lawyers helped them put together the statement that went to the hill. is that damning for those lawyers that michael cohen name checked them? i think we d have to drill down closer, but i think it s the editing doesn t bother me as much as what is their knowledge about when, for example, the moscow deal was closed. and if they knew it was closed in june of 2016 instead of the beginning of the year or the year before, then they re in hot water themselves. let me bring in mya on this. as i ve reported before and i ll repeat it, it s entirely possible that those leaks had some other purpose and that donald trump s written interrogatories which we don t have in our possession are accurate. that s a possibility. but if they are accurate, that would involve donald trump completely reversing what was his public claim about this. because if the sti he sticks the public claim of potentially corroborating their lies, his public claim was also like roger