jim jordan, mark meadows and matt gates. a senate republican told us it's not his preferred choice, but it won't be the end of the world. >> for the last 20, 30 years you can debate the length, we've had a bipartisan review system on capitol hill by both big government republicans and ritz carlton democrats to refuse to endorse america's immigration laws or to change them. trump's only sin is that he's enforcing the law. >> reporter: there's some bipartisan criticism from senators. maine republican susan collins said it would under mind congress and is a bad precedent. marco rubio said, we have a crisis at our southern border but no crisis justifies violating the constitution. california democrat diane feinstein says raiding federal money sun constitutional and irresponsible and they're not alone. >> we can allow partisanship to overcome, to overcome our

congressman matt gates now says it's a great thing to do. welcome back. >> happy valentine's day for everybody sad enough to be watching us tonight. >> you were concerned about this. that's a fair word. about a month ago you were concerned congressman that you don't know that this is the right way to go. now you love it, why? >> i think there's different authorities that can be utilized and i have been educated on them, specifically section 284 of title 10 does not require the declaration of a national emergency, simply the designation of the u.s.-mexico border as a drug trafficking corridor and then the president can unlock between 2.5 and $3 billion to be able to do border wall construction. additionally there's 5 to 600 million in treasury forfeitures that the president can use. these are people that did not claim their tax returns and refunds so he can use that money and then there's also north of $3 billion in military construction money that the president can use. so you can get pretty close to $8 billion without declaring a national e

happened. >> a congressional hearing on gun violence boiling over after republican congressman matt gatesested that illegal immigration poses a greater threat to the public than guns. >> i hope we do not forget the pain and anguish and sense of loss felt by those all over the country who have been the victims of violence at the hands of illegal aliens. hr-8 would not have stopped many of the circumstances i raised, but a wall, a barrier on the southern border may have. and that's what we're fighting for. >> gentleman will suspend. >> reporter: the florida congressman's claim prompting outrage from the fathers of two victims of last year's massacre at a parkland, florida high school. they repeatedly interrupted gates as he argued against a bill that would require background checks for all gun sales. and actively campaigned for a border wall. >> the greatest driver of violence in the circumstances that i indicated was not the firearm, it was the fact that we have an immigration system that allows people to come here violently. we engage in -- >> there will be no comments or demonstrations,

ht.rig matt gates is seen as one of the president's strongest allies in congre. he is a cservative firebrand. he also importantly, judy, sits on the house judiciary committee. that's not the committeehat is meeting with mr. cohen tomorrow, howeve it is the committee where impeach proceedings would begin, and matt gates is seen as someone who would be one of the most ardent defenders of the president shld impeach proceedings happen. more importantly i thire we' seeing what republicans will do tomorrow when mr. cohen testifies publicly. they are going thio assaim as a witness with no credibility. and as much as democrats askt questions abhe president's activity, the republicans will be going after mr. cen about his personal life as we have seen today and also it's interesting to see, is this a threat against mr. cohen by a member of congress? that's still being debated. >> woodrf: that's the house oversight committee where he will be testifying tomorrow many public. cameras will be there, but wen' know what more he's likely to say, do we? >> we have some reporting

judiciary committee member matt gates. always good to have you on primetime. >> thanks for having me chris. >> do you share the concern about the manafort meetings? why he was doing this and why he would lie about it and whether the president knew? >> a little early for us to tell. we need to see what the special counsel is able to produce in terms of evidence, but as you know, there's a lot of foreign agents that interact with candidates and campaigns and a lot of those were making donations to the clinton foundation. it's part of washington. it's an ugly part of washington and i think that we look forward to testing the evidence that's presented by the special counsel and whatever proceeding is available just like you like to test people's assertions on your show. >> i have a question about what you just said, but do you agree that whatever that special counsel puts out should be delivered to the american people in the majority of substance? >> i do, chris. i'm a transparency guy. and frankly i think it's silly to sugges

matt gates smarted criticism with a tweet to michael cohen on tuesday.chael cohen, do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends? she is about to learn a lot. congressman gates later apologized in a tweet to speaker pelosi saying i should have chosen better words to show my intent. they are looking to see if he violated the professional rules of. i think a reasonable person in 2019 in the context of this society, would they it fairly does. >> it is a threat all right, he said i'm going to tell everybody about your girlfriends. he didn't say who they are, but he said he was going to. it is the day before michael cohen was going to testify in front of the united states house of representatives. it matters today critically for our national security. it is witness intimidation and i heard he contacted michael cohen somehow and apologized. he is making contact with the witness one on one and that makes it even worse. he should not be contacting the wince to influence the testimony, that tampering, a federal offense where michael cohen is testifyi

