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The NPR Politics Podcast

Michael Cohen Testifies Against Trump In Public Hearing

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The president's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified before the House oversight committee. Cohen provided members of Congress what he said were documents that backed up his testimony. This episode: Congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, justice correspondent Ryan Lucas, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Carla at my son's hockey practice just north of Seattle, Washington.

0:05.5

I'm enjoying some of the last sounds of the youth hockey season.

0:09.0

This podcast was reported at.

0:11.0

I love this time stamp. It is 5.55 pm on Wednesday, February 27th.

0:16.0

Things may have changed by the time you hear this.

0:19.0

Alright, here's the show.

0:24.0

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.

0:26.0

It was one of the most high profile hearings in decades.

0:30.0

President Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, testified before Congress.

0:35.0

Cohen accused the president of wrongdoing, being a con man and a racist among other things,

0:40.0

as Cohen himself prepares for prison.

0:43.0

I can only warn people the more people that follow Mr. Trump as I did blindly

0:49.0

are going to suffer the same consequences that I'm suffering.

0:52.0

I'm Scott Tetra, I cover Congress.

0:54.0

I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.

0:56.0

I'm Ryan Lucas, I cover the Justice Department.

0:58.0

And I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent.

1:01.0

There's a lot to walk through, a lot of key moments to talk about,

1:04.0

but let's start as we often do in big newsy days like this

1:07.0

by just going around and talking about one big thing that really stuck out to us.

1:11.0

Mara, why don't you go first?

1:13.0

Well, what really stuck out to me was that the Democrats wanted to talk about Trump

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