today that michael cohen spent 70 hours testifying about what he knows about the president, i ve got it tell you, i ve tried entire cases from start to finish in less than 70 hours. i can t imagine the amount of incriminating information he provided to the mueller investigation and to the grand jury. so as dramatic as this is, it might still be only the tip of the iceberg. yes. obviously not just the amount of information that he has provided but you also look psychologically at what the impact is on this case. robert mueller, very close shop. he s plodding ahead, as we believed from the beginning he would do. no leaks out of this investigation. you can t ignore the timing, after a couple of days after the paul manafort deal implodes you have michael cohen. right to trump s gut. that s what it is.
insist that that never happened. so it becomes an issue now of michael cohen pitting his word against the president s. we have a lengthy list of questions to ask the president on this topic, chris, not even to mention the developments with paul manafort, former campaign chair who, until an hour ago, had been driving the headlines on this. there s always an opportunity for the president on air force one to go back to the press cabin and talk to reporters. we don t know if he will do that. he may. we ll find out soon and traditionally there s a press conference at times like these. it may be another opportunity for reporters to put these questions to donald trump. chris? we ll be getting back to hallie. as you were talking i was looking at my e-mails and one of our producers says again, indeed, the president has stopped and is taking questions from reporters on the south lawn. we do not have the ability i see that, chris. nobody has the ability to go live from there. as soon as w
is something where he didn t confirm specifically referring michael cohen s testimony to special counsel but did talk about the fact that they have referred some of the testimony that s come to the committee. they are working together. and the senate we should separate this out a little bit. the investigation into russian interference has been run in a much more bipartisan way, varsity investigation compared to what some have considered the junior varsity on the house side that has devolved almost entirely. but it s remained a bipartisan one. you ll continue to see the senate investigation go forward with a little more teeth and as to whitaker, this is a recurring theme on capitol hill. there s not a lot of confidence in the acting attorney general, including from republicans. i heard a lot of republicans say we need to get a permanent nominee into this job because they just don t feel like whitaker is the guy, that he s too wrapped up into the politics
paul manafort who it s very sad what s happened to paul the way he s being treated. i ve never seen anybody treat sod poed so poorly, but the question was asked to me by the new york post and i said no i have not offered any pardons and i think they asked would you. i said i m not taking anything off the table. that was done as a question from the new york post. if cohen is such a bum, why did you hire him, have him on your payroll for 12 years, and have him do so much of your dirty work? because a long time ago he did me a favor. a long time ago he did me a favor. no, not at all. not at all i m not worried at all about him. you just take a look at his written document. go back, take a look at what he
what is clear from the court documents that cohen has put his name to is that cohen was actively engaging in not just continuing to work on the president s properties and build his brand out but was doing so potentially in conjunction with the campaign and as my colleague peter alexander has pulled from these court documents, with the president s family apparently. these documents show that cohen reached out to several members of donald trump s family to talk with them about this possibility, and in fact, at one point over the course of the early summer days there was working or taking steps to work with the campaign to see if there was some way to have donald trump visit russia. cohen himself potentially to visit russia as well. we know that donald trump didn t visit russia, michael cohen didn t visit russia according to these documents either so those trips never came to fruition. this does cast light on this really critical time, this summer period. the republican establishment has