. >> so congressman matt gates of florida, let's put it up on the screen. do your wife and father in law know about your friends? maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. i wonder if she will have main faithful in prison. that sounds like a significant threat that this republican congressman is now delivering directly to michael cohen via twitter. >> it's a pretty remarkable tweet. it comes after there have been concerns raised by the cohen camp that the president himself has threatened his family, threatened and engaged in witness intimidation. does this also lead to the same concern that there is intimidation that is occurring before cohen's testimony tomorrow. it is not ton houon the house ot committee. it is a ranking republican. we don't flow what jordan's reaction is to this tweet yet and whether or not he believes republicans should go down this line of questioning that gates has spoken to the president. he speaks to him some what frequently. the then acting attorney general, he called him up afterwards and asked him why he didn't attend the

matt gates of florida using the hearing to actively campaign for the president's border wall.ith some in attendance. >> hr-8 would not have stopped many of the circumstances i raised. but a wall, a barrier on the southern border may have. and that is what we're fighting for. we have an immigration system that allows people to come here violently. we engage in -- >> there will be no comments or demonstrations. >> gates' comments angering the fathers of two victims of the parkland school massacre. >> at one point a rhode island democrat posed this question. >> is there any committee rule that prevents a member of congress from reciting false statements in a committee hearing that are unsupported by the evidence,supported by the evidence, or are members of congress entitled to just make things up? >> the house judiciary committee has been hearing measures that would provide background checks on most gun sales. >>> and the planet had the foirt h fourth hottest year ever recorded. that means 18 of the hottest 19 years have occurred since 2001, a warming driven largely by increased

they were objecting to matt gate saying the problem lies with immigration and after all, their kids weret. their kids were killed by a former student of the school. what has been happening in washington and is it just -- why can't the federal government get on the same page? >> well, i think it is straightforward. the republican party has really associated itself with the nra, the nra is a really important part of the coalition that leads to republican success on election day. the republican party where as it once was opened to gun control law is completely closed off to that possibility. there is no new federal legislations because republicans have controlled the senate for many years now and without possibility of getting something through the senate. it does not make a lot of sense. >> how is the nra doing right now? >> the nra is struggling. it has seen its revenue declined significantly as best as we can tell and membership seems to be down and the nra is caught up with this russia, trump scandal in an embarrassing way. the nra is really having a tough year no doubt. at the same tim

. >> i want to combine matt gates and the threat to michael cohen. garrett i thought was right. we are in for a blockbuster tomorrow, but not in a positive way with the rules or whatever. they are gone. the naked partisanship right now that is basically -- if you are against trump, you are against the republican party. this tribalism and know we keep talking about it and talking about it, but what we are seeing between gaetz and cohen and what we are seeing here, this is tribalism times a thousand. >> gaetz is out front of this small group of house republicans. >> they are influential. >> you're right. they seem to be willing to do and say anything to defend this president. i do think what you are seeing in other areas as you tie these together, kevin mccarthy decided that's the constituency he needs to keep happy. he can't be seen in public bucking this president in any way. you had seen paul ryan basically capitulate to them as well repeatedly and it feels like we have taken another step in that direction. that shouldn't be surprising and they are a larger piece of the confere

republican congressman matt gates tried to get the parents of a murdered parkland high school student, two of them, removed. >> hr-8 would not have stopped many of the circumstances i raised, but a wall, a barrier on the southern border may have, and that's what we're fighting for. >> what i said is remember my son, remember us. then he pointed at me, like that. you don't point at me like that. >> my goodness. we have breaking news. the justice department has notified the house judiciary committee that acting attorney general matt whitaker will not, i repeat, will not appear before tomorrow's scheduled hearing if the house issues a subpoena to him. joining me now, msnbc correspondent garrett hake live on the hill. what does this all mean? >> reporter: stephanie, if everything stays as it is right now, ting means we should still expect to see whitaker on the hill tomorrow. here's how we got here. house democrats were very concerned that whitaker would choose not to show up here unless they subpoena him or if he came and declined to answer questions, they'd be stuck in a position where

