I have done things I’m not proud of and I will live with the consequences of my actions for the rest of my life I get to decide the example that I set for my children and how I attempt to change how history will remember me I may not be able to change the past but I can do right by the American people here today and I thank you for your attention and happy to answer the committee’s questions for Michael Cohen unlike any we’ve seen

Amongst other things that you understand the gravity of this moment I most certainly do I want you to really hear this going we will not tolerate lying to this Congress by anybody we’re in search of the truth do you understand that I do it turned out to be inaccurate for example he said he knew nothing how many payments to miss Clifford in his 2017 Financial disclosure form so you never owed money to reimburse you for those famous you’re at in your testimony you said that you met with the president in the Oval Office in February 2017 and discuss his plans for money you paid Michael your January and February I’m coming regarding I can 27 I apologize in 2016 prior to the election I was contacted by Keith Davidson attorney was the attorney from this Clifford after several rounds of conversations with him about purchasing for Life rights for $130,000 each and every time it goes straight into mr. Trump’s office and discuss the issue with him when was ultimately determined $1,000 the chief so yes sir I stand by the statement that I gave but there was a history to it and your testimony president businesses can you tell me who sang I believe that the top signature is Donald Trump Junior and at the bottom signature I believe is Allen weisselberg can you tell me the date of that check March 7th no way the date on it that is after President Trump held his big press conference claiming that he gave up control of his businesses how could the president of a range for YouTube get the set if he was supposedly playing no role in his business because the payments were designed to be paid over the course of 12 months and it was declared to be a retainer for services that would be provided for the year of 2017 there is no retainer agreement is the weisselberg for sure about the entire discussions and negotiations prior to the election and Don Jr would have cursory information another one this one appears to be signed by Donald Trump and so is that it that is Donald Trump’s signature so let me make sure I understand Donald Trump wrote you a check out of his personal account while he was serving as president of the United States of America to reimburse you for hush money payments to miss Clifford is that what you are telling the American people today yes mr. One final question the president claimed he knew nothing about these payments is ethics filing said he owed nothing to you based on your conversations with him is there any doubt in your mind and present from knew exactly what he was paying for there is no doubt in my mind and I truly believe there’s no doubt in the mind of the people of the United States of America and documents appear to corroborate what you just told us we been out YouTube one day while we’re in the courthouse and I will take you for every penny you still don’t have and I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know so I’m warning you tread very unlikely because what I’m going to do to you is going to be f—ing disgusting you understand me mr. Cowan who said that I did and did you say that mr. Cowan in your testimony on page 2 you said you did things or mr. Trump in an effort to protect him was that statement that I just read that you admitted to saying did you do that to protect Donald Trump I did it to protect mr. Trump Donald Trump Jr Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump and then your sentencing statement back in December in front of the judge you said this mr. Calling my weakness can be characterized as a blind loyalty to Donald Trump a blind loyalty that led me to choose a path of darkness is that I wrote that false tax return in 2012 2013 2014 2015 and 2016 was all that out of blind loyalty to the president is not when you fail to report for million and income to the Internal Revenue Service did you do that to protect Donald Trump no I did not and when you fail to pay 1.4 million in taxes I got constituency don’t make that in the lifetime when you fail to pay 1.4 million in taxes to the US Treasury was that out of some blind loyalty to Fresno United States it was not but the number was 1.38 and change and I have paid that money back to the IRS might say it was over a course of five years approximately $260,000 a year and that’s what I said 2012/2013 2014/2015 to five years is Scott it when you made false statements to financial institutions concerning a home equity line of credit apartment in 2014 and 2015 can you plead guilty to making those false statements to those Banks was that all done to protect the president note is not about this one did the fake Twitter accounts women for Cohen ate a firm to post tweets like this one in a world of Lies deception and fraud we appreciate this honest guy at Michael Cohen hashtag TGIF hashtag handsome hashtag sexy actually set that up it was done by a young lady that worked for red finch and during the course of The Campaign which you would know it’s somewhat crazy and wild we were having fun that’s what it was so having fun was it done to protect the president that was not done to protect the president fake Twitter account that was no that was a real Twitter account it was done by a young lady that works for the firm and against who having fun during a stressful time I’m not sure how that help me sir I’m not sure how did either and I would like to also know that more than half the people on that site are men statement and you have a history of lying over and over and over again and frankly don’t take my word for it take what the court said take what the southern district of New York said Cohen ocean and more