These are potential criminal felonies. That is why the Mueller Investigation needs to proceed. There is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the Phone Records. Never subpoenaed the Phone Records placed to an unknown meeting. Is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. I am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. It was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. Trying to do a whitewash of what happened. And i think history will not judge them kindly. Reporting yesterday about senator claire mc mccaskill. We are told it lasted 30 minutes. So very concerned about what is going to happen. You started off this interview by nodding to possible crimes committed if it is in
fact true, the president knew about the meeting. And there are people on the right and defender
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. There is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the Phone Records. Never subpoenaed the Phone Records placed to an unknown meeting. Is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. I am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. It was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. Trying to do a whitewash of what happened. And i think history will not judge them kindly. Reporting yesterday about senator claire mc mccaskill. How democrats last week put up a bill to provide election, security funding. The republicans rejected that. And it is clear that the House Republicans have completely gone derelict in their attitude to protect america. And hopefully voters will change. Top officials on election security. We are told it lasted 30 m
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Of the house judiciary committee. Congressman, let me start with you. Do you think Michael Cohen is credible . I do. And if Michael Cohen is telling the truth, it means theres at least three felonies in what hes about to say. First, donald trump conspired with a foreign power to influence the election. Second, donald trump went ahead and lied about the meeting, which could be potential obstruction of justice. And third, trump junior lied to congress when he said his father did not know about this meeting. Were way beyond not normalizing what shouldnt be normalized. These are potential criminal felonies. Thats why the Robert Mueller investigation needs to proceed without any more political interference. You know, there was always a striking thing that happened on the house side, the House Intelligence Committee in your investigation into these matters, which it sort of said, well, we wrapped up and found n
the things that go to the core of the mueller inquiry. and that s whether or not trump colluded with russia. so if that is the case and michael cohen was pretty much central to this dossier, he was dispatched to prague to clean up the mess. allegedly. he denies this. yeah. and he was allegedly dispatched to pay off the russian hackers, et cetera, et cetera. that would be consistent with his lifetime role as trump s fixer. that is consistent with that. so if he were to start talking about things that he witnessed during the campaign or, you know, try to lessen his sentence perhaps to get to the heart of what bob mueller is investigating and, therefore, be extremely valuable to that investigation, then that would just open pandora s box. i also think, paul, the most implausible thing about the trump tower meeting to me that i m obsessed with is the cover story of all participants in it, including the russians who were present who have spoken, is there s this huge buildup in which
the matter said he did in fact do this. made a trip to prague during the presidential campaign. if that is true, we are at the center of the whole thing if in fact cohen would talk to mueller. if cohen has decided that he is willing to talk to bob mueller. there is reporting saying someone close, saying he is ready to talk about it. so if that is the case, and you know, michael cohen was pretty much central to this dossier, dispatched to prague to clean up the mess. again, allegedly. allegedly dispatched to pay off the russian hackers, that would be consistent with his lifetime role as fixer. if he were talking about things that he witnessed during the campaign or trying to lessen his sentence.