mr. cohen, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman fromtown tfpblet mr. cohen: thank you, mr. chair. i rise today to speak in support of bipartisan amendment would increase legal services funding by $10 would i services funding by $10 million. i am willing to withdraw this amendment after my colleagues and take a brief moment to speak about legal services. i know that the ranking member, the chair, the chair and the ranking member support legal services and may be able to elp some time in the future. our justice system is the envy of the world. but it takes a professional help, attorney, to navigate it. and when you're poor, which most people don't have legal training, they are not going to compete o successfully against a private attorney. they need help. if they don't need help, the justice system is not fair. legal services ensures equal justice for the law. helps all kind of folks, military families, homeowners, renters, families with childre

quote, cohen -- mr. cohenold the times in no uncertain terms he delivered the ukraine proposal to michael flynn's office at the white house. the problem is he then told "the washington post" in no uncertain terms he definitely did not deliver that proposal to mike flynn's office at the white house. either he did or didn't. he maintained that he did and maintained that he didn't. he was clearly lying to one of those two papers. well, today "the washington post" got yet another version of that story from michael cohen. now michael cohen's version of the story is that he didn't just not hand deliver that proposal to mike flynn's office to the white house. now he's got a new story. now, quote, cohen insists to the post that he did take an unvel lope c -- envep lolope containing the plan. he threw it away. it was a trash can at the hotel. all right? a, why? and b, why is this so hard for you to remember? michael cohen worked for the trump organization for years. he was one of the trump guys trying to make the trump

. >> mr. cohen looks forward to answering all of their questions. last week the fact we would be here and you would be visiting with us was leaked to the press. >> the last minute decision to cancel stunned those asem basketballed. >> it was at the question of the senate and i'll be back and look forward to giving all the information. >> candidate truck denied doing business in russia. >> very no business and no loans from russia. >> burns out there was negotiations and build a trump tower in moscow and trump's lawyer was brokering the deal letter of intent to build the skyscraper. >> if you believe the reports about mr. cohen and the attempt to create trump tower moscow. working with cohen a russian board middle man in a letter wrote to cohen, buddy our boy can become president of the usa and we can engineer it and i'll get all of putins team to buy in on this. >> cohen did not answer questions today he did provide a written statement, disputing any allegations by president trump saying i never saw anything in a demonstrated his involvement in inte

and, we hear from mr. cohen -- mr. stone and congressman schiff. >> here we go. >> good afternoon. my name is grant smith. i am an attorney for roger stone. and ouris my cocounsel client, roger stone. we started at about 9:40 this morning and went to about 12:30 this afternoon. we took one break. members of the committee took their turns asking all the questions they had, and we answered all their questions. roger testified truthfully, honestly, and without hesitation. we spent a lot of time preparing for this. i do not believe the committee asked us in a questions that we were not prepared for. they are things you have widely reported in the past. they are things that would have been expected in this investigation. the committee is doing their job i believe clearly. everybody wants to get to the bottom of this. they want to get to the bottom of it in different ways, but they want to get to the bottom of it. and mr. stone is here to offer what he can, and we are happy to have done our part to do it. i believe the feedback we got was that mr. stone was candid and mr. stone was jovia

mr. cohen's appearance before the committee in open session at a date in the near future. big development here today is that they plan to bring cohen back, this time in a public session as opposed to a private session. also what we're told is that he says it will be voluntary. if not the committee is prepared to subpoena him. so it's a very strange turn of events here, to say the least. >> harris: you were talking about the traffic behind you. catch us up on that because you were off camera. >> reporter: sure. okay. so, ab 2:30 in the afternoon on tuesdays they have regular meeting with members of the senate intelligence committee. as luck would have it, just as we're coming into this report, some of the members are arriving for that session which is just behind closed doors in one of the secure facilities. we saw the senior democrat on the committee, mark warner, as well as the independent angus king. something they do every week. it would not be a stretch to think they're going to discuss what went down this morning. cohen is an important interview in many respects becaus

