NEW: President Trump knew in advance that WikiLeaks was going to release hacked Democratic emails during the 2016 election, Michael Cohen will say in congressional testimony Wednesday according to a draft opening statement leaked to several media outlets.
Cohen is also expected to testify that Trump not only lied about his business dealings in Russia during the election — a subject of interest for investigators — but urged Cohen to do so without making a direct ask.
Cohen, 52, will be offering congressional testimony in public for the first time just weeks before he’s slated to report to federal prison in early May. "Questions have been raised about whether I know of direct evidence that Mr. Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia," he will say, according to the statement."I do not."The House Oversight Committee hearing, which will begin at 10 a.m. ET and could last four to five hours, comes a day after Cohen appeared in a closed-door hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. On Thursday, Cohen will meet in closed session with the House Intelligence Committee.
“It may very well may be a turning point in our country’s history, I don’t know, I don’t know," added Cummings."But what we want to do is conduct a fair hearing, we want a civil hearing and we want to be effective and efficient in letting the American people know what is going on.”The top Republican on the committee, Rep.
“The oversight staff are trying to play traffic conductors," said one Democratic aide who has reviewed planned questions from some members, but “people are going to want to go there” on Russian ties. Cummings' office has not responded to inquiries about how he will handle any divergence from the approved lines of questioning. However, another aide said Cohen’s lawyers are likely to control how much information he gives on Russia.
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