Michael Cohen’s ‘earthquake’ testimony is going to ‘kick up the impeachment machine’: CNN’s Gregory

Former Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen's testimony before Congress on Wednesday has now opened up new avenues for Congressional investigation and CNN's David Gregory said on Thursday morning that it has increased the chances that House Democrats will start impeachment hearings.

"There's no question that the earthquake nature of this testimony -- the president's fixer, the guy who said he'd take a bullet for him, the one whom Donald Trump kept so close for a decade was now turning on him in such dramatic fashion -- I think kicks up the impeachment machine dramatically from the left," Gregory said. "We have to see Cohen as, perhaps, the opening public act of whatever [special counsel Robert Mueller] is about to do."

CNN's John Berman then interjected to say that it's not just Mueller that Trump has to worry about, as Cohen referenced investigations being conducted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

"I think what's so interesting about what he did yesterday was raise the possibility and point to evidence of crimes that are outside the realm of Robert Mueller," he said. "Michael Cohen opened the door to this world that will continue beyond next week, or the week after, when the Mueller report comes out."

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