over reports that michael cohen was preparing to tell investigators that president trump had advance knowledge of that infamous meeting at trump tower between donald trump jr and a russian attorney. here is a montage put together by the media research center. bombshell, president trump s long-time lawyer ready to deliver the goods. michael cohen claims donald trump had advance knowledge of the meeting. cohen claims that then-candidate donald trump was aware of the trump tower meeting with the russians before it happened. and cohen claims president trump knew of the controversial 2016 meeting can russians that were expecting to give the campaign dirt on hillary clinton. there s only one problem with this story. it wasn t true. here s what michael cohen s attorney said earlier this week.
information that president trump knew about the trump tower meeting with the russians beforehand? no. he does not. jason: here are all of the corrections that ran. [crickets sounds ] jason: yeah, there weren t. joining me for reaction is host of fox news media buzz. howard thank you for joining us. when you see the situation. the media oh, they have their ah-ha moment. they knew they had them on this one and ran it and ran it and ran it. then cohen s attorney says it wasn t true. yeah, we now know that it wasn t true. mike cohen doesn t claim. and lanny davis. the whole montage come from a cnns story. cnn broke this exclusive story. still hasn t been corrected. you know a major problem, jason with the coverage of the trump presidency is some news organizations have lowered the bar for what they publish.
change is perilous. it could be something in that directionwell. let he play something that donald trump said that kicked this all off long before the stormny avenatti of it all and the southern district merged. do you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? why did michael cohen make that if it wasn t true? you have to ask michael. michael s my attorney and you ll have tk michael. michael cohen s office was raided in days leading us up to tonight s news. honestly, was that the dumbest thing donald trump has done this year? no. top five? it s up there. the reason is he once he had rudy come out and clean that up. that s what rudy has been doing. we all thought, i didn t believe
it wasn t true. however, imagine if that came out on october 15th, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with hillary clinton. to make it go away, they made this comey didn t even ask. wait, what? i thought this had nothing to do with the campaign this was all personal. no is now the answer? for context, imagine if it had come out at that time. here is some of, just some of what was going on back in the final weeks of the campaign when this payment was made, the trump campaign was gaining momentum. october 28th, that s the day james comey told congress he found clinton s e-mails, more clinton e-mails and reopened the fbi s investigation into her. then, of course, in october, and november, because it keeps coming, trump was able to hammer again and again on the podesta e-mails leaked out by wikileaks. november 6th, comey told
it wasn t true. what was true about the dossier? juan: i am not getting into that here but all we know about is today this business about the fbi lovers and their texts, you guys are so desperate to somehow undermine robert mueller. you will do anything. republicans will put on blinder blinders. kimberly: you are not been able to proffer one fact forward that was accurate or true in the dossier to support that. juan: how about the russians interfered in the election. dana: that is one thing trey gowdy said to martha last night. regardless of the dossier, there would have been an investigation about russian meddling the election. the other thing about the grassley memo that irritates me about the nunes memo. this whole thing about how you shouldn t take a yahoo news article and to convince the judge there is corroboration. in the grassley memo, it says it wasn t used for corroboration.