each each motivated by personal greed and ambition a pattern of deception for personal greed and ambition and you just got 30 minutes of an opening statement where you trash the president of the United States of America how long did you work for Donald Trump you said all these bad things about the president they’re not last 30 minutes and yet you work for him for 10 years all those bad things that it’s that bad I can see working for him for 10 days maybe 10 weeks maybe even 10 months do you work for for 10 years how long did you how long do you work in the White House I never worked in the white house that’s the point isn’t it yes it is now I was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the United States of America I do not want to go to the White House I was offered jobs I can tell you a story of mr. Trump reaming out reince priebus because I had not taken a job when was Trump wanted me to which is working with Don mcgahn at the White House general counsel attorney client privilege and an order to handle some of the matters that I talked about in my opening that would be best suited for me not to go in every president had a person for 10 years and years didn’t get a job in the white house and now and now you’re not you’re behaving just like everyone else who’s got fired or didn’t get the job they wanted like Andy McCabe like James Comey same kind who’s graduating from college to come back to New York I got exactly what I want that’s it what you want when I want to hear that’s right exactly what I wanted thank you Jimmy it’s going for being here today as you likely know I served as the chair of the Democratic National Committee at the time of the Russian hacks and when Russia weaponize the messages that it is stolen but I want to be clear my questions are not about the harm done to any individual by Wikileaks and the Russians it’s about the possible and likely harm to the United States of America and our democracy I have a series of questions that I hope will connect more of these dots is it going is it your testimony that mr. Trump had Advance knowledge of the Russia Wikileaks release of the DNC emails I cannot answer that in a yes or no he had advance notice that there was going to be a dump of emails but at no time did I hear the specificity of what those emails were going to be testified today that he had Advanced knowledge of their of their into imminent release that that is what I had stated in my testimony which meant that the family was involved in the deal Russian Trump Tower deal is it possible the whole family is conflicted or compromised with a foreign adversary in the months before the election yes based on your experience with the president and knowledge of his relationship with mr. Stone reason to believe that the president explicitly or implicitly indicate to campaigns interest in the Strategic release of these illegally hacked materials I’m not aware of that was mr. Stone a free agent reporting back to the president what he had done or was he an agent of the campaign acting on behalf of the president and with his apparent Authority a free agent that was reporting back to the president what he had done frequently reached out to mr. Trump and the trunk was very happy to take his calls it was free service Rodger Stone says he never spoke with mr. Trump about Wikileaks how can we Co-op corroborate what you are saying I don’t know but I suspect that the special counsel’s office and other government agencies have the information that you’re seeking we got into a little later in 2016 a major Wikileaks dump happens hours after the Access Hollywood tape is released do you believe or are you aware of mr. Trump coordinating or signaling for this email dump I am unaware that I actually was not even in the country at the time of the Billy Bush tape I was in London visiting my daughter is winning at all costs mentality do believe that he would cooperate all about winning would he have the potential to cooperate or collude with a foreign power to win the presidency at all costs yes based on what you know what mr. Trump or did he lie about colluding and coordinating with the Russians at any point during the campaign so as I stated in my testimony I wouldn’t use the word colluding Was there something odd about the back and forth praise with President Putin yes but I’m not really sure that I can answer that question in terms of collusion I was not part of the campaign I don’t know what the other conversations that mr. Trump had with other individual there’s just so many thoughts that all seemed to lead to the same. The campaign and the entire Trump organization appear to be filthy with Russian contact there are Russian business contacts there are campaign Russian Russian contacts there are lies about all of those contacts and then we have Rodger Stone informing the president just before the Democratic National Convention that these that Wikileaks was going to drop documents in the public Arena that we knew at that point were hacked and stolen by Russia from the Democratic National Committee given all those connections is it likely that Donald Trump was fully aware and had every intent of working with Russia to help make sure that he could win the presidency at all costs but let me say that this is a matter that’s currently being handled by the house select and Senate select intelligence committees so I would rather not answer that specific question other than just to tell you that mr. Trump’s desire to win would have to work with anyone and one of the things that I had said in my statement when it came to the Trump Tower Moscow project worth hundreds of millions of dollars and we never expected to win the election so this was just business as usual state of Tennessee Baker’s German ranking member Jordan the chairman of this committee promised members of the American people a fair and open process that the Democrats and vastly limited the scope of this hearing maybe shoot a gag order to try to tell