mr long your party the german s.p.d. rejects the free trade agreement with singapore why the. two sides of the coin it's a quite good agreement but indeed movement is all too clear that we quest for the simple insight to what you find the sweet old saying oh level convention and this is the other side of the coin the senior police are not really committed to do so and it's about workers' rights workers rights the collective bargaining possibilities under discrimination of workers a workplace and we ask him for a long long time i myself was in singapore last year in february asking i'm sure that you are really committed to do so and nothing happened and for the delegation decided not to vote for the agreement but is it really worth i mean the advantages seem to be quite big most are expecting a ten percent increase in trade over the next five years between the e.u. and singapore is it really worth jeopardizing the agreement for those two workers' rights norms that you're criticizing it's in total of three but the most important i mentioned but we remember we want to have a twen

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mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? >> i never worked in the white house. >> that's the point, isn't it, mr. cohen? >> no, sir. >> yes, it is. >> no, it's not. >> you wanted to work in the white house and you didn't get brought to the dance -- >> i was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the united states of america. i did not want to go to the white house. i was offered jobs. i can tell you a story of mr. trump reaming out reince priebus because i had not taken a job mr. trump wanted me to at the white house -- >> mr. cohen -- >> one second. all right. what i said at the time -- and i brought a lawyer in who produced a memo as to why i should not go in because there would be no attorney/client privilege and in order to handle the some of the matters i talked about in my opening, that it would be best suited for me not to go in and every president had a personal attorney. >> here's what i see. i see a guy who worked for ten years and trashing the guy he worked for for ten years. didn't get a job i

mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? >> i never worked in the white house. >> that's the point, isn't it, mr. cohen? >> no, sir. >> yes, it is. >> no, it's not, sir. >> you wanted to work in the white house and you didn't get brought to the dance. >> sir, i was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the united states of america. i did not want to go to the white house. i was offered jobs. i can tell you a story of mr. trump reaming out reince priebus because i had not taken a job where mr. trump wanted me to, which is working with don mcgahn at the white house general counsel's office. one second. what i said at the time -- and i brought a lawyer in who produced a memo as to why i should not go in, because there would be no attorney/client privilege. and in order to handle some of the matters that i talked about in my opening, that it would be best suited for me not to go in and that every president had a personal attorney. >> here's what i see. i see a guy who worked for ten years and is here trashin

mr. trump long before i started for mr. trump in the senate. >> can you suggest who else this committee should talk to for additional information on this or anything else? >> yes, i believe david pecker, dylan howard, harry levine of a.m.i., as well, allen garden of the trump organization, as well. >> thank you very much for your testimony. mr. chairman, this is a story of redemption. >> thank you. >> mr. cohen, in your testimony you stated that you began work for the trump organization as a lawyer dealing with real estate transactions, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> prior to coming to congress, i served as the director of two different banks so i have seen hundreds of loan applications. to try to determine your credibility here today i wanted to ask you a couple of real estate transaction questions to see how in fact you operate. according to the southern district of new york prosecutors, you lied to banks to secure loans by falsely stating the amount of debt you were carrying. my question to you, was it donald tru

this is a long game he is playing. mr. kane: he sees this as the part where, of the long game where he strategically has to map out everything and sees where is it going to end? he looks at congress right now and sees it as just a dysfunctional broken place in which they're not going to get to a big, sweeping immigration border security bill. they're not going to get the -- these big campaign finance issues done. so where are they going to end up? where are they going to be decided? in the courts. so in his mindset, it's i'm going to skip to the last chapter. i am going to try to get as many judges confirmed so that as congress continues to just deadlock on every issue, the final judgment is going to come in the federal courts, and he wants to shift the balance of the federal courts to try to get the outcome his way. mr. kapur: in 2013, when democrats triggered the nuclear option to eliminate the filibuster for most judges except the supreme court, one of the -- the back story is often forgotten, which is mcconnell and his

mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? sir. >> yes, it is. >> no, it's not. >> reporter: and offering tantalizing tidbits on the russia investigation. >> questions have been raised if i know about the direct evidence that mr. trump or his campaign colluded with russia. i do not and i want to be clear, but i have my suspicions. >> reporter: cohen claimed to have been in the room when don trump jr. set up the infamous russian meeting for dirt on hillary clinton. cohen claimed he knew firsthand before the 2016 conventions, trump was aware of stolen e-mails in the possession of wikileaks. cohen claimed candidate trump continued to lie about his business dealings in russia up to the moment he won the presidency. >> mr. trump knew of and directed the trump moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. he lied about it because he never expected to win. he also lied about it because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the moscow real estate project. >> reporter: cohen claimed white house lawyers re

this is a long game he is playing. mr. kane: he sees this as the part where, of the long game where he strategically has to map out everything and sees where is it going to end? he looks at congress right now and sees it as just a dysfunctional broken place in which they're not going to get to a big, sweeping immigration border security bill. they're not going to get the -- these big campaign finance issues done. so where are they going to end up? where are they going to be and his senate republicans led a blockade of three d.c. circuit court of appeals vacancies, and essentially said we are not going to consider anybody for those three vacancies. it was an extraordinary thing that hadn't been done before. the idea a senate minority would prevent a sitting president and senate majority from appointing anybody to vacancies. the d.c. circuit has an enormous amount of authority over decisions by the president of the united states, executive action on things like climate change and regulations. mcconnell rolled that dice there.

mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? >> i never worked in the white house. >> that's the point, isn't it? >> no, sir. >> yes, it is. >> no, it's not sir. >> you wanted to work in the white house. >> no, sir. >> you didn't get brought to the dance. >> sir i was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the united states of america. i did not want to go to the white house. i was offered jobs. i can tell you a story of mr. trump reaming out reince priebus because i had not taken a job where mr. trump wanted me to working with don mcgahn at the white house general counsel's office. >> sir, one second. what i said at the time and i brought a lawyer in who produced a memo as to why i should not go in because there would be no attorney/client privilege and in order to handle some of the smaer matters that i talked about in my opening it would be best suited for me not to go in and that every president had a personal attorney. >> here's what i see. i see a guy who worked for ten years and here trashing the guy

mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? >> i never worked in the white house. >> that's the point, isn't it, mr. cohen? >> no, sir. >> yes, it is. >> no, it's not, sir. >> you wanted to work in the white house. >> no, sir. >> you didn't get brought to the dance. >> reporter: but as cohen himself pointed out, republicans did not spend much time defending the president's actions. >> all i wanted to say is i just find it interesting, sir, that between yourself and your colleagues that not one question so far since i'm here has been asked about president trump. >> reporter: the disbarred lawyer saying he owned his mistakes. cohen calling himself a cautionary tale for the president's defenders. >> and i can only warn people, the more people that follow mr. trump, as i did blindly, are going to suffer the same consequences that i'm suffering. >> mary bruce joins us live from the hill tonight. and mary, this evening the president's team pushing back hard against michael cohen, no surprise there. >> reporter: david, the president's

trump long before i started for mr. trump inenate. >> can you suggest who else this committee should talk to for additional information on this or anything else? >> yes, i believe david pecker, dylan howard, harry levine of a.m.i., as well, allen garden of the trump organization, as well. >> thank you very much for your testimony. mr. chairman, this is a story of redemption. >> tha you. >> mr. cohen, in your testimony you stated that you began work r for the trumnization as a lawyer dealing with real estate transactions, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> prior to coming to congress, i served as the director of two different banks so i have seen s hundf loan applications. to try to determine your credibility here today i wanted to ask you a couple of real estate transaction questions to see how in fact you operate. according to the southern district of new york ksosecutors, you lied to b o secure loans by falsely stating the amoudebt you were carrying. t question to you, was it donald trump's faut you knowingly comm

mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? >> i never worked in the white house. >> that's the point it is, mr. cohen. >> it isn't. >> sir, i was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the united states of america. i did not want to go to the white house. i was offered jobs, i can tell you a story of mr. trump realing out reince because i didn't take a job where mr. trump wanted me. >> mr. cohen, you worked for the president -- >> one second, what i said at the time, i brought a lawyer in who produced a mental row as to why i should not go in because there would be no attorney-client privilege. in order to handle the matters that i talked about in my opening it would be best suited for me not to go in and every president had a personal attorney. >> here's what i see, i see a guy who worked for ten years and trashing him for ten years, didn't get a job in the white house and now you're behaving just like everyone else who's got fired or didn't get the job they wanted. like andy mccabe, like james comey. that

