let's bring in tennessee congressman steve cohen. he sits on the house judiciary committee, which is of course going to be the next instrument of a potential impeachment. this is where it really becomes a serious confrontation. congressman, we'll talk about the process in the second. let's start with the headline. what does it mean to you that the president, not just the white house, was well aware of the whistle-blower complaint to some degree of detail just weeks before they released the aid? >> it's obviously why he did it. if the whistle-blower didn't file his report, the president of ukraine would have gone on television, on your network at trump's request and announced the investigation of the bidens so he would get the military aid. he was scheduled to do it because he didn't know different. trump had it, he loved him, according to sondland, would do anything for him, but trump found out about the whistle-blower, the fact that it was going to become public, he knew what he did was wrong so he released the aid. you can't put th

joining us democratic congressman steve cohen of tennessee.s on the judiciary committee, which has the responsibility for drafting articles of impeachment. congressman, you just heard what the president had to say. would you like to respond? >> the president doesn't understand the government, the constitution, the democracy. he doesn't understand that impeachment is specifically in the constitution and it's up to the house of representatives to determine whether or not to impeach and it has nothing to do with the president. he should not be able to decide or take action based on his opinion that it's not a lawful impeachment. for him to not send testimony, documents that have been subpoenaed to the committee which he's done is contempt of congress. that's what nixon did. that's an article in itself. he doesn't have that right. only in a totalitarian government, only in a dictatorship, authoritarian government does the king or the absolute ruler be able to say, no, this will not happen. we have equal and separate branches of government and the

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congressman steve cohen of nbc joins me.probably just heard kellyanne conway say the hearings he gone on too long and basically proved nothing about the president. >> well, she speaks th thead nistration and wants republicans to speak in their line. it's like throwthg spaghetti on wall and hoping something sticks. the major anticorruption partsut of the constn are the emoluments clause, and the president has never sent one single contract, reward pment he's gotten from a foreign power to ask for permission to get its the othe impeachment, which is highme crimes, misors, bribery, and treason. they think we shouldn't have an impeachment at all, but certainly in the last year before a presidential election. it is just corruption, trump couldoo what -- write a on corruption. it could have everything in it. as far as him not dealing with foreign countries that are rrupt, and afghanistan, its foreign aid, very corrupt. judy: let's talk about what came out today. we heard kellyanne conway say at dono point was the ambas sondland, t

now on the flood of new reporting we are still getting about what the president knew, congressman steve cohenber of the house judiciary committee who is taking part in next wednesday's hearing. >>> so, congressman cohen, given the fact each day it seems we learn more about what the president knew and when he knew it, are you concerned that this impeachment process is being rushed through before all the facts are known, more stuff may still come out? >> well, i think things will come out. things will come out for as long as he's president and after he's president and we will continue to pursue those issues, and we can still have hearings and intel in judiciary on actions he took that are violative of the constitution, violative of law, that affect our national security. all of those things can still be subject for hearings and possible -- if there is something that comes out that's impeachable, that doesn't mean you can't have another impeachment. there's no rule that you went once and that's all. >> there are reports rudy giuliani was to be paid bayou crane's top prosecutor. it seems like all

here now is democratic congressman steve cohen from tennessee.e judiciary committee. so, congressman, i know you're going to have academic witnesses for the first judiciary committee hearing. are you going to have any fact witnesses? are you going to want to hear from rudy giuliani? if he does come up or say there is some quick court ruling that allows other people to testify, would that go to intel? or would it go to -- to judiciary? >> i don't think that's been determined. and i think speaker pelosi with chairman nadler and chairman schiff would make that decision. i -- i really don't think the courts are going to have anybody come in very soon. i think the trump team's going to continue to stonewall and appeal and appeal and appeal. and all of the folks we're talking about, bolton and mcgahn, have long-standing relationships with republicans. and have been -- bolton's got a book deal and mcgahn's got a law practice that are really dependent a lot upon their history in working with the republican team. they're not going to jeopardize that. you

