congress. the president's outside lawyer rudy giuliani said, "michael cohen is a liar, it's no surprise that cohen lied to congress. it is hardly coincidental that the special counsel once again files a charge just as the president is leaving for a meeting with world leaders at the g20 summit in argentina. with regard to the hotel proposal in moscow, the president has been completely open and transparent." giuliani it should be note, has praised cohen in the past. >> he doesn't have any incriminating evidence about the president or himself. the man is an honest, honorable lawyer. >> reporter: the president insisted to reporters he's been very open about the moscow prtrp tower project. >> we were open about it. we were thinking about building a building. i guess we had a form -- it was an option, i don't know what you'd call it. we decided -- i decided ultimately not to do it. there would have been nothing wrong if i did do it. >> reporter: but that's not quite true. the trump moscow project only