of these catching kill episodes these catch and kill scenarios existed between david pecker and mr trump long before i started working for him in two thousand and seven like a can you suggest who else this committee should talk to for additional information on this or anything else yes i believe david carr dylan howard. barry levine of am i as well. alan weisel berg alan garton trump organizations well thank you very much for your testimony and mr chairman this is a story of redemption thank you ma'am mr comer. mr cohen in your testimony you stated that you began work for the trump organization as a lawyer dealing with real estate transactions that's correct prior to coming to congress i served as a director of two different banks watson hundreds of loan applications and to try to determine your credibility or did i just want to ask you a couple of real estate transaction question just to see how in fact you operate according to the southern district of new york prosecutors you lied to banks to secure loans by falsely stating the amount of debt you were carrying mr cohen my question to you wa

chair recognizes the gentleman from missouri, mr. long. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. legere, in my district, t-mobile has a call center that employs nearly 1,000 employees. since it opened in 2006 it has shown continuous improvement in employee retention and performance. in 2006 and 2007 it was ranked number one by a magazine as the best place to work in springfield, missouri. can you talk about the new t-mobile commitment of at least 600 new retail stores, five new customer experience krenss and 11,000 new employees on the ground and in rural areas and communities that need it the most, what effect will this merger have on jobs in my district? >> thank you, sir. i'm proud of the fact that a core component of the un-carrier and t-mobile was even changing the definition of what is a call center. away from ibr as in robotic responses and empowering those people like in springfield, missouri, to own personally customers called team of experts. what i'm doing with the merger is creating five new gigantic centers to deploy call of centers team of experts across what's goin

mr. chairman. the long-term federal fund raise is 2.8%. have saido people who that 3% is not enough to handle the next recession, and you said that is the first tool and primary means of adjusting monetary policy. with the larger balance sheet, how could you handle that next recession was a combination of those two? i guess the sense of your question is that we could be in a situation in the future, we hope not, but we could cut rates more than we can. we hit the zero. we don't think anything like that is in the cards. there is no reason to think it would be. as we said in today's release, if that happens, we'll use the full range of our tools and that includes the balance sheets. but we would use it after using our conventional tolls, which would be the interest rate and forward guidance about the interest rate. reporter: [indiscernible] mr. powell: yes. there would be room to do substantially more. i just wanted to go back to come at you mentioned on the cross current, the government shutdown issue. you mention a couple of weeks ago the

mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? >> worked in the white house. that is the point, is it. >> no sir. >> yes it is. >> you want to work in the white house but you were not brought to the dance. -- >> i was extremely proud to be the personal attorney to the president of the united states of america. i do not want to go to the white house. i was offered jobs come i can tell you a story from reading out ryan plebe as because i had not taken a job where he wanted me to working with don again at the white house >> you work for the president >> one second when i said at the time and i brought a lawyer in who produced a memo as to why i should not go with him because there would be no attorney client privilege in order to handle some of the matters i talked about in my opening that it would be best suited for me not to go in and every president had a personal attorney. >> here's what i think. a guy works 10 years and trashing the guy you work for for 10 years. he didn't good job the white house. now, you are behaving just like everybody else who got fired

mr. cohen, how long did -- how long did you work for donald trump? >> approximately a decade. >> ten years? >> that's correct. >> and you said all these bad things about the president in the last 30 minutes, and yet you worked for him for ten years? all those bad things, i think, if it's that bad, i can see you working for him for ten days. maybe ten weeks. maybe even ten months. but you worked for him for ten years. mr. cohen, how long did you -- how long did you work in the white house? >> i never worked in the white house. >> that's the point isn't it? >> no, sir. >> yes it is. you wanted to work in the white house. >> no, sir. >> you didn't get brought to the dance. >> i was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the united states of america. i did not want to go to the white house. i was offered jobs. i can tell you a story of mr. trump reaming out reince priebus because i had not taken a job where mr. trump wanted me to which is working with don mcgahn. >> you worked with the president -- >> sir, one second. what i said at

mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? >> i never worked in the white house. >> that's the point, isn't it? >> no, sir. >> yes, it is. >> no, it's not sir. >> you wanted to work in the white house. >> no, sir. >> you didn't get brought to the dance. >> sir i was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the united states of america. i did not want to go to the white house. i was offered jobs. i can tell you a story of mr. trump reaming out reince priebus because i had not taken a job where mr. trump wanted me to working with don mcgahn at the white house general counsel's office. >> sir, one second. what i said at the time and i brought a lawyer in who produced a memo as to why i should not go in because there would be no attorney/client privilege and in order to handle some of the smaer matters that i talked about in my opening it would be best suited for me not to go in and that every president had a personal attorney. >> here's what i see. i see a guy who worked for ten years and here trashing the guy

this is the long game he is playing. mr. kane: he sees it as the part of the long game where he is to strategically map out everything and see where it is going to end. he looks at congress right now and sees it as a dysfunctional which, they, and are not going to get to a big sweeping immigration border security bill. get theseot going to big campaign-finance issues done. where are they going to end up? where are they going to be decided in the courts? where are they going to be decided in the courts? in his mindset it is i am going to skip to the last chapter and get as many judges confirmed so as congress continues to deadlock on every issue the final judgment is going to come in the federal courts and he wants to shift the balance of the federal courts to try to get the outcome his way. mr. kapur: in 2013 when democrats triggered the nuclear option to eliminate the filibuster for most judges except the supreme court, the back story is often forgotten which is that mcconditional and his senate republicans led a blockade of

mr. thornily, long time, no see. >> yeah, good to be back. again, andy thornily with the transportation agency. the item is similar but different. a piece of napoleon street near the creek south of chavez street. the department of public works burr burree o of -- bureau of urban has asked for a portion of napoleon which is often congested when workers come they can't find parking and a lot of the problem is long-term parking and a lot of that long-term parking is large vehicles some of which may be inhabited. we have been working with director kaczynski's team to reach out and connect to folks living in those vehicles. there's a larger ongoing encampment challenge in that part of the city sidewalk and open space tent and improvised struck our and the homeless team have been working in the area and the vehicular aspect is further to that. there's not a special effort on connecting with vehicularly housed folks. in this case, to director brinkman's questions on tools we bring forward, because this is not a residential neighborhood and because i

mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? never worked in the white house. >> that's the point, isn't it mr. cohen? >> no, sir. >> yes, it is. >> reporter: with president trump occupied in vietnam, it fell to his sons to keep a running commentary on the hearing. donald trump, jr., tweeting: >> reporter: cohen claimed their father repeatedly said racist things. >> and he told me that black people would never vote for him, because they were too stupid. >> i've talked to the president over 300 times. i've not heard one time a racist comment out of his mouth in private, so how do you reconcile it? do you have proof of those conversations? >> i would ask you to-- >> do you have tape recordings of those conversations? >> no, sir. >> well, you taped everybody else, why wouldn't you-- >> that's also not true, sir. >> reporter: one of his non- answers is revealing, too. answers was revealing, too. >> is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we haven't yet discussed today? >> yes, a

mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? >> i never worked in the white house. >> that's point, isn't it, mr. cohen? >> no, sir. >> yes, it is. you wanted to work in the white house. >> no, sir. >> you didn't get brought to the dance. >> i actually think it was a sad day for america. anytime that you have the president dragged through the mud that way it hurts our democracy. >> reporter: how worried should the president be? >> michael cohen was very specific in what he offered today. if the dots are connected, it could create a strong case for a criminal investigation if not impeachment. >> reporter: today's hearing was almost a split-screen moment. the president off being a statesman while his former lawyer brought up a wide variety of issues. the hearing offered tantalizing tidbits on the russia investigation. >> questions have been raised whether i know direct evidence that mr. trump or his campaign colluded with russia. i do not. and i want to be clear. but i have my suspicions. >> reporter: cohen claimed to have been in

mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? >> i never worked in the white house. >> and that's the point, isn't it, mr. cohen? >> no, sir. >> yes, it is. >> no, it's not, sir. >> you wanted to work in the white house. you didn't get brought to the dance. >> reporter: after that dr. darrell scott accused cohen of once again lying under oath writing on twitter that he begged me repeatedly to ask the president to give him a job in the administration and knowing full well that the president was likely watching in vietnam, cohen made this claim. >> mr. trump tasked me to handle the negative press surround his medical deferment from the vietnam draft. he finished the conversation with the following comment. do you think i'm stupid? i'm not going to vietnam. >> and in his closing remarks he made a bold prediction about what he said may happen if president trump loses in 2020 saying, quote, there will never be a peaceful transition of power. >> all right, well, let's turn now to the questions that michael cohen was not able to answer.

