Trump instructed Cohen to lie to Congress about Trump Tower Moscow: report

House to probe bombshell revelation. No Images? Click here   By Paul Vale     Friday, January 18 TRUMP TOLD COHEN TO LIE TO CONGRESS President Donald Trump told his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about involvement in a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to a bombshell report from BuzzFeed News. The president also told Cohen he was on board with a plan to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign in order to secure the deal. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook] HOUSE WILL INVESTIGATE REVELATIONS The House intelligence committee will reportedly investigate whether Trump ordered Cohen to lie to Congress. [BuzzFeed] TRUMP GROUNDS PELOSI Trump fired back at Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) request to delay the State of the Union address because of the government shutdown, canceling the House speaker’s upcoming delegation trip to Brussels and Afghanistan. [HuffPost] ...BUT NOT MELANIA Hours after Trump canceled Pelosi’s flight on a military aircraft, Melania Trump jetted down to Mar-a-Lago in Florida for vacation — on an Air Force plane. [HuffPost] TRUMP DELEGATION TO SKIP DAVOS The White House announced that Trump’s delegation no longer plans to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, due to the shutdown. [HuffPost] JACK DORSEY HAS NO CLUE WHAT HE WANTS Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey really doesn’t want to get into the “particulars” about when or whether he’d ban Trump from his platform ― even if it’s a hypothetical call for followers to kill journalists. In an exclusive interview with HuffPost, Dorsey waffled when asked if he’d ban Trump if the president directed his Twitter followers to murder someone. [HuffPost]         TRUMP SHOCKED BY BARR-MUELLER FRIENDSHIP Trump was startled as he watched television coverage of his nominee for attorney general William Barr describe a warm relationship with special counsel Robert Mueller in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. [CNN] BARR SPELLS OUT CASE FOR OBSTRUCTION Worryingly for Trump, Barr spelled out exactly how he defines obstruction of justice — and it looks a lot like what the BuzzFeed bombshell says Trump did. [HuffPost] ‘THOUSANDS’ MORE CHILDREN SEPARATED AT BORDER The Trump administration may have taken “thousands” more immigrant children from parents and guardians at the border than was previously known, and does not know how many families were separated in total, according to a report by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. [HuffPost] REPUBLICANS COZY UP TO HOLOCAUST DENIER Two Republican congressmen met with noted Holocaust denier and white nationalist Chuck Johnson to discuss “DNA sequencing,” less than a day after the House voted to disavow the white supremacy of Steve King (R-Iowa). [HuffPost] MCCONNELL: FOR THE PEOPLE ACT A ‘POWER GRAB’ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) accused House Democrats of trying to “swing elections” with a major piece of legislation designed to clean up voting and campaign finance, and strengthen government ethics. [HuffPost] PENCE: CALLING OUT DISCRIMINATION AN ATTACK ON CHRISTIANITY Vice President Mike Pence defended second lady Karen Pence’s decision to take a teaching job at a school that discriminates against LGBTQ individuals and families, suggesting that the uproar is an attack on Christianity. [HuffPost]       In the U.K., David Cameron is still getting blamed for the Brexit mess. Meghan Markle’s glittery gown for a performance of Cirque du Soleil’s show, Totem, at Royal Albert Hall is the sparkliest we’ve seen. Comedian Louis C.K., who admitted to sexually harassing female comedians, continued his comeback tour at a sold-out show in San Jose, California — opening his set by defending the revelations that he masturbated in front of female comedians. Katelyn Ohashi, the UCLA gymnast whose dazzling floor routine went viral this week, just nailed a poetry recital as well. A newborn baby was found dead at an Amazon distribution center in Phoenix. One skier died and another was in critical condition after they were caught in an avalanche at Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico. Here are all the MLK Day 2019 sales happening this weekend. An upstate New York man accused of raping an 11-year-old girl who recently gave birth reportedly acknowledges he’s the father, but claims she was impregnated by an article of his clothing. Gladys Knight will sing the national anthem during Super Bowl LIII. Karen Pence’s anti-LGBTQ school will receive 100 copies of A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, a children’s book about a boy bunny who falls in love with another boy bunny. Chris Christie reveals why Trump wears such long ties. The African Union has called on the Democratic Republic of Congo to postpone the announcement of its presidential election results. The Duke of Edinburgh has been involved in a traffic accident close to the Sandringham Estate, but was not injured, Buckingham Palace said. Trump walls himself in at the Oval Office in the latest New Yorker cover. Fox Searchlight has set a May release date for “Tolkien,” the biopic on The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, starring Nicholas Hoult. Love this newsletter? Share it with a friend!      HuffPost is now a part of Oath and a part of Verizon. On May 25, 2018 we introduced a new Oath Privacy Policy which will explain how your data is used and shared. 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