committee which cohen admits he lied to wanted to bring the fixer back for this time what they hope would be truthful answers. he had no business interests in russia and that wasn t true. if anything the president has said is true and there is no there there, why are all of his closest allies lying about russia? cohen is scheduled to be sentenced on december 12th. and james comey is looking to quash testimony for the house over his subpoena. they want to grill him on the issues that happened before the election.
everybody knew about it. we were very open with it. he s a weak person and not a very smart person. quick fact check. everybody did not know about the trump tower moscow project. the proposal came to light long after it was canceled and after president trump took office. leaving the white house for argentina yesterday, the president expanded on the view of cohen s motives and made the remarkable claim he could do anything he wanted before taking office. it s very simple. he s got himself a big prison sentence and he s trying to get a lesser prison sentence by making up a story. here s the thing. even if he was right, it doesn t matter. i was allowed to do whatever i wanted to do during the campaign. the ranking democrats on the house senate intelligence committee which cohen admits he lied to wanted to bring the fixer back for this time what they hope would be truthful answers.
and what he s trying to do is get a reduced sentence. he is lying about a project that everybody knew about it. he s a weak person and not a very smart person. that s tight. i like it. quick fact check. everybody did not know about the trump tower moscow project. the proposal came to light long after it was canceled and after president trump took office. leaving the white house for argentina yesterday, the president expanded on the view of cohen s motives and made the remarkable claim he could do anything he wanted before taking office. it s very simple. he s got himself a big prison sentence and he s trying to get a lesser prison sentence by making up a story. here s the thing. even if he was right, it doesn t matter. i was allowed to do whatever i wanted to do during the campaign. the ranking democrats on the house senate intelligence
it means when he was representing the president during the campaign and he said he had no interests in russia, that wasn t true. if anything the president has said is true and there is no there there, why are all of his closest allies lying about russia? it remains to be seen if they will get a chance. con cohen is scheduled to be sentenced on december 12th. joining us live is fred pleitgen. fred, good morning. what is the latest? reporter: dave, there is a lot of response coming from the kremlin. overnight as the russians were traveling to buenos aires. the kremlin issued the statement saying they regret the fact that president trump canceled the meeting. they may meet at some other point. russians still looking to do
that. it was interesting because i managed to get in touch with the spokesman for vladimir putin as he was on the plane flying to buenos aires. at that point, he told us he read the tweet about the cancellation. he said he hadn t heard anything official yet. he said if that is the case, they have time for more meetings. the russians not happy with that situation. during that communication as he was on the plane, he also confirmed to me that michael cohen had gotten in touch with him in 2016. yes, his office had actually also gotten in touch with michael cohen to tell them the russians could not help them to build the trump tower in moscow. there was a lot of information coming from the kremlin on the issues last night. the russians not happy about the cancellation. meanwhile, the situation where i am with the standoff with the