yes. the importance of today s event cannot be understated. it is history playing in front of our eyes. the united states waged huge influence here in terms of commercial influence. a lot of oil trade going on president trump throwing behind that s definitely a historical moment. he declared himself president. what needs to happen for maduro to leave? reserving the right to use military force if need be. he said that in the past. yes. but what afternoon is looking at right now is how will the military react?
no. so it s okay go after of course it is. if the father in law is a criminal. cohen pleaded guilty to lie to go congress as well as campaign finance violations. cnn crime and justice reporter joins me now. what threats from the president is cohen specifically referring to? you have this over this weekend. there have been many instances in which the president himself has eluded to the fact that michael cohen s father in law could be in trouble. it was just in a tweet recently where they were talking about a wall street journal story about potentially his father in law and he says quote that michael cohen was lying to reduce his jail time and the president says watch father in law. it isn t the first time that the president has done this. we know that michael cohen has all along been very protective
him, his lawyer citing ongoing threats as recent as this week. we heard the language that the president and his team used to describe cohen, u but what is h argument here? the attention he is bringing, the questions of his credibility throughout. and when we wut these to the president as my colleague peter alexander just did, he said the only thing he is threatened by is the truth, have a listen. he says he was threatened by you he has only been threatened by the truth. he doesn t want to do that probably for me or other clients. he has other clients also, i
intimidation tactics employed by the president or his team that prevented him from appearing on february 7th. so we have to work with him, assure his safety, and make it clear that mob tactics are unacceptable. they are completely unacceptable in our system of government. from what you have seen so far, do you feel he has reached the level of witness intimidation, witness tampering, and what he said about michael cohen? what i do know is that he is already being investigated for obstruction of justice. and this type of behavior will just cause more investigations. i don t know the nature of exactly what might have been side that we re not aware of to mr. cohen and his family, but we re aware of certain statements made about his father-in-law. we have to remember this, the president is technically incharge of the justice
effect i have. we don t know what kind of threats the white house may have made, but the president himself saying just moments ago that the only thing threatening cohen is the truth, sort of the same argue. argument. the president feels like this is their best chance to under cut any witnesses against them. thank you. up next, world leaders discussi discussing how to close the economic gap and help working class people that are being left behind. ali velshi will join us live from the world economic forum in davos next on msnbc. n msnbc. i don t keep track of regrets.