ahead of his testimony, trump ally representative matt gates tweeting out a seemingly threatening messages to his family. do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends. maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. >> gates later backtracking and tweeting, it was not my intent to threaten. i'm sorry. the apology coming after a stern warning from speaker nancy pelosi that members should be mindful of social media posts that may affect the congressional hearing. >> this morning president trump tweeting from hanoi, vietnam saying that michael cohen was just one of his many lawyers who did bad things unrelated to him. he also says cohen is, quote, lying to reduce his prison time. mona kosar abdi, abc news. washington. >>> abc news will have live coverage of the testimony. it begins at 7:00 right after abc 7 mornings. we'll stream the testimony live on abc7news.com and on the abc news app. >>> we want to get back to the storm coverage and the damage it's leaving behind. many people wake up in the dark this morning. >> more than 600 pg&e customers in the south bay are without po

to the ethics commit tee of witness intimidation, tampering under u.s.c. 1512 of the colleague matt gates and it may be possibly him being referred for criminal prosecution. so i want to put that on the record. on may 2nd, 2018, the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani who was his personal attorney like you, appeared on fox news and referred to the president's row imbursment for the payment as part of a retainer. on may 3rd, 2018, one day of his appearance, the president tweeted and i quote, mr. cohen an attorney received a monthly retainer not from the campaign and nothing to do with the campaign from which he entered into through reimbursement, a private contract of two parties known as a nondisclosure agreement or nda. the office of government ethics with responsibly over what the president needs to report is puzzled by this and skeptical that a retainer was actually in place and asked to see the retainer agreement on call of may 8th with the president. the president's personal counsel sherry dylan replied she would not permit oge staff to read the agreement because it is privil

. >> matt gates posted a tweet directed at cohen, do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriendstoday is a good time to have that some call that a threat. nancy pelosi said the committee should monitor such statements. cohen will leave it up to the public. >> i'm going to let the american people decide who's telling the truth. >> copies of the opening statement indicate he will present documents and testify that presidential teared his financial statements to lower his tax burden. >>> speaking of that testimony, you can watch it on ktvu and we'll carry the hearing live beginning at 7:00 tomorrow morning. you can watch mornings on two. >>> this is the 4th day of the walkout. the march sent a message to the district. several students joined the teachers. roots international academy is scheduled to shut down at the end of the school year. >> we marched through the streets of east oakland from 98 near elm hurst to roots to trace the steps that students will have to take if they have to attend elm hurst. the teachers are calling for an end to closing schools in the district. the distr

trump after fireworks surrounding his closed-door testimony yesterday with florida congressman matt gates tweeting to your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends, maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. i wonder if she will remain faithful when they are in prison. she's about to learn a lot. he has deleted that tweet but is not backing down on his message that cohen is a liar. >> we know he lied to congress in law enforcement and the irs and three banks but he is going to prison for his lies and it will be one heck of an inquiry for us because this is someone who has tangled such a web of lies that he's not to be believed. >> reporter::will deliver a statement which reads in part, quote, i am ashamed that i chose to take part in mister trump's illicit acts rather listen to my own conscience. i'm ashamed because i know what mister trump is, he is a racist, a con man, achieved. and he will providing canadian documents including a check to stormy daniels. >> at this point in time i appreciate the opportunity that was given to me to clear the record until the truth. i wi

different fireworks with closed-door testimony with matt gates tweeting to your wife and father knowbout your girlfriends? maybe tonight would be a good time for that. i hope she will remain thankful when you are in prison. she's about to learn a lot. he apologized and deleted that two but not backing down on his message that cohen is a liar. >> we know he lied to congress, to law enforcement and the irs, 3 banks and is going to prison for his lies and it will be a heck of an inquiry for us because this is someone who has tangled such a web of lies that he's not to be believed. >> reporter::delivering a prepared statement today which reads in part i'm ashamed i chose to take part in concealing mister trump's illicit acts rather than listening to my own conscience. i'm ashamed because i know what mister trump is, a racist, a con man, a cheat. :will providing committing documents including a check to stormy daniels. >> at this time i appreciate the opportunity that was given to me to clear the record and tell the truth. i will at the american people decide who is telling the truth. >>:

