this man you. know that. you re familiar with his business empire. you know donald trump jr. well. allen weisselberg whose names are now drawn in by mike cohen in his public testimony. right. michael cohen is doing sort of an epic troll. donald trump right now. donald trump is hanoi and can t do anything about it. i imagine he s crawling up the walls. this is the power of television right now. we ve had two years of print reports and legal filings and chatter among folks like us what all this means and we follow it in a very granular level. but i think the larger points of some of this gets lost on a lot of people. i think what you re seeing now with michael cohen testifying on television under oath before well informed people is the first sort of coming home of the trump scandals into people s living rooms. i think that s a big sea change in all of this. eddie, we keep hearing from the president and his allies. they going after cohen, his
he is the sitting president. the justice department doesn t think he can be indicted. i think the question is, does this evidence make it to congress at some point. katy tur, i m thrilled you are here. you know michael cohen very well. you were on the campaign trail or the mike cohen before he s turned over this supposed new leaf. i want to ask about his claims that president trump knew about roger stone, speaking to julian assange, he knew about the e-mail dutch before it happened. you asked him about it in july of 2016. we have a little bit of it. would be interesting to see. i will tell you this, russia, if you re listening, i hope you re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. let s see if that happens. that will be next. do you have any qualms about asking a foreign government, russia, china, anybody, to interfere, to hack into a system of anybody in this country let
democracy and we have allowed donald trump and his enablers to trample over our democracy with their filthy feet. this is coming into view as congress is now taking on its role as oversight. we shouldn t take pause with the fact that one of his chief enablers is michael cohen or was. michael cohen, he spent a lot of time with him on the campaign trail. he was seeslessly defend donald trump. it doesn t matter what you were asking him, what was going in that moment and basically you re on the phone with the guy almost every day considering how that campaign played out. mike cohen always defended donald trump no matter what. and threatened journalists. yes, absolutely. he did so in print. we have documents of that. this is donald trump s biggest supporter now turning on him. yes, he would like a reduced prison sentence. i don t know how this gets him a reduced prison sentence since all of this evidence is already in the hands of the sdny. maybe it s for his future reputation but m
stumped about something that happened that day. i mean, the first time he was charged in federal court that made much more sense. the first time he was charged in federal court was august, this past year. feels like a million years ago but it was only in august. that was not too much of a surprise. mike the cohen s office and his home and his hotel room and safety deposit box has all, raided by fbi agents in april. we had known they had taken a ton of evidence in conjunction with the execution of those search warrants in april because we could see a lot of the fighting over the admissibility of that evidence in court. so when he turned up in august in federal court, there was sort of a sense that we knew we were going to see him in court sooner or later. the charges also kind of made sense, given what we knew the fbi had taken from him and what they had been looking at. on that first day of his in court in august, mike the cohen
tower moscow project and how involved trump and his family were. remember, mike the cohen has pled guilty lying to congress about that. the buzzfeed reporting is that trump directed cohen to make those false statements. buzzfeed reports that, quote, the special counsel s office learned about trump s directive for cohen to lie to congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization and internal company e-mails, text messages and a cache of other documents, and buzzfeed further reports that cohen then confirmed this to mueller s team. again, that the president directed him to lie to congress to cover up at least some aspect of the trump tower moscow project. that s what the week has been like. now tonight just as we were getting on the air, after a day in which multiple members of congress described the buzzfeed report as if true the most serious allegations against trump yet. if true definitely the grounds for impeachment. if true, an inflection point