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Michael Cohen Adviser Grilled About BuzzFeed Bombshell

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Lanny Davis, a legal adviser for Michael Cohen, refused to either confirm or deny a BuzzFeed News report that President Trump asked his former attorney…
Lanny Davis, a legal adviser for Michael Cohen, refused to either confirm or deny a BuzzFeed News report that President Trump asked his former attorney to lie to Congress about his work to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
In an interview on MSNBC, Davis rebuffed repeated attempts by host Chuck Todd to find out whether the BuzzFeed report was accurate, saying that Cohen instructed him to offer a “no comment” regarding the story.
“I’m going to just say read the story, and the journalists have written about their sources and have written about other corroborating evidence, and I can’t confirm anything,” said Davis, who told Todd that he spoke to Cohen about an hour before his MSNBC interview.
Davis’ refusal to discuss the story leaves unanswered perhaps the most consequential story to date in the Russia probe. If true, the report could lead to Trump’s impeachment for obstruction of justice or suborning perjury. If false, BuzzFeed’s reputation will take a heavy hit.
According to the website, Cohen has told special counsel Robert Mueller that Trump personally asked him to lie to Congress during testimony he gave in 2017 about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

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