Republican members of the House Oversight Committee questioning Michael Cohen appear to have forgotten that Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, has already pleaded guilty to multiple crimes, is going to prison, and has little to lose. During their cross-examinations of Cohen, several Republican lawmakers spent their allotted time enumerating Cohen’s own lies in an attempt to discredit his testimony against the president. (At one point, Rep. Paul Gosar literally pointed to a poster he had made of Cohen’s face with the caption “Liar, liar, pants on fire.”) But Cohen, surprisingly quick on his feet, frequently turned the questions around. For a confessed liar—“pathological,” one congressman called him—Cohen managed, at times, to make his questioners appear comparatively dishonest.

The contentious series of exchanges reached a climax during the first half of Cohen’s testimony when Representative Jim Jordan, the highest-ranking Republican on the committee, exploded at Cohen about whether he felt any guilt over his crimes.

“If this statement back here doesn’t say it all—’Cohen’s consciousness of wrongdoing is fleeting, his remorse is minimal, his instinct is to blame others is strong,’” Jordan said, gesturing to a blown-up version of the statement from the Southern District of New York, displayed on a sandwich board. “There’s only one thing wrong with that statement: his remorse is nonexistent! He just debated a member of Congress saying that I really did not do anything wrong with the false bank thing that I’m guilty of and what I’m going to prison for!”

“Mr. Jordan, that’s not what I said, and you know that’s not what I said,” Cohen shot back. “I said I pled guilty and I take responsibility for my actions.” As Jordan tried to talk over him, Cohen seemed to snap. “Shame on you, Mr. Jordan. That is not what I said. Shame on you.” He continued: