dinged here for subordinating perjury or not. that is the biggest thing to watch for in his public testimony. that s a very good point because he can t talk about the russia case in his public testimony. what are you hearing in terms of expectations from members of the hill from this michael cohen testimony? it will be a draesk das dram he can talk about events and tax returns. was the president under an irs audit. that is how he dodged releasing them. they can go back in time and ask him a lot of questions. on russia and cohen has said this, he said i can t answer it because he is getting leniency from michael cohen for lying to congress. i watched republicans go after
former lawyer appears before congress. michael cohen will testify twice behind closed doors. wednesday is a big huge spectacle. americans will see and hear cohen at a public hearing of the oversight committee. cohen implicated donald trump in campaign finance violations and pled guilty to lying to congress, later admitting that then candidate trump was involved in discussions during the campaign to build trump tower in moscow. the house intel chief laying out what he plans to ask cohen. why the false statements before our committee when he first appeared? and did they go beyond what he told us about moscow trump tower? who would have been aware of the false testimony that he was giving? what other light can he shed now that he is cooperating on issues of obstruction of justice or collusion or any other issues relative to our investigation.
him saying you didn t get a job offer in d.c. is that why you are turning against the president and reminding everybody he did lie to congress and they will say you can t believe this guy. you bring up the president s taxes and he may be able to testify that the president was under an audit. who cares? he could have released anyway. the white house saying the president isn t worried about what cohen has to say. is there reason to believe otherwise? absolutely. we have evidence going back for a while here that trump really didn t want michael cohen to be testifying. he has been putting that out there in his tweets, been trying to make him look unreliable, like a lir, like he has all of these family problems. i think we absolutely can believe he is very worried about this. to the point about the children, i think it sounds nice i want to protect my family. what we are talking about here is the trump foundation. some of the stuff i m really interested in for the hearing i hope is that
right? i think that the american people deserve to know what s going on here. especially given that we don t know what s going to come of this mueller report. how much of it will be made available and this is where the power s congress comes to play. we need to be able to show all the different pieces coming together and that create kind of this overarching picture of corruption and of an administration that is not loyal to the american people and has instead is accountable to other interests whatever those may be and we have to bring it all to light so the overarching image can be painted for the american people. california congresswoman katie hill. very much look forward to our next conversation. thanks. thank you so much. gauging the president s mood and the mood inside the white house ahead of what promises to be explosive testimony on capitol hill this week. itr just. the best a man can get. gillette.
laying out these options this morning. well, we will obviously subpoena the report. we will bring bob mueller in to testify before congress. we will take it to court if necessary, and in the end i think the department understands they re going to have to make this public. i think barr will ultimately understand that as well. joining me now, msnbc contributor former director of strategic operations for hillary clinton s campaign, and an msnbc political analyst and republican strategist co-founder of the women s public leadership network. hi hi guys. good to see you. and start with the thorn between the roses. what do you think the trump administration is thinking in terms of a plan to handle the report? is there an understanding it s going to need to be made public or it s going to be unavoidable? a fight probably going to be unavoidable. there is not, i think, a droe g