so mr. cohen is concerned that when you're labeled a rat, and you're in a federal prison, there could be some danger from other people. but more importantly, i know personally, i know his love for his family. i have seen this love for his wife, his children, his parents, his father-in-law and mother-in-law. they have expressed fears. and what i'm trying to convey, and nobody, nobody that i've heard can defend donald trump attacking the father-in-law and the wife and the family as having anything to do with his unhappiness with mr. cohen's decision to tell the truth. and even more so, the unhinged rudy giuliani who has committed a crime that if he were still u.s. attorney, he would be prosecuting. there's more than enough probable cause here, as you've heard from others. so i would say that mr. cohen is concerned for himself. but the decision to suspend or postpone testimony, not cancel, is a decision that he was more concerned about what his family told him about their fears than himself. >> what

praised mr. cohenooperation even the southern district of new york prosecutors praised him for being credible and the judge did as well. i'm hoping, yes, the answer to your question is that by looking at the actual length of the sentence, he's taken responsibility to all of the crimes he confessed to. but the lengzth of the sentence to me together with his testimony and his commitment to the truth. and let me remind your audience, he already said he would not accept a pardon from donald trump if it was offered and i am sure it won't be offered. he's committed to the truth and the michael cohen truth fund, i have to give that a plug again. it is about helping him and his family as he goes off to prison for now a three year term that i hope will be reduced. >> i think there is two ways to look at. that one is you're doing your job, advocating for this individual you represented and he and his family have a great personal interest, obviously, in any potential reduction of the sentence. the other way to lo

we expect mr. cohen to appear before both committees and we remain engaged with his counsel about his up comincoming appear. they say not testifying is not going to be an option. shepard. >> shepard: more ahead on the historic fight over the state of the union address and the parent fall of a socialist government. venezuela in turmoil. today a new man steps to the podium before the screaming masses and proclaims i am the new leader. moments later, president trump and canada's prime minister back him. turmoil in venezuela. plus, they live where the sun don't shine. at least not since november. today is first light. that's coming up as reporting continues on a very busy wednesday afternoon. i'd like to take a moment to address my fellow veterans, because i know so many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan for up to 100% of your home's value. if you need cash for your family, call newday usa. with automatic

i am authorized to say that a subpoena is very serious and mr. cohen respects the senate intelligence committee. he has already owned up to the fact that he lied about one issue, to conform history to what he understood mr. trump wanted him to say. and that was a lie. and he's owned up to it. he's going to prison because of it. and the same thing in the house. but i can't tonight commit to anything before we engage if some reasonable conversations. i'm not a criminal defense lawyer. so it will have to be another lawyer that will be joining me. >> unstood. stay with me, lanny. congressman, we turn to you. is that good enough or in the view of the house does the subpoena mean within a reasonable time and before this individual reports to incarceration? >> well, subpoena means a spvenlt i'll leave that to mr. schiff and mr. cummings. but if i can talk to mr. cohen, i would talk to him just like i would talk to any gang witness that i worked with as a prosecutor. i would say, mr. cohen, you have already done the hard part. you've broken away from the mob.

we want to give mr. cohenmple time to tell his story and respond to queries and i think that will take some time. how quickly are you guys to going to calling other related witnesses to the things that cohen testifies to? is this just a one off or is this r part of a larger probe that oversight will lead here and what does that look like? >> i think it is be part of what he says. there may be thinks that have to be referred to other committees, it may be other things that we want to follow up with. and we have to coordinate all of that with the special prosecutors so we're not compromising his ongoing criminal investigation. so i think that is yet to be determined. a lot of it determined by the testimony itself that we hear on the 2nd of february. >> you represent fairfax county. i'm not going to say you have the most government workers, but you're one of the top five. at this point would federal workers be relieved if the president just declared that national emergency and just -- this fight was punted and th

