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disparage. i was never fired. so i spoke to a lot of people there and some people want to maintain their privacy. others are afraid. i thought maybe i was going to help with the contribution to win the election for the democrats back when. i thought i was doing my part, to be honest with you. also, let s be honest. you have been on the receiving end of some threats when you spoke out. from whom? well, michael cohen called me. the first article i wrote which i thought was somewhat flattering to trump. it was balanced. said something like you have my home number to the fact that it was libelous or defamation. it was going in that direction. i said, michael, i have people here. i can t discuss it now. i ll call you back. i never called him back. that was the end of it. you took it as a threat? definitely. we appreciate you being able to shine a light on what your
answers to these very important questions. congressional democrats are going to look into this further. could be the title of any one of six stories. that s right. today, margaret, because that s where we are. michael cohen fichb nished his behind closed doors.ny yesterday we learned he s coming back next week to testify behind closed doors. felix sater is coming to testify. allan weiss willberg, there are a couple alan weisselberg, they want him. this seems to be what the democrats rejoiced in, which is oversight, aggressive oversight and investigations that won t go away for some time, margaret. and, john, i think we can see at this point the democrats investigation seems to be heading much closer to questions about the trump organization, whether it s what happened inside the internal finances of the organization, whether it s
that magnitude, a business of that size is under a general audit type of situation. but i don t know that first. and of course you don t know it first hand and you don t know if for a fact because he hasn t produced any evidence or any letter that he s under audit. sure. but knowing how the irs operates, the standard of audits for businesses such as what we re dealing with here, that wouldn t surprise me that that s the situation. did you change your opinion when you heard michael cohen who worked with the president for ten years very closely and knew a lot about his finances when, let me remind everybody, what michael cohen told the oversight committee on wednesday? listen to this. what he didn t want was to have an entire group of think tanks that are tax experts run through his tax return and start ripping it to pieces and then he ll end up in an audit. so could you presume from that statement that he wasn t under audit?
the purse strings from congress, you could koh have voted to block it this time. but when there s a crisis and the law is the law and i agreed with the crisis determination by the president. what i do want is congress to be coequal in a national emergency declaration. that s what this amendment that time proposing and many of my colleagues in a bipartisan way are proposing is we make sure congress plays a role in this. we ve got 31 national emergencies on the books from the carter administrations and beyond that are still there because the president has just acted. president indicator declared a national emergency and it s still in effect today? congress has advocated its role. it needs to step up and take its authority back. we appreciate talking to you on new day. thank you. michael cohen s testimony could be trouble for some republican supporters of the president and it could be trouble for some of his democratic critics. why both may now be in a no-win situation. that s next.