Michael Cohen said he will return to the House Intelligence Committee on March 6 for another closed-door session. | M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO legal Lawmakers to grill Cohen again next week after ‘productive’ closed-door session “None of the questions we had for him went unanswered," Schiff says.

President Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen was “fully cooperative” with the House Intelligence Committee in his closed-door testimony on Thursday, the panel’s chairman said, and Cohen will return for a second round of questioning next week.

“This has obviously been an excruciating time for him, and we are very grateful that he was as forthcoming as he was,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told reporters after Cohen’s eight-hour testimony. “None of the questions we had for him went unanswered.”


Cohen briefly addressed reporters after three straight days of testimony on Capitol Hill, announcing that he will return to the Intelligence Committee on March 6 for another closed-door session.

“It was very productive and like I said, I’m committed to telling the truth,” Cohen said, capping off a marathon week of interviews with the Senate Intelligence Committee, the House Oversight Committee, and the House Intelligence panel.

The chairman declined to discuss specifics of Cohen’s testimony, but said his panel’s investigators were able to “go into great detail” about some aspects of Cohen’s bombshell public appearance before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, in addition to topics that were not addressed in the open oversight hearing.

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Schiff added that Cohen’s full testimony to the committee — which he said was “very productive” and “shed light on a lot of issues that are very important to our investigation” — will eventually be released to the public.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), a member of the Intelligence Committee, said Cohen provided “a lot of new, very valuable information.”

While Cohen’s public Wednesday testimony largely focused on Trump’s personal character and the illegal hush-money payments that Cohen admitted to orchestrating, the former Trump attorney also touched on matters that the Intelligence Committee has vowed to investigate, including Trump’s business dealings in Russia. Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about negotiations surrounding the Trump Tower Moscow project, and Schiff’s investigators are looking into whether foreign actors have financial leverage over Trump.

That investigation will continue behind closed doors, but some aspects of it will soon become public. Schiff announced on Thursday that the committee will hold an open hearing with former Trump business associate Felix Sater on March 14 to further examine the Trump Tower Moscow project, the subject of Cohen’s initial lies to the House and Senate intelligence committees. Sater, a Russian-born businessman who has been convicted of financial and other crimes, was heavily involved in those negotiations.

The Intelligence Committee also plans to call former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg to testify before the panel, an aide told POLITICO. Weisselberg was one of several Trump associates and family members implicated by Cohen during his Oversight Committee testimony.

According to Cohen, Weisselberg was heavily involved in the criminal hush-money scheme aimed at paying off an adult-film star who claimed she had an affair with Trump, and Weisselberg signed at least one of the reimbursement checks.

Cohen was sentenced to three years behind bars after pleading guilty to charges of lying to Congress and various financial crimes tied to the hush-money payments. He’s set to report to prison in May.

John Bresnahan contributed to this report.