Bonus: "The Committee Will Come To Order"
The Investigation
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🗓️ 27 February 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a special episode of the investigation. |
| 0:08.5 | We've been watching President Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen's appearance |
| 0:13.1 | before House oversight all throughout the day. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm also joined here with the head of our investigative unit, Chris Flasto, along with |
| 0:19.7 | John Santucci, Matt Moss, |
| 0:21.6 | two of our veteran reporters who have been covering Trump from the very beginning. And on the Hill, |
| 0:26.0 | our Mary Bruce, ABC News, senior congressional correspondent. I think we all can agree, Mary. It's been |
| 0:30.6 | quite a day. This has been quite a circus up here on Capitol Hill. I can't remember the last time I saw |
| 0:35.9 | just such a huge crush of cameras, the |
| 0:38.0 | line of members of the public that stretched all the way around this house office building |
| 0:44.4 | waiting to get a glimpse of what so many told us. They viewed simply as history. And it was just |
| 0:49.8 | remarkable to see the president's former fixer, his attorney, someone who wants that he would take a bullet for the president, just completely delivering this blistering takedown of Donald Trump. |
| 1:01.0 | Straight off the bat, you heard Cohen saying that the president is a con man, a cheat and a liar. And it became very apparent, very early, the stark divisions between the two parties, how partisan this |
| 1:12.3 | hearing was going to be. You have Democrats, the chairman, Elijah Cummings, saying, he feels |
| 1:18.3 | very strongly that this committee is no longer going to be protecting the president, that he feels |
| 1:22.5 | the president has been able to go unchecked for too long, and that was ending today. And they, |
| 1:27.1 | you know, wanted to dig deeply |
| 1:28.6 | into what Cohen knew about what he witnessed by the president's side during that decade. They wanted |
| 1:34.5 | to know all about why he lied to Congress before about that Trump Tower deal in Moscow that Cohen now |
| 1:41.0 | admits that the president knew was stretched well into the campaign. |
| 1:45.8 | And of course, I want to know about all the nitty-gritty details about the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, |
| 1:50.2 | which of course is what implicates the president here in criminal conduct while he is in office, |
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