prosecutor numerous times so in the whole scheme of things how significant is michael cohen s testimony yesterday to the overall investigations that are underway . right now i don t want to kind of on the cell of the blockbuster nature of what we saw here in washington that said we do need hard evidence and it s fair to say that you know the murder investigation the results that we re waiting for that will be so very significant when mr cohen set out today seem to be the cement between you know of course what democrats are hoping all the bricks of what will come out of special counsel robert motos investigation so be very interesting to see what we learn from that when that report is true that it and what about the oversight committee yesterday to help hardison did it behave and what does it tell us about the united states and its deep political
of my guilty plea to reimburse me cohen also painted a portrait of a candidate who encouraged associates to do anything to get him elected that included communicating with wiki leaks about e-mails stolen from his opponent hillary clinton stone told mr trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julian a song and that mr stange told mr stone that within a couple of days it would be a massive dump of e-mails that would damage the reply campaign mr trump responded by stating to the effect without the great drums personal financial cohen provided no smoking gun of the trump campaign s collusion with russia he suspects it he said but he has no concrete evidence but if wednesday s hearing is any indication the rest of the trump presidency will be dogged by increase as congressional democrats expand their investigation of the president s
investigation a year after that richard nixon then resigned from office what we saw in the testimony from mr cohen was a approach on one hand we had that character assassination calling him a racist a cheat a con man a lawyer perhaps something that s not new there in terms of month slinging that of course you can hear that online or any of president trump s detractors what the democrats were looking for was a new smoking gun and new allegations and certainly they did turn up some gunpowder i d say and they will need pursuing those lines of inquiries going forward gun powder you know what was the most explosive of those indictments yesterday. well it was interesting that mr cowen could bring exhibit what he called evidence of course whether that s proof is another matter and he said he does have a credibility issue but he did bring a coffee all of
business and political affairs ice. quite a day yesterday the world still talking about it s so are we let s cross over now to washington d.c. where our very own helena humphrey is on the story for she s burning the midnight oil there in washington with this list talk about yesterday a very long day would you say that the testimony of michael cohen will it end up redefining the trump presidency would bring was a testimony in front of course that says it was a court of public opinion and everybody here in the united states were glued to their t.v. sets to watch this testimony in terms of redefining it was certainly a defining moment many people i spoke to who can remember that testimony from john dean a presidential lawyer for richard nixon was quick to draw a parallel there of that nine hundred seventy three testimony he delivered in the watergate investigation which turned out to be the turning point in that