attorney and i put different questions to different people and i put to him some of what you and mr. cohen have suggested about that office and whether it was potentially unduly harsh to mr. cone and i want to play for you the response of what he said. >> they treat everybody the same. and if you want to come in and cooperate, you better give up everything you did. if you stole a candy bar, you bett better tell them about it and if you don't, it will not work out for the corporation and that is an ironclad rule and if you bentd -- if you bend it for cohen then you have to bend it for everybody. and they won't do that. >> and they would have been bending to give cohen any less because it wasn't full cooperation. i give you the benefit of responding. >> look, i never doubted the sincerity of the prosecutors. they made the call that a 3-year sentence was justified when there are people who have not paid $18 million and $20 million in taxes such as floyd mayweather, a very small percentage of tax are criminal, they are settled civilly. the bank so-called false statement was made on a home equi

mr. cohen's testimony. we don't know if it is true, of course. e, of course, are saying that this is a matter of the gravest legal urgency. >> michael cohen as far as we know is still planning to testify, but sources telling cnn he is concerned for the safety of his family. do you have any indication that he may not appear? >> i have no reason to think he won't appear. we would clearly do whatever we can within our power to make sure that he is secure and safe when he comes to capitol hill. i don't know what other provisions can be made to guarantee his safety. i have never seen a situation like that before at least since i have been in congress. obviously, we would do whatever we can to make sure that no witness who appears before the u.s. congress suffers any kind of retaliation. >> as we look at all of this, your democratic colleague tweeting if the story is true president trump must resign or be impeached. you taught constitutional law. if the president did tell michael cohen to lie to congress, is that an impeachable offense in. >> bill clint

mr. cohen and mooims. we do not deny or confirm, we're just not commenting on the story and i'm adding today another comment. he had nothing to do with the writing of this story. he didn't initiate the story. it was done by independent reporting. the story stands on it's own. mr. cohen under guidelines that he has discussed with the special council, 70 hours aof meetings, it does not have anything to do with the special council including to story. >> in fairness you have corrected stories that were false before involving michael cohen, but now you're choosing not to, is there anything to correct in the story. >> i can't help you on that, chuck. i'm just going to say read the story and they have written about their sources and other corroborating evidence, and i can't confirm anything. i have no independent knowledge by the way. mr. cohen's conversations with mr. mueller, i did not attend those meetings, so i can just tell you what we came up with last night which is simply a no comment. >> when

period. >> when you look at that and this pressure, then, what do you say to a witness in mr. cohen who now publicly a little the president of the united states is trying to silence him and threaten him out of talking? >> well, nobody knows donald trump better than michael cohen. it says a lot that he is fearful for his family's safety and he's fearful for his own. so you know, i would say to mr. cohen, we will protect your safety. this is the united states. we will protect your safety. come before congress. testify truthfully. >> what do you say to his father-in-law who we just showed the lawyer for the president of the united states rudy giuliani alleging some kind of potential legal exposure for him? >> that amounts to witness intimidation in my opinion. he's trying to, again, shift the focus from mr. cohen's testimony to the father-in-law on an extraneous case. that has nothing to do with what happened between michael cohen and donald trump regarding the moscow tower. so that's what we want to find -- we know that michael cohen's testimony is contrary to what president trump sai

>> i guarantee you, as sure as night becomes day and day becomes night, that we will hear from mr. cohenoming up, michael cohen's adviser lanny davis joining me live right here, right ahead. >>> and the real world. the

my understanding is the family of mr. cohenry upset and concerned by the climate, the toxic climate trump has created for mr. cohen and discouraged him strongly from testifying on open session. >> the irony is you have rudy giuliani bringing up the idea that the father-in-law may be involved in organized crime. and again, he's working for donald trump, you know, who knows a thing or two about new york real estate. do you believe that the president or rudy giuliani, that they've actually engaged in witness tampering, because that's obviously something specific and legal. >> if they haven't crossed that line, they've come perilously close. and their behavior ironically when they're talking about the mob looks a lot like how mob behavior looks like. and it's a shameful moment for the presidency of the united states. >> congressman conally, if you would just stay with us. i'm joined by jeff toobin and gloria borger and dana bash. i know they also have some questions for you. jeff? >> should mueller investigate the president for thi