mr. cohen has been donald trump's personal lawyer for more than a decade, he knows the ins and the outs of the donald trump administration like no other. so a lot of questions they may have about how the business was run and any potential entanglements with russia. specifically, of course. mr. cohen was involved in a proposed donald trump tower building in moscow that didn't come to fruition, but was happening during the presidential campaign and wasn't disclosed until just recently. now michael cohen, in that statement today, explicitly denies in very specific terms collusion with russia. he said i have never engaged with, been paid by, paid for or conversed with any member of the russian federation or anyone else to hack democratic party computers and i have never been paid by or conversed with any member of the russian federation or anyone else to help the trump campaign or to damage the clinton campaign. but that leiaves a lot of possibilities to question him about. >> your thoughts about t

we had requested documents from mr. cohen and not being satisfied, we subpoenaed mr. n for whatever records were relevant to our investigation. it means, among other things, the president was dishonest when the president said during the campaign he had no business in russia, wasn't pursuing no business in russia. so yet another misleading statement by the administration about their relationship with russia. it is also significant because if they were pursuing business in russia during the campaign it might have influenced positions the candidate took in a more pro-russian direction. after all, if they were going to criticize putin and russia, that would diminish the chances that this deal would go through. so i think it is very significant. we obviously want to get to the bottom of it. we expect at some point we'll have mr. cohen come in and testify. we'll also expect i think mr. seder to come in and testify. >> felix seder, the man who was born in russia, was a russian immigrant, but also had been trying to coordinate this for the trump organization. just quickly on t

mr. cohen will continue to cooperate.hank you very much for being here today. >> why was it postponed? >> you will have to ask the senate. >> continuing to cooperate, why is it that it was canceled? what happened? >> that's a good question. we have asked the committee for an official explanation. the explanation that we got from a source with direct knowledge who told us the committee was upset michael cohen broke what had been an agreement not to talk to reporters before or around this meeting. cohen's camp sent out a statement last night to reporters that was embargoed until he was going to give it in this committee meeting this morning. that was enough that the committee felt like this was a bad faith deal. they sent him home. now we're going to find out if they will bring him back. you heard the lawyer say voluntarily twice. it's possible he could get subpoenaed to come back and do this again under different circumstances. >> he said voluntary and cooperate twice. they are emphasizing it's all good. why if that was th

mr. cohen was there as well. but the president did not get into specifics. but he indicated he definitely wanted to have democrats involved. we haven't been involved as yet. >> one of our colleagues made clear they would not support state and local tax reduction being eliminated as an exemption. [ inaudible question ] >> he listened. a number of us made the point we want it to be revenue neutral and he listened. so the president listened and he actively listened. we'll see what happens. i mean, this is in the hands of paul ryan much more than anyone else at this point. >> on daca, did the president say on daca whether or not he expected money for the border wall, illegal immigration, or others? >> he didn't make specific quid pro quos. >> did he specify one before the other? >> he made it clear he's got a view on immigration on the wall and security. on wanting to go to a merit-based system. he said all of that but he did not make a quid pro quo. in fact, i advocated that we not make a quid pro quo. that the d.r.e.a.m.ers are an exceptional category and that

mr. cohen is interviewed by senior editor tony ron. take on theour trump administration and competition. >> i feel compelled to say this, and brian roberts pointed this out at the goldman sachs conference last week. we love our company. post at&t acquisition and nbc universal acquisition, we view ourselves as essentially weategically complete, so are not out there saying oh my god, we have to find something else to buy. i just want to make that clear. on the other hand, we have never viewed ourselves as being foreclosed in the acquisition marketplace, either domestically or internationally, it has to be the right feel, it has to be something that we think enhances the quality of the company, enhances returns to ofreholders, has one hand shareholder value as a result of that, and i think there is no secret that overall, this president and this administration is likely less hostile to horizontal growth, or even vertical growth in the telecom space and elsewhere. >> watch "the communicators, on communicators," on c-span two. each week ame

mr. gary cohen, the president's top -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. wide i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quorum call --. mr. wyden: i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: thank you, mr. president. i'm going to take some time this afternoon to respond to the remarks of the president's top economic advisor, mr. gary cohen, with respect to this administration's approach to taxes. and let me be clear right at the outset, the president and hicksf millionaires are illustrating a middle class con job and i'm going to be very specific as to why i reach that judgment with respect to what they're saying about taxes. now the president said, i don't benefit, very, very strongly. i think there's very little benefit for people of wealth. those are the president's exact words. he also said it's not good for me, believe me, the president said in a speech unveiling the tax reform blueprint on wednesday. now unless the president pays zero tax, the president is going to benefit enormously from his tax

