GOP scrambles to neuter testimony of 'lying' Michael Cohen
by Jerry Dunleavy
| February 25, 2019 08:19 PM
Republicans are trying to upend Democratic plans to question President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen by demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appear with him to fact-check his answers.
As well as asking Rosenstein to assess Cohen's truthfulness, they also want to grill Rosenstein on his own actions. Democrats are all but certain to resist the move.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., members of the conservative Freedom Caucus, say Cohen is an admitted liar who was about to go to jail for failing to tell the truth to Congress. Rosenstein, they argue should testify with him before the House Oversight and Reform Committee this Wednesday.
Cohen is due to testify on Capitol Hill three times this week, including closed sessions before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday and the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday. His only public testimony will be before the House Oversight Committee.
In a letter to Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the committee chairman, the Republicans said that “Cohen has pleaded guilty to crimes of deception and lies, including lying to Congress.†They want to quiz Rosenstein because he has been the supervisor for both special counsel Robert Mueller and Geoffrey Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Mueller and Berman have both investigated Cohen.
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