After consulting with the Department of Justice and with Rep. Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman Cummings has set the scope for the Oversight Committee’s hearing with Mr. Cohen to address the following issues:

•the President’s debts and payments relating to efforts to influence the 2016 election;

•the President’s compliance with financial disclosure requirements;

•the President’s compliance with campaign finance laws;

•the President’s compliance with tax laws;

•the President’s potential and actual conflicts of interest;

•the President’s business practices;

•the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.;

•the accuracy of the President’s public statements;

•potentially fraudulent or inappropriate practices by the Trump Foundation; and

•public efforts by the President and his attorney to intimidate Mr. Cohen or others not to testify.

Mr. Cohen has agreed to testify voluntarily and in public before the Oversight Committee. He will not be under subpoena.

On February 28, 2019, the day after Mr. Cohen testifies before the Oversight Committee, he will appear in closed session before the Intelligence Committee. The scope of the Oversight Committee’s open public hearing will not include questions relating to the Intelligence Committee’s investigation of efforts by Russia and other foreign entities to influence the U.S. political process during and since the 2016 U.S. election, and the counterintelligence threat arising from any links or coordination between U.S. persons and the Russian government, including any financial or other compromise or leverage foreign actors may possess over Donald Trump, his family, his business interests, or his associates. Among other lines of inquiry within its jurisdiction and the investigative parameters it announced on February 6, 2019, the Intelligence Committee’s closed interview also will examine in depth Mr. Cohen’s prior false statements to the Intelligence Committee.