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

Plaskett is recommending Matt Gaetz be investigated for witness intimidation!!  Read more

Hell yeah, Stacey Plaskett finally brings up the fact that Cohen was the vice-chair of the RNC’s finance committee.  Read more

Oh god, Roy is talking about MS-13 now. This is starting to go (even further) off the rails.  Read more

Roy calls Mother Jones a “known conservative news magazine” which is either a joke, or, uh...no, it’s gotta be a joke, right?  Read more

Chip Roy is up, and my first impression is that he needs to shave his head.  Read more

Cohen makes the very good point that Trump doesn’t have to explicitly threaten him in order to inspire other people to do so on his behalf.  Read more

Brenda Lawrence immediately goes in on Trump’s racism, and the Republican’s cheap stunt of parading out a single black person to negate Cohen’s claims of Trump’s bigotry.  Read more

Cohen goes back to how bad he feels about lying to Melania.  Read more

Greg Steube launches into a “when I ran for congress” shpiel, and honestly, these are all starting to run together in my brain.  Read more

Mark DeSaulnier starts his time by wishing Cohen “good luck on your road to redemption” before launching into questions about Trump Tower Moscow.  Read more

Today the role of “very angry guy hoping his bosses notice him” will be played by North Dakota Sen. Kelly Armstrong. Read more

Kelly Armstrong is pushing Cohen on his recording people without their knowledge—which, in New York, is entirely legal. Read more

Robin Kelly is up, and brings up the payments to Stormy Daniels.  Read more

Miller just going over the same statements about Cohen’s credibility that every Republican before her has raised. It’s getting old.  Read more

Carol Miller starts her questioning by telling Cohen she is “very disappointed” in the hearing.  Read more