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The president says he ll appeal. thank you to kristen welker for that report. joining us once again senior writer at roll call. neil, what do you make of trump s stonewalling tactics for his current and former employees not to cooperate? will this come back to bite him? it s really no surprise that they would be taking this attempt to run out the clock approach with all of the document requests and the former staff in regards to these congressional investigations. i don t know that it comes back to bite them unless the courts start moving ahead really quickly in terms of how long that the legal proceedings drag out and someone gets forced to testify or actually held in contempt in d.c. it s too soon to know whether or not but if they can run out the clock successfully it works to ....
transcripts released yesterday show president trump s former fixer michael cohen claimed the president s attorney jay sekulow encouraged him to lie to congress in 2017 about the timeline of the trump tower moscow project. in a february close door meeting with the house intel meeting cohen admitted sekulow told him to say that the trump tower moscow talks ended in 2016 and to quote stay on message. that message of that quote there was that there s no russia, no collusion, no business deals. cohen claimed sekulow advised him to say discussions about the project stopped in 2016 before the iowa caucus when, in fact, it continued for months after that. according to the transcripts. now attorneys for sekulow dismiss the allegations yesterday saying that cohen who is serving a three year prison term should not be believed. now house democrats are now scrutinizing whether sekulow or ....
Doing this. the iranians are not the iraqis. colonel, as always a great pleasure to have you on. thank you. thanks for having me. that is all in for this evening. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. donald trump flies to pennsylvania tonight and rails against spying and treason. but the problems he left behind are substantial including the real threat now that his financial records must be handed over to congress so says a federal judge. michael cohen is back in the news tonight even while in prison because of an allegation that a trump lawyer instructed him to lie surrounding details of trump tower moskow. don mcgahn will not show up for testimony tomorrow because the house told him not to. as the 11th hour gets under way now on a busy monday night. good evening once again ....
The department of justice on that. phil rucker, i ve heard it said that the report needed a writer. someone to sit down and say let s look at what you have here. that it was too important a public document as you can see just by sampling our conversations still tonight to be as dry as voluminous as it was. well, part of the power in the report is it just lays out the facts, the very basic facts. and the difference in a report and what you would get in a testimony, is you would have a lot more emotion in a testimony. you would have don mcgahn filling in the color. how was he feeling, how did he react to that? what was the president s emotion like when he heard something or ....
But there s a great deal of anxiety the president might feel about what mcgahn has to say. for that nar ffb to be spelled out in a written report, it s another thing entirely to have a national television spectacle of the former white house counsel before congress answering these questions under oath and getting in, frankly, into more detail than we read in the mueller report. that s right. barb, another matter for you to take on and that is this financial ruling by a federal judge today. now, this it seems to me as a civilian is different. this is an accounting firm. perhaps they re not going to have the wallet or the stomach for a protracted court fight. why would they? this is their work product. also, it seems to me this company can be compelled to act by the white house. so this could actually happen. these documents, barring a stay from a higher court could actually come out? yeah, i do expect we ll see ....