and then the two letters in the days before the election. they re making the case without saying explicitly that he put his thumb on the scale for donald trump. he absolutely did and not just what he did with hillary clinton. there s an e-mail in this report he sent to jim clapper and john brennan, that comey sent on october 5 that is really it s kind of hard to read because he talks about why he won t sign his name on to a report or statement from the intelligence community saying the russians are interfering with the election. not a statement saying donald trump s campaign is under investigation. doesn t mention donald trump at all, just a statement talking about russian interference, he won t do it because he thinks it s an october surprise and the american people will react to it unfairly and it would be unfair to the campaign. contrast that to how he acted with hillary clinton sending that letter 11 days before the election. there s no way to justify that. and i think if you s
which paid $20 less than $100,000. they paid $99,980 on october 5, again on november 3, december 1 and again on january 5, 2018 this year. so, four payments, each for just under $100,000. almost as if there was a $20 wire fee that novartis was deducting from what mr. cohen got to take. and as mr. avenatti notes, and it s true, right after that last payment from novartis in january 2018, president trump did have dinner with the ceo of novartis, before his speech at the world economic forum in davos. what was novartis paying for? but there s one more payment, and the other payment is the one that gets the front page headline in the new york times tonight. firm tied to russian oligarch made payments to michael cohen. all right. here s how it s presented in
essential consultants got paid for $400,000 by novartis, the global pharmaceutical company. according to the documents, the way they paid this is interesting was four separate payments to essential consultants to this little company michael cohen set up, which paid off the porn star, novartis paid $20 less than $100,000. they paid $99,980 on october 5, again on november 3, december 1 and january 5, 2018 this year. four payments, each for just under $100,000. almost as if there was a $20 wire fee that novartis was deducting. mr. avenatti notes it s true right after that last payment from novartis in january 2018, president trump did have dinner with the ceo of novartis.
october 5 was a long day of heated debate among the contentious, partisan members of the judiciary committee. we were in the eye of the hurricane. i think people really did take it very seriously. in the end, the vote to move forward came down party lines. mr. graham. aye. mr. graham votes aye. mr. chairman, there are 21 ayes and 16 nos. the full house of representatives now had to decide whether the starr report showed enough evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors to warrant an impeachment inquiry. high crimes and misdemeanors, it s very clear historically, means anything that congress wants it to mean. we must make this determination or else forever sacrifice our heritage that no person is above the law. if the president did commit high crimes and misdemeanors, we had an obligation to the constitution and to the rule of law to do our job. and that was to bring forth articles of impeachment.
gentleman from new york. following up on the questions from mr. conyers, at your confirmation hearing you said i believe the proper thing for me to do would be to recuse myself if any questions involving these kind of investigations that involve secretary clinton raised during the campaign and otherwise connected to it. do you stand by that statement, yes or no? yes. now, i want to show you an image from march 31, 2016 of a meeting at the trump campaign national security advisory committee that you chaired with yourself in attendance along with donald trump and mr. george papadopoulos. mr. papadopoulos pled guilty october 5 to making false statements to the f.b.i. the charging papers filed by special counsel mueller describe the meeting where mr. papadopoulos told the group that he had connections and could help arrange a meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin. after the meeting mr. papadopoulos continued to communicate with the russian government on behalf of the trump