we learned, for example, that the president knew that roger stone was in touch with wikileaks and julian assange. we also knew that the president knew ahead of time that michael cohen was going to come before congress and lie, which is, of course, why he s lost his license to practice law and why he s going to prison for up to three years. so we laerearned a lot. but i have to say, while the former two instances are examples of potentially crimes, i found at least equally offensive that michael cohen quoted the president or then non-president trump as having said, i m not stupid, i m not going to vietnam, which i find deeply offensive and very, very hurtful to the 58,000 approximately names and the families of those names printed on the 492-foot vietnam war memorial. you know, the republicans on the committee today slammed cohen and his credibility repeatedly. they really didn t ask questions. it was a defense well, it was
because i want to know the people s know we are good people we are not criminals we are just hard workers that s what i want the people to know so, they worked there a number of years. they made, you know, good money but they said not great money. no benefits. no severance a lot are worried now about what they re going to do for their families i think the key thing that the two that you just saw, gabrielle and maria said to me is they believe people at the trump organization knew and looked the other way. it is their opinion that they understood that these were false documents they were being handed they made photo copies, gave them right back, didn t ask questions. they actually even say they think president trump certainly must have known that his company was employing people. some had the keys to eric trump s weekend home these were people that were very involved supposedly with the
government funding. reporter: democratic leaders are rejecting the president s proposal and pushing their own bill which passed in the house through february 8th to get congress more time to negotiate. senate minority leader chuck schumer said white house s plan, it was not included in the discussions. there were no serious negotiations with democratic leaders or any democrat to produce this proposal. the president didn t ask what democrats needed in the bill, he laid his proposal down on the table. and proclaim the compromise. if they get more democratic support for the bill to pass, no sure thing. it would head over to the house and put pressure on nancy pelosi for a vote on it even if it doesn t have much chance of passing. all of this is movement but no indication the showdown will be over anytime soon.
and stable and predictable government funding. reporter: democratic leaders rejected the proposal and are pushing their own bill which would from the government through february 8th and give congress time to negotiate border security. chuck schumer says the white house s plan is not compromised because his side was not included in the discussions. there were no serious negotiations with democratic leaders or any democrats or producers proposal. the president didn t ask what democrats needed in a bill to achieve our support. he simply laid his proposal on the table and proclaimed it a compromise. reporter: the democratic bill passed the house. it would flock to the president s desk, the president s plan passing the senate would need to go to the house where it would have an extremely tough time passing but
president trump opens back up the government. the house plans to just keep passing their own shutdown-ending spending bills and they are not yet considering anything that could come from senate republicans. again, neither are senate democrats. the president didn t ask what democrats needed in a bill to achieve our support. he simply laid his proposal down on the table and proclaimed it a compromise. you can t have a compromise when one side declares this is what we want and this is what you want. we re also waiting to hear back from speaker pelosi whose request for president trump to postpone the state of the union address until after the shut down has apparently been ignored. the white house sent a letter to the sergeant at arms saying they re ready for the security walk through ahead of a scheduled speech a week from tonight, neil. neil: they re going to force the issue, i guess. thanks.