mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker.nd chairman graves, i appreciate your remarks and you are certainly an embodiment of the virtue of waivers. mr. speaker, i rise today in support of h.r. 144, bipartisan legislation to promote additional transparency over the salary structure of the tennessee valley authority. otherwise known as the t.v.a. as was said, the bill passed the house last congress on suspension. voice vote. it v.a. is the nation's largest -- t.v.a. is the nation's largest power producer across tennessee, mississippi, alabama, north carolina, virginia and kentucky. this legislation corrects a change that was enacted in 1995 that removed a requirement for t.v.a. to ex close the management structure and salaries of its executives. today t.v.a. has approximately 13,000 employees and the median salary is $160,000. they've in essence got 6,500 congresspeople on salary. doing t.v.a.'s work. that's absurd. and they've got the head of the t.v.a. whose salary has been reported, makes $10 million a year. he's a fine fel

. >> senator, i think it hurts you, too, sir, i know mr. cohen, i intend to, however. and mr. welch talks about any sense of decency, it seems that mr. welch is pained so deeply he thinks it's improper for me to give the record, the communist record of a man whom he wanted to hoist upon this committee. but it doesn't pain him at all, there's no pain in his chest about the attempt to destroy the reputation and take the jobs away from the young men who are working in my committee. and mr. welch, if i have said anything here which is untrue, then tell me. i have heard you and everyone else talk so much about laying the truth upon the table, but when i heard, mr. welch, i listened long enough to now say before sun down, you must get these people out of government. >> and we're back on congress investigates with jim townsend, the director of the lechb center for oversight and democracy. mr. townsend, joseph welch became quite well known. who was he? >> he was an attorney who was serving as counsel to the u.s. army during this investigation. and he became very well known because of

mr. cohen didn't have that need. i did, i think. no lingering mr. cold was. i learned to do, you know, first degree. and if i did, i beg your pardon. let us not if something is mad, but look, you've done enough. everyone know sam of decency, sir. as last have you left? no sense of decency. i know the first few, mr. welch. a point of personal privacy. i'd like to finish this, senator. i think it hurt you to with. i know i'm going to rather not have to go to the. i can do whatever. and mr. mr. welch talked about any sense of decency. it seems that mr. welch his pain was so deep, he thinks that is improper for me to give the record the communist broke records of the man whom he wanted to foist upon this committee, but it doesn't blame him at all. there's no pain in his chest about the attempt to destroy the reputation and and they take the jobs away from the young men who are working in my committee. and mr. well, if if i have heard anything here, which is untrue, then tell me i have heard you and everyone else thought so much about lying. the truth that one loo

lookout for this type of individual, especially when making threats and back to your previous guest, mr. cohenlking about having a more focused, more specialized counter terrorism unit that would combine local, state, county and federal law enforcement working together to communicate with each other to be proactive and to try and prevent some of these horrific events and dedicate those that are trying to stop potential terrorist attacks on the homeland again. this type of messaging on social media, that should a been a red flag right there for anybody, for law enforcement across the country to be on alert for this particular dick emberd but again, these sleeper cells, i don't know when they'll commit an attack and using rental vehicle and committing this mass murder and shows how the sleeper cells are dangerous and how they are a threat to public safety and national security. ashley: no doubt. app msnbc analyst finally admitting biden's border failed. >> it was not his finest moment and seeing what happened here and trump is not wrong talking about border crossings were quite low and running a

mr. cohen, thank you for being here with us tonight. before we get into the trump sentencing, i must ask you some breaking news we got today. special counsel jack smith has officially resigned. smith has indicated in november he would be leaving before trump took office. we learned of his resignation in a court filing to judge aileen cannon, the trump appointed judge who dismissed the classified documents case against him. cannon is at the center of a legal fight over the release of smith's final report on his trump investigation, which has been delivered to attorney general merrick garland. should the public see this full report, will they see it? and should president biden himself consider making the whole thing public before it's too late? i don't think so. i know a lot of people are going to say, oh my god, what are you doing? are you bending the knee? the answer is no. right now there's litigation by trump and he's entitled to that type of litigation that says that we don't believe that that this should be. and i know it's within t

cohen: my loyalty to mr.g, my family's happiness, friendships, my law license, my company, my livelihood, my honor, my reputation, and soon my freedom. and i will not sit back, say nothing and allow him to do the same to the country. indeed, given my experience working for mr. trump, i fear that if he loses the election in 2020 that there will never be a peaceful transition of power, and this is why i agreed to appear before you today. (people applauding) jamie raskin: michael cohen did issue a stark warning to the country that if donald trump lost, there would be no peaceful transition, there's no way he would accept it. that is a frightening and startling thing for the president's own lawyer to say about him. but it seemed far off at that point to a lot of people. and people have said from the beginning, there's no way he would do that. there's no way anybody would do that. jen b asks, "how can i get fast download thspeeds while out and about?"t. jen, we've engineered xfinity mobile with wifi speeds up to a

