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For $35,000 from august of 2017 from donald trump personally, signed by donald trump, to michael cohen. cohen says this was allegedly supposed to be or the cover story was that it was part of a retainer, but he said that retainer never existed and that the whole retainer fiction, there's the check, these 11 payments that added up to, what, $35,000 a month, that they were basically a way to cover up the fact that donald trump was reimbursing michael cohen for the payment to stormy daniels and he had to pay not only the $130,000, but also to pay 50% over that, or double that, so that he could pa...

Accurate. i don't feel good about any of this. this was not my intention. >> mr. lawrence. >> sorry. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i just want to put on the record being black american and having endured the public comments of racism from the sitting president as being a black person, i can only imagine what's being said in private. and to prop up one member of our entire race of black people and say that that nullifies that is totally insulting and in this environment of expecting a president to be inclusive and to look at his administration speaks volumes. so i have no questions. i want to tal...

Installments? >> that was in order to hide what the payment was. i obviously wanted the money in one shot. i would have preferred it that way. in order to be able to put it onto the books, alan weiselberg made the decision that he should be paid over the 12 months so that it would look like a retainer. >> did mr. trump know about this reimbursement method? >> oh, he knew about everything, yes. >> thank you, mr. cohen. so the president not only knew about the payment, he knew and helped hide the payment and reimbursements to you? >> we discussed it. everything had to go through mr. trump and be...

Of last year, federal prosecutors stated that a truth and in fact there was no such retainer agreement. did you ever have a retainer agreement in place with the president for the payment to miss clifford? >> no. >> was mr. giuliani's statement inaccurate? >> yes. >> was miss dillan's statement inaccurate about the retainer agreement? >> her statement is what? >> her statement to them was, quote, not to permit oge staff to read the agreement because it's privileged. >> there was no agreement. >> is the president's tweet or his statements accurate? >> i'm sorry. >> his statement was mr. cohen, a...

>> i believe so. >> mr. chair, i think those are the individuals that we should be speaking with. i yield back this time. >> committee will now stand in recess again. we will come back. 35 minutes after the last vote begins. for mr. cohen, mr. cohen, we're talking about probably an hour or so. >> dana: all right. an explosive and very partisan hearing. we've been watching it all morning. michael cohen, the president's former lawyer and also called his fixer, is front and center in front of the house oversight committee. they're in a recess for about an hour. they're going to have some votes on...