mr. scott? the real truth. tell them that my cabin is a refuge for radicals. how long would tuskegee last?ink what they will for the moment. this too shall pass. >> but as america moves further away from reconstruction, black aspirations for equal citizenship are increasingly repressed. booker t. washington's optimism is no longer acceptable to many of the nations black intellectuals. he denounces washington's failure to confront southern segregation. on july 30, 1903, a confrontation with washington comes to pass. they call it the boston riot. it becomes a shouting match. washington is silent, detached from the turbulent scene. police storm into the auditorium. panic follows. men are dragged from the church and arrested. across the country, it is front page news. they make the public aware that there were serious negro opposition to washington's policies. the press couldn't ignore this event. i'm sure they would like to. they were forced to publish trotter's opinions. people saw that his criticisms were valid. he served a 30 day jail sentence. there was a feeling that washington and scott

mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? er worked in the white house. >> that's the point, isn't it, mr. cohen. that's the point. >> no, sir. >> you didn't get brought to the dance. >> i was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the united states of america. i do not want to go to the white house. i was offered jobs. i can tell you a story of mr. trump reaming out reince priebus because i had not taken a job working with don mcgan at the white house general counsel's office. what i said at the time and a brought a lawyer in who produced a memo as to why i should not go in because there would be no attorney-client privilege and in order to handle some of the matters i talked about in my opening, it would be best suited for me not to go in and every president had a personal attorney. >> here's what i see. i see a guy who worked for a guy he trashed for 10 years and didn't get a job in the white house and now you're behaving like andy mccabe and james comey. same selfish motivation after you don't get what

brexiteers are guilty of this, because it seems that they are prepared to accept any deal, forged by mrs may as longthe backstop is recast. so, yes or no on whether you think it's recastable, and that she can get something passed europe. i think the primary role of the backstop is to avoid a hard border on the islands of ireland and i think this is particularly important. i spent time in belfast recently and i've seen the wall separating irish nationalist and loyalist communities, curfews are still in place and there is every possibility of hostilities resuming if a hard border is returned. michael, we have had two pessimists about the week we've just seen in westminster, one relative optimist, where do you sit? it's interesting, i know we don't remember anything anymore. past the tweet we sent out, but two weeks ago, i was down in parliament on the night of the big vote when theresa may got defeated. a historic defeat. more than any kind of parliamentary form of democracy, that is a resignation moment. she's got to go. here we are, two weeks later and everything is fine. she came into parliament, s

been democratically and has been transparent and fair and real coup has been taking place long before one minister mr maduro decided to virtually take all the powers screwballs the polls from that body and implemented own body which was not democratically elected and then initiate a presidential elections which were not under international observation which are quite frankly oil letting all standards of international law and the electoral law so we are recognizing the choice of the venezuelan people and the very constitution of gifts that body the responsibility in case that the president is not longer able or justifiably in this or in his office to assume the responsibility so i think what is needed right now is a real and concrete step in order to make sure that this country goes back to normal that the situation which is devastating in terms of the humanitarian situation is going to be addressed and that we have free and fair presidential election and that is something that mr ahmed. must accept and i think that is really the point here let's talk about this meeting and that took place in in europ

minutes of an opening statement where you trashed the president of the united states of america mr cohen how long did how long did you work for donald trump. possibly a decade ten years that's correct and you said all these bad things about the president there in that last thirty minutes and yet you worked for him for ten years all those bad things i mean it's dad that i can see working for him for ten days maybe ten weeks maybe even ten months if you work for him for ten years. because how how long did you ah how long you work in the white house i never worked in the white house that's the point isn't as you call it no sir yes it is no it's not so you wanted to work in the white house no certain get brought to the dance certain now i was extremely proud to be a personal attorney to the president of the united states of america i do not want to go to the white house i was offered jobs i can tell you a story of mr trump reaming out running to previous because i had not taken a job where mr trump wanted me to which is working with don mcginn at the white house general counsel as well and you work f

