surrounds michael cohen. it is sort of sad to see this come about and fortunately it s not the present. harris: on the president himself when i sat down with him a few weeks ago, when i asked him why he would bring a man like this into your inner circle and would have so much power s are officially recording it. he said he made a mistake. it was over some real estate deal they had done on a committee, so on and so forth. but we just heard from the senate intel committee vice chair mark warner now on the l. democrat from virginia. he was telling a producers when asked about this michael cohen situation, what you want to hear from michael cohen? and warner said he liked the committee, he has an enormous number of answered questions about trump tower, and a variety of other items that we would be interested in. what is your reaction? well, i m not sure would anyone think michael cohen has. again, he has been very truthful with much of the past. maybe he has lied about things. i don
this is the united states of america. this is not russia. so ultimately where this lands sounds like they will subpoena michael cohen if they need to. i don t know what kind of arrangements they may be working out with law enforcement in terms of trying to ensure cohen s safety and his family s safety. i also don t know what plans congress may have for trying to hold the president liable for witness tampering, if that is in fact what happened here with how he publicly challenged cohen s planned testimony. that seems to be what congressman cummings and congressman schiff and congressman nadler are getting at when they chastise the white house, after warning them in the first place, now chastising the white house for the statements that led to cohen s trying to rescind his acceptance of the invitation to testify today. so that s the michael cohen situation as of right now. it is definitely a watch this space situation. i imagine that those developments in terms of when
invitation to testify today. so that s the michael cohen situation as of right now. it is definitely a watch this space situation. i imagine that those developments in terms of when he s going to testify, where he s going to testify, under what circumstances and his safety arrangements, the question of the president potentially witness tampering here, that is all going to develop quickly over the course of tonight and the next few days. and while that michael cohen story developed today, we also had a couple of new developments in the criminal case involving the president s campaign chairman. there is going to be a hearing in paul manafort s case on friday. manafort s lawyers made clear to the judge in his case today that manafort himself doesn t personally want to attend that hearing on friday. he does not want to go. he would prefer to stay in jail. the judge rejected that request and said no, manafort has to be there. manafort s lawyers then instantly followed up with a subsequent f
trump, while dealing with defending himself in the public arena on the michael cohen situation, he s also trying to find a chief of staff and has not been able to nail down a candidate to do that job yet. he s got a lot of pressures on him. phil, you watch and cover and follow and understand this president as much as anybody. i wonder what you make of what even for trump passes as below the belt attacks on michael cohen s family. maggie haberman writes that mr. trump suggested that despite his plea deal, cohen s family could face future charges. something prosecutors have not raised publicly. it s trash talk. it s nasty and it s coming from the leader of the free world. yeah, it s pretty extraordinary. the president, according to his confidantes, feels betrayed by michael cohen s cooperation with these investigations. feels betrayed that his fixer and personal lawyer is implicating him in a felony here. and so he s lashing out, which is his nature. that s what we ve seen him do
going to react, i guess the witching hour for twitter is tomorrow morning, right? maybe we ll have our answer then. i suspect we ll hear the phrases witch hunt and hoax. i think the president has already reacted to this. if you look at what he s done in recent weeks with tweets saying that mueller and his team were bullying witnesses and threatening them and making them say certain things to get off the hook. that s the sort of umbrella prophylactic reaction, you know, advance reaction that s meant to cover the michael cohen situation, that s meant to cover the michael flynn situation. i think he ll just continue that theme of saying you cannot trust whatever michael flynn said in those 19 interviews, and that s a big number that we have to pay attention to. these investigators aren t just wasting their time when they talk to someone. if they talk to someone for 19 different times, it means something, right? i mean so i think if you re in the white house, you have to look at that numbe