president in august of 2017 that cohen says was a reimburse am for paying off stormy daniels, along with claiming trump exhibited what cohen calls racist attitudes and that the president's mistreated his staff members, abused his charitable foundation and lied to his family. all in the pursuit of personal enrichment or pleasure. yesterday, cohen spent about 10.5 hours behind closed doors with the senate intelligence committee. he also made this brief comment. >> i really appreciate the opportunity that was given to me to clear the record and to tell the truth and i look forward to tomorrow to being able to in my voice to tell the american people my story and i'm going to let the american people decide exactly who is telling the truth. there so in one section of his draft statement, cohen alleges that donald trump was quote a presidential candidate who knew that roger stone was talking with julian assange about a