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final point here, important for legal purposes, michael cohen, m one of the things he pleaded guilty to in federal court was d criminal violation of campaign finance law, that was an illegal donation essentially made to the trump campaign. >> it's in kind campaign contribution. >> so potentially, if donald trump weren't the president of the united states, if he were the campaign manager and told michael cohen to do that, there's potential legal liability.gn >> even if donald trump weren't president, there's a question of state of mind. i'm not the legal expert here. but, you know, there's definitely a question of, you know, michael cohen and now we know the prosecutors also have sort of suggested that -- or not suggested, said more strongly that the president of the united states may have committed a crime. i have to be careful. >> well, you are.d th but so people are clear what's going on here. rebeck is a davis o'brien, great reporting. >> thank you so much.in >>> with me now the vice ranking member of the house judiciary committee, democratic congressman.us i understand democrats

he said it's interesting t see -- and i'm pair praising m here --hael cohen is weak. he said unlike other people you see, which t broug mind paul manafort who we've now learned did not cooperate with prosecutors and prosecutors say paul manafort lied. so, i an, read the tea leaves there a little bit. >> i think it does show that michael cohens a much more dangerous person to preside trump the days than anybody else involved in this investigation. that's number one. but, look, think what this has done is this now calls into question anything tha congress has done. you realize michael cohen's version of eve ws used by the house republicans in their report ehatentially cleared the president. the president would use all the time as sort of propaganda on twitter. the house intelligence report, they found no collusion, they found all of this. aot of it wasased on michael cohen's testimony. now you throw that away. in some ways congress has to start from scratch, at least on the house side. >> right. unless you, as thees ent, say michael cohen's lying now, not lying then. >>

cohen: thank you very much submit. [roll call] >> i'm asking that the board today end our meeting in memory of lisa m. jenkins 40-year san francisco resident. lisa jenkins was an inventor and entrepreneur and worked with public institutions. realizing the promise of extension of wealth in community. her experience included serving as strategic planning manager and engineering groups responsible for the governance of enterprise innovation and strategic process management. she served on the board selected corporations and organizations. one of the few women of color to do so. working to help define and execute structure for 21st century firms organized for triple bottom line impact. creating place, protecting community and expanding wealth. excellence in innovation has been acknowledge and sharing of 25 patents and human interface did it acquisition and predicted system. each patent present product built and executed. her passion was found in a lesson of her parent on fairness. she said, i learned early on that you must find a way to participate, to be a catalyst for change on fairness and inclusion. at

so, michael cohen has made many state m e nts so, michael cohen has made many statements to the house't do the project, i decided not to do the project, i decided not to do the project so i didn't do it. so we are not talking about doing a project, we are talking about not doing a project. michael cohen, what he is doing is, he was convicted, i guess, you will have to put it into legal terms, but he was convicted with a fairly long term sentence on things totally unrelated to the trump 0rganization, having to do with mortgages and having to do with cheating the irs, perhaps. a lot of different things. i don't know exactly. but he was convicted of various things unrelated to us. he was given a fairly long jail sentence and he is a weak person. and by being weak, unlike other people that you watch, he is a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. so, he is lying about a project that everybody knew about. i mean, we were very open with it, we were thinking about building a building, it was an option, i don't know what you would call it, we decided, i decided ulti

now, cohen had already separately pleaded guilty to a range of other charges, including campaign finance violations for his role in paying trump's alleged m mistresses for silence before the election. the new guilty plea is different. it's with the special counsel, robert mueller. and for the first time it involves cohen admitting to committing a crime in order to cover up the president's dealings with russia. mueller revealed in a filing today that cohen even had a 20-minute phone conversation with an assistant to long-time putin lieutenant after requesting help in getting trump tower in moscow built. he denied he responded to cohen's appeal, a lie, it means the russian official told the same lie michael 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

project ended before the 2016 iowa caucus, but cohen now says negotiations continued through that year. during that summer then-candidate trump and paul m manafort insisted he was not involved in any russian dealings. >> i have nothing to do with russia. i have nothing to do with russia. >> to be clear, mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russi russian oil atkpwaurbgz. >> we could make deals in russia very easily, but i just don't want to. >> cohen discussed the moscow tower project and briefed trump family members about the prospects. the president responding to cohen's cooperation with the special counsel by attacking his former long-time attorney and insisting the public was aware of the project. >> what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. >> a former business associate of mr. trump's who was working with cohen tells cnn that one idea was to give vladimir putin the $50 million penthouse as a ha marketing employ. rudy guiliani said the president never heard of the idea and insists there was no contradiction of what was told to mueller and answers last week to written questions. even before president trump left t

cohen pleading guilty to lying to congress. and it really bringsront and center some of the m comeants that president trump made at the height of there were already allegations swirling aruut ia, he said repeatedly, i have nothing to do with russia. now his long time lawyer and counselor, mhael cohen, is saying well, that's not true. and he's acknowledged lying to ko congress. he also sat down with the special prosecutor for mtings that went on for hours. he's saying something and we don't know wh w. l be interesting to see how it all sits in. or maye that mueller may not be building. >> you're digging into that. >> you have to get into your own set. >> i know. i hav torun. >> thanks for taking time for us. >> great to see you both. see you in 11 minutes. >> okay. >> thanks, savannah. >> a heads up now if you use 66 during yourte comtoday, cracking down on drivers that break hov lane >>rules. ustin finch is live along i-66 this morning with more on that story, justin. >> well, ron, rules are getting enforced today for sure. we have counted at least three stops today in the arlington area. they're handing out fines of more than

what michael cohen has pleaded guilty to is in relation to making false state m e nts is in relationproperty deal that was proposed in moscow, that the trump organisation was involved in. you heard donald trump there talk about, i might have done it, i was going to do it but i didn't do it and it would have been a problem ifi it and it would have been a problem if i had. what this basically was was a moscow trump tower. the trump organisation was looking at building. previously, michael cohen had told a congressional committee that was looking into allegations of russian interference in the 2016 election and these claims that the trump campaign included in somewhere with russia in that. what he told that conversations about a proposed moscow trump tower, they stopped in january when he 16. —— 2016. what he is now told robert mueller is that actually committee conversations continued until summer, 2016, when presidents shouldn't —— the presidential election cabin was well under way. he also says he failed to reveal a conversation he had with officials in the comment about the proposed

time line, and again m this court filing which seems to focus on june 2016, and that is coming up over and over and over again in these court documents. we know that michael cohen was talking about trump tower moscow as late as june 2016, andrea. and what else was happening in june 2016? well, on june 9th, donald trump jr. had a meeting with the russian lawyer who was offering dirt on hillary clinton. as he was making arrangements for that meeting, donald trump sr. tweets out that he is going to have a big speech about hillary clinton and all of her wrongdoings on june 13th, and that speech never came to fruition because potentially don jr. didn't get the dirt that he was looking for from the russian lawyer and they said they didn't get anything from the dirt. on june 12th, is sorry, on june 12th, julian assange say ths th he has more e-mails damaging to hillary clinton coming out, and fast forward a month later, and you donald trump on june 27th alluding to it, russia , if you are listen, and also in the press conference, andrea, he says that i have no dealings with russia, none whatsoever, and we know that is not true, because as of a month earlier, michael c