. >> matt gates, republican congressman of florida, here's what he said about whether to call it a wallt. >> it may be the right reach for a thesaurus that saves us from the government shutdown or emergency declaration but if we were a business in america or nonprofit a family we would be looking for when/went out of this type of conflict. washington, both sides are so hell-bent to see the other side lose they don't help to find the when. >> if we call it a barrier instead of a walk in a deal be had? >> it is embarrassing, if you listen to experts that work on the border they say walls work. we have to stop listening to people in washington. many of them haven't been to the border. let's listen to experts, get the wall and keep americans safe. >> my last question is nancy pelosi, leader of the democrats said mister president, reopen the government and we will negotiate and she had a news conference friday and said not a dollar for the wall. he reopened the government, doesn't look like they are negotiating. >> 3-part question. part one, i think this is the political context, 60% of amer

matt gates, a fierce al liealle the president said that immigrants are more dangerous to guns.id not sit well with two parents in the audience from the parkland shooting. >> hr8 would not have stopped many of the circumstances i raised, but a wall, a barrier on the southern border, may have, and that is what we're fighting for. >> mr. chairman -- >> the greatest driver of violence in the circumstances that i indicated was not the firearm, it's the fact that we have an immigration system that allows people to come here violently. we engage -- >> there will be no comments. >> is there a process in the committee where if the very same people are repeatedly interrupting the time of the member, that they be asked to depart the committee or is there -- >> excuse me. if the gentleman repeats that or any other comment he will be asked to be removed. >> it was not an undocumented immigrant that came into the country to kill those kids, it was someone born here and went to that school. they lost their kids. i can't believe we're living in a time when someone would feel comfortable to peo

let's get the ride of that with matt gates. good to have you.president did that, how would you feel? >> the markets would prefer an executive order or an executive declaration over a shut town. so if the president has to get to that conclusion, it's a consequence of the democrats not negotiating in good faith. it was on the first day of the conference committee coming together that nancy pelosi said there would be zero dollars for any physical barrier at the border. i think it's that lack of good faith that is leading the president closer and closer to a decision to use his executive authori authority. >> neil: but it wouldn't be wise if the president did that in his address? gave the conference committee time to sort this out and have a deal to avoid that? >> he doesn't have a lot of confidence in the conference committee. >> neil: he has telegraphed that. >> if there's anything that is a trumpian moment, it's a moment that he could make the case for the legitimacy of executive action. if he doesn't take it in the state of the union, he will la

. >> that's congressman matt gates of florida.ho last night tweeted that pretty awful tweet clearly threatening michael cohen. >> alluding to unproven allegations about his private life. it was interpreted as a republican congressman very loyal to the president threatening, intimidating a witness. he first said that's not what he was doing. he was just engaging in the marketplace of ideas. then ultimately he deleted the tweet and apologized. >> that's my favorite quote of the day. >> marketplace of ideas. quite a lofty description of that tweet. >> i think if you listen to what people suspected was happening behind the scenes, again, if that's borne out by this investigation, i think it does create a kun noconundrum for a people trying to prove that the russians and the trump campaign were essentially conspireing to steal an election and defraud the american people. >> those are not necessarily mutually exclusive. >> particularly after he's the nominee. >> it's a kind of heads i win, tails you lose. if i win i get to be president

matt gates was voted as saying i inspire to be the conservative aoc. what's your reaction?them? >> i mean, you know, same advice she would probably give, like be yourself and try to stay above the fray. to actually talk about policy and have a real debate. and that's what she's trying to do. she's taking big ideas and bold ideas, things that are sweeping ideas and putting them at the forefront. if you don't have the content, social media is not going to help you. >> i noticed my colleague making the point the other day that aoc has a symbiotic relationship with her critics. they dump on her, she dumps back on them. do you and her talk about how to handle fox news, whether to go on fox news, for example? >> look, she's got an incredible, i think, ability to figure out when to engage with conservative critics and she does it every time that she can advance the conversation on some sort of topic, right? so what she'll often do, we saw the 70% marginal tax rate. we saw it with the way that fox and a lot of conservative media outlets were trying to focus on her looks and on her

