respectfully but lower level employee who really doesn t want to take the burden for his or her boss and is much more likely to volunteer information. so in that sense similarly sean hannity if he had a few conversations with michael cohen is not going to like the possibility of being hailed before congress as a witness, and he s going to tell the truth because he has no direct loyalty to the president. seems everyone within the orbit of the president is getting drawn in these days. our thanks to msnbc legal analyst danny. thanks. president trump s re-election bid why it may have more to do with keeping prosecutors at bay. next.
michael cohen gave so much information. main is coming back so congress can delve more into that information and lanny s comments suggest that objection of justice should be a concern for the president, whether that has to do with james comey firing. it might be like ordering people like michael cohen to give false testimony to congress. i think that might be what cohen may be talking about to congress. which is ironic because it s a crime he was convicted of already which is lying to congress. so while cohen has credibility issues, he obviously is giving information at this point that congress finds so interesting that he s coming back for an encore. cohen name dropped a lot of people in this hearing. the intel committee says they intend to call allen weisselberg before their committee. do they have to show up and
many people this close to the president of the united states turning against him to provide this kind of information. this is just something that i think will be part of the history books. during that testimony we saw republicans take aim at michael cohen s character. during that hearing he admitted to lying in previous testimony. do you have any doubts about the reliability of what he said this week, zach? i don t. i used to work in law enforcement and i got to say the entire justice department is based upon people who are con men and criminals turning against each other. it s not normally people who are clean that are involved in this activity. just because he has plead guilty to lying to congress doesn t necessarily mean he s not a witness that can provide this kind of information. that s what the justice system is built upon and he s provide testimony that s damaging. adrianna, what were your thoughts? i disagree because he s a totally discredited witness. michael cohen was
basically his intimidator because he couldn t do it himself. this is someone who was contacting schools he attended so they wouldn t release s.a.t. information. i agree with adrianna this is something in the voters component, i don t know it will have an impact on the vote. but this is bigger than this. is this the kind of democracy we re seeking? do we really want a president of the united states that s caught up in this amount of web of lies and surrounds himself. if you meef mr. cohen is not a credible witness then why did the president surround himself with him so long. why is every single person associated with the president of the united states, indictment, guilty charges, on and on. you didn t see this in the previous administration. the reason there weren t investigations in the previous administration they weren t corrupt. this is crazy what s going on in the country and we should at least take a step back and
testify? it s not a surprise they are calling allen weisselberg. but allen weisselberg is also someone that we ve all long known may have even more information about the trump organization than michael cohen simply by virtue of having been at the trump organization so much longer than michael cohen. what we know at this point is that allen weisselberg has immunity, but we don t really know if it s partial immunity or complete immunity and the government isn t really volunteering that information. that may affect a lot of what allen weisselberg says or doesn t say if he comes to testify before congress. could they make him show up, could they subpoena him? congressional subpoenas must be obeyed. congress historically has honored in a sense privilege, attorney/client privilege, common law privileges. congress is not required to honor those. on the other hand, a witness can