testimony, cooperation from michael cohen. do you expect other committees, possibly judiciary or intelligence committee, will also be hearing from michael cohen? i can speak for intelligence. i spoke with mr. schiff today and he expressed just what you said, which is an intent to try and get mr. cohen to come in and talk about the russia investigation. as i understand it, his testimony to the oversight committee will probably not include the russia investigation. and we have a lot of follow-up questions now that he has admitted to lying to us. now, he remembers someone who lived in all three of donald trump s worlds. his personal world, his political world, and his professional world. and he would have more knowledge than probably anyone as to just what donald trump knew about what the russians were doing, what mr. trump s intent was to do business with russia while he was a candidate. and i always have found, lawrence, as a former prosecutor, that witnesses who come clean can be ver
with this. how long can the mitt romneys of the senate and others hold on to the president s position here? well, you know, i look at donald trump as sort of like the civil rights moment, it s a moral test that the republican party is tragically failing. everybody knows that donald trump isn t telling the truth, and everybody pretends not everybody, but almost everybody pretends that he is telling the truth. it s what donald trump sort of forces you to choose between your own dignity and some sort of political allegiance. and part of this is it makes a rational discussion about border security impossible because as the congressman said it s all circus theater. i think there s a good argument to be made for more border security. i think there s a rational argument to be made for a wall. but none of that sort of can be discussed and talked about with this cacophony of xleecomplete
and he expressed just what you said, which is an intent to try and get mr. cohen to come in and talk about the russia investigation. as i understand it, his testimony to the oversight committee will probably not include the russia investigation. and we have a lot of follow-up questions now that he has admitted to lying to us. now, he remembers someone who lived in all three of donald trump s worlds. his personal world, his political world, and his professional world. and he would have more knowledge than probably anyone as to just what donald trump knew about what the russians were doing, what mr. trump s intent was to do business with russia while he was a candidate. and i always have found, lawrence, as a former prosecutor, that witnesses who come clean can be very helpful in first explaining why they protected the person they were protecting but also to put in perspective why so many others who are continuing to lie today continue to lie today, which i think will be illuminating for
everything they will ever need to stop him in court if he declares an emergency because what he just said was if we don t have a legislative compromise on a budget bill then i will declare a national emergency. that means that the emergency is we don t have a legislative compromise. when a hurricane hits new orleans or puerto rico, that s a national emergency and you can t have a legislative compromise to make that hurricane go away. donald trump admitted today that the emergency would be about a legislative compromise, not about the conditions at the southern border. he did not say if the invasion continues at southern border i will declare an emergency. he said if we don t reach a legislative compromise i will declare an emergency. so as usual, donald trump s public negotiating with himself
president s temper tantrum, that he doesn t have or she doesn t have that suite of authorities. and that is a terrible, terrible result. and that is the stuff of which impeachment is all made. speaking of presidential powers, what can donald trump do to stop us from seeing the mueller report? so i don t think that at the end of the day he can do very much. the context here, there s three important pieces. number one, as you were discussing earlier, the investigation is starting to bear fruit on donald trump. i think most notably, you know, this is remarkable for one of the very few times in american history over the last 200 years a president has been fingered as ordering the commission of felonies. that s what the southern district prosecutors did with respect to michael cohen and campaign finance. that is extraordinary. that s number one. number two, the president was reported yesterday to have hired 17 new lawyers at the white house to try and assert executive privilege to block