trump ally representative matt gates tweeting out a seemingly threatening message to cohen, saying, quote, do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends. maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. i tywon der if she'll remain faithful when you're in prison. she's about to learn a lot. >> we're witness testing not tampering. >> gates back traging and saying it was not my intent to threaten i i'm sorry. >> president trump tweeting this morning from hanoi, vietnam, attending the summit with north korean leader kim jong-un there, saying that michael cohen was just one many of his attorneys. he says that he did bad things unrelated to trump and that he is, quote, lying to reduce his prison time. again, that hearing is supposed to start in about an hour. reggie and jessica, live in washington. mona kosar abdi. >>> we'll have live coverage of the testimony beginning at 7:00 right after abc 7 mornings. we'll also stream the testimony for you on abc7news.com and the app. >>> you're never morning seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. >> alexis and i were talking abo

finish congressman matt gates, thanks so much for being here. >> thank you, kennedy.zos is accusing the "national enquirer" and its publisher of extortion saying the tabloid is threatening to release naked photos of him. yeah. fbn's deirdre bolton joins us with the juicy details. >> i was going to say, usually i'm talking about the stock price, this is a whole different thing. so in january national inquireerer published an expose into this fair between the founder and ceo of amazon, jeff bezos, and a former news anchor and helicopter pilot, lauren sanchez. the national indefiner said it had -- inquirer said it had seen explicit photos of bezos. to bezos hired a private investigator to find out how the magazine got the texts. he's now accusing them of extortion and blackmail. he published pretty much everything himself and a list of the racy photos are included. they leave very little, these descriptions, to the imagination. all of the e-mail exchanges he also published between himself and the lawyers representing the magazine and then magazine x and himself. so he cl

. >>> congressman matt gates is under investigation by the florida bar association for his intimidatingthe eve of cohen's testimony. the florida bar tells roll call it fully investigates the words or actions of any florida lawyer that results in complaints. gates posted tuesday quote hey michael cohen do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends. maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. i wonder if she will remain faithful when you're in prison. she's about to learn a lot. he since deleted that. i personally apologized to michael cohen references hig family in the public square. let's leave the cohen family alone. >> let's take a turn here. we miss bill. >> where has bill been? where have you been? >> you just roll into work or something? alarm didn't go off? >> we've been on the air for two hours. >> let's talk snow. overnight we had seven inches in syracuse and three in boston. three in providence. there's a lot of school delays here up in areas of new england. snow is just about gone. then tomorrow we have another little mini storm that will go through washingt

michael cohen's testimony to resume in just minutes, we just learned that republican congressman matt gatesg investigated by the florida bar for that tweet he sent out regarding cohen. here's the initial tweet, quote, hey, michael cohen, your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends? maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. i wonder if she'll remain faithful when you're in prison. she's about to learn a lot. i think it's fair to call that a threatening tweet from a republican congressman and trump loyalist. gates later deleted the tweet. he apologized. the florida bar is investigating same quote. it seems the florida barbie its rules is required to investigate even the most frivolous of complaints. it is a frivolous complaints? >> no f all that happens is the florida bar investigates he's lucky. prosecutors should be taking a hard look at it. it's impossible to look at that tweet without seeing an intent to intimidate. that was the kind of stuff you would see a real life new york city gangster. there was a shot of representative gates walking through the committee. perfec

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and almost none of them ever get charged with anything should that changes congressman matt gates joinshe state of florida and he joins us tonight. am i imagining this or is lying to congress as common as the sunrising? is anyone ever charged? >> it happens daily. i thought robert mueller was supposed to investigate russia collusion now a glorified hall monitor enforcing the provisions of lying to congress. the problem is he is enforcing them unequally. i'm the justice for all act criminal referrals for only people we know lied congress. hillary clinton said she didn't send or receive classified email we know that was a lie. jim comey said he was never the source of leaked information. he later admitted that was not true even though it was the sum of his sworn testimony before congress. and you will remember clapper told all of the american people before congress that there was no bulk collection of data. the deputy director of the fbi mr. mccabe lied four times. he lied so frequently he was demoted and referred for criminal prosecution but a whole lot of these other people haven't been

