Michael Cohen said he is eagerly awaiting the chance to tell the American people his side of the story before reporting to prison for, among other charges, lying to Congress.
Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, made the brief comment Tuesday after a marathon, closed-door interview with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“At this point in time, I really appreciate the opportunity that was given to me to clear the record and to tell the truth,” Cohen told reporters on Capitol Hill. “And I look forward to tomorrow to be able to use my voice to tell the American people my story, and I’m going to let the American people decide exactly who’s telling the truth.”
Senate Intelligence Committee members such as Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, were tight-lipped regarding what they discussed with Cohen.
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“The only comment I’m going to make is that two years ago when this investigation started I said it may be the most important thing I’m involved in in my public life in the Senate, and nothing I’ve heard today dissuades me from that view,” said Warner, the panel’s ranking member.
Collins did confirm to reporters she learned something new during the interview.
“I’m not going to categorize it. It’s still going on, and it’s a classified session,” Collins said.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., declined to comment.
CNN reported earlier Tuesday that Cohen apologized for lying to lawmakers.
Cohen is scheduled to make a public appearance before House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings’ panel on Wednesday. The attorney will then face another private session, this time with the House Intelligence Committee, on Thursday.
Cohen’s flurry of testimony precedes a May 6 deadline, by which time he is expected to report to prison. Trump’s former fixer was sentenced to two months in federal prison last year after he pleaded guilty to “knowingly and willfully” making “a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement and representation” to the House and Senate Intelligence committees in 2017 about Trump Organization negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow before the 2016 election. Those two months, his sentence in a case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, will be served concurrently with the three years he received as part of the campaign finance violations and tax and bank fraud case he faced last year in New York.
