CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen plans to tell U.S. lawmakers this week that Trump asked him several times about a proposed skyscraper project in Moscow long after he secured the Republican presidential nomination, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. Cohen’s assertion that Trump was inquiring about the project as late as June 2016, if true, would show Trump remained personally interested in a business venture in Russia well into his candidacy. Cohen, scheduled to report to prison in May, has already said he briefed Trump on the project in June 2016. As Special Counsel Robert Mueller nears the end of a 21-month probe into whether the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 presidential election in collusion with Trump’s campaign, Cohen was set to offer lawmakers new information about the president’s private affairs over three consecutive days starting on Tuesday [2-26-19]. Russia denies interfering in the 2016 election and Trump has denied any collusion took place between his campaign and Moscow.”
–Nathan Layne, Ginger Gibson, “Trump’s ex-fixer Cohen to offer new Russia details to U.S. Congress-source,” Reuters, February 26, 2019 2:01 am