mr. gary cohen, the president's top -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. wide i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quorum call --. mr. wyden: i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: thank you, mr. president. i'm going to take some time this afternoon to respond to the remarks of the president's top economic advisor, mr. gary cohen, with respect to this administration's approach to taxes. and let me be clearht

i expect we will have mr. cohen come in and severtestify, we'll mr.der come in and testify. >> felix sader who was born in russia, but also was trying to coordinate this for the russian -- how to find out during those deal talks the financing and where the financing was going to come from? >> this was a broader concern and that was a whole range of else about money laundering and if there were any kind ofeither -- could be leveraged on the president's future actions. >> and congressman, you have started to get a lot of these documents that you have subpoenaed, is there an early answer to that question? was there an attempt to money lauchbder? >> that was one of the more serious allegations that we need to look at, that i think bob mueller needs to look at because anything that could exert continuing influence could -- >> special counsel robert mueller has a letter or document that appears to show the real reason why president trump fired james comey, it was a document that president trump worked on, allegedly with stephen miller, one of hiss top aides

but mr. cohen and there are others who say that, bring up an important point, the right thing to do is not repeal the estate tax, but close the loopholes. if you have an estate worth that much, you should pay the estate tax and not finding clever ways to avoid paying it. if you're rich, you pay it. god bless you, that's the american way, but pay your fair share. so, mr. president, democrats want to participate in reforming our tax code. there are lots of good things we can agree on, closing loopholes like this one, cutting taxes for the middle class, helping businesses, bringing offshore income back to the united states. we have no reconciliations, that means do it together, not how you did health care, which didn't end up with a great result. second, no tax cuts for the top 1% who are doing just fine, god bless them, and fiscal responsibility. we should not increase the deficit as we cut taxes, particularly now that we're going to have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to help the beleaguer

but mr. cohen and there are others who say that, bring up an important point, the right thing to do is not repeal the estate tax, but close the loopholes. if you have an estate worth that much, you should pay the estate tax and not finding clever ways to avoid paying it. if you're rich, you pay it. god bless you, that's the american way, but pay your fair share. so, mr. president, democrats want to participate in reforming our tax code. there are lots of good things we can agree on, closing loopholes like this one, cutting taxes for the middle class, helping businesses, bringing offshore income back to the united states. we have no reconciliations, that means do it together, not how you did health care, which didn't end up with a great result. second, no tax cuts for the top 1% who are doing just fine, god bless them, and fiscal responsibility. we should not increase the deficit as we cut taxes, particularly now that we're going to have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to help the beleaguer

and, we hear from mr. cohen -- mr. stone and congressman schiff.

mr cohen has adamantly denied meeting with russians in prague in 2016. itely in his sights is mr trump's former campaign manager paul manafort. today we heard reports that manafort was wiretapped before and after the election. in the new york times there's extraordinary detail of a raid on mr manafort‘s home. paulj manafort was in bed early one morning injuly when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his virginia home. they took binders stuffed with documents and copied his computer files, looking for evidence that mr manafort, set up secret offshore bank accounts. they even photographed the expensive suits in his closet. let's get the thoughts again of ron christie — he worked in the administration of george w bush — and today, is in london. what this shows is how aggressive this investigation is getting. no question about that. and he was wiretap before and after the election and to meet that looks as if he is intensifying his investigation and continues to move. i wonder if we will see an indictment soon.

