Author: patd

Then: “You think I’m stupid, I’m not going to Vietnam,”

Now: “Sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times.”

NPR:
Michael Cohen To Testify Publicly Before Congress On Alleged Trump Lawbreaking

The highly anticipated hearing is expected to dominate the airwaves and could bring portions of America to a standstill …

New York Times:

Michael D. Cohen plans to tell Congress on Wednesday that President Trump is a “con man” and a “cheat” who knew a longtime adviser was communicating with WikiLeaks — and who implicitly instructed Mr. Cohen to lie about a Trump Tower project in Moscow that was underway during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The extraordinary testimony will take place when Mr. Cohen, the president’s former lawyer and fixer, publicly appears before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. An advance copy of Mr. Cohen’s testimony was obtained Tuesday night by reporters at multiple news organizations, including The New York Times, just as Mr. Trump began meetings in Vietnam before convening with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.

CNN:
The public will have to wait a little longer to read Paul Manafort’s sentencing memo from special counsel Robert Mueller.
The critical filing had a midnight Friday deadline set by the federal court, but the report was not publicly released.
It is possible prosecutors have sent the document to Judge Amy Berman Jackson under seal with proposed redactions. It is up to Jackson to determine what happens next.

Move over, Joe and Bernie, Rowfl was here first.