February 27, 2019
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
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🗓️ 27 February 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good Wednesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. |
| 0:06.7 | Stay tuned after the show for a message from every town for gun safety. |
| 0:10.7 | And I'm Jake Sherman. The main event this morning is Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former attorney and fixer who will testify at 10 a.m. |
| 0:17.9 | in 2154 Rayburn. Andrew D. Sedario has the scoop on what Cohen will say, |
| 0:23.3 | including that Trump is a racist, a conman, and a cheat. He's providing documents to the House |
| 0:28.3 | Oversight Committee that he says proves Trump's illicit acts. Cohen is also expected to say, |
| 0:33.6 | according to his prepared remarks, that Trump knew Roger Stone was talking to Julian Assange |
| 0:39.0 | about a WikiLeaks drop of DNC emails. Cohen will also say he suspects Don Jr. told Trump about |
| 0:46.1 | his meetings with the Russians. President Donald Trump responded at 408 a.m. He tweeted, |
| 0:52.5 | Michael Cohen was one of many lawyers who represented me, unfortunately. |
| 0:57.6 | He had other clients also. He was just disbarred by the state Supreme Court for lying and fraud. |
| 1:03.7 | He did bad things unrelated to Trump. He is lying in order to reduce his prison time using |
| 1:09.4 | Kriggins lawyer. Here's who we're watching this |
| 1:12.7 | morning, Chairman Elijah Cummings of Maryland, ranking Republican Jim Jordan of Ohio, and Representative |
| 1:18.8 | Mark Meadows of North Carolina. And of course, the rookies. There's Democratic representatives |
| 1:24.8 | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Taleb and Republican Chip Roy. |
| 1:30.2 | Congressman Mark Meadows, one of the president's top allies on Capitol Hill and a member of |
| 1:34.5 | the Oversight Committee previewed the hearing in an interview with Playbook. He said he thinks |
| 1:38.8 | it's going to be unbelievable political theater. Meadows said he will be asking about Cohen's |
| 1:43.9 | lobbying activity and the lack of registering for that activity. Meadows said he will be asking about Cohen's lobbying activity and the lack of |
| 1:45.7 | registering for that activity. Meadows said there's potential criminal abuse that hopefully he'll be |
| 1:51.4 | able to answer to. The number one thing Meadows wants to know is why Cohen did not cooperate with |
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