr. schiff about? >> i spoke to mr. schiff about topics that were going to be raised at the upcoming hearing. >> whoa. not just what time to show up. actually what you're going to talk about? >> the gentleman's time expired. >> wow. >> sean: oh, now we tell people what we're going to ask them ahead of time so they can prepare all their answers. lying adam schiff. he was caught colluding again. also congressman jordan got to the heart of why the president's form

lanny davis, making news tonight. thanks to you as well. >>> coming up, the democrats are now bringing down the gavel in the first bid to get trump's tax returns. i have a key witness at today's hearing, you won't get that anywhere else. >>> later, aoc pushing a new topic to the front of the political debate. we'll tell you why her critics seem so upset. >>> and my fact check on donald trump's claim that, quote, republicans never, quote never investigated barack obama like this. >>> and later, very excited to tell you, andres leon tally and lizz winstead are here. that's ahead. you're watching the beat on msnbc. you're watching the beat on msnbc. (burke) parking splat. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ you know that look? that life of the party look. walk it off look. one more mile look. reply all look. own your look with fewer lines. there's only one botox® cosmetic. it's the only one fda approved to temporaril

minority, desperate -- i'll accept the hearing. >> have you been consulting with michael cohen and lanny davis over the course of these past several months? >> i've never spoken with michael. i've known lanny for many, many years. we first met when we were anchor buddies during the clinton impeachment proceedings. >> john dean, thank you very much for calling in. we appreciate your expertise. let's go to capitol hill and talk to our capitol hill reporter manu raju. tell us what we're not seeing on camera. tell us how the members of congress are interacting. >> well, the republicans are essentially trying to troll michael cohen and they've put several posters in the room to show those women for cohen tweets, putting up there essentially making fun of him of sorts saying that people view him as those tweets that, of course, are praising him and those, of course, became a part of the back and forth. the republicans have been very eager to try to go after michael cohen who is frustrated by the chairman's decision to -- they were saying limit the testimony to not focus on other issues beyond the on

is he or any of them paying lanny davis to represent you? >> not that a i'm aware of. >> who is paying lanny davis? >> no one. >> so he's doing all of this work for no one. >> yes, sir. >> how did lanny davis come to you? >> i reached out to him at the suggest of my former counsel who new him. >> so you reached out to mr. davis? >> yes, i did initially. >> okay. did you want to testify before congress or did he urge you to testify here? >> i was asked to come here. i am here, sir, voluntarily. >> did he ask you to come here? >> no, sir. >> he says that he did ask you to come here and he convinced you and he did the same with chairman cummings as well. so your testimony here is that you approached lanny davis to represent you and to come here. he did not persuade you to come here. >> he did not persuade me. chairman cummings, which is part of the conversations we engaged in as well as chairman schiff and others. they spoke in order to ask me to come here voluntarily. >> i find the connecting. dots here with mr. davis and you and frankly the c

i don't know whether that was lanny davis's -- there was another interesting moment -- >> just putting lanny behind him is going to allow every host on "fox news" to say the clintons. >> when this tape came up, this alleged tape in an elevator of donald trump allegedly hitting his wife and -- and cohen came right out and said, he would never do that. >> he would never do it. there's no evidence for it. >> i don't believe the tape exists. >> yes. we looked for it. the fact that they even thought they had to look for it is an interesting point, but we looked for it. we never found it. i don't believe mr. trump would ever do that. i think that helped his credibility. >> that moment did. >> everyone stick around. we'll take a very quick break. moments from now michael cohen will resume his testimony. we're getting reaction from the trump team. stand by. this is cnn live coverage. back after this. i'm a fighter. always have been. when i found out i had age-related macular degeneration, amd, i wanted to fight back. my doctor and i came up with a plan. it includes preservision. only preservis

