‘Senate postponed testimony on Russia’

Bloomberg

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, said his scheduled closed-door appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee was postponed at the panel’s request. Cohen, who has a long relationship with the president, told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday he will return to answer questions. “I’ll be back and look forward to giving all the information” that the committee is looking for, he said.
Cohen previously was executive vice president of the Trump Organization.
The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with the committee behind closed doors.
In August, Cohen told the House Intelligence Committee that the Trump Organiation weighed a proposal to build a hotel and condominium tower in Moscow.
Trump discussed the “Trump Tower Moscow” project on three occasions with Cohen, the lawyer told that panel.
On Tuesday, Cohen said in a prepared statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee staff that a plan to build the Moscow complex discussed during the presidential campaign in 2016 was a “real estate deal and nothing more,” according to an Associated Press report. The deal didn’t materialise.
Cohen was at the Senate Intelligence offices for over an hour but didn’t answer a reporter’s question on what
happened for that length of time given that the interview was postponed.