- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 5:22 PM est
Cummings adjourns the hearing. Thanks for following along with us!
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 5:20 PM est
Cummings thanks Cohen for coming forward and says its a part of his destiny leading to "a better Michael Cohen," "a better Donald Trump," and "a better America"
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 5:19 PM est
Cummings condemns Trump calling Cohen "a rat" says "we're better than that"
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 5:17 PM est
Cummings says it sounds like Cohen is "crying out for a new normal" and he's trying to make sure our "democracy stays intact"
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 5:14 PM est
Jordan concludes that Cohen's story isn't "what we should be focused on"
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 5:11 PM est
Jordan says that Cohen has said a lot of things that don't add up just in this hearing.
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 5:10 PM est
Cohen lectures the president about using a "bully pulpit" and "separating families," finally "you don't shut down the government before Christmas and New Years."
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 5:09 PM est
"My loyalty to Mr. Trump has cost me everything," he claims, he says that if Trump loses the 2020 election there will never be a peaceful transition of power.
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 5:08 PM est
Cohen shares some final thoughts...
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 5:02 PM est
Cummings says Meadows is "one of his best friends" and he says that he felt his pain in seeming to be called racist.
- Cortney O'Brien | Feb 27, 2019 5:02 PM est
"I was not referring to you at all as a racist," Rep. Tlaib tells her colleague Mark Meadows.
- Cortney O'Brien | Feb 27, 2019 5:01 PM est
Yep.
Wow. Rashida Tlaib just turned this into a circus. This is crazy.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) February 27, 2019
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 5:00 PM est
Meadows demands her remarks be stricken from the record, she clarifies that she's not calling him a racist but insists that what he did was "a racist act in itself"
- Cortney O'Brien | Feb 27, 2019 4:58 PM est
Rep. Jim Jordan demands that Rep. Tlaib clarify her remarks about Rep. Meadows and racism.
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 4:58 PM est
Rep. Tlaib calls it "racist in itself" that Rep. Meadows brought in a black woman as a "prop" to which he strongly objects
- Matt Vespa | Feb 27, 2019 4:58 PM est
As a person of color, I think Rep. Tlaib is an idiot.
- Matt Vespa | Feb 27, 2019 4:58 PM est
Rashida Tlaib going on a tear ... she's the one who said she wanted to impeach Trump ... though she referred to him as "the motherf**ker."
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 4:54 PM est
Rep. Rashida Tlaib says some of her colleagues "can't handle the truth" as she opens her questioning.
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 4:50 PM est
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) up now asking Cohen about the Trump Foundation...
- Lauretta Brown | Feb 27, 2019 4:49 PM est
. @AOC is laying the groundwork for the Oversight Committee subpoenaing Trump's tax returns.
— Alex Wagner (@alexwagner) February 27, 2019