this is the michael cohen hearing presented by lanny davis.anny davis choreographed the whole darn thing. the clintons best friend. loyalist operative. lanny davis put this all together. he told our staff. he told the committee staff. he said the hearing was his idea. he had to talk michael cohen into coming. he had to persuade the chairman to actually have it. he told us it took two months to get the job done. here we are. he talked him into it. this might be the first time someone convicted of lying to congress has appeared again so quickly in front of congress. certainly, it is the first time a convicted perjurer has been brought back to be a star witness in a hearing. there is a reason this is a first. no other committee would do it. think about this, with michael cohen here, this committee, we have lots of lawyers on this committee. this committee is encouraging a witness to violate attorney-client privilege. when we legitimize honesty, we delegitimize this institution. host: you can comment on this hearing from yesterday featuring michae

that's right lanny davis choreographed the whole darn thing. the clinton's best friend loyalist operative lanny davis put this all together you know how we know he told our staff he told the committee staff he said the hearing was his idea he selected this committee he had to talk michael cohen into common and most importantly he had to persuade the chairman to actually have it he told us took two months to get that job done but here we are. he talked him into it this might be the first time someone picked it up like you're watching al jazeera live pictures from capitol hill where you can see the hearing with michael cohen there he is just started a few moments ago that's after some republicans try to delay the hearing and we are hearing from our representative mr jordan right now and right before him we heard from the committee chairman. cummings in his in his opening statements he said to the american people and to the committee members that we are in search of the truth let's bring in see how town see joining us from washington so just for a

>> because tomorrow is political theater produced by lanny davis and career democrat operatives that have somehow convinced the distinguish chairman of our oversight committee to allow this hcherade to move forward tomorrow. >> neither party has any kind of strangle hold on integrity when it comes to hearings. whether you guys are in charge or the other side is in charge but it's up to you to keep it correct tomorrow and ask questions that aren't just a condemnation but a clarification and to help the rest of us out that care about the answers to the question. >> i think that was well stated, good, sir and of course there's political theater on both sides throughout the history of our nation, but tomorrow is what we're focused on as a country, a very important issue. whether or not mr. cohen should even be received as a credible witness before an oversight committee that has a responsibility to present the truth to the american people and tomorrow is clearly not the effort to accomplish that. tomorrow is an effort to discredit the president. >> why so cynical? the mueller probe found

lanny davis is a political player. he has a political ax to grind here that is obvious.n terms of the credibility, is there an add add threshold that cohen has to -- if he's going to have chilling revelations here, as lanny davis is say, is there an added threshold and what would that be. >> it is hard for them in real-time to be able to evaluate the veracity of what he's saying. only after the fact they realized what he had represented to congress about when they stopped talking about the moscow trump tower deal was inaccurate and that mueller surfaced. so it is hard for them to do that. they're going to have to take what he says and work from it. one of the things to remember, the big change between now and the last time michael cohen was on capitol hill, is that the democrat run the house. they could launch investigations based on what michael cohen is saying. so they don't have to take him at face value. they could hear what he says and then spin things off and i think it is important to remember, we focus so much on the mueller investigation. but i do think it is im

you see him there, walking in, escorted by lanny davis, his adviser and lawyer you've seen on this show among others. he was facing we're told skeptical lawmakers, particularly since this is the very committee he now confesses he lied to in 2017. >> that's what it looks like when a senator doesn't want to answer questions but can't help himself and answers at least one. michael cohen's private testimony has been focused on russia. that's part of why it is private today. on how long he worked on the trump tower moscow project, whether the russians had leverage over then citizen, now president trump. cohen won't talk about russia probe lines of inquiry in public tomorrow. we can report a source telling nbc there will be other significant political and legal bomb shells. cohen ready to share, quote, anecdotes on trump's lies, racism and cheating as a private businessman, which he saw up close in the decade he worked for mr. trump. evidence of electriccriminal cod this is key, since he became president. also bringing the goods on trump's finances, bringing an actual financial statement. he

