Washington — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was due to talk behind closed doors on Thursday to a congressional panel investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 US election, capping an explosive week of testimony in which he made new allegations of wrongdoing by his former boss. In his third and final Capitol Hill session this week, Cohen was due to testify to the House intelligence committee, which has been probing Russian election meddling and any collusion with the Trump campaign. It follows dramatic public testimony by Cohen on Wednesday before the House oversight committee, in which the one-time “fixer” for Trump accused the president of breaking the law while in office and said for the first time that Trump knew in advance about a WikiLeaks dump of stolen e-mails that hurt his 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton.
As he did before the Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday, Cohen is expected to apologise for lying to Congress in 2017. ...
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