on wednesday, congressman matt gates tried to hijack a house judiciary hearing on gun safety by drawingson to crimes linked to undocumented residents in the u.s. it was like getting shot with stupid. >> i hope we do not forget the pain and anguish and sense of loss felt by those all over the country who have been the victims of violence at the hands of illegal aliens. hr-8 would not have stopped many of the circumstances i raised, but a wall, a barrier on the southern border, may have, and that's what we're fighting for. >> mr. chairman -- >> well -- >> our -- >> gentleman will suspend. >> tomorrow, the president is going to el paso, texas, to hold a rally for his border wall in the one city in that state known for being safe. he'll have his crowd of fans and will do a live sit-down interview with the one fox news anchor that believes everything that comes out of his mouth. laura ingraham. be prepared for the president to use everything at his disposal to convince you of a crisis at the border. from threatening a national emergency, to calling attention to nonexistent migrant caravans,

matt gates is a lawyer. he is somebody who is on the florida bar. much higher. the people i've talked to say that's the much more troubling prospect for him, whether he'll be sanctioned by the florida bar for this as a lawyer as somebody who should know better about these kinds of things. >> one of the things that made that tweet so remarkable. what are you working on some. >> ndas and the idea that there are some people signed them and were working for the white house. my sources are telling me the white house isn't trying to influence those -- oh, i should sad enforce those ndas. why is that important? i talked to lynn patton yesterday, the african-american woman mark meadows brought. there are people are saying she's talking nice about the president and not challenging him because she's under an nda. she said it's not true, she said she was there to show the president doesn't see color. >> thank you. great conversation. >>> i want to toss it back out to you. you're in the home stretch. fantastic work. you've got the big picture. >> thank you. bac

matt gates from florida. i want to play it for context. >> in your debate with me, please don't demean or diminish the pain and suffering, the humanitarian consequences, the violence, the bloodshed that has occurred because we allow illegal aliens to come into our country, receive the veils of protection, benefit from policies of catch and release that my friends on the other side of the aisle have supported, and then come here and act like that is the great challenge of our day to deal with gun violence. >> i don't know what the hell he was talking about there. what was the point? if you care about something serious, talk about what's happening at the border, don't talk about gun violence? >> he was beyond terrible in what he was saying. we were sitting in a room full of parents, of children murdered at parkland high school and of other victims. and he tries to say that the president trump's border wall has something to do with this. it has obviously nothing to do with. we have to check reasonable background

we have congressman matt gates on tonight from florida.ally ugly scene at the house judiciary meeting with one of the parents from the parkland massacre. we'll talk to him about those things. very controversial. we'll also take on what we see coming next and why the president has good reason for worry. >> all right, chris. 7 minutes from now. thank you very much. see you in a few minutes. coming up, the president asks for feedback on his state of the union address. was it historic, great, or just good? the ridiculist. next. 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 temporarily make frown lines, crow's feet and forehead lines look better. the effects of botox® cosmetic may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness may be a sign of a life-threatening con

this tweet from matt gates. we have him on the show. i offer him a fair hearing all the time. hopefully we'll have him again today. would you write something like or do you believe this crosses the line of decorum if not legality? do you and your wife and your father-in-law know about your girlfriends. maybe tonight would be a good time for chats. maybe she will remain faithful while you're in prison. she's about to learn a lot. >> that's not the kind of thing that i would say, sir. it's reflective of the character of the man speaking and i don't claim to know the details of my colleagues statements or from wince they were born, but i can't say that tomorrow myself or my colleagues will conduct ourselves with civility and respect as we seek the truth for the american people. >> congressman, thank you very much for being on this show. it's an important night and it's important to hear from you, sir. >> good luck tomorrow on discharging your duty. there's some avenues cohen won't be able to go down tomorrow in public but there's plenty he will be able to talk about. i have a win

being rallied by conservative voices in congress like congressman mark meadows and jim jordan and matt gatesou also have a president who's at mar-a-lago talking to his allies. inside that echo chamber. a president going to his base on the border wall. the context for all of these moves, whether the national emergency, the tweets about fox news, conversations with allies in florida, it all comes back to the mueller investigation looming over his white house. a president who sees his base as the way to have a political future. to make sure that he has that core group with him ahead of 2020. >> glenn kirchner, what does this reliance on this group that robert costa talks about and the strategy ken vogel describes, sort of clouding the facts so -- i think what everyone's getting at is should he face impeachment proceedings in the house that there's a political solution to protect himself from conviction in the senate. a scenario that was described to me almost a year ago by an outside adviser to the president. what does sort of -- trump lives out loud. sometimes they think it's their best defens