michael: i consulted with my counsel, lanny davis as well as michael monico. >> did you or michael or lenny davis or anyone else cooperate with the democratic majority to prepare for this hearing? michael: say that again, please. >> did you or anyone else on your team cooperate with the democratic party to prepare for this hearing? michael: we have spoken with the party. >> did you prepare with chairman cummings? michael: what do you mean by prepare? >> prepare for this hearing. michael: i prepared with my counsel. >> did you prepare for the democratic council or chairman cummings? michael: we spoke with chairman cummings and the party. >> were there any other individuals acting as a liaison for you for the majority party? michael: what are you saying? liaison othere a than who you have mentioned who were working with the majority to perfect this hearing? michael: yes, we spoke with the various individuals that you raised, yes. , regarding him or any of his representatives, anyone associated with him, is he or any of them paying lanny davis to represent you? michael: not that i am awa

referring to lanny davis.e also tweeted some nasty remarks about connecticut senator richard blumenthal, we'll discuss those shortly. >>> president trump right now is in vietnam where he's tweeting. preparing for his second nuclear summit with kim jong-un. the two coming together in just hours from now. the two hoping that mr. trump can turn personal chemistry into real progress. >> let's go live to hanoi and bring in cnn diplomatic analyst general john kirby. what do you think is the worst case scenario of what unfolds over the next several days? >> that's a great question. i think the best case and the most realistic case, we'll get some sort of a framework for future negotiations and discussions. some sort of plan by which both teams can actually move the ball forward over the next couple of years. you know, sort of a sequencing, i guess, of negotiations going forward. i think the worst case is, you know, we end up with sort of nothing and we end up just as vague as we were after singapore. i think for dona

. >> reporter: the last bit from cohen adviser lanny davis speaks to how much cohen knows and how long he was close to this president. how much he could bring to bear, particularly in the open hearing nature lot of fire works over the next few days? >> i know you have your sneakers on for what's going to be a busy week on capitol hill. thank you for that breakdown. >>> we are getting our first statement from the white house today as we are all bracing for this marathon session for michael cohen. disgraced felon michael cohen is going to prison for lying to congress and making other false statements. sadly he'll go before congress this week and we can expect more of the same. it's laughable that anyone would take him at his word and pa thetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread lies. this is not a surprise. what do you make of the revelations that he's apparently prepared to say the president has committed criminal acts once in office? >> very dramatic. this was the man in the room with donald trump at some of the most consequential times when he's running for president a

lanny davis found him. i will say one thing about the democrats, they stick to the playbook.eal time reaction from president trump. he is in vietnam. he earlier teed up the testimony by tweeting out cohen in his estimation is trying to reduce his prison sentence. melissa. melissa: blake, thank you. connell: analysis from the judge right now, judge andrew napolitano joins us fox news legal analyst, host of the liberty file. we know about cohen's credibility issues. if what he said is true type of questions on two fronts, since blake brought it up, let me start with the southern district of new york, there is line of thinking, i read a lot about it, if the president has legal exposure or risk more with prosecutors here in new york than with robert mueller. is that true, if so why? >> i agree with that assessment. i think it is true for a couple of reasons. the president and the attorney general could fire bob mueller and shut his team down tomorrow. they cannot do that with the prosecutors here in new york the team in new york assigned to investigate this are not political appo

lanny davis told john dean, richard nixon's lawyer, that ecohen will quote pull a curtain back and wes of trump's crimes and morally vacant character in specific detailed, personal anecdotes. and president trump tweeted out this remember michael cohen only became a rat after the fbi did something which was absolutely unthinkable and unheard of until the witch hunt was illegally started. they broke into an attorney's office. lanny davis doing a good job of raising the bar of expectations of what's going to come out of this. cohen pf cohen's been through the legal process here. if there was anything explosive that he could prove there, wouldn't that have been the forum? >> one of the things we can learn from cohen is how small all of these trump scandals are and how comparatively petty. hundreds of thousands of dollars is a lot for people. but if you're a billionaire, they're like dimes. would you steal a dime? most people would rnt. if he is who he says he is, then the doesn't make sense. it will show that it's an operation where people were skrouchging for what would be efor a billion

