i wonder if she, your wife will remain faithful when you re in prison. that s not a threat but tawdry and beneath the dignity of a sitting congressman. and believe me, that bar, it ain t too high. gaetz said that tweet was not witness tampering but witness testing. the thing gat s tweet seems to ignore is it was meant to be a threat or intended to make people sort of clutch their pearls. you just have to look no further than the president s own alleged conduct. all the pearls are taken. there is no pearl necklace anymore. when cohen testifies tomorrow, yeah, it ll be a known lawyer who lied for another known liar because the liar told him to lie and paid him to lie. you can also argue the liller doesn t actually have to lie anymore because he s already been convicted of lying and he s heading to prison. how much more does he really have to lose? chief white house correspondent jim acosta is in hanoi with the president. he joins us now. what are you hearing about the
michael cohen doesn t have any. but, anderson, i think more to the point at this juncture, this advisor said right now michael cohen is without a country. that is how badly he is seen inside trump world. it s almost as if he s been excommunicated, and it really gets to the heart of how things go down in trump world. when you re somebody like paul manafort who has really existed cooperating with the special counsel s office, you don t get this kind of treatment. but when you re michael cohen it s something out of the godfather had twitter existed when michael corlioni was around. i find it hard to believe the president is not going to watch michael cohen s hearings tomorrow. i think that s 10:00 p.m. in hanoi. he would have to stay up through the night to i guess actually watch it. but do we know, does he plan to watch it? reporter: well, according to our sources, anderson, yes. white house officials have basically acknowledged the president will be spending some
it could certainly be described as obstruction of justice. however there is a speech and debate clause under the u.s. constitution in which members of congress are gibbon broad range to speak about matters being litigated. i don t think this is going to wind up to be a legal case especially because trump himself has said worse things about cohen and more threatening things. it was the president who tweeted why aren t they investigating cohen s father-in-law. i mean he s the one in charge of the department of justice. gaetz is just a junior member of congress who really doesn t have much authority to do anything. it s much more threatening to have the head of the executive branch talking about your father. i mean, jeff, what s interesting is gaetz isn t even on the oversight committee so it s just like he s trying to get in on the game and sort of, you know, please daddy trump. i mean, that s essentially, you know, he s just trying to get