mr. trump's former long time lawyer and fixer michael cohen who is set to testify publicly on capitol hill next week. the stage is set for a high ith the "new york times" first reporting friday that cohen told prosecutors about possible irregular business dealings within the trump family business. according to the "times," it is an indication that prosecutors are interested in matters at the trump organization that go beyond its role in the illegal hush payments made to women before the 2016 election who claim to have had affairs with mr. trump. cohen pleaded guilty to arranging the payments in violation of campaign finance laws. he is due to start a three year prison term in may. >> and we're still waiting for the sentencing memo for paul man forth fort. what is the latest on that? >> we expected to's it overnight, but it was not publicly released. a judge ruled that manafort lied about his communications with a former business associate with alleged ties to russian intelligence named konstanin kilimnick. prosecutors say the relationship goes to the heart of what the special counsel's off

mr. cohen how long did you work in the white house?" michael cohen/former attorney for president trump: "i never worked at the white house." rep. jim jordan/r- ohio: "and that's the point, isn't it mr. cohen?"michael cohen/former attorney for president trump: "no sir."rep. jim jordan/r- ohio: "yes it is."michael cohen/former attorney for president trump: "no sir."rep. jim jordan/r- ohio: "you wanted to work in the white house, you didn't get brought to the dance."michael cohen/former attorney for president trump: "i did not want to the white house." sources tell cnn cohen did want to work at the white house.republicans pressed cohen about if he was planning to make money off all of this. rep. mark green/r- tennessee: "what is your source of income in the future?"michael cohen/former attorney for president trump: "i don't expect i'm going to have a source of income when i'm in federal penitentiary."rep. mark green/r- tennessee: "is there a book deal coming or anything like that?"michael cohen/former attorney for president trump: "i have n

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mr. cohen, how long they do work for donald trump? mr. cohen: approximately a decade. rep. jordan: 10 years? mr. cohen: correct. rep. jordan: you said all those things in the past 30 minutes about the president yet you work for him for 10 years? if that is bad, i could see you working for him for 10 days, maybe 10 weeks, maybe 10 months, but you work for him for 10 years. mr. cohen, how longer do work in the white house? mr. cohen: i never worked in the white house. rep. jordan: and that is a point, isn't it, mr. cohen? mr. cohen: no sir. rep. jordan: you wanted to work in the white house? mr. cohen: i was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president. i did not want to go to the white house. i was offered jobs. i can tell you a story of mr. trump reaming out reince priebus because i had not taken a job where mr. trump won mho, working with don mcgann at the white house general counsel's office. second. what i said, and i brought a lawyer in, who produced a memo as to why i should not go in, because there would be no attorney-client privilege, and in order to han

mr. cohen, how long did you -- how long did you work in the white house? >> i never worked in the white house. >> that's the point, isn't it, mr. cohen. >> no, sir. >> you wanted to work in the white house. you didn't get brought to the dance. >> and it's worth noting that cohen is testifying under different circumstances than before when he had lied to congress because since then he's been cooperating in federal investigations. so if what he said today contra dicts what he told investigators, he's going to face the potential of a longer prison sentence for perjury. cohen will be back on capitol hill tomorrow testifying before the house intelligence committee behind closed doors. >> pamela brown, thanks very much. >>> let's bring in our political and legal experts. gloria borger, michael cohen says donald trump is a racist, a con man and a cheat. what was the most damaging? >> there were two parts to this testimony. i think all of it was damaging, quite honestly. one was his personal narrative about who donald trump is. cohen said i knew him because i worke

mr. cohen, how long did you -- how long did you work in the white house? ever worked in the white house. >> and that's the point, isn't it, mr. cohen? >> no, sir. >> yes, it is. >> with president trump occupied in vietnam, it fell to his sons to keep a running commentary on the hearing. donald trump jr. tweeting, "ha ha ha ha, michael cohen begged to work at the white house and everyone knows it." cohen claims their father repeatedly said racist things. >> and he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid. >> i've talked to the president over 300 times. i've not heard one time a racist comment out of his mouth in private. so how do you reconcile it? do you have proof of those conversations? >> i would ask you -- >> do you have tape recordings of those conversations? >> no, sir. >> well, you taped everybody else. >> that's also not true, sir. >> reporter: one of his nonanswers was revealing too. >> is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we haven't yet discussed today