Giuliani also explained why he’s has some reservations about President Trump sitting for an interview with the special counsel.<\/b>
\nWASHINGTON (CBS News) \u2014 President Trump\u2019s lawyer Rudy Giuliani acknowledged Sunday that the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between top Trump campaign staff and a Russian lawyer \u201cwas originally for the purpose of getting information about [Hillary] Clinton.\u201d In an interview on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d with Chuck Todd, Giuliani also expressed concern about the possibility the special counsel\u2019s investigation could set a perjury trap for the president based on a different \u201cversion of the truth.\u201d
With regards to the Trump Tower meeting, Giuliani repeated the most recent explanation offered by Mr. Trump, whose accounts of the meeting have shifted over the past year.
\u201cWell, because the meeting was originally for the purpose of getting information about, about Clinton. The meeting turned into a meeting\u2026\u201d Giuliani said.
Todd interjected, \u201cWhich in itself is attempted collusion.\u201d
He continued, \u201cThat was the original intention of the meeting. It turned out to be a meeting about another subject and it was not pursued at all. And, of course, any meeting with regards to getting information on your opponent is something any candidate\u2019s staff would take. If someone said, I have information about your opponent, you would take that meeting.\u201d
When the meeting between Kremlin-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort first came to light, the campaign claimed it was just to discuss Russian adoptions. The president gave a different story earlier this month, stating in a tweet, \u201cThis was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics \u2014 and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!\u201d
Giuliani also explained why he\u2019s has some reservations about President Trump sitting for an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Earlier this month, he put the odds of such an interview at \u201c50-50.\u201d
On \u201cMeet the Press\u201d Sunday, Giuliani said, \u201cLook, I am not going to be rushed into having him testify so that he gets trapped into perjury. And when you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he\u2019s going to tell the truth and he shouldn\u2019t worry, well that\u2019s so silly because it\u2019s somebody\u2019s version of the truth. Not the truth.\u201d
\u201cNo, it isn\u2019t truth. Truth isn\u2019t truth,\u201d Giuliani said. \u201cThe President of the United States says, \u2018I didn\u2019t\u2026’\u201d
\u201cTruth isn\u2019t truth?\u201d Todd replied, adding, \u201cThis is going to become a bad meme.\u201d<\/p>\n

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