mr. cohen: obviously, turkey is an important nato ally and i would expect the president to entertain any memberf the alliance, and not to have entertained him would have sent a signal that they are really oh the outs witunited states. i think turkey is going down a path that is not going to be well received by members of congress certainly. it is more of an autocratic government then a democratic government. one of the key things in it nato membership is that you have a democracy subordination of capital stick form of economic system, etc. i think president erdogan is more heading toward a putin yle of autocratic leadership, and i think president trump tends to like that. as a matter of fact, he tends to embrace autrats and tends to give the heisman, a stiff arm, to our nato allies. trauma in washington today, the impeachment inquiry, as a former defense secretary and someone who was in the senate, with your vast experience, how do you see this unfolding? . cohen: well, it is unfolding. today w

. >> before miss selby is given an opportunity to respond, i want to apologize to mr. cohen for calling him mr. allen, my apologizes. thea? >> thank you for that and i would be happy to have mr. cohen stewart talking about the one-cent sales tax. the voices for public transportation has no interest in that being the primary revenue source and i want to be clear about that. but i wanted to address the other things about the west side, un-equity, getting people in san francisco around san francisco. a lot of problems are stemming from 40% of our carbon emissions are from cars and trucks. muni says .1% which i have a hard time believing but let's say between 1% and 2%. were that means is that if we want to hit carbon eminister's s goals and make it safe for san francisco, we have a vision zero presentation, if we were to get those cars off the road or a lot of those cars off the road with significant investment, this doesn't happen for free, but with significant investment, perhaps it is railed to garry and if we are able to get the people out of their cars because public trans

i think you would have a win/wi. >> thank you, mr. cohen. next speaker, please. >> rick hall, cultural action n. i'm a bit confused about this wg especially after peter because a city were opposing sb50. [off mic] that we as a city are. and that's sort of my reason thd oppose this thing too. this thing that's being presentt of like what they are doing to . they are saying, oh, top down, u do it to yourself, we won't havo you. so i would suggest that plannint peter cohen said, do a very goog what this is going to be befores go forward in approving expansi. maybe we need a few expansion o. we need to withdraw some too. this is a signal. we sent a bad signal last time. the mission and east side of tht decimated with market rate housd gentrification, et cetera. let's not do the same thing to f the city. equity isn't geographic equity,t side of the city too. equity is building a plan that e equity stuff you talked about td gets built what needs to be bui. and that is not market-rate houf signals, tons of market-rate hot more and more techies to c

i think you would have a win/win. >> thank you mr. cohen. next speaker please. >> rick hall, cultural action network. i'm a bit confused about this whole thing especially after peter because i thought we as a city were opposing sb50. [off mic] that we as a city are opposing sb50. and that's sort of my reason that we should oppose this thing too. this thing that's being presented here is sort of like what they are doing to us. they are saying oh top down, and maybe if you do it to yourself, we won't have to do it to you. so i would suggest that planning do exactly what peter cohen said, do a very good job of defining what this is going to be before the supervisors go forward in approving expansions of pdas. maybe we need a few expansion of pdas. we need to withdraw some too. this is a signal. we sent a bad signal last time. the mission and east side of the city got decimated with market rate housing and gentrification et cetera. let's not do the same thing to the other side of the city. equity isn't geographic equity, we'll kill that side of

what did he say about mr. cohen, he was a rat, he was talking like a mobster, what did he say about mr. mann forth? he was a good guy because he wasn't cooperating. that's witness intimidation. >> brennan: we now know from another white house official timor son who testified that there was a meeting between former national security advisor john bolten and president trump specifically about releasing the aid. why not wait for john bolton to testify? the courts can't get to it until december. >> i flip it, why not -- why is it mr., why isn't mr. bolton testifying? why wasn't he whistleblower? he thought rudy giuliani was a hand grenade, if he was so offended and he was so offended he called it a drug deal, these other folks with lesser power, you can argue, came forward and risked a lot to tell the american people -- >> brennan: wouldn't you make your argument that much stronger since he could deliver this to the president's door. >> with the amount of evidence we have right now, any single witness is going to be esse

