U.S. lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee emerged from a closed-door meeting with former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on Wednesday with conflicting accounts of their conversation with the controversial Trump ally.
Whitaker was called to Capitol Hill to clarify his testimony at a combative Feb. 8 committee hearing, during which he denied speaking with President Donald Trump about a federal case involving Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, who met for two hours with Whitaker and the panel's top Republican, Rep. Doug Collins, said Whitaker no longer denied speaking to Trump about Cohen or about the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York.