giuliani is trying to change the timeline on how president trump was personally working on a major deal in moscow during the campaign, a deal that involved putin. giuliani quoting trump himself to the new york times saying the talks were quote going on from the day i announced to the day i won. so giuliani sharing that as a quote from the president to the times. in his written answers, president trump s written answers to special counsel robert mueller s questions, what did president trump have to say about the trump moscow project? he acknowledge lemmedd they conversations about it. throughout 2016. yeah, probably up to, could be up to as far as october, november. okay. look, this is really significant because dates matter a whole lot when it comes to relations with russia during the campaign. what this means, what rudy
his accounts of the moscow project to simply give up in frustration, you re not doing too badly. on sunday, giuliani said more than once that the president told the special counsel he was in discussions about a building project in russia, quote, throughout 2016. listen. in his written answers, president trump s written answers to special counsel robert mueller s question what did president trump have to say about the trump moscow project? acknowledged they had conversations about it throughout 2015, 2016. can t be sure of the exact date but the president can remember having conversations with him about it. throughout 2016? the president can also remember yeah, probably up to could be up to as far as october, november. our answers cover until the election. he didn t say that s what he remembers. he said that s what the president remembers. and what they wrote in response to questions from robert mueller.
now on business talks between donald trump and russia. the president s attorney rudy giuliani telling the new york times that talks about building a trump tower in moscow stopped when donald trump was elected president. so that s november of 2016. much later than the president has ever admitted in public. and here s what giuliani told our jake tapper. in his written answers, president trump s written answers to special counsel robert mueller s questions, what did president trump have to say about the trump moscow project? s being no he acknowledged td conversationed about it through 2015 and 2016 through november? he answered those questions fully and i think to the satisfaction of the special counsel. so i m not at all concerned about that. he gave a full and complete answer to it. i can t share the whole thing with you, but i can share the conclusion which is he had conversations with michael cohen, but it was michael cohen driving the project. well, this means that the
timeline means that the active proposal for the trump tower moscow project was still out there when trump sought a deal to end sanctions on russia. when he pushed the putin talking point question questioning the legitimacy of nato, you remember that, and of course during his infamous, russia, if you re listening remarks about hillary clinton s 30,000 e-mails. rudy giuliani also added confusion to the question of whether president trump spoke to michael cohen before cohen s testimony to congress. speaking with the new york times about the president s written answers to special counsel bob mueller, giuliani said, quote, there was no question that he was asked by the special counsel a question that said did you talk to him before he testified. he said, quote, there were questions like, did you talk about the moscow project with michael cohen. to which he answered yes. but here is giuliani on sunday s shows. did president trump or anyone on the trump team talk to michael cohen abou
he certainly was briefed by his lawyers. all attorney/client privilege but i can tell you this. michael cohen s lawyers believed him at the time. yeah. why wouldn t the president believe him? in his written answers he knew what happened. he, michael cohen, was the guy in charge of this. i emphasize that. right. president trump was running for president. so when this comes down, and everybody is everybody is in a joint defense agreement. you go to michael cohen, michael, what happened? michael is going to remember a lot better what happened than donald trump where this was like this big in his recollection and it s this big in michael s. right. so but let me ask you a question this part you were the lawyer for, in his written lawyer for trump for. in his written answers, president trump s written answers to special counsel robert mueller s questions, what did president trump have to say about the trump moscow project? he acknowledged they had conversations abou