mr. cohen, what is including in your portfolio at comcast? >> i have a great portfolio especially someone with attention and to deficit disorder. i divide my job into three buckets. administered up as hostilities, and i'll put my role as chief diversity officer as the lead responsibility, one that i am mostproud of. then i have an external affairs bucket where i have responsibilities for the way in which the company presents itself externally including corporate communications, government affairs, regulatory affairs, public policy and a bucket of strategic responsibilities that i share with brian roberts and mike cavanaugh, our cfo. that is enough to keep me busy for sure. it is also enough to make my job incredibly interesting because it is true that every day when i wake up i have no idea what will come across my desk. >> let's start in the strategic area. we been hearing a lot about cord cutting in the past several years. is the current pay tv model outdated at this point? >> i don't think the current pay tv is outdated but i think the cur

mr. cohen, what's included in your portfolio at comcast? >> guest: so i have a great portfolio, especially someone with adult attention deficit disorder. i like to divide my job into three buckets. one is administrative responsibilities, and i think i'd probably put my role as chief diversity officer as the lead responsibility, one that i'm most proud of in that bucket. then i have an, terrible affairs bucket -- external affairs bucket including corporate communications, government affairs, regulatory affairs, public policy. and then a bucket of strategic responsibilities that i share with brian roberts and dave watson and steve burke and mike caf far, our cfo. so that's enough to keep me busy, that's for sure, but it's also enough to make my job incredibly interesting because it is true that every day when i wake up, i have no idea what's going to come across my desk. >> host: well, let's start in the strategic area. we've been hearing a lot about cord cutting in the past several years, is the current pay tv model outdated at this point? >

mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to thank mr. walberg for bringing this amendment and for the bill he's proposed and senator paul as well. i think criminal asset forfeiture is one the most worst, most heinous, most despeckable, vial laws we ever put on the books. it's an assault on human beings and state governments, on states' sovereignty and on individuals having a right to their property and having a right to a hearing and being found guilty of something before their property is taken. the way it is today, the government can come in and they don't have to charge you with a crime and they can take your car or your money or whatever else they find. it is un-american a thing that ever existed. mr. walberg laid out some of the supporters. aclu and naacp and then it goes around to some conservative worlds. there are many times i found you get 360 degrees where the liberals and conservatives come together and agreeing in libertarian principles that something needs to happen. we have rand paul, keith ellison and myself, something nee

steven: i think what people want to hear from mr. cohenelationship with felix seiter, who was involved in this trump tower moscow project, why exactly that project fell apart just when the presidential race was heading into the primaries and president trump -- then candidate trump was rising in the polls, about why he sent a letter to moscow to vladimir putin's spokesman asking for help. cohen about ask well, including all the allegations in this receipt off the that has emerged as a key focus of the investigations. vonnie: is interesting than on the same day that president trump's nominee to be investor to russia was also getting heard , he took a firm stance against russia and the interference in presidential elections. there will be a lot of people weighing in on this, has there been an overt way are not overweight to stay behind? trump: i think cohen and have remained close and they have been seemingly inseparable. think they are still on the same team. one thing to keep an eye on for later this week is the judiciary committee has been

. >> now, kim, tell our audience what happened with mr. cohen.ng time trump toirn saying that famous quote that he would take a bullet for trump. >>> jared kushner issued this public statement to the press. those on the senate panel weren't too had happy about that, and they directed cohen not to speak to the press about what his testimony would be today. he chose to do that anyway, and so they promptly canceled this interview and said that they want to bring him publicly to testify before the committee in open hearing, the possibility of a subpoena was floating out there. and so he agreed that he would testify in an open hearing. so now we will have a really high profile open hearing now. i'm sure that's not what the white house wanted with this key witness. so it's a show by members of the senate committee that they're not to be played with. if they tell you to be quiet, they expect you to or there'll be consequences. >> we've heard something about privilege. isn't it going to be difficult to ask donald trump's longtime lawyer to cross that pri

the republican chairman richard burr mark warner said we were disappointed mr. cohen decided to preempt the interview by releasing a public statement. in spite of the request that he refrain from public comment. he arrived on capitol hill expecting the session to last much of the day. alleged contacts with russian officials in the summer of 2016 to a moscow real estate project that fell through. in his prepared statement, cohen said "let me be clear that i am innocent of the allegations raised against me. given my proximity to the president of the united states as a candidate, let me say i never saw anything or a hint of anything that demonstrated his involvement in russian interference in our election or any form of russian collusion." asked by fox news who made the call, cohen told reporters that was the committee. was at your request to postpone? >> what were you doing here today? >> i look forward -- i will be back. >> any separate development, reports say paul manafort was the subject of a surveillance order before and after the election. when agents raided his h

