After Cohen explained how Trump gets across what he wants said in public, Cohen also mentioned that Trump’s lawyers had made changes to his written statements, presumably at Trump’s behest. Why did no one ask this question, “Did lawyers add or change what you had written? If so, and you knew their additions were lies, was it your understanding that you had no choice but to repeat what the lawyers had written as your testimony to Congress?”

Such questions might have reinforced another path for the information Cohen lied about in his first testimony and implicated both Trump and his lawyers in his lies.

They then asked Cohen to produce the changes (he kept his draft, and the edited version). He said he would.

What the W.H. lawyers (that's what Cohen calls them at one point, and another point refers to atty Sekulow, who was in the mtg Cohen had with Trump after the raid) changed was the timing of the Trump negotiations w/Russia for the Moscow Project. Cohen was going to say when it really ended (Late summer 2016, I think?), but the W.H. changed that to January 2016 (I think that was the date).

They didn't have to ask again about whether he felt he had no choice, because there were several discussions at the hearing that Trump told him and the team what to say by expressing a thought that was to be the official line: "There's no business with Russia," for example. And that was back when Cohen was willing to lie for Trump, so he wouldn't have fought it.

They may have gone into more detail in the closed session, but it was clear that they gave him the version they wanted him to give. And that Cohen had presented to them the version he was prepared to give.

Trump and Sekulow had a meeting with Cohen about his upcoming Congressional testimony, at which Cohen presented what he planned on saying. Cohen rec'd (later, I believe) an edited draft, which edited out the dates that Trump was negotiating w/Russia for the Moscow hotel.

I think Cohen said that Trump didn't tell him specifically what to say. Trump speaks in code, like "There's no business in Russia." Meaning that that's the line that Team Trump takes.

Also, at the recent hearing Cohen specifically answered that he saw no direct evidence of Trump colluding with Russia, or something like that. There was just that phone call w/Roger Stone, which means that Trump knew that Stone was working on the Clinton emails w/Wikileaks.

So I think some parts of this article may not be true. Is there Cohen testimony from last week where Cohen says that Trump told him to lie about Trump colluding with Russia? I didn't see any, and I haven't heard of any.

what Trump wanted him to do. I thought Cohen was quit especific the he did not know anything related to collusion. Am I mistaken?