include the president s debts and payments relating to efforts to influence the 2016 election. his compliance with campaign finance and tax laws. his conflicts of interest. his business practices. the trump international hotel in washington, d.c. the accuracy of the president s public statements. potentially fraudulent or inappropriate statements by the trump foundation and public efforts by the president and his attorney to intimidate cohen and others not to testify. that is going to be next wednesday. cohen will testify privately the following day. last month he postponed citing threats from the president and rudy giuliani. congress has an independent duty under the constitution to conduct oversight of the executive branch and any efforts to intimidate family members or pressure witnesses will not be
thursday. last night a chairman of the oversight committee released an official briefing memo outlining what lawmakers man to address. business practices and other matters. speaker pelosi already talked to the announce mement. any efforts to intimidate family members or pressure witnesses will not be tolerated. joining me now from the hill is garrett haake who has been chasing michael cohen. what did you learn? relative silence seems to be the theme of the day. michael cohen was not talking to me in either of the two times i was talking to him. he got into a lot of trouble
counsel main mall to investigate the investigators are getting a big boost in it. doug mckelway has been tracking the russian progress late tonight. good evening, doug. good evening, ed. republicans have been making overtures that a second special counsel is needed to basically investigate investigators. today, those overtures became a request in the form of a letter to the justice department from the judiciary committee chuck grassley and lindsey graham. they write, we have the utmost confidence in the inspector general s integrity, fairness, and impartiality. however, by statute, the inspector general does not have the tools the prosecutor what to gather all the facts. thus, we believe a special counsel as needed. in other words, the ig as no grand jury to pressure witnesses and rules prohibit the ig from dating former employees are those who are outside the justice department. we know he is doing good work, digs indeed, he can only bring those people that are already in govern
investigate investigators. today, those overtures became a request in the form of a letter to the justice department from the judiciary committee chuck grassley and lindsey graham. they write, we have the utmost confidence in the inspector general s integrity, fairness, and impartiality. however, by statute, the inspector general does not have the tools the prosecutor what to gather all the facts. thus, we believe a special counsel as needed. in other words, the ig as no grand jury to pressure witnesses and rules prohibit the ig from dating former employees are those who are outside the justice department. we know he is doing good work, digs indeed, he can only bring those people that are already in government to investigate, al counsel working as a team, and i want to emphasize the word team with the inspector general give him the tools he needs to get all the information that we are asking him to get. they are asking him to broaden the scope to include an