. >> and you, mr. cohen, have much to answer for with this one.ause when the question is asked, who chose the representatives of each of you? i think we all know who the guilty party is. it is an indian anderson. andy. part of our. what competition? >> look, it's andy and anderson. that's me, that's me, and that's you. >> yes. wait, is that that's standing. >> standing. >> your trainer. what is stan standing is playing me. oh, sweetie. >> yes. and that's you, darling. darling. no, no, no no. >> wow. >> look, that's my doppelganger, right there. >> yes, she come on. >> all in. >> wow. >> now it's time for you to vote. who is it? is it ray gun? is it ammirati? is it martha stewart? is it oompa-loompa? is it moo deng? is it baby reindeer? is it anderson or is it andy with the big muscles? >> i have to say i'm tempted. >> you at home? who do you think it should be? >> i'm tempted to make it the. the pole vaulter. no, don't just go for the pole. oh, know. no, i know, and that's also my social media coordinator at watch what happens live, mike lee. oh o

mr. hassett: the president. sen. corker: sinnott to gary cohen -- so not to gary cohen? mr. hassett: by statute it is clear, yes. sen. corker: you wrote a book about dow 36,000 by 2009. i notice it was at 10,428. what happened? mr. hassett: one critic of mine once looked at that book and called it a youthful indiscretion and i think as indiscretions go it was not such a bad one. the motivation of the book then was to make sure the motivation of the book was to think about equity and they are a good investment in the long run but not the short run. i think looking back people that bought and held were glad that they did. sen. corker: another president has said some things about trade. you are a full-blown free-trader. mr. hassett: historically yes. sen. corker: he's also mentioned some things about hedge fund taxation. you are a low carried rate person on hedge funds. i wonder if you might expand on that. mr. hassett: i have written one piece on carried interest in the journal of tax notes co-authored by a fellow economist and we analyzed the law of carried interest taxation

mr. trump. >> tonight, former trump attorney michael cohen, a key witness who helped secure trump's conviction, will join me live. >> he was allowed to talk as though he were george washington, but he's not george washington. >> and as the fires just keep burning in los angeles, and the governor orders an investigation into the water supply, what we already knew about the climate that created the conditions for this nightmare. but all in starts right now. >> good evening from new york. >> i'm chris hayes. it is official. >> in ten days, for the first time in this nation's history, the united states will be presided over by a convicted and sentenced felon. >> that happened today. >> donald trump and his defense attorney streamed in virtually to the future president's sentencing this morning in a manhattan courtroom on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. >> these convictions stem from trump's attempts to conceal hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels, payments to keep her affair out of the public eye. late in that, crucial as we will look back on for the rest of our l

mr. trump, the jury concluded, reimbursed his fixer, michel cohen for hush money and then directed that the records be falsified to keep the payment under wraps. president-elect trump's former attorney michel cohen witnessed for the prosecution during the hush money case. reacted to the sentencing yesterday on msnbc. [video clip] >> obviously, very torn between what i would have liked to have seen happen. don't forget, i received a six year sentence. three years of incarceration and three years of supervised release. in my legal career never heard of an unconditional discharge. i was so confused i went to chatgpt despite the fact that judge furman doesn't think that anyone should go through chatgpt, right? i looked it up, and i was unable to find anybody in history who has ever gotten an unconditional discharge. >> there is already a record of using the justice department and having you in his sites. they are promising this on day one. they are trying to get cash patel. what is your expectation, your level of anxiety or worry being targeted for unlawful retribution by the governance of the

mr. trump, the jury concluded, reimbursed his fixer, michel cohen for hush money and then directed that the records be falsified to keep the payment under wraps. president-elect trump's former attorney michel cohen witnessed for the prosecution during the hush money case. reacted to the sentencing yesterday on msnbc. [video clip] >> obviously, very torn between what i would have liked to have seen happen. don't forget, i received a six year sentence. three years of incarceration and three years of supervised release. in my legal career never heard of an unconditional discharge. i was so confused i went to chatgpt despite the fact that judge furman doesn't think that anyone should go through chatgpt, right? i looked it up, and i was unable to find anybody in history who has ever gotten an unconditional discharge. >> there is already a record of using the justice department and having you in his sites. they are promising this on day one. they are trying to get cash patel. what is your expectation, your level of anxiety or worry being targeted for unlawful retribution by the governance of the

mr. trump to an unconditional discharge after a jury found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records. he was convicted of falsifying business records regarding money that michael cohenstar in 2016. the president-elect spoke before the sentence was handed down. >> it's been a political witch hunt. it was done to damage my reputation so i would lose the election. obviously that didn't work. the fact is that i'm totally innocent. i did nothing wrong. i got indicted over calling a legal expense a legal expense. it's called a legal expense. >> joining us now nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard and legal analyst danny cevallos. trump's inauguration is just in ten days. he's the first u.s. president to be convicted of a crime. what are the implications here politically of this sentencing? >> he'll formally be a convicted felon when he's inaugurated. americans voted for him understanding that he was found guilty back in may on these 34 felony counts. donald trump maintained in the courtroom this morning and a social media post after he left the courthouse virtually -- he was at his mar-a-lago estate and appeared via computer into the courtroom for this. he has maintained