representative steve cohen of tennessee joins me now. congressman, cohen, you probably just heard kellyanne conway say these hegsarave gone on too long and they've basically proved nothing about the present. >> well, she speaks whathe administrations wants the republicans to speak. it's like throwing the sonagheti he wall and hoping something sticks. the two major icorruption parts of the constitution are the emoluments clause, and the president has never set one single contract, reward,ntay that he's got from a foreign power to congress to ask for permission to get it and the other is impeachment, misdemeanors, bribery, and treason. and they think that we shouldn't have an impeachment proceeding, probably at all, but certainly, they say in the lt year before a presidential election. trump could write a book on corruption. it could beune, have evrything in it. as far as him not dealing with foreign countries that are corrupt-- afghanistan gets foreign aid, very corrupt. >> woodruff: let's talk about today's hearing. weeard kellyanne coay

i mention past that i always are closer to the right but now we have people in the left like no steve cohen who became like a leader sometimes we call him others are harder for. for modern times who believe the same thing and so he had no union then or a merchant of right and left of people who believe that trump is right and he's saying that she thought we had steve going on the show several times but i have to say that unlike you he has faced some very serious repercussions for the position that he has taken now speaking broadly about the u.s. russian relationship i know that you believe that when the soviet union collapsed back in 1901 america have a he's toric up it's you need to transform its top anime into an ally a repeating what had happened previously with joe many add to patch but could that template really have. war with russia because i think as weak as russia was back in the early ninety's it would never give up on the idea of its own army like japan and would never sees part of its sovereignty to the united states like west germany so was that ever a realistic scenario. no wha

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he's there. >> the gentlemen from memphis, steve cohen.et me tell you something, david. chris a. has never sehayes has song. >> you got that. i appreciate it. >> they all did it. and elvis could have done it. >> congressman, thank you very much. let me turn to you. there will be a backstory on that after the story on twitter after the show. let me get to what he was talking about there if i could, where i was trying to tease out of him. jerry nadler is waiting. that's what's happening now. when is that going to pick up? when do we translate to what we've seen over the course of this week? >> we don't know the answer to that. we know next week we're going to have a series of very high-profile hearings including gordon sondland, fiona hill wrapping up the week. and then it's an open question. we go away for thanksgiving week and come back and they'll theoretically pick up where the intelligence committee left off, pick up with this mountain of evidence the intelligence committee has put together and put together some sort of impeachment arti

. >> joining us now to discuss is democratic congressman on the house judiciary committee steve cohenks for joining us. so even before this ukraine call scandal, there were foreign service officers who were leaving government in droves. you just heard kylie's reporting. what concerns do you have about what you just heard? >> i hear it all the time. our foreign service officers are outstanding individuals. when you look at the people in the foreign service, they have impeccable records of honesty and scholarship. they've gone to the best schools. they've received honors from the colleges and master's degrees and phds. they stand up for the united states everywhere and they don't take partisan positions. they are to be commended. the state department is one of our best agencies in standing up for human rights around the globe and for american interests, both commercial and personal. for them to be attacked by our president and not supported by our secretary of state is just wrong. the secretary is supposed to look out for the state department and the united states, not simply the presid

the number of people who referenced steve cohen and the bucket of fried chicken was astonishing.o a judiciary committee with a bucket of fried chicken because it was going to be such a show to watch. they are concerned. they need it to be a serious, sober, somber, prayerful moment. they don't want it to turn into a circus. >> it's not helpful in either party when people from safe seats show up thinking they can turn it into a circus. madelyn dean today. she says the polling is actually pretty good. >> 50% of people believe the president has done culpable things that warrant his removal? to me, that's a very strong poll. we haven't seen the entire report. we haven't drafted articles of impeachment. we have a long way to go. >> this is a debate in town right now, in the sense that it is half the country, democrats do have an advantage. it's clearly safe for most house democrats if 50% of the country thinks that. that means in a safe democratic district the number is probably considerably higher than that. the question is you're not going to persuade republican senators if this is a

