korean dictator over the death of american student otto warmbier back in 2017. he felt badly about it. i did speak to him. he felt badly about it. he knew the case very well, but he knew it later. he tells me that he didn t know about it, and i will take him at his word. does it make sense to you that this president seems to constantly take authoritarian leaders at their word whether it s vladimir putin or kim jong un? not only does it not make sense but i think it s pearliou to do this as a matter of practice and i might say in this case, having had some experience with hostage releases in the last administration that the north korean hierarchy is very aware of the status of those. didn t know about it
illegal activity that we did not hear yesterday? potentially illegal activity? in his hearing? in my hearing. i know you wanted a yes or no answer to that question. let s just say we learned new information that is not in the public realm. that s pretty good. that s close. and congressman, it s interesting. michael cohen yesterday said that he was called upon to intimidate in phone calls, threaten lawsuits some 500 times over the course of ten years. i think i have to look again, but i think right after he was asked about physical intimidation, and he said no. i think he said there were other people for that. who did that? donald trump didn t do it personally. that s what he said. and that was chilling. but nobody it was interesting to me nobody followed up on that, because i m curious what exactly does he mean by that. is he indicating actual physical intimidation, which is something that stormy daniels had alleged.
yesterday that we hadn t heard before was the idea that the southern district of new york is actually investigating the president for something beyond collusion, something that we have not heard anything about. without telling us what he said behind closed doors, did he shed any more light today to your committee about what those might be? any glimpse into it? you should ask congressman connolly that as well. thing has been a lot of dancing around a number of subjects. you heard the chairman in his statement today after our meeting that there were certain investigative equities in areas in which our witness didn t want to go. other than that, he cooperated fully. so even behind closed doors, he would not go down certain roads because of ongoing investigations? i think it s fair to say that in both investigation, in both hearings there were areas in which mr. cohen didn t want to go. did he give you any new names that we didn t hear yesterday? again, i didn t want to get into
was collusion for this reason or that. he didn t say that. he said no collusion. laura? you know, one of the things that michael cohen revealed yesterday that we hadn t heard before was the idea that the southern district of new york is actually investigating the president for something beyond collusion, something that we have not heard anything about. without telling us what he said behind closed doors, did he shed any more light today to your committee about what those might be? any glimpse into it? you should ask congressman connolly that as well. thing has been a lot of dancing around a number of subjects. you heard the chairman in his statement today after our meeting that there were certain investigative equities in areas in which our witness didn t want to go. other than that, he cooperated fully. so even behind closed doors, he would not go down certain roads because of ongoing investigations? i think it s fair to say that in both investigation, in both hearings there
there was clearly untoward activity, but everybody lied about it. michael cohen is going to jail for lying about it. can i also just add it s not surprising that cohen didn t really know much about russia and collusion, because trump style like a criminal enterprise is to compartmentalize. so what you know is not what he knows. and that s deliberate. only one person knows the whole story. so it s not at all surprising that there were gaps in mr. cohen s knowledge. that s by design. do you think the president pointed out that michael cohen said no collusion. he didn t actually say no collusion. he said he had no direct evidence of it, though he had suspicions. do you think the fact that he up front said he has no direct evidence actually adds to his credibility? i think it does. and i think the president s statement today really undercut the entire republican strategy yesterday, which was to try to discredit this witness. because he pointed out even trump liked some of wha