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arizona1

12/02/18 3:12 PM

#294868 RE: arizona1 #294867

Congress Wants To Know If Trump Directed Michael Cohen To Lie

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said that Congress wants to know if Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen was told to lie to Congress in his testimony to protect Trump.

Transcript via CBS’s Face The Nation:

MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you know that candidate Trump knew about the pursuit of this tower?

SEN. WARNER: Again, I’m not- I only know what Mr. Cohen has said and clearly most of the individuals that are affiliated with Trump have led themselves into being accused of lying–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –Was he instructed to lie? Michael Cohen?

SEN. WARNER: I don’t know. I think that is a very relevant question that the American people need an answer to.

If Michael Cohen Said Trump Told Him To Lie, It’s Game Over

Trump and the White House always been more afraid of Michael Cohen than anyone else caught up in the Russia investigation. Cohen was Trump’s right-hand man. If he tells Congress that he was told to lie in his testimony by the president or anyone working at the direction of the president, it will be proof that Trump is directly attempting to obstruct justice.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is the only committee that has been trying to do a serious and bipartisan investigation into the Russia scandal.

The fact that the committee is referring witnesses who lie to them to Mueller for potential prosecution speaks volumes about the work that they are attempting to do.

Michael Cohen can connect the entire scandal directly to Donald Trump, and if Trump is telling witnesses to lie to Congress, the question isn’t if Trump will be impeached, but when.
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/12/02/congress-wants-to-know-if-trump-directed-michael-cohen-to-lie.html








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fuagf

12/02/18 3:45 PM

#294870 RE: arizona1 #294867

Michael Cohen’s Friend: He'll Expose Trump’s Criminal Enterprise | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

"Trump attorneys better lawyer up if they were ‘colluding’ with Cohen when he lied for president: Howard Dean"


MSNBC
Published on Nov 29, 2018

Friend of Michael Cohen, Donny Deutsch, joins Ari Melber to discuss a Mueller probe bombshell: Michael Cohen pleading guilty to lying to Congress about a Trump Tower project in Moscow. The guilty plea is the first public evidence that someone inside the Trump Organization was actively doing outreach to the Kremlin during the 2016 campaign lied about it. Detusch tells Ari Melber that Trump is “owned by Vladimir Putin” and the latest revelations are “just the tip of the iceberg”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htnAJKkzAXA

Consensus is Cohen made a good decision to leave the Trump crime family. Manafort made a bad decision when he didn't.
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fuagf

12/02/18 11:35 PM

#294888 RE: arizona1 #294867

Here's how much members of Congress pay for their health insurance

"Trump attorneys better lawyer up if they were ‘colluding’ with Cohen when he lied for president: Howard Dean"

This post re the Ocasio-Cortez tweet toward the end of your video.

Ester Bloom
11:15 AM ET Tue, 25 July 2017


Kevin Lamarque | Reuters
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan smiles as he departs a meeting at the U.S. Capitol before a vote to repeal Obamacare in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 4, 2017.

As members of Congress debate whether to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, it seems fair to ask: How much do they pay for health care? The answer is that, while they don't pay nothing for coverage, they don't pay much.

As the myth busting website Snopes points out, "contrary to popular belief, Congressional members do not receive free health care." Instead, they choose a gold-level Obamacare policy and receive federal subsidies that cover 72 percent of the cost of the premiums.

In short, Snopes reports that members of Congress and staff "pay approximately 28 percent of their annual healthcare premiums through pre-tax payroll deductions." They also have access to "free or low-cost care" through the Office of the Attending Physician as well as "free medical outpatient care at military facilities" in the D.C. area.

That's a pretty good deal, especially given that the average 21-year-old making $25,000 a year would be charged $282 per month for a silver Obamacare plan, and pay about half of that, or $142, thanks to subsidies, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

But, Jeffrey Frank of The New Yorker reports, one of the reasons legislators might be fixated on doing away with Obamacare is because they used to have a deal they liked even better. Before, they were covered by a "beloved, and by most accounts well-administered, federal plan" called the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP).

Continued - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/25/heres-how-much-members-of-congress-pay-for-their-health-insurance.html

Ooi, as far as i can ascertain Australian federal parliamentarians don't get
any healthcare subsidy. Could be wrong, but i can't find anything to say it is.