Giuliani: Manafort's lawyers briefed Trump's legal team on meetings with Mueller

Kevin Downing.
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After President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller in September, his attorney continued to brief Trump's lawyers on Manafort's discussions with investigators, Rudy Giuliani and two other people familiar with the matter told The New York Times on Tuesday.

Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, told the Times that the information passed along gave Trump's legal team insight into where the Mueller probe was headed; one tidbit Manafort's lawyer Kevin Downing told Giuliani is that prosecutors asked Manafort repeatedly about whether Trump knew about the meeting Donald Trump Jr. had at Trump Tower in June 2016 with Russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.