Michael Cohen returned to Congress Wednesday as Republicans demanded answers on whether Democrats coached his bombshell public testimony last week before the House Oversight Committee.…
Michael Cohen returned to Congress Wednesday as Republicans demanded answers on whether Democrats coached his bombshell public testimony last week before the House Oversight Committee.
Cohen on Wednesday spoke for a second time with members of the House Intelligence Committee in a less than a week. Both Cohen and lawmakers were buttoned up about what discussed during the closed-door meeting.
Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, California Democrat, called the session “enormously productive,” but offered scant details. Mr. Schiff did say Cohen provided the committee with documents, but declined to provide further information.
Some media outlets reported Wednesday that Cohen provided committee members with documents that reveal alleged editing to the statement he used to lie to Congress in 2017 about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Neither Mr. Schiff nor Cohen confirmed if they were among the documents he turned over.
During his public testimony last week, Cohen said “several changes” were made to the statement, including edits made by Jay Sekulow, a member of Mr.
