in today's hearing, virginia congressman gerry connolly led michael cohen through questioning that revealed that michael cohen had a meeting in the white house with president trump and the president's private lawyer jay sekulow before michael cohen provided a false statement to the house intelligence committee in 2017. >> you had a conversation with the president of the united states about your impending testimony before the house intelligence committee, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> what was the nature of that conversation? >> he wanted me to cooperate. he also wanted just to ensure by making the statement, and i said it in my testimony, there is no russia, there is no collusion, there is no -- there is no deal. he goes, it's all a witch hunt. he goes, this stuff has to end. >> did you take those comments to be suggestive of what might