tonight there may be new legal exposure for the personal attorney michael cohen after his lawyer lanny davis issued the select committee on intelligence has accepted mr. koman's request first postponement of tuesday's hearing due to post surgery medical needs. a future date will be announced by the committee. the issue is that he was last on the hill two years ago according to senator burr seen publicly over the weekend and also monday night indicating that maybe he wasn't that sick after all. here senator burr speaking later today with reporters. >> i assure you any goodwill, the way he is positioning intel will not come to the committee. >> catherine: in the last few minutes, martha, we received an updated statement from lanny davis addressing senator burr's criticism. it says mr. cohen has proposed surgery and that senator burr a little bit cheeky in his response should understand it is possible to be in pain and have a dinner at the restaurant with his wife and his children. but the bottom line, there was a subpoena for michael company went to appear before the senate intelligence commit

greg: not only that, the exhibits are you can talk about clinton and lanny davis but there were documents that i think are available now. assets and liabilities trump sent to deutsche bank between 2011 and 2013, valuations of his assets that suddenly spiked up in 2014. i think that's being reported now. these are the types of things in response to any political argument of why we are doing this. actual documentary information about what the president's claims are and how they don't match up to the reality. guy: can you explain to an international already and's -- international audience why this hearing is being held in publicly while others are not. what i assume because michael cohen will be a will to testify today he's told prosecutors and it does not involve ongoing investigations. anything you are hearing today is something that prosecutors already know. the other ones regarding the house intelligence and i think the senate intelligence committee are more likely to going to national security issues are might touch on them in such a way that should not be made public especially in the

here with me know lanny davis. thank you for coming on.motorcyclichael cohen want to senate intel? >> i think senator bur had a bad day yesterday and bad information. >> does he have a point? >> of course not. >> if he's out with his friends and wife. >> of course not. i said in my statement, it's possible to be very sick with medical practitioners telling him not to come under medication, senator burr had the medical letters. he forgot to mention that. he knew he was committed to coming within the next two weeks. he forgot that mention that. within the next two weeks -- >> when's the date? >> i can't tell you the exact date. he should have said mr. koecohe has promised to come and had medical sadvice not to come. and he invited us to come to his office and preinterview. he was out to dinner with his wife, very sick. ha that is not inconsistent with being sick. >> that's the third interview pushed off. it's the third excuse, threats against his family, now post surgery medical needs. do you see how some people ask why the excuses? . >> fir

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okay, guys, if you believe michael cohen's attorney, lanny davis, this is going to be a blockbuster, so listen who to what lanny davis says michael cohen is going to reveal. >> you're going to hear impersonal, frontline experiences of memories and incidents and conduct and comments that donald trump said over that ten-year time period behind closed door that, to me, when i first heard michael tell me all this even as much as i knew about trump that was negative was chilling. >> and is michael cohen publicly going to be able to say chilling details about his former boss? >> i think yes. one of the things we've seen is that he's had these broad concluess sorry statements saying president trump directed me do it and these meetings with ami and michael cohen together but we've had no details. imagine a conversation if the questioning is good where they literally could take us piece by piece when did you talk to donald trump? what did he say? how many conversation disease you have? who else was in the room? what else was the president trying to do? why was he trying to do it? we haven't h