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mr. cohen's continued cooperation with ongoing investigations, by advice of counsel mr. cohen's appearance will be postponed to a later date. this is a time where mr. cohen had to put his family and their safety first." last week on this network davis made a similar accusation. >> there's only one person in the country, one president in our history, that would threaten family as a tactic to make fear of somebody he calls a rat for telling the truth. and that's president trump. >> today the president weighed in on this. >> i would say he's been threatened by the truth. he's only been threatened by the truth. and he doesn't want to do that probably for me or other of his clients. he has other clients also, i assume. and he doesn't want to tell the truth for me or other of his clients. >> just to review here, michael cohen has already pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations which he says occurred under trump's direction. he admitted to lying to congress about the trump tower negotiations. but in recent weeks the president has suggested cohen's family members be investi

impeachment i think we can expect the chairman of the house judiciary committee to shoe a subpoena after mr cohen testifies asking that mr trump under oath rebut anything that mr cohen may have alleged is because of the case that is cohen's were against donald trump i mean who decides who to believe. well that's true but i worked through in the watergate impeachment and there was a lawyer and john dean was president nixon's lawyer and it was john dean's word against president nixon and then we had the nixon tapes as well but ultimately it was john dean that was believed more credible even though he was a convicted felon and that's what we have with mr cohen moreover the media has documented literally thousands of flagrant lies that mr trump has told from the beginning of his inauguration including things relating to this particular investigation he's given several different versions of why you fire james kone told me he has stated that a june two thousand and sixteen meeting with the russians was over adoptions when it was over getting dirt on hillary clinton anyway the american people will have

what mr cohen is testifying to if it's true from buzz feed is that a crime to which he is already pled guilty lying to congress was really part of a conspiracy with the president to mislead and frustrate the oversight function of the legislative branch. that clearly in my judgment would be a high crime and misdemeanor justifying impeachment based upon articles of impeachment voted against richard nixon and william jefferson clinton i remember this is a case where the president is alleged now to obstruct in the functioning of a co-equal branch of government it's not necessarily a payoff to a porn star but this goes to the heart and soul of our separation of powers an institutional integrity here and that is what i believe makes it far more likely to push an impeachment i think we can expect the chairman of the house judiciary committee to issue a subpoena after mr cohen testifies asking that mr trump under oath rebut anything that mr cohen may have alleged and donald trump is blaming the u.s. government shutdown off to he counseled sending an american delegation to next week's well to e

mr. cohened to testify before the house oversight committee on february 7th, due to ongoing threats to his family from president trump and mr. giuliani as recently as this weekend as well as mr. cohen's continued investigation, by advice of counsel, by advice of counsel, mr. cohen's testimony will be postponed, he thanks mr. cummings for allowing him to appear before the committee. this is a time when mr. cohen had to put his family and their safety first. that is the statement. let's go now to michael smerconish. what's your reaction to that? >> it would have been high on that the ricks, brianna. i don't know if it had transpired as planned or if it would have been substantive and it would be must-watch television, that's for sure. i am more surprised by the stated rationale. i am more surprised by the threats against the family than i am that this was looked at with displeasure perhaps by the investigators and not just mueller and also the southern district who continue to look at the adminis

there are other witnesses that mr. cohen would probably tell us about, and i would suspect they would then be called in for further questioning. >> how do you ensure that what your committee is doing now in the way you're launching these investigations one way after another, does not fall victim to the accusations that others were making when it was being -- when that committee was being ruled by republicans and going after hillary clinton's e-mails and what many thought were trumped up political investigations. >> i think we have to remember why the american people hired us to be in the majority. they want us to act as a check and balance on the president and the administration. there was no oversight. we will have to deal with drug prices and other pocketbook items that hopefully we can come together on and make progress. >> as you know there subpoena a lot of drama between the white house and speaker pelosi. she is holding firm, she told the president there will not be an address if the government is still shut down. here

