Live-tweeting the hearing

If you can't or don't want to watch the Cohen hearing, here are some people who did it for you:

Daniel Dale  And when he says someone was shouting, he's correct.  There were indeed some shouters.  Republicans, of course.  Trying to out-indignant each other.  I guess that's the pattern since Lindsey Graham's outburst at the Kavanaugh hearing.  It apparently played well for Trump.

Aaron Rupar provides video clips in his posts.

Here's one I liked.




A couple of points I haven't made so far:

Democrat Jackie Speier asked Cohen about how many times he threatened people at Trump's direction.  He finally comes up with more than 500 times, which includes threatening reporters with lawsuits.

Somebody asked him if he's aware of any other criminal behavior by Trump that hasn't been covered, and he said, yes, but it's part of the SDNY investigation so he can't talk about it.  He also says that Trump never repaid David Pecker for the "catch and kill" money Pecker paid for her story, and that wasn't the only time that happened.  I wonder what Pecker is telling investigators.

Several Republicans complained that the Democrats were horrible for limiting what they were allowed to ask about.  (That was a Democratic complaint when Nunes headed the investigation.)  But, in fact there are some topics that Cohen would have had to refuse to answer because they're being investigated by Mueller and/or the SDNY.  Nobody bothered to waste time pointing that out.

Cohen said he was a Democrat until Steve Wynn had him change so he could become the RNC finance chairman.  I think somebody needs to get an investigation going into the RNC.  I think there may be a lot of shit there, including perhaps collusion with Russia to secure the election for Trump.

Also, I'll point out that one of the Democrats asked for Cohen's original documentation, which he says Trump's lawyers (including Jay Sekulow and Abbe Lowell) edited, that comprised his false statement to Congress about the Moscow Trump Tower project.  That could be a very big deal.

And then...



...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:



Well, if Cohen can find any documentation, we'll find out.

UPDATE:

The full hearing (video from USA Today)