the trump tower project. he significantly down played and suggested it ended in januaryover 2016. well, it turns out he talked much longer for the extensive conversations that occurred until june of 2016. he admitted to lying to congress about. i am told he apologized for lying to this committee. he discussed the lies at length. there have been a number of questions about exactly the president s knowledge and involvement. most do not want to talk about it. i had a chance to ask her about what happened earlier. she did say yes, she learned something new from this closed door hearing that is going for more than seven hours. we do expect cohen to talk
the president for more than a decade. i believe that the president has basically tried to turn the government of the united states into a money making operation for himself, his business, his family and his friends. i think michael cohen understands how the operation was working. we want him to tell us what exactly has been taking place. am i hearing you correctly that you are not going to ask him about russia, the trump tower project that was proposed to be built in moscow? cohen was involved in that. we won t hear anything like that on wednesday? i think that the jurisdictions of the various committees are kind of overlapping. undoubtedly there will be things asked about the moscow project and the trump tower project in moscow. but we are trying to allow the intelligence committee to do into the russia connection and we are looking into the domestic side of the lawlessness.
trump campaign coordinated any of that or whether or not they had knowledge of it, essentially. so i think if it s this type of material that michael cohen is speaking about to prosecutors here in new york that s outside of mueller s mandate, it makes perfect sense that s a discussion he would have with prosecutors here. frankly, it s the thing he needs to do if he has a shot of knocking down three years of a jail sentence. what he s going to serve as far as his sentence tied to the special counsel, which is specifically lying to congress and having to do with the trump tower project, he s really not facing any significant time for that. the significant time is for the crimes that he committed in new york that have been prosecuted by prosecutors here. so from that standpoint, he really needs to help them out because they said he wasn t cooperative with them leading up to his sentencing back in december. so i think for him, it s really important, if i was his attorney, his priority woul
interview executives with the trump organization. we are told the requests are not new but outstanding, and grew out of the michael cohen investigation. but we don t know the subject or the scope of those interviews. also come in a separate diploma today, the democratic chairman of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, issued a brief statement to reporters that cohen s congressional appearance has been postponed until the end of february. the cohen testimony on the ground rules, whether it be public or private, has been in flux for over a week and there is considerable time pressure right now, harris. cohen begins a 3-year prison sentence in early march after pleading guilty to lying to congress over a 2016 moscow trump tower project as well as tax evasion and violation of election finance laws. fox news also reached out to his attorneys, who had no comment on the decision, and also this morning what may be a significant shift in the house rush investigation. chairman schiff a
counsel, mr. cohen s appearance will be postponed to a later date. democrats certainly saw it as a significant opportunity to question in public someone who for years has had unparalleled knowledge of the president s personal and professional dealings. it s unclear based on his agreement with robert mueller how much michael cohen would be able to say about the trump tower project in moscow or any conversations he had with the president, if the president directioned h e directed him to lie to congress. they wanted to put forward information on the hush money as well as other questions around the trump organization. it s important to note that the chairman of the house oversight and intelligence committees stopped short of saying they will subpoena cohen s testimony. they say appearing before congress is not an option. i want you to watch some of the comments made by president trump and rudy giuliani about michael cohen s family.