Up. he was being involved in a domestic political errand. and we were being involved in national security foreign policy. and those two things had just diverged. hill later slammed the conspiracy theory that was ukraine and not russia who interfered in the 2016 election. this is exactly what the russian government was hoping for, that they would pit one side of our electorate against the other, that they would pit one party against the other. another damming bit of testimony, top embassy aide in ukraine david holmes describing a phone call he overheard between sondland and the president of the united states. a call that came one day after trump s phone call with ukrainian president zelensky asking for a favor. so you heard president trump, asking ambassador sondland, is he going to do the investigation? yes, sir. what was sbaz dor sondland s response? he said oh, yeah, he s going to do it.
Public testimony before congress, an ally of president trump s, florida congressman matt gaetz, tweeted out a threat to cohen. it s something i ve got to talk about with former republican congressman charlie dent, also with alice stewart and matt lewis. by the way, matt as a column in the daily beast, and it is titled, we have finally normalized trumpism. good evening. i don t know if there s a better example tonight, where you didn t even have this in mind when you wrote this, right? no. here s what it says, it says, hey, michael cohen, do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends? maybe tonight would be a good time for that. i wonder if she ll remain faithful while you re in prison. she s about to learn a lot. this is a guy who is doing what donald trump does. he may be doing donald trump s bidding literally here, but he s also replicating what donald trump has done to the body of politics. but is there any behavior too low? no. you never apologize he ha
These payments in cash, and he s like, no, no, no, i ll take care of it. could we end up hearing more recordings? i don t know about that. i think that i ve heard that he may produce some documents, but i haven t heard anything about a recording yet. what kind of documents have you heard? any? look, i only know what i read in the press with regard to him potentially bringing signed checks or other information that details payments and that kind of thing. i want to put this up. okay? . let s just read it. hey, michael cohen, do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends? maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. i wonder if she ll remain faithful when you re in prison. she s about to learn a lot. that s your colleague, republican congressman matt gaetz, threatening michael cohen via twitter. what do you say to that? he s an ardent trump ally. is that witness intimidation?
She s about to learn a lot. that s your colleague, republican congressman matt gaetz threatening michael cohen via twitter. what do you say to that? he s an ardent trump ally. is that witness intimidation? look, i don t think tomorrow should be about, you know, who broke vows, it s about who broke laws, okay? and we shouldn t go into the gutter here. i think that this type of conduct is intimidation. it s a threat. and i don t think that is acceptable. we shouldn t run this committee like a mob. this is a very serious business. let s listen to michael cohen. let s see what he has to say. let s try to figure out if wrongdoing occurred. i think it did. and then, how do we fix the laws, rules, and regulations to prevent it from happening again? that is the mission of oversight. is that outside the conduct or should a sitting congressman be better than that? yeah, absolutely! i m very disappointed in this type of conduct. it has no place in congress.
The doors off. millions of people will be watching the president s former fixer life before the house oversight committee. and a source is telling cnn that cohen is expected to reveal behind-the-scenes details about trump s business dealings and his conduct as a candidate. the source also says he may have documents to back up his story. committee chairman elijah cummings says that cohen has agreed to discuss hush money payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. also, the president s finances, conflicts of interests at the trump foundation, and the trump international hotel. you know who s going to be really interested in all of that? prosecutors from the southern district of new york, who are already investigating the president s businesses. not to mention pretty much every other committee on the hill investigating trump right now. but we also learned some intriguing details about cohen s