Ro Khanna calls the checks wrote to Cohen for payments to Stormy Daniels the "smoking gun" you provided this committee. In the SDNY campaign finance fraud case, Executive-1 is Weisselberg, Executive-2 is Junior. A criminal conspiracy to commit financial fraud.
Jimmy Gomez, who is also on the Ways & Means Committee, asks about Trump's taxes and financials, leading to the probability that Trump is lying when he says under tax audit.
I was waiting for someone to ask about the New York Times exposé on Trump's finances that hardly made a blip in the news. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the rescue. That's all she asked about, after following up on some things that were asked earlier.
A few of the Democrats did that. Actually asked for names and places to look for more information. Which, really, is proper investigation.
Rashida Tlaib is bent on becoming the bane of the Democratic party. She implied that Meadows is a racist and started a huge dustup that Cummings managed to smooth over.
Cohen made a closing statement in which he said that he fears if Trump wins the 2020 election there won't be a peaceful transfer of power.
Elijah Cummings is preaching a closing. Emotional, righteous and real. I'll post it when I can get a video clip.
Meanwhile...
Earlier, a black Democratic Congresswoman called it an insult, but didn't outright call it racist. Tlaib was forced to walk it back when...
A lighter view:
UPDATE: Here are some clips of Cummings' closing statement, thanks to Aaron Rupar.
Jim Jordan sat there beside Cummings and repeatedly tried to shame him for holding this "sham", this "circus" as the first hearing. Cummings never interrupted or corrected him in place. I think that was a mistake, but glad to have him at least bring it up in his closing speech.
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I thought Meadows' behavior throughout the whole thing was disgraceful. And I was surprised when Cummings said they're good friends.
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The full hearing (video from USA Today)
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