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 president or while he was in office? >> well, for impeachment it could matter hugely, right? >> it could matter hugely but there aren't enough votes of the senate to convict him. i think impeachment is unlikely given the current set of facts today. >> john, you're shaking your head. >> i was shaking my head. prior crimes can be impeached. it happened to a federal judge not too long ago. they reached back for criminal behavior before he went on the bench and impeached him. so there is a precedent. but i don't think michael is in an impeachment hearing at this point. i think these will be broad statements. what david mentions is the payments to stormy daniels and the reimbursements. some of those looked like they could have stretched into the time he was in the white house and theref

michael cohen has admitted, lanny davis said he's going to talk about the character of drum. michael cohen has the same character. >> he's not only lied to congress, part of what he's doing, he's been in two closed sessions and one public session. one of the reasons he's on capitol hill this week is preparing to testify both privately and publicly, because part of what he's doing is preparing for his sentencing. he has to crum across as credible, turning over a new leaf. i've now come to god. i now understand what's going on. i i'm now credible. yes, i've lied before, but now i'm telling the truth. when you are a defense attorney this is a dream come true to be able to cross-examine somebody who pled guilty to false statements, perjury, lying under oath. you lied before, you can lie now. look at the demeanor. does he look you in the eye? is he corroborated by documents? 0 do you believe him? is he lying about stupid things, is he lying about important things? what do you take out of it? use your common sense. so when we look at these things -- and remember, there were a milli

cohen's media adviser lanny davis said cohen met only with his own legal team to review legal documents that could not leave the area. >>> it was a mystery in may of last year how michael avenatti obtained michael cohen's bank records. federal prosecutors say they've now figured it all out. irs investigator john fry has been charged with searching for and leaking confidential suspicious activity reports. reports filed by banks when they note potentially suspicious transactions. officials say fry verbally admitted providing the information to avenatti when he was confronted by federal agents. the complaint says one of the reports related to bank accounts for essential consultants, the shell company cohen createdde t pay off stormy daniels cohen claims at the direction of donald trump. >>> north carolina officials have ordered a new election in the unresolved district 9 house race after being presented with enough evidence to prove attempted voter fraud. >> the absolute mess with the absentee ballots, the illegal activities that have occurred there in the election office itself and with t

lanny davis found him. i will say one thing about the democrats. they stick to the playbook.eporter: president trump teed up this testimony up on capitol hill earlier today by tweeting out that he feels that cohen is speaking to try to reduce his prison sentence. liz: can he do that? i thought he couldn't reduce his prison sentence. reporter: at this very hearing here, it has nothing to do with the prison sentence though as cohen talked about, there are ongoing issues with the southern district of new york and in that case, cohen potentially, he said, at least in his testimony, says that maybe his prison sentence could be reduced on that end. liz: thank you, blake burman. >>> retail's heart beating loud. with the closing bell ringing in 27 minutes, and the dow down 68, nasdaq holding on to a tiny gain, some big earnings wins. do we interpret that that brick and mortar, not just e-commerce, has a pulse? it's protecting all the data that retailers collect on you that's the next big challenge if the retail ice age is thawing. coming up, retail industry leaders association brian

lanny davis said i will respond and has said those charges are meritless. nonetheless the interesting thing that cohen revealed, he will be back here march 6th to finish his testimony, the fourth appearance on capitol hill before he heads to jail. >> maybe more. march 6th, he was supposed to begin his three-year prison sentence at a federal penitentiary in upstate new york on march 6th but that was delayed for health reasons. he had shoulder surgery and won't begin that prison sentence until may 6th. he will be out of jail for a while. if they want him to come back for yet more testimony behind closed doors, in open session, there's plenty of time. >> reporter: absolutely. and i asked him before, would you bring back michael cohen if he were in jail? and he said absolutely he could. that's something he would be open to, perhaps compelling him to do that, if he needed to. at the moment that committee seems satisfied with their questioning. the house intelligence committee, probably when he comes back march 6th will be the final time he appears here on capito

lanny davis? >> met mr. davis? -- with mr. davis? no, but i have been approached by many people who are looking to those deals. >> it's your right as an american, but it leads me back that compares you to many of the men i have arrested during the course of my career. mr. chairman -- >> with all due respect, at our primary hearing, introducing the oversight committee, the 116th congress of the american people as manifested in the way that it obviously is, it's an attempt to injure our president and lay some sort of cornerstone for future impeachment proceedings. the full intent of the majority. i yield my remaining 30 seconds to the remaining member. >> earlier you said the southern district of new york is not >>urate in that statement? on sorry? >> that the attorneys office, not accurate. not a lie, but not accurate. can you stand by that? >> i didn't want a role in the new administration. >> sir -- >> can i finish? >> i got exactly the role i wanted to. there is no shame in being the personal attorney to the president. i got exactl