. >> now, kim, tell us audience what happened with mr. cohen.ong time trump attorney gave that quote to van flitty fair that he would take a bullet for donald trump. he was supposed to appear today. what happened and what's going to happen to him? >> well, you know, after senate intelligence committee members talked to jared kushner, if you remember that, and jared kushner issued this public statement to the press, those on the senate panel weren't too happy about that and they directed cohen not to speak to the press about what his testimony would be today. he chose do that anyway and so they promptly canceled this interview and said that they want to bring him publicly to testify before the committee in an open hearing. the possibility of a subpoena was floating out there and so he agreed that he would testify in an open hearing. so now we will have a really high-profile open hearing now. i'm sure that's not what the white house wanted with this key witness. so it's a show by members of the senate committee that they're not -- they're not to b

mr. gary cohen, the president's top -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. wide i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quorum call --. mr. wyden: i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: thank you, mr. president. i'm going to take some time this afternoon to respond to the remarks of the president's top economic advisor, mr. gary cohen, with respect to this administration's approach to taxes. and let me be clear right at the outset, the president and hicksf millionaires are illustrating a middle class con job and i'm going to be very specific as to why i reach that judgment with respect to what they're saying about taxes. now the president said, i don't benefit, very, very strongly. i think there's very little benefit for people of wealth. those are the president's exact words. he also said it's not good for me, believe me, the president said in a speech unveiling the tax reform blueprint on wednesday. now unless the president pays zero tax, the president is going to benefit enormously from his tax

mr. cohen's appearance in open session at a date in the near future. wolf, that is significant. his appearance was behind closed doors and would answer questions from committee staff and not be under oath. it appears that republicans and democrats want him back up on the hill in open session and under oath. in fact i talked to senator blumenthal from connecticut and he said it's imperative that the next time cohen appears he does so in open session. wolf? >> thanks very much. let's discuss this and more with the panel and our analyst, david gregory is with us. our national security and legal analyst and attorney susan hennessy is with us and michael is also a former follow prosecutor who was robert mueller's assistant at the department of justice. i will start with how significant the developments are starting with the wire tapping of paul manafort, the campaign chairman. >> the fact that he was the chairman shows you how aggressively the connections of being pursued and reaches to the chairman someone so close to then candidate and then president-elect trump. it's extremely sig

>> mr. cohen appears a number of times in the dossier, who appears in terms of trump tower in moscow who appears in a variety of other areas, i don't know if he or his lawyers were trying to pull a fast one but putting out a public statement in violation of our rules, we said that interview is off, we want you to come back in public. my hope is he will be back in public before the whole committee. >> i know your committee intends to hold public hearings next month on facebook and other social media influencing the election. you said this is the tip of the iceberg. do you want to hear from mark zuckerberg directly? >> it's till a debate who's the appropriate person at facebook to talk to us. we've been raising these issues since last winter. at first faicebook said there's no the"there" there. we've seen efforts to drive people to rallies. i wish facebook would be more transparent and forthcoming. >> why do you think they're not being as transparent as you want them to be? >> i don't know the answe

i don't know if trump knew anything about what mr. cohen said or did, but that's why we have the investigation. >> reporter: and i asked senator graham, do you want to hear from michael cohen as a witness? and he said, i do. so, both cohen and also jared kushner, feinstein told me earlier also, she wants to hear from him as well. a lot of these major figures in the trump orbit are still expected to come and answer questions before senators and house members in the coming weeks and months, wolf. >> yes, indeed. as you know, manu, the former national security advisor to president obama, susan rice, she was also up on capitol hill today meeting with the house intelligence committee behind closed doors. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: yeah, this was a big republican-led push on the committee. you will recall the chairman of that committee raising concerns about so-called unmasking, revealing of identities of names of officials, people connected to the trump universe who are identified in these intelligence reports. there were a lo

