he so desperately wants to be done with this whole affair and wants to stand up for himself and he wants to push back on donald trump that he's giving up further cooperation to do this. >> but how can you see it that way? he also said to george step none lou -- stephanopoulos that he didn't want to say more because he didn't want to hurt the investigation into russia. >> you can still say more but not compromise the investigation. if he had gone out and said here's exactly why i think donald trump is lying about the russia probe, here are all the examples, that would seriously compromise the investigation and that's something cohen would not want to do, regardless of his decision on further cooperation. >> m.j., we know in the sdny filing they don't see cohen as being fully cooperative with his