or any other investigation. tonight, that answer is under scrutiny by house democrats for possible perjury. pamela brown is outfront live outside the white house. and pamela, the president knows this is a huge charge. and this would possibly be obstruction in a whole new way. there was that long pause we heard when he was asked about it. and then, of course, he went back to the fake news crutch. he s trying to deny it. reporter: yeah. that s right. you heard the question asked to him, and he, after he paused, denied that he ever made this ask of former a.g. matt whitaker to have the u.s. attorney geoffrey berman unrecuse and oversee the cohen probe. now, this denial is in response to this new york times reporting today that, in fact, he did make that ask because he viewed berman as an ally. sources tell me and my colleague, laura jarrett, that the president was upset about the cohen probe. his former fixer. and how it implicated him in the payments to two women during the elect