District, they both have been doing is painting this picture, setting the scene for the multiple lies that michael cohen, a very, very close ally, formerly, to president trump was telling over the course of a long period of time. and in fact, cohen was lying about the moscow project until september of this year. it was only in september that he came clean about the extent to which they wanted to pursue this russia deal. so there was a ton of news that came out of the court papers on friday. frank, let me ask you about the russia piece of it because this idea of what michael cohen is now saying and this idea of trump, the folks around trump pursuing a deal, a business deal in russia well into the 2016 campaign counter against what cohen had previously told congress. how does that intersect? does it intersect with this question of potential collusion with the russian government. of russian government
He told them that deal had been wrapped up and closed up much earlier. so what mueller and the southern district, they both have been doing is painting this picture, setting the scene for the multiple lies that michael cohen, a very, very close ally, formerly, to president trump was telling over the course of a long period of time. and in fact, cohen was lying about the moscow project until september of this year. it was only in september that he came clean about the extent to which they wanted to pursue this russia deal. so there was a ton of news that came out of the court papers on friday. frank, let me ask you about the russia piece of it because this idea of what michael cohen is now saying and this idea of trump, the folks around trump pursuing a deal, a business deal in russia well into the 2016 campaign counter against what cohen had previously told congress. how does that intersect? does it intersect with this question of potential collusion