Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, returns to Capitol Hill for testimony as Democrats pursue a flurry of investigations into Trump's White House, businesses and presidential campaign on Wednesday. Cohen will speak for a second time with the House Intelligence Committee, which first met privately with him last week, following another closed-door session with the Senate Intelligence Committee and a public hearing with the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. During the course of those interviews, both House and Senate investigators expressed a keen interest in the subject of pardons, which Cohen claims Trump’s representatives dangled before him, according to people familiar with the matter. Cohen has also testified that Trump’s representatives made changes to what he planned to tell lawmakers then — a charge Trump’s representatives have denied. They are also expected to question Cohen about the timeline of Trump’s Russian contacts, particularly as it concerns his efforts well into the campaign to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2019 14:15 UTC