it was a lanny davis presentation according to jim jordan.t the hearing. listen to this. >> as far as cohen is concerned, he is convicted, he is a liar. he's defrauded at a high level. got a lot of problems and you know, it was very interesting because he lied so much, i watched some of it. i was actually able to watch some of it. he lied so much yet he said, when it came to collusion, the whole hoax with the russia collusion, just a witch-hunt hoax, very, by the way, very, very bad for our country because it really stops you from doing what you're supposed to be doing, he said no collusion. ainsley: what's your reaction? >> i think it is important what we learned yesterday was that he reiterated that there was no collusion. he said that in testimony. he also said that he had never been to prague, never been to the czech republic. i questioned him on that. number of my colleagues did, which undermines the steel dossier. that is what we saw during the hearing, reinforced what we know about mr. cohen. in the hearing, coming to the hearing he fi

and i think the only guy that perhaps won was lanny davis.en dusted off again and he's back -- >> he's a side figure on cohen's team. he's not telling cohen what to do? >> people are watching him again. >> well, you guys brought him up as relevant, that's why. but congressman, i appreciate you taking -- i think it's ironic that today you guys went through and on your wrist you have a bracelet that says "redemption." >> i believe that, and i think you feel that in my spirit. >> well -- >> i seek the truth, we all should. the vitriol and division in our nation, my friend, we must overcome. that's why i'm in your studio -- >> i'm happy to have you here. >> that's why i brought you a cold beer. >> i'll tell you what, if you wait until the end of the show, there will be a few less. >> let's get to the bottom of this. >> america needs more of you guys working to get their work done. thank you very much, sir. appreciate it. >> yes, sir. >>> ahead, cohen's warning for the president's loyalists in congress. if you don't open your eyes, you're going to

. >> cohen's lawyer lanny davis said cohen will testify before he goes to prison and davis said this, quote, the medication mr. cohen is currently taking made it impossible for him to testify this week. we believe senator burr should appreciate it's possible for mr. cohen to be in pain and still have dinner a restaurant. democratic congressman andre carson of indiana is a member of the house intelligence committee. a pleasure, welcome. >> what a pleasure, thank you for having me, brooke. >> cohen, third time. not showing up even though he is going to prison next month. how would you characterize his strategy on this. >> i don't know if it's a strategy, i think it speaks more to his character or lack thereof. we're hoping to get him before the house intel committee before he starts his prison term so we can ask him questions that he didn't seem like he was willing to answer the last time we talked to him. we're hoping he'll be more forthright going forward. >> do you feel confident he will? it's hard to say. he's proven himself to be inconsistent so we'll see. >> we saw senator burr. l

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he and his lawyer lanny davis sent a letter saying they were not going to appear at the initially scheduled testimony because they felt they had been threatened and mister cohen's family had been threatened by donald trump. donald trump pushing back on that tonight as he goes through a host of other topics. >> thank you very much. the largest fentanyl seizure ever as border security negotiations grind on word. counselor to the president, kellyanne conway, joins us. it is historic the amount of drugs we are talking about and looking at the amount of overdose is happening in this country every year this bust is historic. >> it is and when people say there is no crisis at the border, it is manufactured i point them to what was released today and the last weekend, 250 pounds of fentanyl, and of to kill 50 americans has a street value of $102 million so it is lucrative but also lethal and the cdc has reported that fentanyl is contributing to our overdose death because just 2 mg of fentanyl is enough to kill you. it's being placed into street pills, marijuana, heroin, cocaine, meth, and it is bei