LIVE VIDEO: Michael Cohen Testifies Before Congress

The Guardian reports:

Michael Cohen is due before the House committee at 10am. He shared his testimony with reporters last night and it is… unflinching. As well as those assertions of Trump being a “racist”, a “conman” and a “cheat”, Cohen will tell members of Congress that the president implicitly directed him to lie to Congress.

Cohen will also provide evidence to the committee, which he says shows that Trump reimbursed Cohen for payments made to women claiming to have had affairs with Trump. Cohen says he has a check for $35,000, dated August 1 2017 and personally signed by Trump, which was a reimbursement “for the illegal hush money I paid on his behalf”.

If that wasn’t enough, Cohen also says Trump had advanced knowledge that Roger Stone, a longtime adviser, was communicating with WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign regarding the release of emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.