M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO Nerdcast Cohen testimony renews impeachment speculation





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Datapoint: 35,000. As in 35-thousand dollars. The president’s former attorney Michael Cohen showed Congress a copy of a 35-thousand dollar check that Donald Trump wrote to Cohen, while Trump was president, and Cohen says it was to reimburse hush money he paid adult film star Stormy Daniels. Joining the nerdcast is our man on the Mueller investigation, Darren Samuelsohn, and Nerdcast newcomer Anita Kumar, from POLITICO's White House team.

Datapoint: 12. That's 12 degrees, the temperature it was in Iowa this past weekend. That’s where two POLITICO national political reporters found themselves and after two car crashes found out just how nice the people of Iowa can be.