mr. cohen. period. >> pelosi shuts the door on president trump. and the president's family says suck it up. >> it is a little bit of pain but it's going to be for the future of our country. >>> the latest 2020 hopeful. >> the corruption, fighting, lying, the crisis, it's got to end. >> exclusively when "all in" starts now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. president of the united states appears to have successfully intimidated a witness from testifying before congress and the country in a investigation centered on the president's own misconduct. mr. cohen has indefinitely postponed his appearance before the houses oversight committee siting threats against cohen's family. that hearing was set to be the american public's first ever opportunity to hear sworn testimony about the president's hush money payments, efforts to build a trump tower in moscow and the ensuing cover up. ever since cohen was sentenced for lying to congress about the moscow project and other crimes, the preside

yesterday, mr cohen postponed a public appearance before the house oversight committee, claiming thatis family. it's not yet clear how mr cohen will respond to the new subpoena from the senate intelligence committee. mr cohen is due to begin a prison sentence in march after being convicted of campaign finance violations. the doomsday clock is to remain at two minutes to midnight for the second consecutive year. its creators, the us—based bulletin of the atomic scientists, say that the major existential threats of nuclear weapons and climate change leave the world dangerously close to an apocalypse. climate change is redrawing the map of the arctic, according to scientists meeting in norway. in what researchers claim is the first sign of a major modern climatic shift, they say the barents sea, which has been part of the arctic ocean for 12,000 years, is being swallowed by the atlantic. from the norwegian arctic, our environment analyst roger harrabin reports. sea ice, formed in the high arctic. it helps create a cold, fresh surface layer that acts as a cap on warm, saltier waters benea

impeachment i think we can expect the chairman of the house judiciary committee to issue a subpoena after mr cohen testifies asking that mr trump under oath rebut anything that mr cohen may have alleged. doldrums blaming the u.s. government shutdown of all counseling next week's trip by the american delegation to the world economic forum in switzerland he's also script a planned visit by overseas house speaker nancy pelosi she suggested trying to delay his plans state of the union address if the longest u.s. government shutdown in history doesn't this week the deadlock between trump on the democrats is over building a wall on the border with mexico it's twenty. this senseless shutdown is inflicting great pain and every part of our country every day the impact spread impacts spread reaching the lives of hardworking americans these are the people who deliver services. to the american people we should respect what they do for our country many of them are veterans who have translated their military patriotism meant to civilian patriotism working for the government. what with all of this going on trump

i am all for a public meeting in which mr. cohen can testify.hink he's probably getting past and dealing with the concerns, the safety concerns i think he legitimately feels. i don't think we have to preclude one or the other. i have no problems starting with the fact that we're dealing with classified material. >> yes, sir. i think that makes a lot of sense. let me make sure i'm layering you right. are you saying this could be a prelude to michael cohen testifying in public before he reports to his prison term? >> i don't know the whens. i certainly encourage them to do that. they're pushing against a lot of forces here. and i think the most extraordinary one is the fear that mr. cohen's family feels, which is beyond comprehension that it's coming from the white house. so i wouldn't -- i wouldn't tell the american public you're not going to hear much from mr. cohen. i am confident he will testify in an open hearing. i think he'll begin with this closed hearing that is critical information about how finances worked and how money was funneled thr

