he has evidencery limitations. but that s not our that will not be our focus. we re not prosecutors. we want to make sure in the 2020 election, a foreign adversary doesn t interfere again. the best way to make sure that doesn t happen is to understand how they did it before. so we can put those witnesses, you know, in front of our committee. we can subpoena those documents. but most importantly, it s going to be a future forward-looking investigation to just make sure that this never, ever again happens to the our democracy. but it will also expose, if it turns out the way you think it s going to turnout, right? it will expose your republican colleagues for something somewhat of a cover up. that s what you re alleging or at least they covered up, they protected, they obstructed. and, again, those days are over. now, i can tell you, don, we have already had meetings where democratic members have all agreed that we don t want to go back in time. we don t want to hold a grudge
because he wants to a reduced sentence. the fact is he s reporting he doesn t have you know as an attorney, a 5k 1.1 a cooperation. he doesn t have a signed cooperation deal. but i think they will write a letter to the judge saying that the information that he gave to the special counsel was helpful in this investigation, and that might help. that s what today did also. bob mueller putting his name on this pleading, asserting that michael cohen was valuable and credible is very helpful to his cause, which works for and against him in terms of public perception. public perception, but what s the incentive for him to lie right now? why would he lie about the lies that he lied about? none. he would be really reckless to lie to mueller s investigators when he already has guilty pleas under his belt. i do not believe that his counsel, which is highly competent, would have ever allowed it. yeah. funny thing, though, i have to say. when i asked him, i said,
all right. as we just say, a lie. thank you. well, i ll let you say that. thank you, michael. i appreciate your time. any time. get the book, russian roulette. robert mueller isn t the only russia investigation, right? congressman eric swalwell is here to talk about the house intel committee s investigation. with democrats in power, how are they going to move forward?
know about the prior personal and political connections of donald trump, his family, his businesses and his campaign had with russia. to be able to look where we weren t able to look before, to senator obama deutsche bank, to subpoena the bank records, the cell phone records, the travel records that the republicans wouldn t. don, we ran a take them at their word investigation where they would come in, they would refuse to answer questions, and we weren t able to probe them any further. many times republicans actually told them, you don t have to answer the democratic questions. if you want to get up and leave, you can just leave. that s the investigation we ran. those days are over. we re actually going to do the job to protect our democracy. the question is what is your ultimate power in this? i guess what is the outcome here? because you can get these folks back. and i m not sure if michael cohen is going to tell you anything differently than what he s telling mueller. so what give
best minds in the business. lawyers at this level do not ask questions they don t know the answer to. yeah. well, i m going to let you go, my friend. but i ll tell you, my friend, the late great aretha franklin, what she used to say is lies on top of lies, and that s all that is. thank you. see you soon. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. thank you for joining us. this has been a huge day in the mueller investigation. block buster news, the president s former fixer and keeper of secrets apparently not keeping those secrets any more. eye talking about michael cohen. he s saying he was lying to protect the president when he told congress that negotiations to put a trump tower in moscow ended before the what with caucuses. cohen as part of his surprise guilty plea today to a charge by robert mueller now says the negotiations continued well into the presidential campaign until june of 2016.