Cohen’s lawyer says senators failed to ask the right ‘follow-up questions’ in collusion probe

Michael Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis says that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee failed to ask the right “follow-up questions” when his client appeared before the panel last year and therefore failed to elicit crucial answers about President Trump’s prior knowledge of Russian hacking of Democratic emails during the 2016 election.

“Was he telling the truth?” Davis was asked during the “Skullduggery” interview about Cohen’s previous testimony to the Senate.

“He was telling the truth, but there’s a problem in some of the words used there,” Davis replied.

“Those were his words,” it was pointed out to Davis.

Davis then replied that the senators failed to ask the right follow-ups to Cohen’s prepared statement — about Trump’s “level of awareness” of the hacking, seeming to draw a distinction between awareness and “involvement.”

“If he were asked, ‘Were you aware of Mr. Trump’s level of awareness before the hacking illegally done by a foreign government? Were you aware that Mr. Trump might have known and didn’t call the FBI?’ I don’t think you would’ve gotten the answer that you just read. But that question wasn’t asked.”

But Davis insisted that “when the time comes” for Cohen to tell his new story to Mueller — and the special counsel is able to “digest” it and piece it together with other evidence — “it could be an impeachable offense” on the part of the president.

Davis, who has practically beseeched Mueller this week to call his client as a witness, has steadfastly refused to specify what Cohen would say about Trump’s knowledge of Russian hacking. He also declined to say whether Mueller has even reached out to Cohen yet, despite Davis’s repeated television interviews offering his client’s testimony.

Davis then wrapped up the “Skullduggery” interview by saying: “Being on this podcast and being asked questions, especially by Michael Isikoff, no offense intended, is the functional equivalent of a root canal without anesthetics.”

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  More “Skullduggery” from Yahoo News:

  • Episode 15: Skullduggery Live!
  • Episode 16: I’m crushing it!
  • Episode 17: ‘I believe you have some information for us’
  • Episode 18: Trump’s ‘ridiculous’ spy claim
  • Episode 19: The president and his princelings
  • Episode 20: What if we were wrong?
  • Episode 21: ‘We had a suspect’
  • Episode 22: Lying through their teeth
  • Episode 23: Before their rear end hits the chair
  • Episode 24: ‘Finish it the hell up’
  • Episode 25: The battle over Kavanaugh
  • Episode 26: The Trump mystery: Pathology or kompromat
  • Episode 27: “Who is minding the store?”
  • Episode 28: The impeachment election
  • Episode 29: An inside look at the intelligence community, Russia and the mystery of magic

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