Article snippet: Washington has a pressing question for MORE: Did he lie to Congress, again? MORE (D-Md.) replied that he’d “love to hear about it.” “If the president wants to, he can pick up the phone and call me,” he said. “I'd welcome a call.” A representative for Cohen said Friday that Cohen stands by his testimony, and directed The Hill to prior statements from Davis defending the testimony as being truthful. A source close to Cohen also pushed back against the suggestion that Cohen lied, saying he never personally sought a pardon but rather gave his attorneys the all-clear to explore the option when it was presented to them. “If he wanted to ask the president for a pardon, he would have done so directly,” the source said, citing the past close relationship between Trump and Cohen. Rep. MORE (D-Va.), a member of the Oversight panel, said that Cohen may have only been referring to asking for a pardon after the end of his mutual defense agreement with the president’s legal team. “There's a difference between saying to your attorney, ‘well since they're dangling that, go ahead and explore that’ as opposed to, ‘no, go ask for one.’ Those are different things,” Connolly said. “And I'm withholding judgment on whether he lied to the committee, or whether he's engaged in lawyerly parsing that most of us mere mortals don't engage in.” Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani also called for Cohen to be prosecuted for perjury “If they don't prosecute him, it would be a complete outrage after what... Link to the full article to read more