themselves and rudy giuliani since he first made that revelation that the president had reimbursed michael cohen for the payment, saying they don t coordinate with him and rudy giuliani saying he doesn t coordinate with the white house. we have heard from the white house on this specifically. the deputy press secretary said last fall the president and attorney general jeff sessions had not discussed it at all. no white house official had been authorized to speak with the justice department about this potential merger. we have that. we have jeff sessions who testified on capitol hill last fall saying he couldn t comment on this when certain lawmakers asked him about whether or not the president had attempted to influence it. it raises a lit kn s questions . we know at&t did pay michael cohen hoping to get some kind of influence with the white house back whenever president trump did take office. it raises the question here, they likely did not think michael cohen had a large amount of in