where they get the cash, it's not that important, and the repatriation ten years ago, i agree with mr. cohen said, it doesn't matter with corporations they brought it back from abroad and it was going to go to work in the u.s. economy. that's the important thing >> i think we'll hear a lot more about that from the president today, that made in america theme. guys, thank you, good discussion thanks, chris edwards. >>> when we return, some strong words from twitter over russian meddling in the 2016 election. plus, as sara said, the president set to speak at the national association of manufacturers pitching tax reform we'll bring that live when he begins to speak. dow's down 15. >>> post nine is sponsored by -- fidelity investments innovative ideas for serious investors. and at $4.95, you can trade with a clear advantage. fidelity, where smarter investors will always be. and at $4.95, you can trade with a clear advantage. can we at least analyze can we push the offer online? legacy technology can handcuff any company. but "yes" is here. the new app will go live monday? yeah. with hewlett-packa

mr. cohenhat so we pushed to have that committee not meet today and then later made a request to say if he is going to make a statement publicly, then let's go ahead and make public statements we will go ahead and toot hearing in public. evidence since agreed to do a public hearing on that and we'll walk through those exact same questions with him. >> martha: he was supposed to have this closed session with y'all, answer questions. he put out a four page statement saying that he had no interactions with the russian government, ostensibly that's what he said in the statement i should say. >> right. >> martha: he and his lawyers were going back and forth in the room sort of discussing what they were -- you know, what their side of it was going to be presenting this. did that frustrate all of you? >> no. it's entirely reasonable for them to be able to talk about how they are going to handle it and what they are going to do. also entirely reasonable for us to get as many questions answered as we ca

mr. cohen is introduced by rahm.r editor tony >> what is your take on the trump administration and competition? of all, i feel compelled to say this and ryan the ts pointed this out at goldman sachs conference last week, we love our company. we post at&t acquisition that universal acquisition, we view ourselves as strategically complete. we're not out there saying, my to findsurvive, we have something else to buy, just want to make that clear. n the other hand, we've never viewed ourselves as being foreclosed from the acquisition arket place, either domestically or internationally. has to be the right deal. that we something think enhances the quality of company, enhances return to shareholders, has enhanced a result ofvalue as that. i think there is no secret that overall, this if the president and this administration is less hostile to orizontal growth or even vertical growth in telecomspace and elsewhere. watch communicators tonight 8 eastern on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. ho

closed door sessions, so they cancelled the meeting and now they are contemplating a subpoena to mr. cohen unless he -- unless they can agree to another voluntary appearance. now, in that statement, though, he explicitly denies colluding with russia in any way around hacking or fake news in the election, and he says he was in close proximity to donald trump during the campaign and he saw no evidence donald trump colluded with the russians. he also specifically talked about his efforts to build a trump tower in moscow, which occurred during the primaries. he said that had nothing to do with the election, he said i was just doing my job. and the deal, obviously, didn't come to fruition, katy. >> what's this mean for cohen going forward? >> well, it's an interesting fact of life as a prosecutor that these sort of written prepared statements that can look good in writing often don't hold up when they are subjected to rigorous cross examination. and cohen's statement is in many ways very general. the type of denials that it issues, but it also doesn't cover the core of information that senate i

mr. cohen is interviewed by policy and politics senior editor.what is your take on the trump administration? >> for small, i feel compelled to say this and brian roberts pointed this out at the goldman sachs conference, we love our company. we post at&t acquisition and universal acquisition and we view ourselves as essentially strategic complete. we are not out there saying oh my god, to survive have to find something else to buy. i want to make that clear.

saw earlier this week with the letter that came out between felix saider and his personal counsel, mr. cohen, saying moscow was all in to get him elected. he is projecting a feeling that he is illegitimate as a president. the either he knows something that the american people doesn't know, and that he is desperate to cover up, and he is more than willing to bet his presidency against it. i think that's what we're having to deal with. >> that is the point. donald trump is either going to all of these great length because he's trying to keep something in his business life private or in his tax records. we know the irs is now involved. the businesses are being looked at. or he knows something about the russia gate conspiracy itself that he's trying to keep private. let's talk about that second possibility. julian assange, who we know was the conduit for the stolen dnc hacked e-mails to get to the public via wikileaks. a republican congressman from california is a big fan of russia and has been for a long time, met with julian assange, went with this blger to meet with him. now he claims he want

