Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress that President Donald Trump lied to the American people about negotiations during the 2016 presidential campaign about a proposed Trump building in Russia.
Cohen says in public testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee that Trump "knew of and directed" the negotiations about a proposed Trump Tower in Moscow. Cohen pleaded guilty last year to lying to Congress about the timing of the business proposal.
Cohen is testifying that Trump didn't "directly" tell him to lie to Congress about the project but he did so "in his way."
Cohen says that while he was negotiating the Russian business deal during the campaign, Trump would look him in the eye and tell him "there's no business in Russia."