directed cohen to lie to congress. cohen said mr. trump did not tell me to lie to congress but also said this. in his way, he was telling me to lie. he speaks in a code, and i understand the code, because i ve been around him for a decade. so was buzzfeed vindicated? i don t think buzzfeed was vi vindicated, no. i don t enjoy the pile-ons and didn t enjoy the one that took place around buzzfeed. i think there was a story there, but i think we already knew part of it, frankly, from cohen s own presentencing memo, which referenced cohen testifying in accordance in directives of the president. i think they wrote a story that went further than what they knew. and i think that when we do that, then we have to deal with the fallout. and so i don t i don t think this was a ball-spiking moment. i think that i understand if i were the reporters, i would probably argue that it was. yeah, that s what they re arguing. right. but i think it s an argument
now members of the house david cicilline, is tweeting out saying, hey, hannity is volunteering himself as a witness. i look forward to his testimony. is that actually going to happen? could that happen? joining me now, former federal prosecutor, jennifer rogers, cnn legal analyst and shelby holloway, senior video reporter. the idea of a member of the media being called in to testify concerns me. is that concerning to you? no, not at all. in fact, it has nothing to do with that. what sean hannity did and i think he really stepped in it here, is to say i personally have information that contradicts what michael cohen said under oath. so by doing that, he says, i as an individual have relevant information for you, sdny, and you, congress i see. and hoping himself up to being called as a witness. it has nothing to do with his role as a journalist or employee at fox news. about his friendship with the president, friendship with cohen. and let s talk about another friend of the p
money off the president. the president has no problem with people writing books about him when they say positive things. number one. he s tweeted about a bunch of them. but number two, the whole premise of cohen s testimony was, i used to say all these really nice things about him when i worked for him, because i was subservient. and i was committing these acts of loyalty. yeah. and now i m not going to do that any more. so this book proposal coming when it came is not a surprise. but my favorite part of the president s tweet, that s what lawmakers need to refer to. that text. not what michael cohen said. under oath. here are the president s new tweets in the last few minutes while we ve been on the air. he says after more than two years of presidential harassment, the democrats broke the law. hostile cohen testimony given by a lawyer to reduce prison time proved no collusion. his just-written book manuscript shows what he said was a total lie. but the fake news media won t show
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maybe there just isn t an actual crime there that they can prosecute, but maybe the conduct is still have been bad in other senses. so the committees are maybe wanting to explore areas like that. with cohen testifying, he talked to the fbi and the southern district of new york and mueller s probe, the chances of him lying again are lower. they will have notes against which to compare. if he lies to congress this time, they will throw the box at him. what s the positive outcome? what does a guy like michael cohen get out of going congress for three days and testifying? that s a really good question. i think that from a very cynical point of view, he is going to jail for three years. maybe the possibility sometime in the future that he could get an early release or a good conduct release or a release to a home detention for part of his