'President Donald Trump is "right to be nervous' over his former attorney Michael Cohen's guilty plea to lying to Congress, as "time is running out when he can hold himself above the law," Rep. Jerry Nadler, who is expected to lead the House Judiciary Committee next year, said Friday.
"The significance of the developments this week is that one of the central focuses of the investigation is...it's become very clear, that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians in trying to subvert the election," the New York Democrat claimed on CNN's "New Day."
Nadler said there is a "lot of evidence" pointing toward collusion, including a Trump Tower meeting between then-Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., with Russian agents wanting to give them dirt on Hillary Clinton.
"The question is, was the president involved, did he know about it?" said Nadler.
This past week, he added, Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, admitted to lying to Congress about his connections with Russia. Further, it was learned Manafort was "involved with communicating with Wikileaks during the spring of 2016 at the time, well before they served as the conduit to release the emails that the Russians had stolen from Hillary Clinton."
He added that he doesn't know if Manafort met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which Manafort does deny.
"It's also clear that Mueller knows a lot we don't know, and that Cohen's testimony is far more relevant than just his involvements with payoffs to Stormy Daniels, but gets into a lot of other things Trump was doing, such as big dealings with the Russians," said Nadler.
Such deals weren't illegal, he conceded, but Trump "lied about it to the American people, repeatedly."
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