mr. cohen is interviewed by policy and politics senior editor, tony romm. tony: what's your take on the trump administration and competition? mr. cohen: i feel compelled to say this and brian roberts pointed this out at the golden sachs conference last week, we love our company. -at&t u know, post acquisition and universal acquisition, we review ourselves as essentially strategically complete. so we're not out there saying, oh, my god, to survive we have to find something else to buy. so i just want to make that clear. on the other hand, we have never viewed ourself as being foreclosed from the acquisition marketplace, either domestically or internationally. it has to be the right deal. it has to be something that we think enhances the quality of the company, enhances returns to shareholders, has enhanced shareholder value as a result of that. nd i think there's no secret overall this president and this administration is likely less hostile to horizontal growth or even vertical growth in the te

. >> if you believe the reports about mr. cohen and the effort to try to create trump tower moscow to me that's a relevant piece of information. we'll want to follow anyone who has got ties to russia. >> reporter: cohen will tell investigators he briefed trump at least three types about the moscow tower deal. saying that he ultimately abandoned the project because of difficulties obtaining financing and government approval. george, robin. >> all right. >> brian, let's get over to ginger with more on hurricane maria. >> we're watching that hurricane now next up would be st. croix, vi >> let's get to the tuesday trivia brought to you by walgreens. >> good morning. that was an easy trivia question. we've got some showers that are pushing in off the ocean thanks to josÉ's approach and some of these are about halfway up from the coast of philadelphia. as we take a look outside a fair amount of cloud cover around today and while we could see some sunny breaks it looks like the clouds will win out overgot. temperatures in the 60's and low

. >> if you believe the reports about mr. cohen and the effort to try to create trump tower moscow, to me that's a relevant piece of information. we'll want to follow anyone who has got ties to russia. >> reporter: cohen will tell investigators he briefed trump at least three types about the moscow tower deal. saying that he ultimately abandoned the project because of difficulties obtaining financing and government approval. george, robin. >> all right. >> brian, let's get over to ginger with more on hurricane maria. >> we're watching that hurricane now next up would be st. croix, vieques and a lot of the islands make ware wray into the hurricane-force wi you see there and they extend quite far beyond that. gusts at certain times, wednesday afternoon looks like san juan could see at least a 90 plus-mile-per-hour gust then as it passes north and east of the dominican republic, punta kana could pick up 102-mile-per-hour wind gusts and the heavy rain and other impacts. st - dry & unseasonably warm through this weekend - fall arrives f

i think the thing for mr. cohenthe you have enough agreement between different parties to have a single plan that isn't us. it has been like one party gridlock with competing ideas. they cannot come to agreement with their own party. alix: what needs to happen? peso is up more than 15%. small cap u.s. stocks have trailed european stocks by 14 basis points. wouldhought the u.s. disrupt world economy. it has come a complete circle around the idea there is low probability there will be something. it will not be that large and decisive. >> the remarkable thing is how well the u.s. asset markets of done this year. we had a lot of beachfront running on it tax return. we started off the year with a high. the disappointments, there is some underlying strength in the u.s. economy. it would be best if we use the opportunity to get that reform. it is probably quite a bit of overlap between the centrist democrats and the republicans. i think there is a possibility we could do it. markets are really not counting on anything happ

i lay out those three because michael cohen as the president's personal attorney sels a business adviser and just a general counsel to then mrump before he became president trump would be intimately familiar with the first two prongs of that. michael cohen is a notorious figure in this steel dossier, let completely unverified document that we first learned of late last year. but he was also involved in mr. trump's business dealings that have come under scrutiny from bob mueller the special counsel, who just last week actually added a 16th attorney to his team, an attorney who specializes in money laundering and financial improprietaries. clearly the senate on tuesday will be keen to get the attorney michael cohen's input on any knowledge he may have on the question of collusion or money laundering as it pertains to the trump empire. >> and does the fact that it now appears to be expanded to be involved individuals that just worked on the campaign to include individuals in trump's inner circle, professional circle, even family relationships, does it signal that the investigation is expanding in its scope? >> well, it certainl

