Lanny Davis: Michael Cohen’s New Closed Door Testimony Was ‘Pretty Explosive’ and ‘Game Changing’

Michael Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show Thursday evening and explained the reason why his client is planning to return for another day of testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, to which he testified behind closed doors earlier that day.

Cohen is the former Trump Organization attorney who has pleaded guilty on six counts and will surrender himself to a Federal prison in May. He is also a central figure in the current investigation into obstruction of justice and campaign finance crimes possibly committed by President Donald Trump himself.

Cohen spent three days in the nation’s capital this week, most notably providing the spectacle of Wednesday’s public Congressional hearing, and two closed-door hearings, the last of which was Thursday. According to Davis, the details that emerged from his last testimony were so compelling that the House Intel committee has announced its intentions to have Cohen back for another day of testimony, which may or may not be a public hearing.

Host Rachel Maddow noted that the House Intel committee had asked Cohen to return and asked her guest for any insight. Davis replied that coming back for an additional day was “not the original plan,” before praising his client’s testimony.

“In a way, Michael was more effective today than he even was yesterday when he exceeded all of our expectations in working with him,” he said before adding “because today new information was developed that really could be game-changing and chairman Schiff and everybody in the room who wasn’t a partisan Republican praised him for his honesty and forthrightness, and the development of this new information is the reason he’s coming back next Wednesday.”

When pressed by Maddow for details on what specifics he could share from the closed-door testimony, Davis noted that it was “not core to the Russian investigation,” clarify that “this is about lying and obstruction evidence.”

“Mr. Trump himself doesn’t seem to have read the definition of obstruction of justice or of suborning perjury. That’s about the best I can tell you, but it’s pretty explosive,” Davis concluded.

Watch above via MSNBC.

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