date was incorrect. so any of the president s attorneys who reviewed cohen s statement, do you or does your committee plan on calling them to testify? well or at least at this point. as the chairman said today, it was a very product tive day. i know this is frustrating but we want to keep the of course. i know, there s a lot you can t say. subject as private as we could, partly because as a result of today s testimony, the committee may very well call in additional people, and if we call in additional people, we don t necessarily want them knowing exactly what it was that michael cohen said. so when the chairman said it was a productive day, i think it s i think what he meant, and i think what is fair to say is that we learned new things. michael cohen said today that he brought new documents. the chairman confirmed that. we saw new documents that pertained to to when michael cohen told the committee the trump tower building had stopped being the project had s
to ask the question, was michael cohen lying to his attorneys and did he did he consort with the president to do that? how plausible is it that the president and michael cohen were on one page about trump tower moscow, and their lawyers were on another page? well, you know, the signs seem to be pointing in that direction. i think that from what our reporting is, you know, the lawyers say it s hard to imagine any of them would knowingly, you know, be part of some cover-up here, and that michael had written his testimony, and each of these lawyers were protecting their own particular clients as part of this joint defense agreement. so we now know that michael cohen had multiple conversations with the president of the united states. we re not quite sure when they were. and, you know, you have to sort of ask the question, did he keep these conversations with the president from his attorney? and the answer is probably yes. gloria borger, gloria, stay
president, himself, and not before taking office, either. they were written in the white house while he was president. now, we knew about five of them, but now we have more. 11 in all from the president or his trust account. this one obtained by the times we saw for the first time today dated october 18th, 2017, and his busy that day embroiled in controversy over an allegedly insensitive condolence call it a fallen soldier s widow. you may remember that day. there were other checks and other notable days according to the times according this one for $70,000 to michael cohen on valentine s day of 2017 which also happens to be the day the president asked james comey to go easy on michael flynn according to comey. as the times maggie haberman and michael schmidt put it, i m quoting, the president hosted a foreign leader in the oval office then wrote a check. he haggled over legislation then wrote a check. he traveled abroad then wrote a check. $420,000 in all according to court d
lawyers were hoodwinked. i mean, lawyers only know what they re told. lawyers have no firsthand knowledge of of the matters where they re doing the representation. and people lie to their lawyers all the time. the real responsibility here are the people who talk to the lawyers. that is, michael cohen, himself, who was acknowledged lying about the timing of the trump tower initiative in moscow. and trump, himself. i mean, they re the ones who had a lot to gain from lying about this. and we know that the president lied to the public about his his relationship with the trump tower moscow project and how long it went on and how serious it was. so if he lied to the public, i would assume that he lied to the lawyers as well. why wouldn t he? gloria, i mean, something as sensitive as this trump tower moscow project and potentially, you know, financially beneficial, what incentive would
oversight committee with cameras running, republicans bringing posters out. none of that happened. in fact, it was, you know, fairly boring procedurally and as much as question after question after question got asked, the republicans did participate. again, i don t want to get into the details of what was said and done, but the republicans i think are mainly, i think they understand they re in a little bit of a box because, you know, as they did before the american people, saying michael cohen, you have no credibility, you re a bad guy, you re a criminal, and stuff, well, sentence number two behind that is, this is a guy who worked for the president for ten years and oh, by the way, was finance chairman of the republican party. so that s a pretty uncomfortable position for the republicans to be in. yeah. congressman himes, good to have you on. thank you very much. thanks, anderson. gloria borger is back. i want to bring in cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeff, you heard g