if he has nothing to fear, quit acting like you re guilty. let us find out. let the american people find out exactly what took place. to your point about that trump tower meeting, i want to play for you what the president said about the russian lawyer specifically at the heart of that meeting? she told my colleague, richard engel, that she s an informant for the russian government. here s what the president said about that last night. you heard about the lawyer? for a year, a woman lawyer, she was like, oh, i know nothing, know nothing. now all of a sudden she supposedly is involved with the government. you know why? if she did that. because putin and the group said, you know, this trump is killing us. why don t you say that you re involved with government so that we can go and make their life in the united states even more chaotic. what did you hear in that explanation, congressman? it s hard to tell because it is extraordinarily confusing. let s remember this meeting took
periphery. right? and then they, with cooperating witnesses and indictments, and the more they cooperate the more we get to the center, the closer we get to the white house. i think the point is, we re getting really close. the question is, now that we have several people cooperating, will mr. cohen be part of that. it s part of a pattern. there s no way of knowing exactly how far that investigation goes. but i think it is absolutely critical that we don t halt the investigation, that we don t fire mr. mueller or mr. rosenstein as the president has attempted to do several times. i m not out there talking impeachment like the president, of all people. i think it is fair to talk to the middle. let this investigation take its course. let s find out exactly what happened. the worst thing that could happen is to go to one extreme or another. and what the republicans did in shutting down the investigation when there was so much more to learn was only their attempt to