pattern that trump and russia wanted to help each other. on obstruction, have you to remember what we saw today is just the tip of the iceberg. we know how do you know? there are because we don t have 70 hours worth of conversations in this in this scanty plea agreement, okay? you have the tip of the iceberg, cohen was there for 10 years, he was the cher pa, we know there s much more than he s going to talk about, i believe that i has been asked it would be malpractice for mueller not to ask it, and there have been media reports he s been asked, was there any inducement i can confirm that, that this deal was asked to the president in mueller s interrogatories, written questions. let me ask you a question. if the president is willing to say in public to the new york post that he has not taken off a pardon for paul manafort from
we know how do you know? there are because we don t have 70 hours worth of conversations in this in this scanty plea agreement, okay? you have the tip of the iceberg, cohen was there for 10 years, he was the cher pa, we know there s much more than he s going to talk about, i believe that i has been asked it would be malpractice for mueller not to ask it, and there have been media reports he s been asked, was there any inducement i can confirm that, that this deal was asked to the president in mueller s interrogatories, written questions. let me ask you a question. if the president is willing to say in public to the new york post that he has not taken off a pardon for paul manafort from the table, can you imagine what might have been said in private? i m not saying it was said, it may or may not have been. highly speculative, counselor.
nadler said he wants answers, but bob goodlatte, not so much. what mr. cohen was doing and mr. trump was doing are two different things. we need to find out about it. those interrogatories that were submitted to the president and he s answered, we have not seen. and maybe some day we will see. joining me right now, democratic congressman hakeem jeffries who was just elected the new head of the house democratic caucus and sits on the judiciary committee we re talking about. thanks for coming in. good morning. thanks for having me on. jerry nadler says he wants to investigate cohen s misstatem t misstatements to congress. should that be the first order of business for the committee in january? i think we have constituti constitutional responsibility as a separate and coequal branch of government to insure we conduct meaningful insight of an out of control executive branch. that hasn t happened in the last
well, if his answers, the written ones, are inconsistent with what michael cohen said and there is proof in the documents and with what we don t know what robert mueller has, if it s inconsistent with that, i m not an attorney but i would think it would spell big trouble for the president because that means he didn t tell the truth. it would depend on what. look, you re going to get him for lying. i d be shocked if that doesn t come out in the report. i don t know about in the written interrogatories but it s going to come out because the man lies all the time, the president, so that s going to come out. he has been teflon to that kind of scrutiny in a way i ve never seen in any elected official ever to this point. however, one of the things that s very interesting and irony here, they dragged their feet with their questions. months and months and months. we will. we won t. how? how many? let s negotiate. you know what mueller was doing during all that time? interviewing people. lear
with what michael cohen said and there is proof in the documents, and what we don t know what robert mueller has if it s inconsistent with that, i m not an attorney, but i would think it would spell big trouble for the president because that means he didn t tell the truth. it would depend you re going to get him for life. i d be shocked if that doesn t come out in the report. i don t know about in the written interrogatories, but it s going to come out because the man lies all the time, the president. so that s going to come out. he has been teflon to that kind of scrutiny in a way that i ve never seen in any elect official ever to this point. however, one of the things that s very interesting, an irony here, they drag their feet with those questions. months and months and months, we will, we won t, how, how many, let s negotiate. you know what mueller was doing all during that time? interviewing people, learning more, being able to put more into the questions, being able to cros