he has lied. he promised to cooperate. he hasn t. he has lied to prosecutors. they ve said that. and so he s going to be a very difficult witness before the house because he is not where michael cohen was of being repentant and trying to get right with the law and trying to make clear let the american people know what happened. he s still on the lying campaign. and i think so i think that s going to make it very difficult for him to be very useful to the congress. jill wine-banks, nelson cunningham, ron klain, mieke eoyang, thank you very much for starting us off tonight. this is exactly the panel needed to get this going. we are joined now by one of the jurors who found paul manafort guilty last year in the case in which paul manafort was sentenced tonight. we are joined by paula duncan. paula duncan, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i know this was short notice. i really appreciate it. we all remember you speaking about your jury deliberations after the conviction an
the russian collusion thing, when i voted, i don t know about you, lawrence, but when i voted there weren t any russians at the polls and i feel like americans like me voted without any influence and that s how trump was elected. so as far as cohen being friends with trump and changing his tune, there s no one s all good or all bad. but it makes me sad to see this go on and on and on and affect our country in such a negative way. paula, let me just put you back in the juror s chair hypothetically just for a second on michael cohen. now, there was no jury because
about this world surrounding paul manafort and the trump campaign. michael cohen was part of all that, active in the campaign. he was a republican party official during the campaign. just last week he testified in court about the president, his long-time friend prior to testifying. what was your reaction to hearing michael cohen testify about the president last week? sad and it makes me sad that our nation is so deeply divided. i voted for trump. i will vote for trump again because i do think he s doing some good things. that doesn t mean that i approve of everything president trump does or says. i don t have to. i don t think there s any perfect person. and i just wish we could come together, let him finish his term, do the good that he can do, and get past this.
conduct. we want to know who devised and authorized the schemes and hold them accountable. last fall i plefled pled gui federal court at the dire recollection of an in coordination with individual number one and for the record, individual number one is president donald j. trump. the most effective detour rant to corporate long doing is identify the people who commit crimes and to send them to prison. rod rosenstein s supervised the federal prosecution of michael cohen in new york city in which the prosecutors supervised by rod rosenstein said donald trump directed michael cohen to direct the crimes and committed them with michael cohen. rod rosenstein said if you did that, you should be sent to prison and here is how rod rosenstein ended what may be his
michael cohen. i m hearing questions about the kinds of questions you re asking in hearings. absolutely. the american people want to know what we re going to do for them, whether it s lowering prescription drug price, whether it s bringing some normalcy back. but they also want to make sure we re stopping these practices that are un-american and that don t go to the values of what the american people think. and frankly, they want us to make sure we re using their dollars properly. and that s what i hear a lot about when we talk about this wall of his and the emergency and saying we should be spending that money elsewhere where we can be helping the american people. congresswoman, now you that finally have real oversight hearings, are you surprised at how unprepared for them the trump cabinet seems to be? i am quite surprised because the secretary has been before our committee before. we did get a call from her folks before the hearing, i think to try to get a sense of what we wer