A reporter hadn’t even finished asking about President Trump and the sentencing of his former lawyer Michael Cohen when Republican Sen. James E. Risch indicated he would have none of it. “I don’t know anything except what I hear and read about all that.”“Stop,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said. Until I read, actually read, what the president said, I won’t comment on it.”“Honestly, I don’t think that’s a fair question,” said Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La. “Sometimes, I think many of us would probably approach and share messages in a different manner in which this president has.”Does Rounds wish Trump would stop tweeting? “You now, I didn’t hear the president,” Moran said, asked how much stock he puts in Trump’s latest denial vis-a-vis Cohen.

Source: Washington Post December 15, 2018 10:52 UTC