this strategy to defend the president, specifically the house freedom caucus with devno he is and matt gateslot less leverage now that they don't control the house. they sort of have lost control of the investigation arm, they are sort of playing second fiddle essentially to democrats now, so their role is probably less important although they have -- they have really -- you know, they helped him out essentially by diverting while they did control. >> now, we have to ask you about former acting fbi director andrew mccabe. he had a conversation with anderson cooper last night that raised some eyebrows. listen to one of his statements. >> i think it's possible, i think that's why we started our investigation and i'm really anxious to see where director mueller concludes that. >> the question from anderson there was whether he believed that president trump may have been a russian asset or may still be a russian asset, the answer, it's possible. >> wow. >> republicans and people who defend the president say that andrew mccabe has no credibility, he's trying to sell a book, he is a liar and leake

we have congressman matt gates on tonight from florida.ot caught up in a really ugly scene at the house judiciary meeting with one of the parents from the parkland massacre. we'll talk to him about those things. very controversial. we'll also take on what we see coming next and why the president has good reason for worry. >> all right, chris. 7 minutes from now. thank you very much. see you in a few minutes. coming up, the president asks for feedback on his state of the unioned adress. was it historic, great, or just good? the ridiculist. ♪ ♪ for huge savings. like 50% off bass pro angler series jackets. and the prolite elite baitcast combo for under $50. bass pro shops and cabela's. your adventure starts here. we do whatever it takes to fight cancer. these are the specialists we're proud to call our own. experts from all over the world working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. expert medicine works here. learn more at cancercenter.com. you know that look? that life of the party look. walk it off look. one more mi

matt gates is somebody who is somebody ambitious and willing to tow the republican line on a lot of these things and this is a specific charge that a lot of people heard that i haven't. i haven't heard of this before. certainly the fact that it comes out the day before michael cohen is delivering testimony in public on wednesday is hard to dismiss as a coincidence. this is really pretty evident what he is trying to do and that is to rattle michael cohen. i don't know if donny can speak to this, but i wonder if they are keeping him off of social media over the last couple of days. this is something that can shake somebody. >> it will backfire on him because if he's loaded, i know the way he was affected by the father in law thing. calling his wife names. if you break it down to this, this congressmanship ashamed. >> i don't have evidence, the kind of which aaron blake is saying that the journalist will need before they tie a link between the president and what was tweeted, the threat. i have evidence as reported in the new york times on the obstruction of justice piece. this is about the t

should be a referral to the ethics committee of witness intimidation and tapering of my colleague matt gates and it may be possibly him being referred for a criminal prosecution. on may 2nd, 2018, the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani who was a personal attorney like you appeared on "fox news" and referred to the president's reimbursement for stephanie clifford as part of a retainer and on may 3rd, 2018, one day after mr. giuliani's appearance, the president tweeted and i quote, mr. cohen and attorney received a monthly retainer not from the campaign and having nothing to do with the campaign from which he entered in to through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties known as a nondisclosure agreement or nda. the office of government ethics which is the agency which the federal government with responsibility over what the president needs to report publicly about his assets was puzzled by this it seems and they were sceptical that a retainer was actually in place and asked to see the retainer agreement of may 8th with the president. the president's personal counsel rep

. >> matt gates walked from the room. some said yesterday he was threatening him. we know he is an ardent supporter of president trump. do we expect characters like this will do everything possible from blocking michael cohen from saying much of anything today? >> well, i think we can expect them to go on the offensive and try to attack cohen's credibility. i do think, though, though, it is it is in a trial, that is a dicey proposition, because if it backfires, if the questioner comes on too strong, and the witness appears to be sympathetic and credible, it really could backfire and bolster cohen's credibility to the detriment of those on the committee who would like to undercut his credibility. >> we are two minutes away. michael cohen, former attorney and fixer to donald trump for over 10 years. a man who put donald trump before his own family is now set to testify publicly about his interactions with president trump over the last ten years based on the draft that we've seen. you see michael cohen making his way in right now. this is stunning. sam, i turn to you.

