If Michael Cohen is telling the truth in his claims about President Donald Trump's knowledge of pending WikiLeaks email dumps, that would be enough to show a "high crime and misdemeanor," Rep. Jackie Speier said Wednesday before the president's former personal lawyer took the stand before the House Oversight Committee.
“The significance is you can now start to draw conclusions about the fact that Donald Trump was aware, was informed, was engaged in this criminal conspiracy to rig the election on his behalf and he did so in conjunction with the Russians," the California Democrat told CNN's "New Day."
In his opening statements, Cohen told the committee that he overheard Trump ally Roger Stone on a speakerphone talking to Trump about being in touch with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and that an email dump from Hillary Clinton's campaign was about to be released.
"This is just the beginning of what I think is a very serious and probably impeachable offense, the conduct by the president to undermine the election by working with the Russians and by lying continuously," said Speier.
“I think that that combined with the events associated with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, in attempting to obscure the fact that he was shutting them up so that they would not impact his campaign, all of that coming together, I believe is a high crime and misdemeanor," she added.
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