and critical thinking. the key paragraph of the buzzfeed story was this, quote, now the story sources have told buzzfeed news that cohen also told the special counsel that after the election, the president personally instructed him to lie. pretty stunning if true an impeachable offense, to be sure. attorney general nominee bill barr said as much in his testimony this week. but could that ever be proven? not if it s just trump s word versus cohen s word, on that score, buds feed had a bigger blockbuster. the special counsel learned about trump s directive for cohen to lie through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization and internal company e-mails, tech message, and a cache of other documents. cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his
off the coast of hawaii is believed to be the largest on the planet. i don t know how they track that. i think it s again, deep blue is over 50-years-old, 20 feet old, divers say they highly discourage people from jumping into the waters. good idea. taking care out there. smerconish is next. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. we welcome in our viewers in the united states and around the world. sometimes you wish you weren t right. but i was early if calling bs on that explosive buzzfeed story claiming they had evidence that michael cohen was told to lie to congress and last night mueller s office calling buzzfeed s descriptions regarding cohen not accurate. a huge problem for journalalism. what happens next? plus the president is due to speak at 3:00 p.m. on the stalemate on its 29th day.
say what you will about trump and cohen. but i got to believe they re more sophisticated when it comes to skull duggery. roy cohen taught president trump better than that. the president doesn t send e-mails or texts. would he tell him to commit that crime? here in philly, there is an ad annual among the pauls. you never write a letter or throw one away. when it comes to your misdeeds, you don t put anything in writing. if a political opponent does, you hold it. from the get-go, i said this was a story that needed to presumed false until shown otherwise. it quickly went from bad to worse. also on cnn s new day, after i raised concerns about the story, one of the bud feed co-authors appeared, anthony cormier was asked if he had seen the corroboration, himself. he said, no watch. have you seen any of that other corroborating evidence? no, i have not seen it per n
unpopular. i think that interview with jackie speir was a cannon shot and they should be worried. that was very surprised to me. they seem like they are ready to go. the president can t fire adam schiff or jackie speir. he can try to fire mueller but he can t fire them. we know that donald junior has been worried. there s been reports that say he s nervous he could be indicted or brought in. there s a lot hanging out there for the trump family. i think don junior should be worried and congresswoman speir mentioned him. i think that s the most likely next person to be called in for potential lying. the view inside trump world based on my reporting is uneasy. they are hoping this comes down to trump s word versus cohen s word. they are praying there s no documents. thank you. are the trump children in
since then, we have seen more than 15 denials by different members of trump s orbit, including the president himself. we can put that up. how do you see this playing out given it s now trump s word versus cohen s word? it s going to be very important that as the congressman pointed out, we haven t seen a transcript of what michael cohen told the committee. we don t know whether he simply did not address the issue of whether president trump knew about the meeting or afterwards or whether he lied about it or presented committee with a different story than he is apparently telling sources now that the press dident did know about it. this was why this meeting was coming to fruition. if he knew, as chris said, that would be a very significant thing. the other thing that this does is it brings together two sort of troubling threads. we did learn about this meeting