they ve made an exception here. what do you make of the? it s a stunning development and a really bad development for journalism i think and you re right it s unprecedented. i can t rememberthem ever commenting on a news story about their work. my take is they re not refuting in its entirety their story. they re not saying this isn t michael cohen said trump told him to lie and there s this line in the michael cohen sentencing mmo that we re now realizing says explicitly that he lied to congress at the direction of client one and client one is was donald trump. so that part appears to be the case. it s cohen s contention. the issue, as you pointed out , the thing that got people interested was that there was all this corroboration. and by the time mueller got to
they re not saying this isn t michael cohen s testimony, that michael cohen said trump told him to lie and there s this line in the michael cohen sentencing mmo that we re now realizing says explicitly that he lied to congress at the direction of client one and client one is was donald trump. so that part appears to be the case. it s cohen s contention. the issue, as you pointed out rksz t , the thing that got people interested was that there was all this corroboration. and by the time mueller got to cohen, they already knew donald trump instructed him to lie. it wouldn t surprise me what they were about was in fact the trump tower moscow project.
directed michael con hen to lieo congress about building a trump tower unmoscow. as you know the same two reporters who reporteden the trump tower in moscow was at the heart of the indictment. i m on with you because jason and anthony are still reporting. do you have any indication ken delaney floated the theory that the situation is that the michael cohen is making this contention he was directed by the president but the existence of corroboration is what is in dispute. you know i dont know anything beyond what is in that statement and as you say very hard to understand. did they not communicate with you off the record? you did go to them with a story or absolutely. we went to them 24 hours ago and
as you know the same two reporters who reporteden the trump tower in moscow was at the heart of the indictment. i m on with you because jason and anthony are still reporting. do you have any indication ken delaney floated the theory that the situation is that the michael cohen is making this contention he was directed by the president but the existence of corroboration is what is in dispute. you know i dont know anything beyond what is in that statement and as you say very hard to understand. did they not communicate with you off the record? you did go to them with a story or absolutely. we went to them 24 hours ago and they declined to comment on it. and what do you make of that
him to be able to. i would like him to be able to. i don t know if it is possible. can cohen s legal team or the spokesperson for cohen s, lenny davis, issued a statement on this story. it was not a denial of the story, the same way they deny that michael cohen went to prague. what do you take from that? what do you think about the president s team rudy giuliani coming out and initially trying to blame cohen s credibility when this reporting is not based on cohen s credibility. before i answer you, i want to tell you that i spoke to sources in the senate, they feel a little hamstring. i do think there is going to be increasing demands like chris