before he is scheduled to begin a three-year prison sentence. joining me is congressman jim himes, who cohen appeared before today. also gerry connolly, member of the oversight committee who asked cohen questions yesterday in that public hearing. obviously, congressman himes, you cannot get into specifics. it s a closed door hearing. how much was there information that michael cohen provided today that just was it filling in blanks on things you already knew or was it new avenues of things you didn t know? i would say a little bit of both. i think he was more comfortable and the proceedings were a lot less adversarial. nobody had to score political points for the camera. there was both a lot of filling in of points, but there was also new material that took me a little bit by surprise. and i don t mean to be cryptic or flirtatious about that, but enough so that one day of testimony was not enough and he kindly agreed to come back for another day next wednesday. so he is coming ba
russia investigation and that the president was untrustworthy and that the president lied quote plain and simple. since then republicans have kept testimony behind closed doors or in the case of the house gop completely failed to provide any true oversight of the president. michael cohen will testify under oath about the man identified in court documents as individual one. donald trump, who cohen says told him to make criminal hush money payments to two women, campaign finance law violation felonies a conspiracy to avide campaign finance law. and as cohen s admitted he acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one. that would be the president showing up in the court filing. cohen will testify publicly on camera and answer questions about the nature of individual numberb one, his former boss, the president. this is the beginning of a whole new chapter. executive director of bloomberg
direction. the president fired him over the russia investigation and that the president was untrustworthy and that the president lied quote plain and simple. since then republicans have kept testimony behind closed doors or in the case of the house gop completely failed to provide any true oversight of the president. michael cohen will testify under oath about the man identified in court documents as individual one. donald trump, who cohen says told him to make criminal hush money payments to two women, campaign finance law violation felonies a conspiracy to avide campaign finance law. and as cohen s admitted he acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one. that would be the president showing up in the court filing. cohen will testify publicly on camera and answer questions about the nature of individual
for yourself and as to maybe some of your associates but not about your family or not about your boss or not about someone else. or you minimize in some way. the southern district is pretty ruthless on making sure you have given up all the goods on everyone you can, that you have confessed all your sins, and if not, you don t get the benefit of cooperation. and that looks like what happened here. and they were disappointed not necessarily in the things that he was truthful about, but that he was minimizing other areas, and his cooperation was overstated, which is why i wanted to know the comparison between who cohen s lawyer said and what the prosecutors thought, and clearly they thought it was not as helpful. and just to remind people, this is the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. cohen, in this case, that we re talking about where some significant jail time is being recommended, prison being recommended, cohen is accused of willful tax evasion, making false state
that it is michael cohen s intention to take the fifth amendment against self-incrimination when asked questions about this agreement, the negotiation and the cover up and that fact alone should be very disturbing to the american people. welcome back to a.m. joy. okay. see if you can follow this. michael cohen who is under federal investigation after the fbi raided his office, his home and his hotels would very much like to delay a lawsuit filed against him by stormy daniels and that of course is the adult film actress who cohen paid $130,000 just before the election to keep quiet about her affair with donald trump. now, cohen s efficient to delay that case hit a snag on friday when the judge told cohen s lawyers he must file a statement in writing asserting his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination would be jeopardized if the case is not delayed. wait. okay. does that mean that michael