department. when he makes these statements, they can t be taken lightly by michael cohen or other witnesses. now we have to assure his safety and bring him in voluntarily. walk us through, tell us a little bit about other individuals that you and your committee are interested to hear from regarding this subject and the other ngss that we outlined. there is a lot of issues that the oversight committee be looking into. there are topics ranging from campaign contribution violations. there are other witnesses that mr. cohen would probably tell us about, and i would suspect they would then be called in for further questioning. how do you ensure that what your committee is doing now in the way you re launching these
street journal is giving us boxing gloves and bags of cash that are basically overlapping what we saw in the original criminal information which is like an indictment against cohen. you have another series of campaign contribution violations that most likely were not reported as they should be. in addition to that, you have donald trump involved in the campaign violations just as he was in the payments to the two women and also involved in trying to intimidate a witness. which is witness tampering. it is a 20-year felony under the criminal code. the idea that he is trying to scare michael cohen out of testifying is just an outrage. and cohen rightfully is concerned that the statements that donald trump is making are going to put his family in danger. you talk about the danger and there has been investigations into other individuals. bill clinton and hillary clinton, people in and around the white house.
campaign contribution violations that cohen engaged in. and ironically it wasn t mueller who made the charge, it was the u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. so i suppose he s now partisan, as well. yeah. and quickly before we go, i would like to ask, is there one moment that kind of defined him to you when you guys were working together, or a little anecdote to share it to share about the man at the center of this incredibly important investigation? it s not a terribly exciting one, but i think it represents it s representative in terms of as the chief of the criminal division, he had to approve and review all indictments. and i remember my first dealing with him giving him a complicated, lengthy indictment thinking, well, he ll just, you know, blow through this and and approve it by rote. and i got it back with dozens of
the dump of democratic national committee e-mails by wikileaks. a source says cohen took a train from new york to washington, d.c. to meet with robert mueller and his team. he declined to answer any questions about why he was in town. cohen has participated in multiple sitdown interviews with mueller s team. he is expected to be charged with tax evasion and campaign contribution violations. house democrats say they will begin their majority with a bill on government reform.
didn t answer questions on michael cohen and also pleaded guilty to eight counts including two counts of federal campaign contribution violations. i want do go to shimon prokupcz. the serious charge, the president was fully aware of what he was doing in arranging the hush money payments to karen mcdougall and stormy daniels. the michael cohen saying in federal court, all this was done, quote, in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office which would clearly be an illegal campaign contribution under federal law and clearly he was referring to donald trump. go ahead. what are you learning? that s right, wolf. also says this is being done to influence the election. so you have to wonder, really, if the president, if donald trump was not the president, would we be looking at a very