weissleberg tracks every dime that leaves the building. and the house intelligence committee plans to call weissleberg to testify. we already know where this is headed. the head of the oversight committee says they ll also pursue additional trump org officials, including trump s longtime assistant rhona graff and his children involved in the business, and one-time bodyguard and now coo matthew calamari who has gone viral after cohen s testimony with the resurfacing of a we have nothing against awkwardness but, yes, awkward 2004 appearance on the apprentice. another man who has done a great job for me, matthew calamari. donald, you know i don t care for jen very much, got to be honest with you. because wow because whoa, i m not doing too good. people think this stuff is easy, right, regis?
he wanted a crook with a title. he needed a person to do what he needed done and he didn t care at all about the law. this guy has a whole line of these people, starting with mr. cohen, the famous get the communists who associated him with mobsters and told him to fight and make demands and everything else. so there s no reason to believe for an instant that reliance and sean hannity, what a pair talking about this as if they know what an attorney is and that s what they want to have done. that s not at all what this was about. yeah, i thought, and i say this in all fairness, barbara, i thought this was one of those rebuttals and defenses that really showed they have no ground left. and there are decent defenses. we ve covered them on this show. there are good defenses, for example, to alleged collusion. but this seemed wild. so i have a short question for you followed by a longer one, barbara. sure. to barbara.
kind of pandora s box it opened. not only in terms of witnesses, but also potential crimes. very few people focused on those financial crimes, which are within the southern district of new york, as you said before, a lot of prosecutorial ears opened wide. yeah. and eyes, frankly, at some of what cohen said about those checks. you mentioned them earlier and you showed them. they were written and discussed in the oval office. in the oval office. after trump became president. so i think the timing is very important, as barbara and john mentioned, two great lawyers, that the potential for conspiracy there involves literally the seat of government, and i think all of the cohen testimony is very consequential in that way. yeah, it seemed like a significant thing, even in a time where people are somewhat
enured to how many breaking stories there are. i want to widen out and talk about something that was so obvious it may not need discussion, but you re here and sit on the judiciary committee. take a listen to one of the most absurd lines of attack on michael cohen, which was republicans hammering him for being an alleged liar in the service and defense of a president who has been documented to lie more than any politician in american history. take a look. our first big hearing with as you and we all know a convicted liar, lying to congress. you re a pathological liar. look at the old adage that our moms taught us, liar, liar, pants on fire. he s going to prison for lying to congress and he s the star witness to congress. you know, it s just one more example, mr. cohen, of you skirting the truth. isn t it absurd for that to be the line in defense of donald trump? well, the defense of donald trump is going to fall and
adversary, the russian government, to help him get elected. and that kind of threat to our national security, we re seeing it again right. in security clearance given improperly to jared kushner because the president overruled his own intelligence and security advisers and professionals, i think speaks fundamentally to why you saw nobody defending donald trump as a person. all of it was attacking cohen. right. which i think is telling. senator richard blumenthal, as you say, former prosecutor and u.s. senator. thank you for being on set of the beat. jason johnson has been following the story for us. the last one is, jason, the new york times has basically documented the allegation that donald trump and his family members lied about nuclear weapon difficultic overruling of the intelligence community to rush out a clearance for jared kushner what do you believe matters about that story, as everything else is going on. we basically risk our