i believe so. mr. chair, i think those are the individuals that we should be speaking with. i yield back this time. committee will now stand in recess again. we will come back. 35 minutes after the last vote begins. for mr. cohen, mr. cohen, we re talking about probably an hour or so. dana: all right. an explosive and very partisan hearing. we ve been watching it all morning. michael cohen, the president s former lawyer and also called his fixer, is front and center in front of the house oversight committee. they re in a recess for about an hour. they re going to have some votes on the floor. they had to get out there to do though votes. we re gonna wrap it up for you in really great detail with wonnerful analysis of the people that i have with me. i m dana perino.
i said, amen, darling. i can t help but think that is what the majority of the american people are thinking while watching this unbelievable circus. i yield back. thank you, mr. chairman. i have got a lot to do as well. i have got houses and schools to help rebuild in the virgin islands, expansion of voting rights, educational opportunities, criminal justice reform. thank god the democratic majority can walk and chew gum at the same time, so we re here with you right now. mr. cohen, you learned well in the ten years that you worked with donald trump. what was your position with the gop in the up to eight months ago? i was vice chair of the rnc finance committee. you were vice chair of the finance of the republican national committee. right? correct.
meadows, a republican, asked for a criminal referral already based on cohen s testimony. he says that cohen testified that he had foreign contracts, but in his disclosure to the committee, he said there were none. he said that s a violation of thera which you know, dana, which is a situated that has been prosecuted. dana: by paul manafort. yes, indeed. let s bring in chris wallace and martha mccallum to get analysis from you. let s start with you, chris, and any thoughts. i certainly agree with catherine, that the most explosive it may not get the most attention but the most explosive piece of information was the fact that there is an on going criminal investigation by the southern district of new york, local prosecutors in manhattan, not the special counsel, about possible crimes involving president trump and
and other individuals. who are those individuals? are they with the trump organization? they are. are there other people we should be meeting with? alan weiselberg is the chief financial officer. you have to give up as many names as you can. ronograf is mr. trump s executive assistant. would she will be able to corroborate many of the statements you made here? her office is directly next to his. she s involved in a lot that went on. mr. cohen, when the president s lawyers were having the discussions with the office of government ethics in 2018, did they reach out to you to talk to you about these payments? no, ma am. did you share anything with them in any other conversation? i do not recall, no. can the committee obtain more information about these facts by obtaining thames and documents from the white house, the trump organization and the president s attorney?
let s bring in bret baier. we appreciate you being up. tell us your view from there. well, we re getting ready for, as chris mentioned, some pretty high stakes negotiations here with the president, kim jong-un meeting after their dinner earlier. meeting now to negotiate denuclearization of the peninsula here. it s high stakes. you had lindsey graham come out and say imagine the blow back if it had been a democratic president overseas and this hearing was held by republicans and republicans chairing this committee suggesting that they could have delayed until next week on this particular hearing. on the hearing itself, i have listened to all of the details and very well summed up. i do think the republicans, it s a little painful listening to the question of these hearings because they end up being speeches eventually. the prague interesting, you