While most Republicans on the panel stuck to Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan's strategy of attacking Cohen's character and playing defense for the President, Amash asked sharp questions designed to draw out information. Amash told CNN in an interview after the hearing that he gave Jordan advance warning his questioning would be tough. "In some sense you've delegitimized objections to the President," Amash said of his peers. Asked if he'd thought about leaving the Freedom Caucus in recent months, the congressman admitted he has been "disenchanted" enough to consider it at times. Yet Amash reiterated his Freedom Caucus colleagues remain some of his closest friends in Congress.

Source: CNN March 10, 2019 16:52 UTC