addition to what you re talking about in terms of the buzzfeed article and whether or not the president directed michael cohen to lie to congress, which cohen says did he not. cohen does say s, though, that e president s personal attorney reviewed and edited his prepared testimony. he may not have just committed perjury when he spoke outloud to congress, he provided perjury in the statement he provided beforehand and that statement was reviewed, says mike a.m. cohen, by the president s personal attorney. ellie, you re the attorney among us. does that put the personal attorney in any kind of jeopardy here, if they edited, were aware that michael cohen was going in there with dishonest statements? you hit on the key point. if the attorney was aware that was false, 100% that attorney s on the hook for obstruction of justice, witness tampering and suborning perjury. doj has to an extent signed on to michael cohen s version of facts. when michael cohen pled guilty
make sense? does it jive with things that we ve seen before? and to what extent is he backed up by other evidence? we ve gotten a sense of that in the opening statement, the checks, the other records and documents that he s brought up. and remember, this is just an opening statement. we re just getting started. there s going to be a whole lot more coming out today. garrett graff, i want to warn you we may have to interrupt you when we see the president and kim jong-un together for the first time. that may nap a minute we re told. but in the meantime, remember, as we all do, that explosive buzzfeed story that said that the president had directed michael cohen to lie to congress. that will come up today. and, in fact, he is going to address it. he is this is what he s going to say. mr. trump did not directly tell know lie to congress, that s not how he operates. in conversations we had in the campaign at the same time i was actively negotiating with russia for him he would look me in
business in russia and then go out and lie to the american people by saying the same thing. in his way, he was telling me to lie. so, garrett, that was such a headline grabbing moment when it sounded as though there was going to be an overt direction to lie to congress. and this is much more subtle of michael cohen saying he got the message. and i m wondering what you think of that testimony that he ll say? this sort of perfectly explains and is consistent with the buzzfeed reporting and then the special counsel s unprecedented denials saying that they don t vefds have evidf that. which is not to say that cohen sort of didn t feel that way that he had been instructed to lie. it s just that the special counsel did not have evidence of a direct overt act, as you said. this is sort of the who will rid me of the meddlesome priest question, which is if donald trump and michael cohen have worked together long enough, he
government. a president who has not had the common decency to sit down with any federal workers. this morning we have new detailses the exchange between robert mueller s office and reporters for buzzfeed news about that bombshell piece that the special counsel says is a bust. the buzzfeed piece was a disgrace to our country. it was a disgrace to journalism. it is sunday, january 20th, and house speaker nancy pelosi is holding her ground. nancy, how you feeling tonight? oh, just normal. not like junking my own power or anything. up with me this morning, a. scott bold win, a criminal defense attorney. and christina greer who teaches political science. and leigh gallagher at fortune magazine, and evan siegfried, a
allies and they did. and mueller and the 13 angry democrats whomever they may be, they went out and are adhering to the truth and that is what matters at the end of the day. and i thank robert mueller for putting out this statement and buzzfeed if they did get the story wrong, there will be a lot of problems there. they have doubled down. and the reason why mueller is taking so long is because we re dealing with a corrupt man for the past four decades where he s pulled one string and now so many things are falling out. what we thought might be a two month enterprise is now in-defendant. > indefinite. coming up, we ll ask a california congressman how all the democrats feel.