become a media darling. his usefulness just ended. steve: we will hear from him again. lanny davis who is now apparently his former lawyer, mr. cohen s. said yesterday is he willing to testify before the appropriate congressional committee about donald trump s misconduct over the years. and that, essentially, is what trey gowdy was talking about in this sound bite. everything that their base wants them to pursue. everything that is calculated to disrupt the last two years of the trump of this tenure in office, it s they may be smart enough not to pursue impeachment although some of them are not it will be bitterly ironic for me to listen to democrats to clamor for the administration to be responsive when they didn t say a word for the six years we were trying to get information from the obama administration. brian: on the personal side the president has this la
affairs with them and blames cohens for problems with the payments. robert mueller is looking for moscow s meddling in the presidential election, possible collusion with members of the president s campaign, whether the president obstructed justice and any evidence of crimes uncovered during the investigation. president trump says there was no collusion and to no obstruction. the chief intelligence officer, catherine herridge reporting live from washington. at this hour, we have a status hearing with both sides in d.c. federal court. they re arguing over whether paul manafort violated his plea agreement with the special counsel. you recall in the filing late friday, part of which was public, manafort had inappropriate contact with the white house. the evidence demonstrates that manafort had contact with
you re right, from the flynn investigation, from paul manafort and from michael cohen, we re seeing that there s not a bright line at all between the president s financial dealings and his political dealings, and, again, if he s lying, and the russians know about it, the president of the united states is compromised by a foreign hostile nation. it s an extraordinary commentary that this is undeniably where we are. that it is we now know that they lied about conversations with the russians, about building trump tower moscow. it is not a debatable it is not a mystery. that is a fact. we know that. cohen has pleaded guilty to that. to lying to congress about that. how does donald trump swindle so many republicans? right. the idea of putting forth the idea that it was a bad-faith election, that cohens and others subverted democracy to get donald trump to president. to this point republicans have
president and his team lied about throughout 2016, is considered by mueller directly relevant to the russia investigation. mueller s sentencing memo about former trump fixer, michael cohen reads, quote, the fact that cohen continued to work on the project and discuss it with individual one, president trump, well into the campaign, was material to the ongoing congressional and special counsel investigations, particularly because it occurred at a time of sustained efforts by the russian government to interfere with the u.s. presidential election, unquote. mueller decried, cohen s, quote, false statements that obscured the fact that the moscow project was a lucrative business opportunity, hundreds of millions of dollars, he estimates, that sought and likely required the assistance of the russian government. now, that s interesting. because you know who else made false statements to the public about the moscow project? i have no dealings with russia. i have no deals in russia. i have no
from mueller and from how cohen s about how cohen s case fits into the overall scandal. so remember here what happened is that cohen initially plead guilty to eight felonies in federal district court in new york. that was a deal he worked out with prosecutors in the southern district of new york. we know from today s other filing in the cohen case that they ended up subsequently not that happy with the cooperation they got from him as a witness, and they think that the judge should put him in jail for a long time. thereafter, cohen plead guilty to another explain based on his work with prosecutors from the special counsel s office. they got him to plead guilty to lying to congress about the trump tower moscow project. and so essentially what they re saying here is yes we got him to plead guilty to an additional felony, but we don t think that that should give him any additional jail time. so this is from the filing. quote, special counsel s office provides this memorandum in connecti