cohen says that secolow never asked him to lie. he gave him information that cohen knew was false. that the trump tower negotiations ended in january 2016, not june as cohen knew they did. cohen repeated that to congress. and he believes the president knew when he gave that testimony that it was false, but he doesn t have evidence that secolow knew. that said, this is something that people want to investigate. robert mueller tried to investigate it. he couldn t pierce the attorney client privilege and decided not to invoke the crime fraud exemption. it allows you to pierce the privilege if you can prove a crime. he thought he didn t have it. congress is more sanguine about attorney client privilege. the house has tried to do that. they re subpoenaing, demanding evidence and testimony from these lawyers. they re going to resist, it s going to be litigated like everything else we ve been talking about. does he enjoy any of the protections that were argued
is a significant lie about when those trump tower negotiations ended. this could be very serious for i-vvanka trump. she would have known that was a lie if she had seen that testimony. do you want to hear from her? is it possible she obstructed justice? i ll let the chairs of the committees sort out where that is. i don t think her hands are clean at all this this considering the role she played and the knowledge she had about the trump tower moscow at a time her father was a candidate of the united states. i us understand your point also about michael cohen s credibility. as a former prosecutor, you have to look at someone s motivation and past inconsistent statements. but the lies he told many the past were only to benefit donald trump. it s not like someone came in and lied for another boss in the past and we re wondering why they are doing it here. he was lying to protect donald trump. i want to get to new
saying ivanka s lawyer signed off on the testimony. which had the date. a blatant lie on trump tower moscow. here s what cohen said in public testimony. who were the faep members you briefed on the project? donald trump jr. and ivanka trump. okay. were they in the regular course of business or the president or family request the briefings? this is the regular course of business. do you recall a question on the number of briefings. do you recall how many there might have been? i m sorry? do you recall how many briefings there might have been? approximately ten. in total. congressman, this isn t too hard to raise serious questions here, right? cohen is briefing ivanka trump ten times. if that s true. her lawyer signed off on a very basic thing which is a significant lie. about when those trump tower