she s very good. leave that to cory booker. the fact you now have republicans who are setting a fire to democrats feats in the house to actually engage in impeachment when we have don mcgahn basically flipping his finger at the constitution and saying i m not going to come in and testify, this is an example of the leadership that was lacking in the damniemocratic p. professor jason johnson gets tonight s last word. thank you both for joining us. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. donald trump flies to pennsylvania tonight and rails against spying and treason. but the problems he left behind are substantial including the real threat now that his financial records must be handed over to congress so says a federal judge. michael cohen is back in the news tonight even while in prison because of an allegation that a trump lawyer instructed
effort to ask him, we asked the man who plays him in the jeff sorkin production. jeff daniels was a guest here today. and what he said has received a lot of attention already because of how he said it. you look at the cowardice of the people in the race. that s not courage. that s making sure you have a job after politics. courage is standing up and being a true patriot like we used to have in 1776 and all of that. who are the heroes going to be? is it going to be the daniel elsburg pentagon papers guy? i m waiting for that guy. we re all waiting for that guy. we need people like that. and to look at congress with all of the politics going, you re
accusation, do you think? well, look, i went back and read the mueller report. and the stuff that s in the cohen testimony to congress was enough for mueller to include in his summary, more in his summary and details of his report. so i don t think mueller would have put it in his final report if he did want believe there was really something there. so when you look at it, i think you have to take it seriously because of that. mueller saying, hey, you know, here s this account. now, the question is does the criminality of others come into question here? and what i m trying to say is when mueller sat down to the this investigation he says, look, i have to find out whether the president broke the law or others broke the law. and he ultimately said, look, i can t do anything about the president because he s the president but we re doing this investigation to find out if anyone else committed any crimes. and the question is does anything happy to those caught up in the report wloorp look
chicken and the congressman, it sort of detracted from the narrative and stuff that s in the report. last week they read the report aloud, and i m not sure how many people paid attention to that. i m not sure how many americans have actually read the report. in terms of building the sort of larger story about what the president did, it looks like they have struggled. and what happens today when mcgahn says i m not coming, that means there s no hearing tomorrow. there will be no don mcgahn up there even not having to answer questions, trying to invoke the privilege and say, look, i can t do that. we re not even going to have that. there will be no hearing tomorrow so there will no event for them to use. and final question, this implication of sekulow in the cohen testimony, obviously they re all over cohen tonight saying flawed witness, already lied to congress, is not credible. does it have staying power, the accusation, do you think?
tonight trump hinted at that and pointed to his predecessor when responding to questions about this judge s decision. we disagree with that ruling. it s crazy because you look at it, this never happened to any other president. they re trying to get a redo. they re trying to get what we used to collin school a do over. it s totally the wrong decision by obviously an obama appointed judge. and late today the house intel committee voted to release hundreds of pages of michael cohen s non-public closed door testimony. dates back to february and march. cohen is currently doing time as you ll recall. in his testimony he told congress that trump attorney jay sekulow told him to lie to lawmakers in 2017 unt those negotiations about trump tower moskow.