we expect mr. cohen to appear before both committees, and we remain engaged with his counsel about his upcoming appearances. speaking later in the day with reporters, congressman elijah cummings was willing to put a fine point on it. >> i think the most disturbing thing about this is that mr. cohen feels that he and his family have been intimidated. he feels that the president of the united states of america and his attorney have not only intimidated him, but intimidated his family. and this is something that should upset every single american. this is the united states of america. this is not russia. >> so ultimately where this lands sounds like they will subpoena michael cohen if they need to. i don't know what kind of arrangements they may be working out with law enforcement in terms of trying to ensure cohen's safety and his family's safety. i also don't know what plans congress may have for trying to hold the president liable for witness tampering, if that is in fact what happened here with how he p

what mr cohen is testifying to if it's true from buzz feed is that a crime to which he is already pled guilty lying to congress was really part of a conspiracy with the president to mislead and frustrate the oversight function of the legislative branch. that clearly in my judgment would be a high crime and misdemeanor justifying impeachment based upon articles of impeachment voted against richard nixon and william jefferson clinton i remember this is a case where the president is alleged now to obstruct in the functioning of a co-equal branch of government it's not necessarily a payoff to a porn star but this goes to the heart and soul of our separation of powers and institutional integrity here and that is what i believe makes it far more likely to push an impeachment i think we can expect the chairman of the house judiciary committee to issue a subpoena after mr cohen testifies asking that mr trump under oath rebut anything that mr cohen may have alleged colombia's president has declared three days of national mourning off to twenty one people were killed in a car bomb attack on a po

mr. cohen's moment in the sun is pretty much over. >> harris: unfortunate for mr. cohen, right?se it's a mitigating factor, if you can come up with something to give miller's investigation, i would think, for his prison sentence of three years. how does that work customer key reports on march 6th. what's in it for him? >> i think he's on a public campaign self-aggrandizement to her right now. because the fighting is over. he has had his sentencing. at the sentencing, the district of new york, the southern district, made it very clear that he was a field cooperator. he did not provide all the dirt and details about his own criminal conduct. they acknowledge she could get a little tiny benefit, but they didn't wake what's called a 5k motion. which is when you knock the sentencing guidelines lowered. he is in a position where the fighting is over. he's not going to have an appeal. he's not going to be able to modify that sentence. it's really just kind of public relations time for him and his family, i guess. >> harris: as a former prosecutor, do you bring back a guy who lied about

now, does mr. cohen deny that this happened?, i think he said in his tweet today -- there was no denial there. what he said very clearly today was i did this at the direction of president trump, which is what he has said about the other things that he pleaded guilty to last year, and it was the exact same language. >> mmm-hmm. >> he expressed his remorse. and i think from my reporting today, what i know is that nononly does cohen say this, but there are documents or there is a document that backs up his claim. >> there's a physical document that backs up his claim that the president was aware of this, the president directed -- >> the president was aware that this was happening. >> now, the president does not use e-mail. at least we believe. the president, we don't think, uses a computer at all. >> from all my reporting in every reporting i've done on the president, he doesn't text, he doesn't e-mail. >> so it wouldn't have been an electronic communication. >> i don't know what the document is, but there is documentation. now, th

. >> mr. cohen, how will you respond to the senate committee? >> reporter: the president's former fixer will honor a subpoena and testify behind closed doors before the senate intelligence committee next month. his lawyer says cohen will say as much as he can about his long-time boss without jeopardizing the mueller investigation for which he is a key witness. >> mr. cohen can testify about his ten years' experience uwitnessing what mr. trump did to people without getting into the subs of an investigation. >> reporter: the agreement to testify came a day after cohen postponed a public hearing before the house oversight committee. davis decided the threats made against cohen's family and rudy giuliani, both who referenced his father-in-law in recent interviews. >> he should give information maybe on his father-in-law because that's the one people want to look at. >> he may have ties to something called organized crime. >> reporter: the president kept up his attacks this morning, going after both cohen and davis and his ties to hillary clinton. now

