My favorite part of the hearing was when Rep. Brian Higgins (R-LA) first drilled down on Cohen over the exact locale of all those boxes of evidence in Cohen's office, which of course the FBI had seized in a well-publicized morning raid, and then demanded of Chairman Cummings that there be a federal investigation to determine what happened to those boxes and where they were now. And to think that this guy was actually a county sheriff. He was his own best parody.

And Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) was, like, wow! Who knew that perpetually channeling the late Gilda Radner's Emily Litella would be such a great career move in North Carolina politics?

For that matter, who knew that building an entire party out of birthers, baggers, bigots and blowhards would have such serious consequences?

He is a scumbag.  Listening to him is almost painful.  But the man has documents, financial statements, checks.

KeysDan: "Some Americans looked for a business man to run the country as a business. But, did they want it run like a Trump business?  Maybe they did not notice such business matters as the bankruptcies and Trump University with a $25 million pay out in the fraud settlement. The media did notice a little, but then there were those emails to cover--and cover, and cover."

Given the unholy mess we're in right now, those three words ought to forever haunt and shame every American journalist plying their trade in the national political power alley that's the D.C.- New York corridor.

Our country is not well served, whenever reporters and editors choose to traffic in gossip, innuendo and false equivalence at the ultimately expense of their duty as journalists to seek the truth and tell the whole story.

I finally agree with you about the impeachment thing.  No longer if but when.

But I think it may be overtaken by a RICO charge against the whole organization from SDNY.

It's easy to see why she terrifies the Right.she is brilliant, focused, and knows what she is talking about.

While it is not really a headline that 2ndNY is investigating Trump Cohen and a lot of dems seem to think it will result in criminal charges for every one associated with Trump.

Given that there now seems to be a lot of agreement that the SC has not really found anything of note and is winding down Trump's detractors are now pinning their hopes of his demise on congressional investigations.

Maybe the biggest take away was Cummings defending Meadows when he thought Talib, maybe not intentionally, dissed him.

It unlikely Trump has cut the cheese in the last two years that the feds don't hava an archived recording of it.

It's likely I think they might know if he has any such plans.

Boom

"Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings and wh*res all get respectable if they last long enough."
- Noah Cross (John Huston) to J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson), "Chinatown" (1974)

... from Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC). But for my money there's no bigger fool in Congress than the old fool himself, Rep. Don Young (R-AK), who -- with 46 years of experience and a comparable litany of nonsensical statements over that time -- has a huge advantage and running start over all three due to his sheer longevity and staying power.