. >> let me recognize mr. cohen. >> thank you, mr. chair. dr. robinson, you may have touched on it in the first panel but the whole social media aboutracy theories vaccinations causing autism. how much of an effect does this have on people getting vaccinated and how much in effect of people not getting vaccinated does it have on public health? >> there are two parts that question. the first part is what was the anti vaccine groups for autism? we fought this battle during the last decade and will say that to a great extent, that battle has been won. thereific data was shown is no link between vaccination and autism. the second part -- >> let me ask you a follow-up on that. you say it has been won. i'll answer that because we have a new wave of anti-vaccination and i'm very concerned about this. because, they don't have as their true agenda vaccination. they could care less of whether it works or doesn't work. because they have a hidden agenda for other things, anarchy and other things, and the tactics they are using our the ones that are cyber te

attacking turkey the elected government security forces or the civilians nobody wants to talk about it mr cohen you sent in last month's you sent in your syrian proxy forces into the northeast corridor of the country knowing that in all likelihood they would torture abuse and possibly murder people because that's exactly what they had done in the northern city of africa which you seized in 2018 isn't it not at all in august that year amnesty international reported you gave free rein to syrian groups armed by you to commit serious human rights abuses in africa that didn't happen in our friend there was looting enough and they were penalized but it's the same group of the by the way you're talking about the syrians themselves fighting for their own freedom for their own country against the brutality of the assad regime to which the western world has not turned a blind eye we're the only ones actually taking care of millions of refugees and the syrians in both turkey and on the syrian side is the same syrian national army which the americans supported or plumbs to support 5 years ago 6 years ago t

. >> that's the 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. >> how important could jordan be, michael? >> jim jordan plays very well to the trump base on fox news, but the audience that -- for tomorrow is a very different one. this is really the opportunity for both sides to make a case to the american public. that of the american public that has not yet determined where they are on this matter, right? and so, i think, in many ways this is an entirely new phase of the impeachment saga. the democrats may have some of the same issues they've been playing, prosecutors playing to their base to the progressive base that wants to see the president impeached and they now have to shift to this more sorrow than anger mode that would probably play well to that broad sector of the american public. it's going to be really interesting to see if both sides can restrain themselves and conduct the kind of sober hearings that they were talkin

and remember the day we first reported that mr. cohen had retained his own lawyer, the president's lawyer had to get a criminal defense lawyer for himself. that seemed like a bad sign at the time. indeed it turned out to be a bad sign since michael cohen is now in prison. i don't know what you have to call it, though, when you have to report that same thing for a second time. but tonight we can report that the president's new personal lawyer, the one who isn't in prison tonight, he too has had to hire his own criminal defense lawyer. that was the news that we got today about the president's current personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. rudy giuliani has hired his own criminal defense lawyer now. and of all the lawyers in the world that rudy giuliani could have hired, it turns out, sure, why not? he hired the guy who had been michael cohen's criminal defense lawyer back in the day. despite the fact that that worked out with michael cohen ultimately going to prison, it's like there's only ten of these guys in the world, like really? michael cohe

mr. cohen, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chair. mr. mitchell i precious your questioning, and i rue your absence from the congress because you've been such a good member but i understand your logic and i commend you on it. in the last congress we passed the faa re-authorization act and i sponsored as director elwell has mentioned along with another representative the seat act that you provide with us within a year for safety purposes pitch, width, the whole rigamarole of seats. yet we don't have it. tests in the past have been done with computers. and i think they are computers -- i'm not totally incorrect, i think they were provided by the airlines, or the manufacturer. and they were simulations provided by them. we don't need to have another crisis like we had with the boeing airplane. that we have a crash and we come back and we have to ask the faa, people couldn't get out of the plane in 90 seconds. why did you not comply with the seat act? so, tell me again why this hasn't been accomplished? we're almost a year. and if it's going

as mr. cohen pointed out and i pointed out in the beginning and after lion air you got a $16 million bonus and people are being held accountable. this gentleman quit the company after 30 years in the industry because his concerns weren't being addressed, but you're leading us to believe that they were significantly addressed. i'm sorry, i just don't buy that and with that i recognize mr. mitchell. [ inaudible ] >> sorry. >> no need. you were carrying on a line of questions that i'd like it on pursue. >> mr. mullenberg, you're the chief executive officer, do you set the standards and do you set the purpose and goal for the company? >> congressman, that's part of my responsibility? >> the answer is y you do those things? >> yes, sir. >> good. as the chairman just said did you receive a $30 million ren remuneration from the company in 2013. stock? >> congressman, i recall my salary was roughly $23 million that year. >> then i suppose this is incorrect. >> it came from the seattle times. it says $30 m