mr. cohen's cooperation with ongoing investigation. by advice of counsel, mr. s appearance will be postponed until a later date. including things like this, lying to reduce his jail time. watch father-in-law. and the president uses fox news to deliver threats to michael cohen and his family. >> in order to get his sentenced reduced, he says, i have an idea. i'll give you some information on the president. well, there is no information. but he should give information, maybe on his father-in-law, because that's the one that people want to look at. because where does that money -- that's the money in the family. i guess he didn't want to talk about his father-in-law. he's trying to get his sentenced reduced. it's pretty sad. it's weak and it's very sad to watch a thing like that. i couldn't care less. >> what is his father-in-law's name? >> i don't know but you'll find out and you'll look into it because nobody knows what's going on over there. >> in a joint statement the chairman of the house oversight committee elijah cummings and am am schiff said today after mi

in 2015, mr. cohen asked him to do the same for a report poll of potential republican candidates. gauger said that mr. trump ranked 5th with about 5% of the total. so michael cohen, not just telling more stories about his time with trump, but implicating the president in what i understand could be another campaign vie nans violation if this was a coordinated activity on behalf of the campaign. >> this is exactly why i think the hearing on february 7th will be both explosive and really important. cohen has spoken every time he has appeared in court, when he was pleading guilt, but there sf a limited amount of things. this is a live televised event that he was going there for giving an opening statement that will allow him to explain these thins, but also be questioned for hours on end. why he did them, if he was directed by the president to do those things, it's why cohen has been looking forward to that hearing. as much as he is looking forward to setting the record straight, he is now concerned for his safety and the safety of his family after the president called into fox news a

mr. cohen to testify before the house oversight committee as we mentioned in early february, but due to ongoing threats against his family from president trump and from rudy giuliani, that's a reference to the president's attorney as recently as this weekend, as well as mr. cohen's continued cooperation with ongoing investigations by advice of counsel, we are told mr. cohen's appearance will be postponed to a later date. the door is open, chris, for cohen to come back and to testify, but in this statement it says this is a time where mr. cohen had to put his family and their safety first. so back up and some context here. we have spoken with folks -- i spoke to one source close to michael cohen, our team here at nbc news spoke with others over the last several weeks who indicated michael cohen's family felt particularly concerned about some of the comments coming from donald trump in some of these tweets. you might remember there was that interview over the weekend with judge jeanine pirro on f

cummings greatly respects his invitation for mr. cohen to appear voluntarily. >> it sounds like if he has a subpoena, he will testify. that's the senate committee and then he went on to talk about mr. comey. the lawyers have to have conversations, but it appears that michael cohen will come once. >> since he was there, it wouldn't be too far a bridge to cross. it's a serious committee and i would be willing to guess and bet that they would do a lot to try and make sure that his concerns are assuaged to some degree. i would note one other thing. the chairman of these committees, particularly on the house side, issued a brush-statement to the president on the intimidation idea. what lanny davis was laying out, i have no idea if there's a legal case there, probably not, but pay attention to that. while it's a statement and a statement doesn't have teeth, these chairmen do have teeth and they do have subpoena power. what they're saying is don't just lay off because we think you should lay off, but they're saying, lay off, because we can -- th

, everything about mr. cohenhat was filed in manhattan the other day screams liar. so he's not a particularly reliable source for anything. i think it's interesting that he did not get credit under a 5k motion which is the typical vehicle for cooperation. they said he had not come clean on all of his own dirt. so you have to wonder is this part of that equation, is there something where they felt he was attached to that phone near prague and they, therefore, didn't give him the full credit for cooperation. but the bottom line is i'm a big fan of admissible evidence, not just anonymous sources citing foreign intelligence authorities for some small proposition. so, you know, i think the issue is going to be how much of this actually sees daylight either in a courtroom or in some sort of report, and that's what i think the white house has to be fearful of, which is a report that doesn't go through the process of making evidence admissible or reliable, but just throws out every bit of fact from every source they can

