president of the united states to be one, i would assume. that s right. thank you very much. if you haven t seen the full five minutes, you must. and so we re going to post the full five minutes of congresswoman ocasio-cortez s questioning on the last word twitter page. i said at the time it was the most brilliant use of five minutes in a congressional hearing that i have ever seen, and then came katie porter, who is another freshman member of congress in what is already the brightest group of freshman house members that i ve seen. after a break we re going to show you what congresswoman katie porter did in a hearing today that made me start following her on twitter as you will, too, after you see this. will, too, after you see this. that we just hit the motherlode of soft-serve ice cream? i got cones, anybody wants one! oh, yeah! get ya some! no, i can t believe how easy it was to save hundreds
so i want to thank you all again for sticking around. have a good night. senator mark warner, the top democrat on the committee told reporters this about michael cohen s testimony today. two years ago when this investigation started i said it may be the most important thing i m involved in my public life in the senate and nothing that i ve heard today dissuades me from that view. on the eve of such a hearing that could in effect be the beginning of impeachment hearings in the house of representatives, we need to hear from people with legal expertise and the vision and experience to place events like this in their historical and political context, and we are fortunate tonight to have all of that in our lead off panel tonight. we are joined now by joyce vance, the former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama. an msnbc legal contributor.
in your reading of the statute controlling this and in your reading of that tweet, do you see the possibility of the crime of intimidation and interference in a congressional hearing by congressman gaetz? based on just the tweet itself it s something that prosecutors might take a look at. it doesn t look to me like something offhand i would charge unless there was much more significant evidence that gaetz actually intended to prevent cohen from testifying completely or was trying to get him to not testify about different subjects. i think it s when you pull the camera back further out and you think about the fact this is sitting congressman making this kind of comment to a witness who s coming out on a serious matter involving the president that you see that it s just so awful. it s so vulgar, it s such a schoolyard bully kind of taunt that even if it doesn t technically violate the law, that doesn t really give gaetz
house of representatives rebuking president trump and terminating his emergency declaration at the southern border will join us and also questioning michael cohen in a closed hearing later this week. he has much to tell us tonight. and president trump is going to be paying more attention to michael cohen tomorrow than he is to the north korean dictator who he now calls his friend. president obama s national security advisor will join us in a rare television appearance to discuss what we can expect from the president s meetings with kim jong-un. and in my last word tonight at the end of the hour you will hear from one of the rising stars of the extraordinary freshman class in the house of representatives. katey porter is the first democrat in history to be elected in her congressional district. and today she turned into a performance at a congressional hearing that had me and everyone watching that hearing hanging on her every world.
resorts attracting tourists from around the world. and in my last word tonight at the end of this hour we will show you the most important piece of video that you absolutely must see from the house of representatives today. a new star was born in the house of representatives today, and you will see her in action at the end of the hour. but first, we knew as i said on this program at the time, at the moment that it was announced that michael cohen would testify publicly in a congressional hearing, that that day was going to be the worst day of the year for the trump presidency. we now know that it will surely be that, although there might be many worse days coming for the trump presidency after this testimony. president trump and his most fervent allies are apparently living in such abject fear of michael cohen s time that it has driven one of them to the point