i work at the network operations center for comcast. we re working to make things simple, easy and awesome. in today s hearing, virginia congressman gerry connolly led michael cohen through questioning that revealed that michael cohen had a meeting in the white house with president trump and the president s private lawyer jay sekulow before michael cohen provided a false statement to the house intelligence committee in 2017. you had a conversation with the president of the united states about your impending testimony before the house intelligence committee, is that
in today s hearing, virginia congressman gerry connolly led michael cohen through questioning that revealed that michael cohen had a meeting in the white house with president trump and the president s private lawyer jay sekulow before michael cohen provided a false statement to the house intelligence committee in 2017. you had a conversation with the president of the united states about your impending testimony before the house intelligence committee, is that correct? that s correct. what was the nature of that conversation? he wanted me to cooperate. he also wanted just to ensure by making the statement, and i said it in my testimony, there is no russia, there is no collusion, there is no there is no deal. he goes, it s all a witch hunt. he goes, this stuff has to end. did you take those comments to be suggestive of what might
he s a family guy. he is a good man that did some stupid, bad things. and i would not talk the way i talk about him. i m a pretty cynical guy and i m a street guy, i know people. i ve known guys like this my entire life, as i said. is he a choir boy? no. does he deserve to go to jail for what he did? yes. but he s a good guy. donny deutsch, are you doing morning joe tomorrow? i am. thank you very much for staying up late. thank you, my friend. couldn t get through this hour without you. mimi rouca, thank you for joining us. tim o brien, we needed you tonight more than ever. when we come back, one of the senior democrats on the committee gerry connolly stunned the room when he got michael cohen to reveal he had a meeting with donald trump in 2017 before michael cohen falsely testified
flavor your testimony? sir, he s been saying that to me for many, many months, and at the end of the day i knew exactly what he wanted me to say. joining us now after a long day in that hearing room, congressman gerry connolly. congressman connolly, really appreciate you staying with us tonight after a long day of work in that hearing room. i know what those hearing rooms are like. really appreciate it. what do you think is the most important thing that we learned in that hearing room today? well, i think we certainly had confirmation that the trump organization headed by mr. trump is by any other name a criminal enterprise. and very much like, you know, the organizations transcribed by joe valachi.
chairman, that it appears that the president committed a crime? i do. and i believe that what cohen did today wasn t to give us new evidence to that effect, but to confirm what we already knew in one case. remember, that when the filing documents were unsealed from the southern district of new york with respect to mr. cohen, he was convicted of a crime that the southern district u.s. attorney said was coordinated and directed by individual number one. individual number one we know is donald j. trump. so it s not news that mr. trump in fact has exposed himself to criminal activity by coordinating and directing a criminal act that he helped his personal attorney commit. and for which that personal attorney is going to go to jail. congressman gerry connolly, we really appreciate you extending your work day to include us and any time.