president of being implicated in two felonies are now today revealed to be pursuing additional criminal investigations that also relate to the president, then any potential effort by the president to mess with that u.s. attorney s office, that may quickly become one of the most important stories in the whole country. particularly if the felonies already prosecuted by that office against cohen are about to metastasize into serious trouble for the president and for his business and for his family. i want to focus my questions on the smoking gun document you have provided this committee. this document is compelling evidence of federal and state crimes, including financial fraud. you provided this committee with a check from president donald j. trump s revocable trust account which is marked as exhibit 5-b. it is a check for $35,000, and it is dated march 17th, 2017, after the president took office.
understand the nature of this testimony. are you telling us that the president directed in conspiracy with allen and his son, donald trump jr. as part of a civil criminal part of a criminal conspiracy of financial fraud. is that your testimony today? yes. and do you flow if this criminal financial scheme that the president and donald trump jr. are involved in by the southern district of new york? i would rather not discuss that question because it could be part of an investigation that s currently ongoing. and i just want to american public to understand that solely apart there is financial fraud and your allegation and the explosive smoking gun document is that the president, his son and cfo may be involved in a
cohen s testimony. i think that was a big admission. and second, cohen testified and had proof with a smoking gun document that trump was involved in the payments of the trump organization to him. and here s what s relevant. it happened while he s president. this is not acts that happened during the campaign. these are crimes he may have committed during president and we also learned donald trump jr. may be executive, too. he may be currently under cr criminal investigation by the southern district of new york. michael cohen believes donald trump jr. may have told donald trump about the meetings with the russians. was that persuasive? i do. and the reason it was persuasive, he was so careful. he didn t say that trump knew about what the content of those e-mails were. he could have made some sensational allegation. he said i don t want to go that far but i do know that donald
what salacious material may be out there. and the first thing i thought about is how susseptsible is this president to blackmail? what else is out there, and what should the american people know? does it concern you that michael cohen provided no evidence for at least some of his claims such as his claim that president trump had advance knowledge of the wikileaks e-mail releases? well, i think he pointed he testified that was his knowledge. he said there could be corroboration with the trump s assistant. roger stone could corroborate it. he didn t say trump knew about the content but was aware of the release. but here s the thing. you don t have to buy 100% of cohen s testimony and think that all parts were proven. the parts that were proven with the smoking gun document about the financial fraud and the perjury are enough to be very concerned that this president committed crimes. and even people who are supportive of the president, can they imagine that this lawyer who the rep
aerospace industries and any other client that s foreign that have connection to that government. i hope they look at all those. reclaiming my time. we ll take that under advisement. i m a man of my word. we ll do we ll work with you to see what we can do to come up with that. i don t think it s unreasonable request. mr. cohen. you want to focus my questions on the smoking gun document you have provided this committee. the document is compelling evidence of federal and state crimes including financial fraud. you provided this committee with a check from president donald j. trump trust account which is marked exhibit 5b. it s a check for $35,000 dated