in case you are wondering if this will be a fair investigation, fox s catherine herridge found out that schiff s democratic staff came here four times to meet with her merger of michael cohen for over ten hours ahead of his seven hours of public testimony. republican congressman mike turner told fox this clearly shows to him the witness was coached inappropriately. sources familiar with the cohen meeting state of the house until staffers covered such topics as whether the president inflated some of his assets to insurance companies and his close relationship with head of the is national enquirer. that raises eyebrows about how that ties in to oversight of intelligence matters, which is what schiff is supposed to be doing. in fact those topics were among the ones that cohen ended up discussing in his public testimony that went after the president. working questions tonight about whether cohen was coached. schiff s office insists to us, nothing inappropriate happened. they tell us, stan
moscow negotiations is completely false. we are back to the fundamental question of cohen testimony is that, is he credible? others have basically said you need kocorroboration. this is a little bit of corroboration. we have not seen this letter and we don t know what the edits look like or whether it is done digitally or whose writing it was. there is still a lot of open questions and what was specifically edited, we ll find out on that. hans nichols at the white house, thank you very much. is congress setting a new bar for what s acceptable from a president. joining me is former republican carlos c carlos curbelo and chris liu of the house and oversight committee. this is the question i have
theoretically going along with this idea of congress obtaining records from them, now they are actually producing material. and even if it was just those two things, right, i mean, the tax returns and deutsche bank records, i mean, those alone are the two big book ends of the president s financial history and the question whether or not his personal and business financial entanglements may be integral to getting to the bottom of some of the scandals surrounding this presidency. if it were just deutsche bank and tax returns alone, we would be bracing this week. but of course that s just happening alongside in august of other stuff getting going. we re getting news even just based on the cohen testimony last week that that testimony may have opened yet more doors for investigators. michael cohen s attorney lanny davis told us late last week new information was developed in a closed-door set of testimony that cohen had with the house intelligence committee after he
last day or so who predicted this speech that after a week of real defeat for this president, the public relations defeat with the cohen testimony and the failure to reach an agreement in vietnam, that he needed an outlet. he needed some sort of release. we ve seen this where he has the infamous speech to the boy scouts during that first summer, which came amid the health care falling apart, particularly when given a friendly audience and this one was and they responded to everything he did, including that flag hold. he got riled up, he needs that feedback from the base and needs that release, in some way setting himself to go forward. should a president s temperament really need that? that s a fair inquiry, but this is something very much of the pace of donald trump, this is how he gains energy is finding this base. it reflects, then, why so much of what he aims his policy and rhetoric is back at that very base.
of the scandals surrounding this presidency. if it were just deutsche bank and tax returns alone, we would be bracing this week. that s alongside, getting news based on the cohen testimony last week that that testimony may have opened yet more doors for investigators. michael cohen s attorney lanny daif davis told us late last week new information was developed in a closed door set of testimony that cohen had with the house intelligence committee after he spent the entire day on television. when he was behind closed doors with the intelligence committee, he somehow developed new information that caused the intelligence committee to schedule yet another session of testimony with michael cohen for this week, for wednesday. he will be going back in order to talk to them about that new material. after we learned that from cohen s lawyer, congressman eric