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Article snippet: Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani on Monday disputed that the White House lied last summer when representatives denied that MORE dictated a statement about a meeting between his son and a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, despite now saying he did. CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked Giuliani why he thought Trump’s attorney, Jay Sekulow, and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders “chose to lie” about the president’s involvement in crafting the statement about the meeting at Trump Tower. “You think maybe somebody could’ve made a mistake?” Giuliani retorted. “Why is it always that somebody — you think that Jay Sekulow lied?” he continued. “Maybe he just got it wrong, like I got a few things wrong at the beginning of the investigation.” Sekulow denied last July that the president had any involvement with the statement. And Sanders said last August that Trump may have given suggestions on the statement "as any father would," but denied that he dictated it. Giuliani defended both of them on Monday, but emphasized that a later written statement on the matter was accurate. "I have no idea how they got it wrong, but they got it wrong. I don’t think either one of them is ever going to deliberately lie," Giuliani said. The New York Times reported Saturday that Trump’s lawyers wrote to special counsel MORE in January to assert the president's power over Mueller's investigation. In the letter, they also confirmed that Trump dictated a statement about the June 2016 meeting... Link to the full article to read more