cohen, however, still asked for and received a $50,000 reimbursement from mr. trump and his company for the work by redfinch. today cohen confirmed the report on twitter and implicated donald trump in this scheme to manipulate online poll results just as he had manipulated individual 1, donald trump, in his illegal hush money payments to women claiming they had affairs with donald trump during the presidential campaign. michael cohen said, "what i did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of donald trump. i truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn't deserve it." joining our discussion now, jill wine banks former assistant watergate special prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. and john heilemann is still with us. and jill, kind of depending on where this is in the calendar, there's an issue of campaign finance violation here too. and this one is cash. it isn't the movement of $130,000 checks to stormy daniels. but this is everything about the trump world wrapped into this new michael cohen story. >> it absolutely is. and it may be one of those t

c mr. cohen can testify to about his 10 years of experience witnessing what mr. trump did to people without getting into the intoects of an investigation. h> reporter: the agreement to testify came a day after cohen postponed a public hearing eafore the house oversight committee. davis cited the threats made against cohen's family by the cosident and rudy giuliani, both of whom have referenced cohen's father-in-law in recent interviews. te he should give information, maybe on his father-in-law, atcause that's the one that people want to look at. >> he may have ties to something inlled organized crime. >> reporter: the president kept s his attacks this morning, thing after both cohen and davis and his ties to hillary clinton. now davis wants the house to censure president trump for obstruction of justice and witness tampering. >> the president of the united dtates has engaged in witness tampering, not just by biticizing mr. cohen, but by attacking his family. te reporter: but the president has dismissed claims he threatened cohen. h. he's only been threatened by th

mr. cohen's continued cooperation with ongoing investigations, by advice of counsel, mr. s appearance will be postponed to a later date. >> democrats certainly saw it as a significant opportunity to question in public someone who for years has had unparalleled knowledge of the president's personal and professional dealings. it's unclear based on his agreement with robert mueller how much michael cohen would be able to say about the trump tower project in moscow or any conversations he had with the president, if the president directioned h e directed him to lie to congress. they wanted to put forward information on the hush money as well as other questions around the trump organization. it's important to note that the chairman of the house oversight and intelligence committees stopped short of saying they will subpoena cohen's testimony. they say appearing before congress is not an option. >> i want you to watch some of the comments made by president trump and rudy giuliani about michael cohen's family. listen to this. >> did he make a deal to keep his father-in-law out? di

mr cohen, who used to describe himself as a fixer for the president, was sentenced to a total of threein making illegal hush—money payments during the 2016 election campaign, and for lying to congress about a proposed trump tower project in russia. the president told reporters at the southern border that he was "not worried" about mr cohen's testimony. 0ur correspondent, rajini vaidyanathan, has more from washington michael cohen pleaded guilty and was sentenced for a number of offences, including campaign finance violations and lying as well. now those campaign finance violations related to payments he made to two women who claimed that they had had affairs with donald trump, one of them was the porn star stormy daniels. now donald trump denied those affairs, but in prosecuting documents michael cohen was said that he was directed by donald trump to make those payments. so they could of course ask about that. they could of course ask about that. they could also ask about plans to build a trump tower in moscow, which michael cohen said he was working on through the election campaign. t

president not only knew mr. cohen attempting to set up a meeting overseas with the russian president but he was actively encouraging it which also tells us that both ivanka trump and donald trump, jr., were, again, read in to details of the project and were encouraging mr. cohen to move it forward. i think it is instructive to look at our initial trump tower moscow story which i believe he broke in may. no one was able to match it. it took six months for the special counsel to affirm it. we were operating with a base of knowledge here that is sound. i can't say when the special counsel, whether congress, whether other investigators will match. but this is -- the sourcing here is rock solid. we have been able to verify this in other ways. >> in terms of ivanka and don, jr., is it your reporting that they did anything wrong beyond having -- >> nope. not at all. not in any way. all we reported yesterday was our sources say donald trump, jr.'s claim to congress he had only peripheral knowledge of the plan, they are saying

