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.@CNN bungled another story that was based on leaks the network received while a House Intelligence Committee witness was testifying behind closed doors.
dailycaller.com/2019/03/06/cnn… via @dailycaller
dailycaller.com/2019/03/06/cnn… via @dailycaller
CNN reported Wednesday that Michael Cohen provided documents during a House Intelligence deposition showing that President Donald Trump’s Russia lawyers made edits to false testimony the former Trump fixer gave to Congress in 2017.
CNN’s initial report raised the possibility that Trump’s lawyers suborned perjury from Cohen, who will begin a three-year prison term on May 6.
But CNN ran an update at 7:35 p.m. Eastern time that drastically changed the implications for its story.
But CNN ran an update at 7:35 p.m. Eastern time that drastically changed the implications for its story.
Lanny Davis, an attorney for Cohen, told CNN that Cohen himself, and not a Trump lawyer, claimed in a draft of his 2017 testimony that the Trump Tower negotiations ended in January 2016.
Cohen’s lawyer at the time of his initial testimony, Stephen Ryan, helped him edit the document, according to CNN’s update. Ryan shared the draft with other lawyers who were party to a joint defense agreement with Cohen.
Those lawyers provided suggested changes, which Cohen and Ryan approved, CNN’s sources said.
The lawyers involved in editing Cohen’s testimony had no indication the initial draft had inaccurate information, according to the updated report.
The lawyers involved in editing Cohen’s testimony had no indication the initial draft had inaccurate information, according to the updated report.
This is not the first time CNN has published a story in the midst of closed-door House Intelligence testimony that turned out to be wrong.