. >> let me recognize mr. cohen. >> thank you, mr. chair. doctor robinson, you touched on the first panel, but the whole public media, social media conspiracy theories about vaccinations causing autism, how much of an effect has this had on people getting vaccinated and how much of an effect of people not getting vaccinated doesn't have a public health. >> so to support that question, the first part how much -- what was the effect of anti-vaccine groups for autism. we fought this battle during the last decade and i will say to a great extent, that battle has been one. in the scientific data was shown that there is no link between vaccination and autism. the second part of that. >> let me ask you a follow-up, you say it has been one,. >> i'm going to into that, we have a new wave of anti-vaccination. i'm very concerned about'm this. . . . because they don't have as their true agenda vaccination. they can care less whether it works or doesn't work because they have a hidden agenda for other things of anarchy and other things and the tactics th

. >> we want to recognize mr. cohen. >> thank you mister chair. doctor robinson, you touched on it in the first panel the whole social media conspiracy ferries about vaccination is causing autism. how much of an effect does this have on people getting vaccinated? how much in effect of people not getting vaccinated does it have on public health? >> so, there's two parts that question in the first part is what was the anti vaccine groups for autism? we fought this battle during the last decade and will say that from great extent that battle has been one. scientific data was shown that there was no link between vaccination and autism. the second part -- >> let me ask you a follow-up on that. you say it's been one, -- >> i'll answer that because we have a new wave of anti vaccination and i'm very concerned about this. because, they don't have as their true agenda vaccination they could care less of whether it works or doesn't work. because they have a hidden agenda of things of anarchy and other things and the tactics were using the ones that are cybe

take his previous attorney, michael cohen for two years worked hand-in-glove. >> he says i'm mr. trump's pitbull and right handman. >> reporter: but when cohen came under intense legal pressure about campaign funds and money, suddenly he knew nothing about what his lawyer had been doing. >> i haven't spoken to michael in a long time. >> he's a weak person and not a very smart person. >> he insists they are tight. >> i talk to him early and often. >> reporter: amid foreign policy, guiliani tweeted the investigation i conducted concerning 2016 ukrainian collusion and corruption was done solely as a defense attorney to defend my client against false charges. but that doesn't say trump ordered it. the acting chief of staff's assessment. >> it's not illegal, it's not impeachable, the president gets to use who he wants to use. >> reporter: still, trump is leaving room for doubt he was using guiliani or aware of his actions. >> he's done a lot of work in ukraine over the years. i think -- i mean, that's what i heard. >> in short, the president has pardoned the thanksgiving turkey but wit

mr. freeman: sure. michael cohen. lying to congress. but they did not come and say, we believe we have testimony in front of us that is undermined by testimony of another witness. they set other people have lied to congress, and though we think we should get to everything, just to make sure no one else did. you would never accept that in a criminal case or a civil case. that is not normal. that is exactly the error. i think there is a criminal antitrust investigation and antitrust proceedings, and a party came in and said, well, we would like the same information in order to establish -- judge: i have to take a step back and ask about our jurisdiction in this case. the court has an obligation to assure we have jurisdiction, so with the supreme court decision, the supreme court held they could not review and impeachment decision of the senate in the nixon case, and they also suggest it would be inappropriate for the court to assist or interfere with impeachment proceedings. if our involvement in this is interpreting the judicial proceedi

michael cohen had insurance. he recorded mr. trump talking about payoffs to women who had affairs with him. he is serving a sentence for campaign finance crimes. >>> and president trump insisted that a navy s.e.a.l. convicted of misconduct could not be punished. >> they wanted to take his pin away. i said you're not going to take it away. he was a great fighter. one of the ultimate fighters. >> eddie gallagher, who the president was referencing there, was convicted of posing next to a photo with a dead isis body. a secret proposal to the white house to resolve the status of his s.e.a.l. pin led to richard spencer being fired. >> what message does that send to the troops? >> what message does it send? >> that you can get away with things. we have to have good order and discipline. i don't think he understands the full definition of a war fighter. a war fighter is a profession of arms. a profession of arms has standards. >> mark esper forced him out for going around the chain of command. here's what espn told reporters. >> we had

