20-minute phone conversation with an assistant to long-time putin lieutenant after requesting help in getting trump tower in moscow built. he denied he responded to cohen s appeal, a lie, it means the russian official told the same lie michael cohen did. in other words, think about this, the president s bag man and putin s deputy were both working on the same coverup. confronted with cohen s testimony today trump displayed one of his truly distinct skills, which is to pretend like he has not been caught when he so obviously has been. there would have been nothing wrong if i did do it. if i did do it, there would have been nothing wrong. when i run for president that doesn t mean i m not allowed to do business. i was doing a lot of different things when i was running. even if he was right, it doesn t matter. because i was allowed to do whatever i wanted during the campaign. joining me now, latest nbc news investigation reporter, tom
today that cohen even had a 20-minute phone conversation with an assistant to long-time putin lieutenant after requesting help in getting trump tower in moscow built. he denied he responded to cohen s appeal, a lie, it means the russian official told the same lie michael cohen did. in other words, think about this, the president s bag man and putin s deputy were both working on the same coverup. confronted with cohen s testimony today trump displayed one of his truly distinct skills, which is to pretend like he has not been caught when he so obviously has been. there would have been nothing wrong if i did do it. if i did do it, there would have been nothing wrong. when i run for president that doesn t mean i m not allowed to do business. i was doing a lot of different things when i was running. even if he was right, it doesn t matter. because i was allowed to do whatever i wanted during the campaign. joining me now, latest nbc news investigation reporter, tom