cohen. people have short memories, scarlet, as i think you know. yes, mr. al and will stay in jail or wherever he is. so that is kind of a one-off, and people can hope that stevie cohen learned from his mistakes. as you point out, he avoided being charged for whatever reason. whether he has learned his lesson, i don't know. but one hopes that he has and is trying to perform better, without that kind of special sauce that he used to get that made his performance outstanding. maybe he has shown that he can do it without that. we will have to see. people are strange. julia: why do you think he wants to come back? financially he doesn't, does he? >> he is proving a point, absolutely. he is proving a point that he got by the government investigation, beat the wrath, and now he's back and can invest again, other people's money, and he is going to do that and show the world that he does not get is thatial information, that he was doing it in a legitimate way. lot sure he feels he is a to prove. it goes back to the old adage, why do corbyn's sting -- why do scorpion

mr. rosenstein he didn't want the fbi director and wanted him out of government, the person said. also tonight donald trump's long time attorney michael cohenill be the first trump associate questioned in a public televised senate hearing investigating the trump campaign's russia connections. michael cohen was scheduled to testify privately to the committee today, but after he violated his agreement with the committee not to make public statements, the committee canceled the meeting. join us, vice president for the national security program at the third way, and tim o'brien, executive editor of bloomberg view, an msnbc contributor. i want to go to that moment where they decide to end this meeting with michael cohen. that's happening behind closed doors so we don't know exactly what was said. but it seems to me it would have to be a bipartisan agreement, the republican chairman would have to agree to end this meeting with michael cohen. >> that's right. what you see here is on a by partisan basis, the committee being very angry at cohen for releasing a statement, something that he had agreed that he wouldn't do. and they took a very strong s

mr. mueller. >>> all of this unfolds as a current and former trump ally gear up for the role they will play in this investigation. long-time lawyer for both trump and his business, michael cohen, will testify before the senate intelligence committee tomorrow. he told vanity fair earlier this month he was taking his lawyers' advice and had not spoken to trump or his family in a few weeks, but he made his loyalty clear, telling the reporter, quote, i'm the guy who would take a bullet for the president. >>> and there is a new legal defense fund for former nsa director michael flynn who the daily beast reports is preparing for a million dollar or so legal tab. let's turn to our lead-off panel on a monday night. carolyn ryan is with us, assistant editor for "the new york times." sam stein, long-time political journalist, politics editor for the daily beast. and ranado, a former federal prosecutor who wrote this piece for politico that got our attention today, titled, how to read bob mueller's hand. he is currently a lawyer in private practice, we should add. good evening and welcome to you all. >>> sam stein -- >> yes. >> -- if manafort gets indicted, that will leave a mark. that

cohen. we will also have tom bossert up to answer questions specific to the hurricane relief efforts. --you guys are exit insistent and have other topics to cover, i will come back up. mr. cohn: thank you, sarah. openinging to make remarks, but you covered a few of them. a couple things i will say is that the president has made his goals very clear what he wants to achieve here with tax reform and cutting taxes in the united states. i think you know where we are in the process. the group of six has been working well together. we are now in the hands of congress. we want to go through a normal, regular process in the senate and the house. we are working well with both tax drafting committees. we will continue working well and quickly, and are trying to drive tax reform as quickly as we can. the basic premise behind that, you know. i will not take you through it. weuestion i get asked a lot, do need to make basic assumptions about where we will end up with the brackets. assumptions, ar typical family earning $100,000 with two children that has been --deductor, dr. can expect a text adoption of a thousand dollars. that is where we can continue to be. i will open it up to

mr. speaker, this past tuesday marked the one-month anniversary since we lost three virginians in charlottesville. my colleagues and i stand here heyer, heather lieutenant h.j. cohen and bathe of ot burke clinton, virginia. i ask that the house observe a moment of silence. the speaker pro tempore: members, please rise to observe a moment of silence. >> thank you, mr. speaker. nd i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does -- seek recognition? for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that when the house adjourns today it adjourn to meet at 2:00 p.m. monday next and the order of the house january 3, 2017 regarding morning hour debate not apply on that day. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina eek recognition? >> ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. 16 years ago today, a top of pile rubble that stood tall as the world trade center, president bush proclaimed to a hurting nation. i can hear you and the rest