michael cohen had insurance. he recorded mr.g about payoffs to women who had affairs with him. he is serving a sentence for campaign finance crimes. >>> if you're traveling for the holidays, watch out for what frosters are calling a historic storm. 20 million people are facing brutal rain and snow and 500 flights have been canceled for today. most are in and out of denver, where you see those people in an airport. karen maginnis has the latest on what's going on. >> good morning, christine and kaitlan. we have problems on the roadways. aaa says 55 million people, about 90% of the 55 million people going to head out on the highways. going to make good time. no. we have back-to-back storm systems. one ejects out of the rockies. another one out of the west coast, going to be lowering snow levels. this report brought by ninja foodi. big problems, interstate 70 across colorado. that will be problematic. right around denver, could see a foot of snowfall there. around reno, minneapolis, interstate 94. big problems there. the temperatur

cohen. >> thank you, mr. chair. mr. hamilton on the 30th of march 2016, boeing asked the faa if it was okay to remoofb all references to mcas. that was based on boeing's representation that mcas only operates way outside of the normal operating envelope. is that not true? >> i believe that is true. that i can't fair vie the date but i believe what you're saying is true. >> let me suggest this to you or ask you. on march the 30th, boeing's chief mark folknal emailed, are you okay with us removing all references to mcas from the operating manual and the training as we discussed as it's completely transparent to the flight crew and operates way outside the normal operating envelope, that being the commercial airline passenger might reasonably experience. is that correct? >> as mr. muilenburg has discussed, it's a process that we go back and forth with the faa on what needs to be in the tlaning manual and what doesn't. collectively the faa and boeing reached an agreement that the prescription of the mcas did not need to be

previous attorney, michael cohen, who of course ended up going to jail, and his current attorney, rudy giuliani, and see if you can spot the similarity. take a listen. >> mr. president, did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> then why -- >> what else? >> why did michael cohen make it if there was no -- >> you'd have to ask michael cohen. mike is my attorney, and you'll have to ask michael. >> what was rudy giuliani doing in your ukraine on your behalf? >> well, you have to ask that to rudy, but rudy -- i don't even know -- i know he was going to go to ukraine, and i think he canceled a trip. but, you know, rudy has other clients other than me. >> some real similarities there, natasha. >> chris, it's so funny that you just played that clip because all that i've been thinking about all day is how much deja vu this is all giving me with regard to michael cohen and rudy giuliani, the president's two personal lawyers who have really become and ultimately became his fixers. there really is no lawyer-client relationship between giuliani and the president anymore if there ever was one. i get the sense, you know, from speaking to sourc

contributions to this nation and congressman cohen --nd congressman congressman cohen, thank you for being here. i have with me mr. gary hannah, and also my chief of police, and i have my fire chief, mr. kenneth pierce what happened on the day of the raid was supposed perpetrated by i.c.e. i want to take you back to august the seventh, 2019, where without warning or acknowledgment, i rated pico portrait for the purpose of identifying -- raided pico portrait for the purpose of identifying undocumented immigrants who worked there. seven industries in the state of mississippi rated force -- raided by i.c.e. the purpose of accomplishing and intending mission. as the mayor, i was never notified. or informed about the pre-plans or imminent rate of our businesses here in the city of canton. dental --ry was acted accidental and the consequence of a citizen informing me that picos, was at carrying workers away by handcuffs, and two were transported to the national guard armory in mississippi. i approached one of the i.c.e. officers and introduced myself as the mayor of the city of canton. i requested to speak with whomeve

mr. trump didn't answer, but he's repeatedly attacked the probe as unfair because he's been unable to defend himself. tennessee democrat stephen cohen doesn't think the president will show up. >> the president may surprise us. he may come out and testify, but from what's been painted to date i think it's the likelihood he'll be impeached. >> reporter: the president insists americans don't support impeachment. >> based on the poll numbers, the people of this country aren't buying it. >> reporter: but now polls show support for and against impeachment has remained steady since october. today, the president said he'd love to have mike pompeo, rick perry, and mick mulvaney testify. only to then say he's resisting because he's fighting for future presidents. secretary pompeo dodged when asked today if he'd testify. >> when the time is right, all good things happen. >> reporter: this as former national security adviser john bolton says he has no plans, for now, to testify, despite a court ruling last night, that rejected efforts of another top aide, joseph maguire, to avoid testimony. while democrats hold this impeachment hearing next wed

