lot. congressman connelly, you spoke to in the hearing yesterday. we learn today from the chairman of your committee, the oversight committee, that elijah cummings, that he wants to have all of the people that michael cohen mentioned yesterday in testimony appear before the committee. ivanka trump, who is mentioned, eric donald trump, allen weisselberg. what do you want to hear from them? i hope we will tread carefully about hearing or compelling testimony from members of the family. i think the optics of that are very dangerous. you think that could backfire? i think it could backfire. just from a pr standpoint. what we heard yesterday in open session is two of those people are subjects of a criminal probe that s ongoing by the southern district of new york. it may be better to let that play out before we have them. but mr. weisselberg certainly is definitely in our sights. allen weisselberg knows
there weren t performances. my colleagues in the minority party, the republicans didn t do the sort of public castigating of michael cohen that they did so much of yesterday. but it was a very again, the chairman said this in his public statement today. it was a very, very fruitful hearing in which we learned a lot. congressman connelly, you spoke to in the hearing yesterday. we learn today from the chairman of your committee, the oversight committee, that elijah cummings, that he wants to have all of the people that michael cohen mentioned yesterday in testimony appear before the committee. ivanka trump, who is mentioned, eric donald trump, allen weisselberg. what do you want to hear from them? i hope we will tread carefully about hearing or compelling testimony from members of the family. i think the optics of that are very dangerous. you think that could backfire? i think it could backfire. just from a pr standpoint. what we heard yesterday in open session is two of th
when it comes to it. so the dna evidence, to your question, that s not going to impact the analysis when it comes to whether or not r. kelly gets bail. again, bail is not punitive. it doesn t have anything to do with sort of the overarching elements of the case. i think it is a bad fact. it is a bad fact to have sort of from a pr standpoint and certainly when it comes to the merits of the case but i don t think it will impact the bail analysis here. caroline just said her take away from sara s report was the physical evidence, ronaldo, what s yours? that is certainly one big take-away as well. i noted the same thing. and i would also say, though, i do think that some of these soft factors do impact the judge s analysis. and what the judge is asking himself, about the situation, is if i release this guy, is he going to commit some more crimes while out on bond. is he going to flee? those are the two questions. the first question i think is the bigger issue. he s got to be concerned.
people he trusts around him, and he sees giuliani, former new york mayor as someone who played at his level in the big apple for quite some time. now that he s part of the team, it is really not so much of a team. it is the president km communicating with his generational peer, trying to manage his legal case are robert mueller, with the media. and giuliani is the only person speaking with the president about those sensitive issues in that way. chuck, that seems to put the blame right in the guy in the office with no corners because this does not from the pr standpoint, this is not helping. no more people think donald trump is innocent than before rudy giuliani was added to the team. i wonder from your perspective if rudy isn t perhaps creating some questions about the president s contact by saying, our answers to robert mueller include that donald trump was working on the deal from the day he announced until the day he
you have to see them as generational peers. the president is already isolated, doesn t have a lot of people he trusts around him, and he sees giuliani, former new york mayor as someone who played at his level in the big apple for quite some time. now that he s part of the team, it is really not so much of a team. it is the president communicating with his generational peer, trying to manage his legal case are robert mueller, with the media. and giuliani is the only person speaking with the president about those sensitive issues in that way. chuck, that seems to put the blame right in the guy in the office with no corners because this does not from the pr standpoint, this is not helping. no more people think donald trump is innocent than before