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Dates back to february and march. cohen is currently doing time as you ll recall. in his testimony he told congress that trump attorney jay sekulow told him to lie to lawmakers in 2017 unt those negotiations about trump tower moskow. he also testified pardons were mentioned. lawyers for jay sekulow responded in a statement, quote, that this or any committee would rely on the word of michael cohen for any purpose much less to try to pierce the attorney-client privilege and discover confidential communications of four respected lawyers defies logic and well-established law and common sense. during that day of live public testimony in february cohen did mention sekulow when he was asked about his 2017 testimony. which specific lawyers reviewed and edited your statement to congress on the moskow tower negotiations, and did they make any changes to your statement? there were changes made, ....
I suspect before we re done congress will get those records. and phil, this is question i ve asked you before. give us the basics of the personal damage, the political damage that donald trump s fearing if this kind of traunch of documents come out from an accounting firm? brian, it s not just the documents from the accounting if i recall but if those do you means were to come forward because of this judge s ruling that would effectively sort of green light a number of other document requests in other areas. and the president s concerned not only for the political damage. i mean if he s found to have suspect financial activities with foreign countries that would certainly be fodder democrats try to use against him in his re-election campaign. but there could be outright criminality here. that s one of the things that the democrats in congress are trying to get to the bottom of as part of their oversight investigations. they ve been blocked by the white house every time the white ho ....
Company can t be compelled to act by the white house. so this could actually happen. these documents, barring a stay from a higher court could actually come out? yeah, i do expect we ll see an appeal, and so we may not be done with it just yet. there s an old adage in the law that says no man may resist a subpoena and must produce it unless there is some relevant privilege that protects it. and so the accounting firm received a subpoena and must produce these documents. president trump is trying to refer to this as a redo and a do over from the mueller report. this is completely different. congress has a right to look at these financial records. the judge found that it is within the proper scope of congress legislative powers to look at whether they re a violations of the emoluments clause or ethics and governments act. so it s proper for them to seek these documents. it seems like a sound legal opinion. we may see an appeal. ....
Of how he said it. you look at the cowardice of the people in the race. that s not courage. that s making sure you have a job after politics. courage is standing up and being a true patriot like we used to have in 1776 and all of that. who are the heroes going to be? is it going to be the daniel elsburg pentagon papers guy? i m waiting for that guy. we re all waiting for that guy. we need people like that. and to look at congress with all of the politics going, you re out worthless to me. i need people to stand up and be heroic. who are you? jeff daniels with nicolle wallace, to end our forecast, as ....
Good evening once again rather from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 851 of this trump administration. a couple of big stories have dropped just in these past few hours. tonight we learned don mcgahn as we said who is the former white house counsel, one of the leading voices in the mueller report and now a private citizen will ignore a subpoena to testify tomorrow morning before the house judiciary committee. the white house apparently told him not to show. tonight the democrats are threatening what they are calling all enforcement mechanisms, more on that later. another big story late today, federal judge ruled against trump in his fight to keep his financial records that would include tax returns out of the hands of congress. and michael cohen is both in prison and in the news. we ve learned he testified that one of the president s attorneys encouraged him to make false statements to congress. ....