mr. berman, has really been aggressive in every case he's come up against, even those with pressure. whether you look at the michael coheney epstein. people remember it for the suspicious death and custody which was under the federal bureau of prisons, but that case was brought and mr. avenatti. i want to ask you about something that relates. do you think that lawyers make for good clients or difficult clients? >> i was a prosecutor for 30 years. i never had a client other than the community and the american people, but i have to believe that lawyers make lousy clients. >> they do. >> they are going to want to second-guess. >> lawyers make difficult clients, doctors make difficult patients. and that's not just giuliani, but a reason why he be an extra difficult client. he spent weeks, even though he knows all the lawyers in new york at his level, finding a lawyer who would represent giuliani. four prominent attorneys reportedly klinie i declining fs reasons. >> yeah, that and i wonder how much money rudy giuliani has in reserve to have his lawyers. let me tell you, the kind of lawyers that are going to contemplate taking

insurance policy but a reminder of what happened with michael cohen who went to prison because he was involved in a scheme aimed at covering up mr. trump's crimes but talking about it seems like an odd joke during an impeachment inquiry. >> sure does. jim acosta. thank you. >>> let's discuss the news with gerry connelly on the house oversight and foreign affairs committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. let's get immediately to the lengthy letter that the house intelligence chairman adam schiff has now distributing saying that you are learning additional information in his words almost every day. if that is true, congressman, how you could hand off a report to the judiciary committee as soon as next week? >> well, the fact that we're continuing to learn information doesn't mean that we somehow stop or delay the process that we're undertaken. i think we have plenty of evidence in front of us without requiring additional information or evidence to proceed with the impeachment of this president. >> according to "the washington post," the white house made the decision to withhold money for ukraine and then later tried to find w

the -- when michael cohen was before the oversight committee, he was asked -- you suggest the president sometimes communicates his wishes indirectly. for example, you say, quote, mr. trump did not directly tell me to lie to congress, that's not how he operates. it would be different, he said -- the nice -- he doesn't give you questions. he doesn't give you orders. he speaks in code. and i understand the code because i've been around him for a decade. so, do you think that the president was speaking in code when he would talk about wanting investigations? >> i don't -- i can't characterize how the president was speaking. every conversation i have had with the president has been fairly direct and straightforward. >> all right. yield back. >> mr. stewart. >> mr. chairman, i have unanimous consent request. >> you may state your request. >> d.o.e. response to ambassador sondland's comments before the house intelligence committee attributable to the d.o.e. secretary of -- the press secretary. ambassador sondland's testimony today misrepresented both secretary perry's interaction and with rudy giuliani and direction the secretary received from president trump. as previo

michael cohen at one point professed that he was going to take a bullet for mr.ants become convicted felons and most convicted felons look for ways to cooperate. i imagine mr. parnas is going to look for a way to cooperate. he has good attorneys to guide him through this thicket. >> chuck rosenberg gets tonight's last word. thanks for joining us, chuck. really appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> that is tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> and the democrats just released transcripts of their own. they tell a remarkable story of our ambassador to ukraine realizingss rudy was conducting foreign policy, realizing she was being drummed out with no support from her boss, feeling threatened on the job and amazed to hear the president talking about her with a foreign leader on the phone. >>> also tonight, the increasing evidence that the ukraine corruption conspiracy theory dates back to paul manafort, who is now in prison.ck >>> and a big

when michael cohen was before the oversight committee he was asked you suggest the president sometimes communicates is wishes to him directly for example you say quote mr trump did not directly tell me to lie to congress that's not how he operates it would be different he said. nice he doesn't give you questions he doesn't give you orders he speaks in code and i understand the code because i've been around him for a decade so do you think that the president was speaking in code when he would talk about wanting investigations i don't i can't characterize how the president was speaking every conversation i've had with the president has been fairly direct and straightforward all right you'll back mr stewart if you're going to have a unanimous consent request. mr your quest to deal with the response to ambassador saddam's killing comments for the house intelligence committee attributable to the dio's the secretary of the press secretary ambassador songlines testimony today misrepresented both secretary kerry's interaction and with rudy giuliani and direction the secretary received from president trump as previously stated secretary perry spoke to really do

