LIVE UPDATES: Cohen claims Trump asked him to say he wasn't knowledgeable of payments to Stormy Daniels
Last Updated Wednesday, February 27, 2019 1:37PM ESTScroll down to read updates from CTV News' Richard MadanU.S. President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, says prosecutors in New York are investigating conversations that Trump or his advisers had with Cohen after his hotel room was raided by the FBI.
At the hearing, Gosar put up a sign that read "Liar, Liar Pants on Fire" and called Cohen a "pathological liar." Donald Trump Jr. tweets that Cohen's testimony sounded "like a breakup letter" and that it's "funny how things change when you're trying to save your ass." Cohen tells a House committee that he witnessed instances before the election in which Trump was informed about WikiLeaks' release of Democratic National Committee emails and about a Trump Tower meeting that included campaign advisers, Trump's oldest son and a Russian lawyer.
Cohen has testified to a House committee that Stone told Trump that the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks planned to release emails damaging to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. President Donald Trump's former lawyer is apologizing to Congress and the American people for, in his words, "actively working to hide from you the truth about Mr. Trump when you needed it most."
For more than a decade, Cohen was a key power player in the Trump Organization and a fixture in Trump's political life. Cohen is set to begin a three-year prison sentence in May after pleading guilty to lying to Congress in 2017 and committing campaign finance violations while he was working for Trump.President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is accusing Trump of being a "racist."
Cohen says Stone told Trump that Stone had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange, who run the anti-secrecy WikiLeaks group, and that there would be a "massive dump" of emails harmful to the Clinton campaign. Rep. Mark Meadows, a top Trump ally, said Cohen was showing "disdain" for the committee process by failing to submit his prepared remarks ahead of time.Cohen's much-anticipated testimony was received by the committee the night before Wednesday's session, according to the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland.
Cohen is expected to detail before the House Oversight and Reform Committee what he believes is Trump's lying, racism and cheating, and possibly even criminal conduct.
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