the hill. are lawmakers reacting to this? what s going on? this just broke. so we re trying to get to the key lawmakers, but i ve been speaking to the democrats who have been eager to talk to michael cohen both in open session and in private session including elija cummings. i asked him about some of these comments that the president had made aboutic moo michael cohen father-in-law and michael cohen himself ahead of the testimony and cummings had strong words just a few days ago telling me that the president should not be intimidating any witness coming before congress suggesting that this essentially is against the law. you can t do that to witnesses who are providing this kind of testimony and over the weekend we heard rudy giuliani reference michael cohen s father-in-law, make accusations that there could be ties to organized crime, all of that really
politician, deserves america s gratitude and respect for dedicating so much of his life for strengthening our national security. congressman bill flores tweeted, glad michael flynn is gone from the white house. we need more sanctions and not fewer. mike coffmay wrote, michael flynn is responsible to the president, vice president and the american people. it is his duty to be fully transparent and forthright in higgs actions. anything less is unacceptable. elija cummings and john conyers are demanding a briefing. lawmakers from the congressional hispanic caucus are expected to meet with the officials on the raids. they ll sit down with thomas homan. the meeting came after they sent
so there can t be a lot of surprise to that, but nonetheless, this has been an area, benghazi, where not withstanding all of the evidence to the contrary, people continue to cling to these conspiracy theories, so my guess is the response from some of the hard core on this was they just don t believe him that he must have some ulterior motive because that could be the only possible explanation. that must be disconcerting to say the least. this will not be what people on the left imagine it to be. people on the left and americans in general imagine this to be basically a witch hunt with no end especially when you get information like that and it seems to sway no one on the republican side of the aisle. i wonder how confident you are in trey gowedy s assurances. we ve had word that elija cummings has a tremendous amount of respect. i think he ll be under imes pressure to produce something to
we are right at the deadline. as a matter of fact, it looks like we will be here on new year s eve and possibly new year s day. they ve already alerted us, members of the house, at the possibility of doing that. that was democratic congressman elija cummings with the government reform committee on our air just a couple of hours ago. he s made it clear at that time fiscal cliff deadline may not be met. joining me live to talk about scenarios ahead, former pennsylvania representative and 2010 senate candidate as well, joe sestak, always good to see you. good to see you, craig. right now ideas are being debated behind closed doors and you suggest we shouldn t be talking so much about a fiscal cliff, per se. we should be talking about a bunny slope. describe what you think should happen. the fiscal cliff means we re taking $700 billion out of the
that the votes will be there in the senate. no doubt about it. okay. that is the latest and the best reporting that i have seen anywhere on a head count of the public option. we are really getting to it. you re challenging the house, telling the house just have the leap of faith and go first and put the public option in and we ll get it done. adam green, great to have you with us. we ll have you back again. joining me now is elija cummings. what s your response to that reporting tonight from that website bold progressives? you know, as much as i d like to go along with that, i can fully understand where nancy pelosi is coming from. we ve got to do it we he did it