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Under questioning from @RepKatieHill, Cohen says that Trump called him to coordinate messaging about the hush payment to Stormy Daniels in February 2018 -- two months before Trump denied knowing anything about it.pic.twitter.com/QhXRs0LPxV

.@RepBobGibbs is in way over his head. Yikes.pic.twitter.com/BCy36Nvcot

Note how @Jim_Jordan subtly mischaracterizes Cohen's statement about creating a website for Trump's presidential bid to make him look like an exaggerator. He's completely dishonest.pic.twitter.com/GpkXMSQ0hr

Michael Cohen on the absurd rates the Trump International Hotel in DC was commanding during the inauguration: "Even I couldn't afford to stay there."pic.twitter.com/K6WcLB3GPM

.@RepClayHiggins desperately tries to gin up a scandal surrounding "boxes" of evidence *that the FBI has already seized*. He then says he didn't even know who Cohen is "until today, really." Some of these House Republicans are totally beyond parody.pic.twitter.com/vy4aHdNuwG

Under questioning from @PeterWelch, Cohen accuses Trump of lying in January 2019 when he said he never spoke to Roger Stone about WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaignpic.twitter.com/GWzUZF0r3u

Wow -- Cohen says that AMI is in possession of so much incriminating material about Trump, that when David Pecker was in the running to become the CEO of Time Magazine, they were worried that "somebody could open a drawer [at AMI] and find all this information."pic.twitter.com/3lUOTypU9O

Cohen says that he secretly recorded Trump talking about the Karen McDougal payment during the campaign because he knew that Trump wouldn't pay David Pecker back and he wanted to have receipts.pic.twitter.com/Q01gl4GdHZ

Cohen says he has never been to Prague -- a claim that, if true, refutes a key claim in the Steele Dossierpic.twitter.com/zgmJbgLhue

.@RepSpeier: How many times did Mr. Trump ask you to threaten an individual or entity on his behalf? COHEN: Quite a few times. SPEIER: 50 times? C: More. S: 100 times? C: More. S: 200 times. C: More. S: 500 times? C: Probably. Over the 10 years.pic.twitter.com/4Zg8wYgtgg

LOL. @CarolMillerWV (R) suggests Congress should hold more hearings about border security, instead of wasting time trying to get to the bottom of the president's alleged criminal behaviorpic.twitter.com/ZMivSmMYE2

Cohen says he used a shell company to make the payment to Stormy Daniels because he didn't want his wife to learn about it. He adds that Trump knew about the process he was using & endorsed it b/c he wanted the payment to stay secret. "The goal was to keep him far away from it"pic.twitter.com/Kjd5QGwg1k

Cohen says that the Trump Organization decided to reimburse him for the Daniels payment over the course of a year instead of in one shot because they wanted to "make it look like a retainer."pic.twitter.com/T2hsGwoYBL

Republicans like @RepArmstrongND are doing a great job proving that Cohen is a bad and unethical lawyer. What they can't explain is why the president they're defending decided to employ him as his personal fixer for more than a decade.pic.twitter.com/Q3ZBV5J51X

Cohen says Trump directed him to manipulate online polls of Republican presidential contenders in 2014. He then says that he thinks members of the Trump administration risk ending up in his situation if they follow Trump blindly, like he did.pic.twitter.com/6rMl6ft3uj

Cohen says his previous lies to Congress weren't at Trump's direction, but were made to "stay on [the] party line." "I knew what he wanted me to do."pic.twitter.com/AsoT279sHJ

LOL @RepGregSteube (R) suggests Cohen might have just made the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels on his own, without Trump indicating he wanted him to do it. #LikelyStorypic.twitter.com/9aLf8xa3PX

WOW -- @RepLawrence *goes in* on Mark Meadows for citing one black Trump administration official to argue Trump can't be racist. "To prop up one member of our entire race of black people and say that that nullifies [racist statements] is insulting," she says.pic.twitter.com/6HcVYKx1NT

Rep. Lawrence on Trump's tweets encouraging scrutiny on Cohen's family that resulted in his testimony being delayed: "I want to be clear -- any efforts to prevent a witness from testifying in front of Congress is against the law... it's a textbook mob tactic."pic.twitter.com/9EEiKaYAo5

.@chiproytx (R): What the American people really care about is reducing federal debt. (Does he... does he realize it's at an all-time high following two years of total Republican control?)pic.twitter.com/7sDJTt35Qb

.@StaceyPlaskett rebukes Republicans who keep whining that Congress isn't doing more important things than getting to the bottom of the president's crimes: "Thank God the Democratic majority can walk and chew gum at the same time." pic.twitter.com/YrceEm3yIw

.@RoKhanna: With regard to the Stormy Daniels payment, are you telling us that President Trump directed a criminal conspiracy with his son & the Trump Organization to commit financial fraud? COHEN: Yes KHANNA: Is this being investigated by SDNY? COHEN: I'd rather not say.pic.twitter.com/g6WWwep5WW

.@AOC uses her questioning time to ask follow-ups highlighting some figures in Trumpworld who could help answer questions raised by Cohen's testimony -- David Pecker and Allen Weisselberg among thempic.twitter.com/EPucIdcbPD

WOW -- @RashidaTlaib accuses Mark Meadows of racism for using a black Trump administration official as a prop earlier during the hearing. Meadows interrupts her to "ask that her words be taken down."pic.twitter.com/DK6rjmCNw8

Meadows angrily accuses Tlaib of racism for calling him racistpic.twitter.com/4Wj6FcJO6l

An impromptu therapy session is breaking out here at the end of this hearingpic.twitter.com/gQAMnd5omS

COHEN closes with this disconcerting thought: "Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power."pic.twitter.com/nm0EvAxAck

.@RepCummings' closing comments: "I live in the inner city of Baltimore, & when you call somebody a rat, that's one of the worst things you can call them, b/c when they go to prison, that means a snitch. And so the president called you a rat. We're better than that!"pic.twitter.com/EcHpu85l3g