In an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Giuliani was asked how long Trump knew that his then-personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was pursuing a Trump Tower in Moscow. When confronted with this timeline, Giuliani didn’t dispute that Trump knew what Cohen was doing as of the summer. Giuliani expounded in a later interview with CNN: “Up until November 2016, they could have had a conversation about Trump Tower Moscow, and it went nowhere." He’s saying that no matter when the Moscow efforts ended before November 2016, Trump’s answer is consistent. And since then, Mueller’s team has laid out an entire rationale for why Cohen’s pursuit of Trump business in Russia is important.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2018 15:33 UTC