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Rafi Schwartz
rafischwartz
Senior writer. When in doubt he'll have the soup.

Cohen getting testy with Jordan. “Shame on you, Mr. Jordan.”  Read more

Now Comer yields his remaining time to Jordan, too. This is gonna be a long, long day. Read more

Now James Comer is grilling Cohen about his bank interactions - Seems like the overall tactic on the Republican side is to muddy the waters with Cohen’s own transgressions so much that anything he says about Trump is immediately suspect.  Read more

Cohen explaining how “catch-and-kill” works, which you can read about here! Read more

And now: Carolyn Maloney, asking about how Trump ran the Trump Org.  Read more

Green tosses his question time back to Jordan, who starts asking about Robert Mueller.  Read more

DWS trying to corner Cohen into speculating whether Trump would be capable of colluding with Russia. Cohen reluctantly agrees that he would.  Read more

Next up: Debbie Wasserman Schultz - who reminds Cohen that she was running the DNC when Wikileaks released stolen emails. Read more

Jordan’s whole line of questioning to Cohen is just an endless stream of “you’re a huge crook” which...show me the lie! Read more

Jim Jordan starting his questions by reading Cohen’s threatening remarks to a Daily Beast journalist. Cohen says he made the threats to protect the Trump family.  Read more

Cummings and Cohen are going over every line of the multiple checks Trump sent to Cohen to reimburse him for the hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels. Read more

Cummings starts his time by laying into Cohen for lying to congress in the past, and warning him not to do it again.  Read more

And with that, Cohen’s opening statement is done. On to the questions!  Read more

What struck me as I looked back and thought about that exchange between Don Jr. and his father was, first, that Mr. Trump had frequently told me and others that his son Don Jr. had the worst judgment of anyone in the world.”

Let the congressional record show that Donj is a dumb-dumb.  Read more

“I find it ironic, President Trump, that you are in Vietnam right now.” [stares at the camera like Jim from The Office] Read more

“When I say conman, I’m talking about a man who declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges, and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores” Read more