{"id":35683,"date":"2019-02-27T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35683"},"modified":"2019-02-27T00:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:00:21","slug":"pass-the-popcorn-this-show-is-going-to-be-a-good-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35683","title":{"rendered":"Pass the popcorn; this show is going to be a good one"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MichaelCohen-945939584-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35684\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MichaelCohen-945939584-1200x800-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MichaelCohen-945939584-1200x800-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MichaelCohen-945939584-1200x800-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MichaelCohen-945939584-1200x800-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/MichaelCohen-945939584-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am going to have the popcorn handy when House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings gavels a hearing to order.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland Democrat and his fellow members of Congress are going to listen intently (I am <em>presuming<\/em>) to a potential superstar witness: Michael Cohen, the former friend and fixer of Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen is facing a three-year hitch behind bars for lying to Congress. He&#8217;s going to take an oath swearing him to tell the truth. He&#8217;ll then answer questions about what he knows about the president&#8217;s business dealings, his conduct, his attitudes toward women and racial minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen has said he is done lying on behalf of the president. He then is likely to be asked specifically about the lies he told for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t you just feel the excitement building? Maybe. Maybe not. I am, though, highly interested in hearing what this admitted felon has to say to members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, there might be what they call a &#8220;nothing burger&#8221; offered up by this soon-to-be prison inmate. Part of me thinks that&#8217;s possible.<\/p>\n<p>A bigger part of me believes he is going to spill plenty of beans and that there might be more than a few jaws dropping in that House committee hearing room.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to have the popcorn handy when House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings gavels a hearing to order. The Maryland Democrat and his fellow members of Congress are going to listen intently (I am presuming) to a potential superstar witness: Michael Cohen, the former friend and fixer of Donald J. Trump, the president &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35683\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pass the popcorn; this show is going to be a good one<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,1553,2183,2185,7694],"class_list":["post-35683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-elijah-cummings","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-house-oversight-committee","tag-michael-cohen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35685,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35683\/revisions\/35685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}