that's why efforts like steve cohen, donating money to open 25 clinics, that stuff is important.y have that sort of stigma today. and, as we know post traumatic stress and mental health disorder is not a veteran issue, it's a society issue so it's time we need to understand and talk about these things and encourage those around us. every conversation to help normalize and have mental health care is a move in the right direction. >> bret: 3.3 million veterans served post 9/11. 3.3 million. a lot of people in and out of afghanistan and iraq. >> absolutely. the conflicts are continuing to change and, it's important that we as a country, on days like today, take a step back and recognize what sacrifice are truly made by the veterans population in our country and continue to support them. as active duty continues to change shape, and all these new missions that are being exposed, these needs for a veteran population are going speak to what you in afghanistan, the third intricacy regiment was truly amazing. what you are doing to know for veterans is also amazing. so thank you very much

congressman steve cohen, and you are always spectacular with us, how about that. thank you so much. >> you are nice, alex. a big night here, memphis won over smu, and the espn gameday here, and the nationals won, and all is good in my world. >> that means that you broke smu's undefeated record, and they are not happy about that. >> that is right. don't mess with memphis. >> well, okay. all right. i will talk to you. >> okay. you, too. thank you, alex. >> and now no, the legal perspective on impeachment after hearing from 14 current and former officials, and the democrats say that this is the coming week of the last of the private hearings, and take a listen. >> there will be public hearings very, very soon. this week, we are going to have the last of the witnesses come in, and then it will be released a and the transcripts will be released. >> so 11 people are on that schedule including the white house lawyer who is accused of moving the controversial transcript into the secret server, and former national security adviser john bolton who his attorney says will not

. >>> iemp joined now by steve cohen of tennessee.ks for being with me this morning. >> good to be with you, poppy. >> so let's get first your reaction to the president. not only did he is he's not concerned about any of the testimony that has happened or been released this week, but he said you guys, democrats, should not hold public hearings. what's your response? >> well, if i knew what was going to be in the public hearings and it was going the make it clear that respected and well educated state department foreign affairs officials are going to say that you abused your power, you subverted the constitution and you tried to help a foreign power against an ally and leveraged it on getting political advantage for yourself, which is something unheard of and violating the rule of law, i would wanot wantt to be said publicly, either. >> so you're not surprised by that. the hearings are taking place, of course, they're starting on wednesday morning. >> but, you know, poppy, if they weren't public hearings, he would complain that they we

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. >> steve: oh >> jimmy: i loved it i went with my friend, andy cohen he told me to go to the show, and -- and i go, "i can't. i just don't want to be a poser. i don't really know all the songs. he's like, "i'll give you three songs, every week for the past -- for the next three months and get you ready for this concert halloween night at madison square garden. and every song that he sent, most of them they played so i knew almost all the songs >> steve: aww. >> jimmy: i was totally great. but i wore full on makeup. cyndie and jakob did our makeup for here from "the tonight show." [ cheers and applause and that's -- that's me. >> steve: wow. >> jimmy: and that's andy cohen and that's andy, that's me so it was so fun i kind of went to this concert and no one knew who i was. they couldn't recognize me so it was really an interesting concert for me i loved it and i got to say the band was fantastic. they were just on point that night. john mayer was just phenomenal, dude >> steve: wow. >> jimmy: this guy's unbelievable [ cheers and applause they all are bob weir, mickey -- everyone was gre

marshall cohen, good to see you, my friend. >> thank you. >>> steve bannon, president trump's formeris expected to testify agains roger stone in his trial for lying to congress. bannon was a key witness in the mueller investigation. also expected to testify, rick gates, another former top aide to mr. trump. both men could shed new light on the campaign's contacts with russia. stone is accused of witness tampering and obstructed justice. it is believed he updated trump campaign officials, including bannon, on information he had on wikileaks. >>> coming up, sandra bullock and ellen degeneres teaming up to take on fake. that story, coming up. >>> plus -- that half-court shot. does it go in? does it not? if it goes in, it's free tuition for a year. t-mobile's newest most powerful signal is here. experience it with the amazing, new iphone 11. and right now, t-mobile has the best deal on iphone. get 4 lines of unlimited with 4 iphone 11 included for only $35 a line. all on a signal that goes farther than ever before. that's right. get 4 unlimited lines and 4 iphone 11 for $35 a line. only