mr cohen already faces a three yearjail sentence for violating campaign finance laws. sopel. the subject that just won't go away — the president and russia — and the most serious allegations to date about his attempts to hide the efforts the trump organisation was making to build a trump tower in moscowjust before the election. after donald trump became president, his then personal lawyer michael cohen went before congress and said on oath that the plan was scrapped in january 2016. that wasn't true, and a lie that earned him time injail. but according to a detailed buzzfeed report, the lie wasn't his idea. the special counsel's office learned about trump's directive for cohen to lie to congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organisation, and internal company e—mails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. and the report goes on. the president personally instructed him to lie, by claiming that negotiations ended months earlier than they actually did, in order to obscure trump's involvement. the president's current personal attorney r

impeachment i think we can expect the chairman of the house judiciary committee to issue a subpoena after mr cohen testifies asking that mr trump under oath rebut anything that mr cohen may have alleged. donald trump has canceled the delegations the world economic forum in davos next week citing the government shutdown is also scrapped house speaker nancy pelosi is upcoming overseas tour the political deadlock between trump of the democrats over his proposed border wall is now into its fourth week earlier suggested charm and laid his plan state of the union address if the impasse doesn't end this week or the one thousand people from under us have crossed into mexico as part of another migrant caravan bound for the u.s. many of them will be deported back to their home country but as they continue to risk a difficult trip to seek asylum after escaping violence and poverty back home when you're palo has been speaking to some of those who've been sent back to under us. this bus arriving from mexico is dropping off a hundred migrants being returned home many were deported others like. who left with a m

. >> mr. cohen, under guidelines that he has respected, won't comment on anything to do with subjects that he discussed with the special counsel. >> in fairness, you have corrected stories that were false before that were involving michael cohen. but you're choosing not to -- is there anything to correct in the buzzfeed story, in your opinion. >> i just can't help you on that, chuck. i'm going to just say read the story. >> and democrats say if the reporting is, in fact, true, trump could face impeachment. trump himself, as you can imagine, blasting cohen on twitter, claiming he is lying to reduce his jail time and once again interestingly, threatening his father-in-law in all this, which democrats have actually called witness intimidation. now, all of this raising the stakes before cohen's much-anticipated public testimony next month on capitol hill, and whatever he'll say about trump and russia. >> the special counsel did say that you were doing your best to tell the truth about everything related

mr. cohen's appearance will be postponed to another date. >>> ken dilanian is joining me. >> the president has been going after cohen online and on twitter telling folks to check out his father-in-law and talking about his wife and michael cohen feels like his family is being put in jeopardy by the president of the united states. the president is trying to intimidate his testimony. the wife has become, michael cohen's wife had become so nervous that she's worried of physically showing up to capitol hill for this testimony. >> i heard the same thing, katie. the president's words and actions and tweets have consequences. we have seen it before. i think it is very reasonable for michael cohen to be concerned and his family to be concerned and his family in law have not been called out by the president on twitter. we should take a step back to talk about how unprecedent to be attacking people who are witnesses against him in public. he spoken to michael cohen and cohen was ready to testify. we should not discount the possibility that there are other factors driving this postponement, perhaps c

i'm looking forward to having mr. cohen before us back. i'm looking forward to having several other witnesses back. a significant thing has happened. i'm not talking about the midterm elections and the historic turnout and the 40-seat democratic gain. i'm talking about the fact that mr. cohen is going to jail in part for lying to congress. so it turns out that's perjury. it turns out it's a felony. and i would very much like to have an opportunity to interview the other witnesses now that they understand lying to congress is a felony. >> do you think other folks who have talked to you did lie to you and who do you want to see back in addition to mr. cohen? >> yes, i do think other people lied to us. >> who? >> so, i think what we're going to have to do is actually construct a plan of action here to prioritize the people that we want to get back to us. because at the end of the day, what this is really all about is the fact that 662 days from now, hallie, we're going to pick the next president of the united states. 13 months from now iowa h

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