it s just that there s enough that will be said that is that couldn t be public that it needs to be closed. of the of what you can share with us, did you hear things in today s hearing, in today s public hearing that you expect to be expanded on in tomorrow s closed hearing? good evening, lawrence. yes, we did. particularly around three areas. one, that donald trump had knowledge of wikileaks. he was previewed what they were later release. two, that he did talk to his son in what appears to be the trump tower meeting that his son had with the russians as they were about to dump information about hillary clinton. and third, that he would routinely ask what s going on with russia as it related to the trump tower project. but it s just so disturbing to imagine a candidate for president of the united states of america from any party, to imagine that that individual
were there changes about the timing? yes, including how we would handle that message. go ahead. the length of time that the trump tower project stayed and remained alive. it remains unclear what changes were made and which helped make them. we are live from capitol hill where the cohen hearing is about to pick back up. how are members of congress and other people that are part of the story reacting to this hearing so far? it depends who you talk to. some say hatz been damaging that he has had credibility in today s hearing. others republican senator graham said he is making the case. the credibility came up repeatedly. it is true, jake, that cohen is testifying today under different circumstances from last time he lied to congress. he has been cooperating in two
interrupt garrett. the only point i was going to make it gets to a pattern of lies here regarding russia contacts for knowledge of wikileaks releases, the trump tower meeting, the trump tower moscow project, and the hush money payments. it s a pattern of lying that the president participated in, right? he denied the hush money payments. they turned out to be true. he denied any interest in a trump tower project, when in fact we learn those conversations went much later. of course he denied any russia contacts. many of those contacts have now been corroborated and michael cohen taking those contacts a step further now saying that the president has for knowledge of both the wikileaks releases but also of that trump tower meeting in 2016. and you made a great point, alisyn, this gets to the critical thinking of the american public here. you re going to hear competing claims today about who s credible, who s believable, and it s up to folks at home to decide who they believe here. but in t
were there changes about the timing? there were several changes that were made including how we were going to handle that message. which was the message of course being the length of time that the trump tower project remained alive. that s lot of this testimony
real truth because he spent years, he says, lying for president trump, covering up his foibles, covering up his misdeeds and the embarrassing moments in his life. he will be calling president trump a racist, con man and cheat. he will be talking about his payment to stormy daniels, a porn star he allegedly had an affair with and will be presenting the check president trump gave him for those payments. and for michael cohen to call all the schools he went to and threatened them not to talk about his grades. he will be talking about him lying about his wealth and talking about the trump tower project and implicitly asking michael cohen to lie about it. he will say he thinks donald trump was briefed by donald jr. on the trump tower meeting but has no direct evidence of