moment for me. howie: you are saying as michael cohen s lawyer you don t believe your client had any direct knowledge that the president knew in advance about the trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer. am i right? lanny: i can t tell you what will cohen has told me. but i am not sure he did and it requires additional reporting. and i am not sure he did not. i know there is a lot of fuzzy memories here. there are people in and out of the room with mr. trump all the time. i have heard people say of course he knew, his son would have told him ahead of time. that s the key mistake. i take the responsibility. an assumption is not a fact. howie: you are coming forward saying you made a mistake. and it s rare in washington. is there a difference in the way
the media. people should be caring more about systematic corruption in the church. howie: i have been reading anguished be pieces from catholics. journalists covering this, commenting on it. but those who are catholic are in anguish. this has been a real challenge to everybody in the church. but the focus has to be on the victims. they are the ones really hurt by this, tragically scared. the church needs to respond to that and reach out to them. howie: the call has to be holding accountable those responsible for this. there is no question about that. we have to have systems in
more information. cnn went with a story that cohen knows the president had advance knowledge of the meeting with a russian lawyer at trump tower. so michael cohen does not have information that president trump had knowledge of the meeting at the trump tower beforehand. no, he does not. howie: you had a rough week which we ll get to in just a second. you say rudy giuliani openly admitted his purpose is to appeal to the trump base and get ready for an impeachment battle. when i was covering the clinton impeachment that s what you and your allies tried to do to ken starr. lanny: and it appears we were successful in molding public
things get processed in the media. lanny: when i wrote my book on the election and i saw jim i m through data as the reason for an illegitimate presidency it was the result of an intervention by james comey. the data shows after october 28, hillary clinton s polls plunged. howie: there are a lot of the reasons she lost. lanny: when i wrote the book i didn t use the word lie. lice an intentional will fus misstatement. that was not me when i talked to anderson cooper or cnn. it was a mistake but not intentional. james comey knew what edtold congress. not that i will disclose something even 11 days from the
election. i will take a look first. during this interviews he never said i m sorry, i made a mistake the way donald trump will never say i m sorry i made a mistake the way i m saying i am sorry, i made a mistake. howie: your critics say you are a big hillary clinton booster, you wrote a book about how she got screwed out of the presidency. that you took on michael cohen s case to use him to get revenge. lanny: there is no question i believe is an extremely divisive and harmful president. when michael cohen came to me, it took me quite a while to listen to him as to why he had changed his mind about donald trump. i took on the representation because he was ready to speak what he felt about donald trump. so certainly that was part of my motive. howie: what was it he said to you that made you decide yes, i