katie hill, should matt gates be censored? >> listen, i'm glad he deleted the tweet.i don't know. maybe at this point i'm glad it's over. the president himself trying to intimidate witnesses, the fact that mr. cohen had to postpone his initial plan hearing, its ridiculous. >> yeah. a weird place we're in, that's for sure. so let's talk about today. how can your committee and the democrats on your committee be sure that we hear everything, that michael cohen has to say and we see everything that he has to show the committee with word that republicans may try and slow things down and take every step they can to do so? how can we hit everything that needs to be heard from michael cohen? >> our chairman is incredibly strategic. and so we're going to be ready for the republican tactics. each member on the committee has five minutes including the time that mr. cohen has to respond. and so we will be adhering strictly to those five minutes so it's going to go from democrats to republicans back and forth. and so we'll -- on the democratic side, we're going to do as little pre

meanwhile, overnight, republi congressman matt gates apologizing for this threatening tweet indirectly at cohen. do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends? maybe tonight would be a good time for that i wonder if she'll remain faithful when you're in prison. she's about to learn a lot. that apology coming after gates, a close ally of the president's doubled down earlier in the day. congressman, does your tweettn amount to s tampering? >> absolutely not. it's witness testing. we already knowhat cohen lies to congress and law enforcement. now we'll find out if he also es to the people closest toorte already disputing part of cohen's testimony saying that they never spoke to roger stone about the disclosures of those e-mails. of course, hovering over all of this, questions srling around russian collusion. on that michael cohen will say, well,e has no direct evidence, quote, i have mysp ions. hoda and savannah. >> kristen, hang on. we'll get back to you in a moment. >>> cohen touted h self as one of the president's trust ed advisers. kate snow has a closer look. >> michael

referral to the ethics committee of witness intimidation, tampering, under usc 15 is, of my colleague matt gates, and it may be possibly him being referred for criminal prosecution. so i want to put that on the record. on may 2, 2018, the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, who was his personal attorney like you ap appeared on fox news and referred to the president's reimbursement to you for the 130,000 payment for stephanie clifford as part of a retainer and on may 3, 2018, one day after mr. giuliani's appearance, the president tweet and i quote, mr. cohen, an attorney, referred a monthly retainer not from the campaign, and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract, between two parties, known as a nondisclosure agreement, or nda. the office of government ethics, which is the agency which the federal government with the responsibility over what the president needs to report publicly, about his assets, was puzzled by this, it seems and they were skeptical that a retainer was actually in place and asked to see the retain

referral to the ethics committee of witness intimidation, tampering, under usc 15 is, of my colleague matt gates, and it may be possibly him being referred for criminal prosecution. so i want to put that on the record. on may 2, 2018, the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, who was his personal attorney like you ap appeared on fox news and referred to the president's reimbursement to you for the 130,000 payment for stephanie clifford as part of a retainer and on may 3, 2018, one day after mr. giuliani's appearance, the president tweet and i quote, mr. cohen, an attorney, referred a monthly retainer not from the campaign, and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into, through reimbursement, a private contract, between two parties, known as a nondisclosure agreement, or nda. the office of government ethics, which is the agency which the federal government with the responsibility over what the president needs to report publicly, about his assets, was puzzled by this, it seems and they were skeptical that a retainer was actually in place and asked to see the retain

but here's that moment with congressman matt gates.ve stopped many of the yourselves would. >> mr. chairman. >> don't go. >> there will be. >> the time of the members, those people will be asked to depart the committee. >> so, catty, what -- >> we're going to have that father that you heard trying to speak on the show this morning. >> who was being pointed at. up that's just a sfwrrks he gives the example of crime and the fact is you can immediately put up statistics from donald trump's own government that show native-born americans commit violent crimes at a higher rate and are inrars kated at a higher rate than illegal immigrants. he talks about drugs. almost 90% come through legal ports of entry. we could go down the list of every argument that he's making from the al. it's all i can't be undermined by statistics from. >> migration, illegal immigration is clearly a huge issue right around the world at the in order to consolidate their own positions in power. that is exactly what is happening on this issue here. the statistics don't