innocent sitting in prison. the best thing for allen weisselberg is be quiet. i believe michael cohen was telling the truth. if he s telling the truth, which i believe, then very clearly and an objective mind can tell shout out, i used to practice, the objective mind is that weisselber g was in the rom and he knows. he is very clearly squarely in the hot seat here. he has potential, he has very serious risk here. i m not being as articulate as i would like. you said the best thing for allen wieisselberg. what do you think allen weisselberg cares about america? nothing. when you say the best thing for allen, you re right. it s important that this guy knows everything. it would be a real elija
michael cohen said in his sworn testimony last week is totally contradicted in his just released manuscript for a book about me. it s a total new love letter to trump and the polls, one l, must use it now rather than his lies for sentence reduction. so the president taking out after his enemies. unclear what he s referring to in 12e7sentence reduction. michael cohen s already been sentenced. unclear what he s talking about in his book manuscript. a tumultuous 24 hours. it sure was, mike. you mentioned jared kushner. the white house is facing a deadline when it comes to his security clearances. what can we expect there? reporter: i think we can expect more stonewalling. elija cummings, we saw him on wednesday in the hearing. the democrat from baltimore. chairman of the house oversight committee. on january 23rd, phillip, he wrote to the white house asking for documentation trying to
outline and take into account or build a narrative around what happened in some of these security clearances, obviously the jared kushner clearance has been a bone of contention for some time. the white house has not been forthcoming in those documents. elija cummings says they have until tomorrow, monday, to comfort wicome forth with those documents. it s unclear if they ll come forward. thanks. joining me now. deanna lowe. commentary writer for the washington examiner and sodem chef. deanna, why did the president go off script here like he did? what do you think motivated the longest speech of his presidency? obviously this was a disaster of a week for trump. politically he came back with a moral and strategic failure in vietnam negotiating with kim
right? he was stumbling over the idea that he was pearl clutching that he would be considered racist. elijah cummings came to his rescue and said they were friends. he wanted to move on. white man in flames, worried he s a racist. bringing up the relative. nephews of color. bringing up the relatives, his good heart, he couldn t believe it was said to him. rashida tlaib didn t get an apology but she walked back what she said. i do think it is fascinating cohen started with mr. trump is a racist. it s amazing to me. being a racist is not a crime. unless you are discriminating in the workplace. which we know from omarosa and others he also does do. by starting with that, i think and i don t want to be a broken record, but i think michael cohen was saying we, i signed on with someone who violates my personal codes.
will be postponed, he thanks mr. cummings for allowing him to appear before the committee. this is a time when mr. cohen had to put his family and their safety first. that is the statement. let s go now to michael smerconish. what s your reaction to that? it would have been high on that the ricks, brianna. i don t know if it had transpired as planned or if it would have been substantive and it would be must-watch television, that s for sure. i am more surprised by the stated rationale. i am more surprised by the threats against the family than i am that this was looked at with displeasure perhaps by the investigators and not just mueller and also the southern district who continue to look at the administration. so that s really the only surprise to me was the explanation given as to why it would be postponed. and you would want to know more about that, obviously, but when you look at the issue of