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<\/p>\nRUSH: I want to provide a little variety here. So here is Mark Green. He is a Republican from Tennessee, a member of the committee, and he gave a great overview of this circus, essentially saying that Cohen is a fake witness. We have two sound bites. This is really good. Here\u2019s number one…<\/p>\n
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GREEN: The Democrats have vastly limited the scope of this hearing. They\u2019ve issued a gag order to try to tell members of this committee what we can and cannot talk about. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle claim that they want the truth, that they want “transparency” and “fair oversight.” Yet the Democrats\u2019 witness to testify before Congress today is none other than a scorned man who\u2019s going to prison for lying to Congress.<\/p>\n
Let that sink in: He\u2019s going to prison for lying to Congress, and he\u2019s the star witness to Congress. If you read the sentencing report on Mr. Cohen, words like “deceptive” and “greedy” are scattered throughout that report. It paints a picture of a narcissist, a bully who cannot tell the truth whether it\u2019s about the president or about his own personal life. But today, he\u2019s the majority party\u2019s star witness. If the Democrats were after the truth, they\u2019d have an honest person here testifying.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They don\u2019t have anybody else. That\u2019s the point. This is it. This is all they\u2019ve got: Lanny Davis and Hillary Clinton\u2019s new client. That\u2019s all they have. Here\u2019s one more bite from Mark Green again. He is a Republican from Tennessee.<\/p>\n
GREEN: Mr. Chairman, the first topic in your limited scope that I can ask Michael Cohen is about the president\u2019s debts. But Mr. Chairman, didn\u2019t Mr. Cohen plead guilty to lying to banks about his personal finances? So we\u2019re asking a guy going to jail for lying about his debts to comment about the president\u2019s debts. He\u2019s the expert. Mr. Chairman, your next couple of topics say that I can ask Mr. Cohen about the president\u2019s compliance with financial disclosures and campaign finance laws.<\/p>\n
But didn\u2019t Mr. Cohen on two occasions break campaign finance law with his own donations? So, again, the majority party\u2019s star witness on the president\u2019s compliance is a guy who broke compliance laws himself. Mr. Chairman, you graciously allow us to ask questions of Mr. Cohen of the president\u2019s dealings with the IRS and tax law. Your star witness here broke the law with regards to the IRS at least five times. He pled guilty on cheating on his taxes, lying to the IRS. He\u2019s the best witness you got?<\/p>\n
RUSH: And they cut to Elijah Cummings\u2019 face and he was scowling like you can\u2019t believe. Jim Jordan, the ranking member — Republican, Ohio — attempted to get the hearings delayed today, claiming a rules violation. Apparently, everybody in the media was given Cohen\u2019s 20-page opening statement early last night. The media had the head start on dealing with it as they wanted.<\/p>\n
The Republicans on the committee were not formally presented Cohen\u2019s opening statement until later last night. The rule is they have to get it 24 hours before the witness appears, and so the rules were violated by the Democrats and by the chairman. They attempted to delay the hearings while a ruling on the rule violation had taken place, but it was overruled, of course, by the chairman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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