Here are some of the most consequential lines so far from Michael Cohen's testimony | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's one-time personal attorney and fixer, is testifying before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday -- likely the only chance the public will have to hear from him before he is sent to jail in May for a series of tax and campaign finance charges. Cohen's testimony is one of the biggest moments of Trump's time in office and among the most high-profile hearings on Capitol Hill in modern political memory.
"He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn't a 'shithole.' This was when Barack Obama was President of the United States."Impossible to corroborate what Cohen is saying here -- unless there were other people in the room -- but this is consistent with reporting from CNN and others in January 2018 that Trump referred to immigrants coming into the US from"shithole" countries.10.
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