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So @RepSpeier has it exactly right—the way most people took Cohen's Congressional testimony, he said before Congress that, in all his face-to-face contacts with Trump, he never asked him (directly) for a pardon. The report we have now is that his lawyers looked into it with Rudy.
1/ What everyone agrees is that Michael Cohen had sufficient "direct" access to Trump that he could have asked him *directly* for a pardon, and that if he said he didn't do that, it may well be true given how many questions from Congress he willingly answered on this exact issue.
2/ Just as the media is trying to create a "Dems in chaos" narrative—regarding Rep. Omar—that's more or less farcical, the media is trying to create a "Cohen perjured himself" narrative that's not going to turn out the way folks think *because* of how Cohen phrased his testimony.
3/ I like Jim Acosta a lot, but on CNN's air just now he misstated how Cohen phrased his testimony in a way that made a non-perjurious statement perjurious. Media needs to be careful here. Cohen talked about what he asked Trump for, not what his lawyers asked Trump's lawyers for.
