we had to remove the personally identifiable information, and all those transcripts or some of them had to undergo a declassification process. but they will be made public soon. when the democrats have the majority in the congress, we would have the power to convey them directly to the special counsel. congressman, thank you for your time. we wait for the president to step off of air force one and see if he makes any comments, i want to read another piece of the michael cohen charging document. i m quoting now, the moscow project was discussed multiple times within the company and did not end in january of 2016. cohen discussed the status and progress of the moscow progress with individual one, which we know is donald trump, on more than three occasions. cohen claimed to the committee, and he briefed family members of individual one within the company about the project. joining us is cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin, a former federal
environment at the network. it is worse than it is has ever been. we ll get through it. it s going to take a full hour. stay with us. we started with breaking news news opening monologue. the mueller fishing expedition is now on day 561. now desperate for dirt, any dirt on donald trump, they are frenetic. they re going to the, well, 70 hours at michael cohen spent with the special prosecutor. the moscow project. he is now claiming that the trump organization continued to negotiate the finance by russia, of name lease of trump deal a potential building in russia during the 2016 election he said discussions had ended in january and now he is saying they ended in june of 2016. the destroy-trump-media, of
is a corrosive, abusively biased environment at the network. it is worse than it does not repent. we ll get through it. stay with us. we start with breaking news. does not want dave 561. desperate to dirt, any dirt on donald trump. they are frenetic. they re going to the well 70 hours. michael: met with the prosecutor. one time trump attorney pled guilty to a charge of lying to congress over something called the moscow project. he is now claiming that the trump organization continued to negotiate the finance by russia, the name lisa trump deal of a potential building in russia during the 2016 election he said discussions had ended in january now you say in in june. the media of course uses these
to moscow, yet, he did agree and asked trump if trump would go as well. cohen also claimed he didn t recall getting a response from the russian government, but in fact, he did remember dealing with the office of a top kremlin official. all of those statements were deliberate lies, and apparent effort to cover up to protect the president. as the charging documents state, cohen s intent was to minimize links between the moscow project and trump, in hopes of limiting the ongoing russia investigations. the big question, why did he lie so much? why did he commit a felony so often? and why would cohen commit a felony to cover up his boss dealings with russia during the election? now the president is accusing cohen of making up the whole story. here s how trump reacted to the news early today. what he s trying to do because he s a weak person and not a very smart person, what he s trying to do is end, and
the microphone. he said the reason why he did this was to be consistent with the messaging that was being offered by president trump and by other people close to the president in addition to that, he said he did it out of loyalty to the president. was the reason why he made these false statements, and i think the hope here, chris, was that by saying, hey, look, you know, any discussion of this moscow plan, or this moscow project, and any discussion of a hotel, all that ended before, around the time of the iowa caucus, meaning that it didn t continue on into the actual candidacy of the president. but i think what s really interesting here, chris, is that, in fact, it did. it went into june of 2016. and by that time, trump was the presumptive nominee. this occurred just barely a month before the rnc. so i think it raises questions as to why, you know, seemingly, this is innocuous. it would not be illegal for the president of the united states at that point to continue his business dealin