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Representatives or anyone associated with him, any of them paying lanny davis to represent you? not that i m aware of. who is paying lanny davis? at the moment no one. he is doing all this work for nothing? yes, sir, and i hope so. [ laughter ] i kind of doubt it, but how did lanny davis come to represent you? did he approach you or did you approach him? i reached out to lanny davis at the recommendation of my former counsel over at mcdermott, will and emory who knew mr. davis and mr. so you reached out to mr. davis? i did, yes, initially. okay. so did you want to testify before congress or did he urge you to testify here? i was asked to come here, and i am here, sir, voluntarily ....
was that den wione with the president s knowledge or direction? everything was done with the knowledge and at the direction of mr. trump. tell us why he would do that and what purpose did it serve. it depends upon the situation. there were times that i was asked, again with alan weissleberg, the cfo, to go back to speak with an individual from forbes, because mr. trump wanted each year to have his net worth rise on the forbes wealthiest individuals list. and so what you do is you look at the assets and you try to find an asset that has say, for example, 40 wall street, which is about 1.2 million square feet. find an asset that is comparable, find the highest price per square foot that s achieved in the area and apply it to that building. ....
Being lied to. they have been lied to by president trump. they have been lied to by the president s children. they have been lied to by the president s legal representatives. and it pains me to say that they have been even lied to by his congressional enablers who are still devoted to perpetuating and protecting this giant con game on the american people. now, mr. cohen, i d like to talk to you about the president s assets since by law these must be reported accurate ly on his federal financial disclosure and when he submits them for a bank loan. mr. cohen, you served for nearly a decade as then businessman trump s personal attorney and ....
Because it s my decision by who? my question, did he ask you to come here? no, sir. okay because he says that he did ask you to come here and that he convinced you and also that he did the same with chairman cummings, as well. so your testimony here is that you approached lanny davis to represent you and to come here. he did not persuade you to come here? he did not persuade me. actually, chairman cummings, which was part of the conversations that we engaged in with his people as well as chairman schiff and others, we spoke in order to ask me to come here voluntarily. i find the connecting of the dots here with with mr. davis and you and frankly the chairman and perhaps others to be rather stunning that there is an agenda ....
Your side ran away and we are trying to bring it to the american people. so, mr. cohen sir? thank you for voluntarily coming before the committee to testify. i want to ask you about your statements regarding trump tower and moscow, and i want to drill down some of the facts and details. now you may not be aware of it, but this goes back a ways. back in 1987, mr. trump wrote that he d had ongoing discussions with soviet officials back then to build a luxury, a large luxury hotel across from the kremlin in partnership with the soviet union. so at that time it was the soviet union. i want to ask you, in your filing with the special counsel, mueller s office, the prosecutors wrote and i quote, mr. cohen discussed the status ....