The Senate Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena to compel Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, to appear before the panel next month to formally correct false testimony that he delivered last year about a proposed Trump Organization project in Moscow, one of his lawyers confirmed on Thursday.
The subpoena was disclosed a day after Mr. Cohen pulled out of a public hearing scheduled for Feb. 7 before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, citing in a letter from his lawyer, Lanny J. Davis, verbal attacks by Mr. Trump.
Mr. Cohen’s initial agreement to appear before the Oversight Committee had been voluntary, but he will have little choice in complying with the Senate request. Democrats in charge of the House Oversight and Intelligence committees have signaled in recent days that they may follow suit and issue subpoenas of their own, despite acknowledging Mr. Cohen’s safety concerns.
Unlike the Oversight session, Mr. Cohen’s return to the Senate Intelligence Committee will almost certainly be behind closed doors.
NYT
I don't even know what that means.“Of course he will honor the subpoena,” Davis said on MSNBC when asked if Cohen would testify. “But what he will do as a result of the subpoena is a legal issue that would come down to reasonable discussions.”
Politico
On Thursday, Davis said there should be a criminal investigation into Giuliani for witness tampering and intimidation, calling Trump's lawyer “mentally unstable” for his alleged attacks on Cohen’s wife and father-in-law. He also urged Congress to protect Cohen with a resolution of censure as special counsel Robert Mueller conducts his investigation into whether the president's campaign colluded with Russia.
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Cohen is scheduled to report to prison March 6 to serve a three-year sentence. He pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion and lying to Congress last November, a plea elicited in part by Mueller.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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