when the -- when mike cohen was asked -- you suggest the president sometimes communicates his wishes indirectly, for example, you say, quote, mr. president did not tell me to directly lie to congress. that's not how he operates. it would be different, he said -- he doesn't give you questions, he doesn't give you orders. he speaks in code. and i understand the code because i've been around him for a decade. so do you think that the president was speaking in code when he would talk about wanting investigations? >> i don't. i can't characterize how the president was speaking. every conversation i've had with the president has been fairly direct and straight forward. >> all right. i yield back. >> mr. stuart. >> i have unanimous consent request. >> you may state your quest. >> d.o.e. responds to the commen comments. his testimony today misrepresented secretary perry's intersection and direction the ambassador received from president trump. secretary perry spoke to rudy giuliani only once at the president's request no one else was on that call. at no point, during the phone call did the words biden or burisma come up in the presenc

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mr. mueller is. roger stone, former campaign adviser to donald trump, convicted. michael cohenprison. paul manafort, former campaign chairman to donald trump, convicted and in prison. rick gates, former deputy campaign chairman, convicted. michael flynn, former national security adviser to donald trump, awaiting sentences. george papadopoulos, donald trump's former campaign manager, convicted. maya, i don't think there is a previous president with this many convictions of people around him, under their belt, other than richard nixon, and in the case of nixon, he's the only one who didn't go to jail. your thoughts. >> well, that donald trump surrounds himself with criminals. that's my first thought. and remember, these are people who reported, with the exception of george papadopoulos, who were direct reports to donald trump. they are people who spoke directly to him and with him. that was part of the issue, of course, that has come up in the mueller report. if you go back and read pages nine and ten in the first voulue of the mueller report, what robert mueller's report said ex

when michael cohen was before the oversight committee, he was asked, you suggest the president sometimes communicates his wishes indirectly. for example, you say "mr. trump did not directly tell me to lie to congress. that's not how he operates." it would be different, he said, he doesn't give you questions. he doesn't give you orders. he speaks in code and i understand the code because i've been around him for a decade. do you think that the president was speaking in code when he would talk about wanting investigations? >> i don't, i can't characterize how the president was speaking. every conversation i've had with the president has been fairly direct and straightforward. >> all right, i yield back. >> mr. stewart. >> i have unanimous consent request. >> state your request. >> d.o.e. responds to investors homes comments before the house intelligence committee attribute to press secretary, ambassador sondland's testimony to misrepresented secretary perry's interaction with rudy giuliani and direction the secretary received from president trump. secretary perry spoke to rudy giuliani only once at the president's request. no one else's was on that

mr. mayor. >> so if he wants to do that, he could make himself into another michael cohen. i don't know what's going on. his lawyer makes these comments that are not only untrue ethey're provebly untrue, the testimony of witness is and documents. he's getting very poor counsel, i feel sorry for him? you feel sorry for lev parnas. overnight cnn reported that parnas is claiming a ekn ex-ukrainian official met with devin nunes, on the committee that you know well. met with viktor shokin in vienna and that this happened last december. do you know anything about that meeting? devin nunes is denying it. >> poor lev. i don't know what he's doing to himself. once again that's going to be shown to be provebly untrue. i do not believe that den devin nunes would have met with shokin. i would have heard of it if he would have. it was before he was doing anything for me, late december, early january. i don't know why he wants to do this. he didn't do anything wrong. i used him to find people in the ukraine, because i couldn't trust anyone else, the fbi was closed off to me because the w

mr. firtash is a name people are learning in the ukraine scandal. he's hired these fox news analysts but he's also hired lanny davis, who represents michael cohen. >> going on here that are curious. one is this representation between solomon and the two fox news lawyers and almost trump lawyers at one point, i mean we have no reason to believe that solomon is under investigation or that he needs these two people to represent him. i mean in fact he shows up on tv, they're all in the same place. i mean to me this appears to be just trying to use attorney/client privilege as a way to basically take information that starts with donald trump. guiliani goes over to firtash and down to these lawyers an then to solomon who then winds up publishing it. if he's ever asked where he got the information, attorney/client privilege. >> so you think it might be an abuse of these privileges. >> that's right. if it ever came to it. if he ever had to go before a judge, if he was ever questioned before a house committee and say where did you get this information and the house committee pushed him and he refused and he said attorney/client privilege, a judge would have

