Rudy Giuliani.
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Rudy Giuliani is not shy, that much is clear.

The rest of the facts, however, are increasingly difficult to parse. Barely two hours after NBC News reported that federal investigators had wiretapped the phone of Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney, Giuliani told The Daily Beast that he doesn't think Cohen's phone lines were actually ever compromised. "Us lawyers have talked about it, we don't believe it's true," Giuliani said.

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.