by steve realizing in the industry how you can improve things you can do things that other people do that just really give you strong ideas. ben cohen's own entry is a chimpanzee life size at one metre high in 80 kilos but this one is edible then put 4 days of work into it. the biggest challenge doing this was actually trying to get the stunts how they see it is so so so strange then i thought when i started it and it's a cross reference so many different photos of where that happens go how their legs sort of fold into each other. in studio in north wales to form the chimpanzee he stuck several layers of pastry together and then cut them into shape . the cake are the studied part in graphic design his fascination with baking only developed later on. to learn how to my was a simple as. and scientology in my thoughts genuinely how it started when i wanted to make the 1st one i had not the foggiest could. he modeled the skulls bone structure and fudge. he also used the multiple sugar paste to sculpt the facial features as well. this is now what the public are going to say what the client's going to say this is the final bit so it's reall

steve: oh yeah, it's tonight? >> it's a big deal i've been preparing for this for three months now andy cohen always asked me to go dead, and i said, "i can't go because i just - i don't wanna be a poser i don't really know them that well." i know them a little bit, but i don't know them that well. >> steve: yeah >> jimmy: i don't wanna go and ruin his time. he's like, "you won't ruin my time." i go, "i just feel weird." >> steve: you don't want to be ungrateful [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's true. and so, what he said to me was, "look, they're playing halloween night. madison square garden. i was like, "wow, that's cool. he's like, "what if i give you three songs every sunday for the next two months, or three months three months and start doing your homework. so i did and i know every song now. like all the b-sides the real -- the deep cuts. i went for it man, yeah. like, not just the hits. >> steve: right. >> jimmy: i'm in >> steve: in deep. >> jimmy: and i gotta say, i think i'm a dead head. >> steve: oh, nice [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: i mean i'm not going to tour with them and stuff. >> steve: right. >> j

the role steve bannon played in the trump campaign amp manafort's firing and the president's former lawyer michael cohenbuzzfeed news reporter who is with us. did the digging on all this. i read your report on this. it came out today. you have been trying to get ahold of this since april of this year. headline me what were some of the takeaways you found on this first batch of 500? >> sure. still going through the documents, but probably the most notable takeaway right now is the fact that trump's campaign had been pushing the conspiracy theory that ukraine was involved in the dnc hack in 2016. obviously, something that is now connected to the impeachment inquiry. there are fascinating details in here about steve bannon's interview with the fbi, where he tells the phish fib that -- fbi that jared kushner was vacationing off the coast of croatia with a russian billionaire, and that his own intelligence sources told him that the girlfriend of the russian billionaire who was with them was "questionable," and that they needed the, needed jared kushner to come back to the u.s. they had 85 days to go. didn't

thurman, glenn close, andy cohen, sarah jessica parker matthew broderick, i saw i owe matthew broderick an apology. [ light laughter ] this is why i shouldn't leave the house. >> steve just stay home. >> jimmy: i should just stay home and wait for this to come out on dvd >> steve: yeah, exactly. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: but i go out and see sarah jessica, and i also saw tina fey's husband, jeff i was going to say hi to jeff. so i go, "hey, what's up." and then behind sarah was matthew. and matthew goes -- he thought it was for him >> steve: oh >> jimmy: but i was already on my way to jeff so i just said, "sorry," and i shook jeff's hand. [ laughter ] >> steve: you have to. >> jimmy: he goes, "that was awkward. i gave him a hug i felt bad anyways, it was amazing, amazing play shout out to matthew lopez, who was the writer he's this young guy. and man, what a great piece. if you're around and have a day or -- spread it out a couple of nights see part one, part two next week, whatever "the inheritance" at the ethel barrymore theater. it's worth your time it's very, very good [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: guys, president trump is always giving speeches and speakin