cohen said he was briefing trump about wick leeki plans. >> i can say that candidate trump, donald trump and i have never discussed the wikileaks disclosures. >> mre with julian assange and mr. assange told mr. stone that within a couple of days there would be a massive dump of e-mails that would damage hillary clinton's campaign. >> this week we're going to get into those conflicting stories. prosecutors do have to prove way more than just that stone was deceitful along the line. they have to prove he knowingly deceived congress or knowingly tampered with witnesses. the whole obstruction case grew out of the mueller probe. tonight, many are still trying to make sense of these brand new disclosures. this is something i'm about to tell you that we haven't had time to get to yet. long secret evidence that buzzfeed obtained by feeling a freedom of information request and these show another top trump official, who ultimately pled guilty, rick gates, was at the time quote very happy about the wikileaks e-mails. he even told investigators the rnc had non-public information about the timing of those wikileaks releases. why does that matter? it suggests

mr. stone guilty. one of the most damning elements in the mueller report was the evidence that the president had tried to tamper with witnesses. in the russia case, including michael cohen, paul manafort, and others. he couldn't bring criminal charges against the president for that behavior or anything else. but the impeachment inquiry is not constrained in the same way. so within the hour that the president is hearing from the head of the impeachment inquiry about how seriously, how very, very seriously those committees take the crime of witness intimidation, here's his long-standing political advisor being convicted in a criminal court of witness intimidation. so that all being spat out of the volcano by the news gods at the same time was a very dramatic thing. but immediately after that happened in the hearing, while the hearing was still buzzing with what had just happened there in front of their eyes, we then got a brand new piece of information about the president's behavior here and the president's motivation here that had never been voiced before. this is the thing that made me get off the couch and stand up and call everybody i know. that's next. we've got a lo

cohen, he is here today too. we get addicted to this stuff for life. drive-bywe are not pretenders on that. [laughter] mr.linton: but, that is what people need to know. there was remarkably little partisan difference. there were genuine differences in terms of how much the federal government should give in money or how much the state should regulate local districts, or how teacher certification should be. all of the stuff we are still dealing with when he became governor, but there wasn't much partisan difference. and, i think president bush set the tone, and he wanted to meet with governors and i gave an opening statement. i said, i came here to praise the president. i got a message from a friend of mine in congress saying, do you know what you're doing? i said, yeah, this is a big deal. i said, we need to grow up as a country, and brag on people in the other party when we agree with what they are doing and disagree with them honestly what without being -- it's crazy. in other words, we all act like three-dimensional people instead of two-dimensional cartoons. i think there was a big appetite for it, but

cohen was before the oversight committee, he was asked, you suggest the president sometimes vindicates his wishes indirectly. for example, you said, mrtrump did not indirectly. for example, you said, mrwould be different, he said, he doesn't give you questions, he doesn't give you orders, he speaks in code. i understand you code because i have been around him for a decade. so, code because i have been around him fora decade. so, do code because i have been around him for a decade. so, do you think the president was speaking in code when he was talking about wanting investigations? the amount on your screen as the us ambassador to the eu, gordon sondland, he has been given evidence to the impeachment inquiry, overfive hours of testimony so far. plenty of what he has said will be of concern to the white house. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. let's return to that impeachment hearing on capitol hill. the press secretary, ambassador sondland's testimony today misrepresented secretary perry's interaction with giuliani. secretary perry spoke to rudy giuliani only once at the president's request. no one else was on that call, at no point, during or before the phone call, to do it by do

when michael cohen was before the oversight committee he was asked, you suggest the president sometimes communicates his wishes indirectly. for example, you say, quote, mr. trump did not directly tell me to lie to congress. that's not how he operates. it would be different, he said -- the nice -- he doesn't give you questions. he doesn't give you orders. he speaks in code. and i understand the code because i've been around him for a decade. so do you think that the president was speaking in code when he would talk about wanting investigations? >> i don't -- i can't characterize how the president was speaking. every conversation i've had with the president has been fairly direct and straightforward. >> all right. with that i yield back. >> mr. stuart. >> i have a consent request. >> you may state your request. >> d.o.e. responds to ambassador sond lands's comments before the house attributable to the secretary of the press secretary ambassador sondland's testimony today misrepresented both secretary perry's interaction and with rudy junialey and direction he received from president trump. secretary perry spoke to giuliani only once at the president's req