members of this committee what we can and cannot talk about my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claimed that they want the truth they want transparency and very oversized get the Democrats witness to testify before Congress today is none other than my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claimed that they want the truth they want transparency and very oversized get the Democrats witness to testify before Congress today is none other than a scorned man who’s going to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claimed that they want the truth they want transparency and very oversized get the Democrats witness to testify before Congress today is none other than a scorned man who’s going to prison for lying my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claimed that they want the truth they want transparency and very oversized get the Democrats witness to testify before Congress today is none other than a scorned man who’s going to prison for lying to Congress my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claimed that they want the truth they want transparency and very oversized get the Democrats witness to testify before Congress today is none other than a scorned man who’s going to prison for lying to Congress let that sink in he’s going to prison my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claimed that they want the truth they want transparency and very oversized get the Democrats witness to testify before Congress today is none other than a scorned man who’s going to prison for lying to Congress let that sink in he’s going to prison for lying to Congress and he’s the star witness to if you read the sentencing report on mr. Cowan if you read the sentencing report on mr. Cowan words like deceptive and greedy if you read the sentencing report on mr. Cowan words like deceptive and greedy are scattered throughout that reported paints a picture if you read the sentencing report on mr. Cowan words like deceptive and greedy are scattered throughout that reported paints a picture of a narcissist if you read the sentencing report on mr. Cowan words like deceptive and greedy are scattered throughout that reported paints a picture of a narcissist the bully who if you read the sentencing report on mr. Cowan words like deceptive and greedy are scattered throughout that reported paints a picture of a narcissist the bully who cannot tell the truth whether it’s if you read the sentencing report on mr. Cowan words like deceptive and greedy are scattered throughout that reported paints a picture of a narcissist the bully who cannot tell the truth whether it’s about the president orif you read the sentencing report on mr. Cowan words like deceptive and greedy are scattered throughout that reported paints a picture of a narcissist the bully who cannot tell the truth whether it’s about the president or about his own what is your source of income in the future I don’t expect I’m going to have a source of income when I’m in federal penitentiary or anything like that I have no book deal right now in the process I have been contacted by many including for television the movie if you want to tell me who you would like to play you I’m more than happy I’m sure they will like to turn around and just to correct your statement on me knowing I only have a limited amount who’s pay my expensive be here today I paid my expenses mister and I’d like to yell remaining my time to the ranking member special counsel’s office 7 I’m at did they talk to you at all in preparation for today’s hearing between the seven times you talked to him prior to your sentencing yet any conversations with the special counsel’s office between sentencing today to question stand up to today’s appearance here in Congress the chairman and mr. Cowan Inn in your your 10 years of working for Donald Trump did he control everything that went on in the Trump organization and did you have to get his permission in advance and report back after every meeting of any importance there was nothing that happened at the Trump organization from whether it was a response as The Daily Beast story that you referred to ranking member that did not go through mr. Trump with his approval and sign off as in the case of the payments how many how many times did the president Michael asked you or direct you to try with women in 2015 and 2016 I’m sorry ma’am I don’t I don’t have the exact tonight I’d have to go back and try leading his remorse is minimal his instinct is to blame others is to blame others is wrong with that statement is remorse is non-existent debated a member of Congress and I really didn’t do anything wrong with the false bank things at that I’m guilty ever go to prison for DUI plead guilty and I take responsibility for my actions shame on you mr. Jordan what I said what I said what I said is I took responsibility and I take responsibility for what I was doing is explaining to the gentleman that his fax or inaccurate I still I take responsibility for my mistakes all right I am remorseful and I am going to prison I will be wasn’t sure if she was really going to go public again some Communications back and forth between myself and Keith Davidson and ultimately it came to either do it or don’t at which time again I had gone into mr. Trump’s office as I did have to each and every conversation and he told me that he had spoken to a couple of friends and 230,000 it’s not a lot of money and we should just do it so go ahead and do it and I was at the time with Alan weiselberg where he directed us to go back to the office and figure this all out thank you in German hispanos mr. Cowan do you know when that I’m right here you know Lynne Patton I do I asked Linda to come today in her personal capacity actually responsible for well I’m glad you acknowledge that because you made some very demeaning comments about the the president than this patent don’t agree with it has to do with your claim of racist she says that as a daughter of a