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Doubt cast on report that put Michael Cohen in Prague

By Naomi Lim
Published December 28, 2018 11:24pm ET
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Doubt cast on report that put Michael Cohen in Prague
Michael Cohen walks out of federal court, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, in New York, after pleading guilty to lying to Congress about work he did on an aborted project to build a Trump Tower in Russia. Cohen told the judge he lied about the timing of the negotiations and other details to be consistent with Trump's "political message." | (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

The journalists who reported that cell signals and intercepted chatter between Russians placed Michael Cohen in Prague amid the 2016 presidential campaign based their story on third-hand information, one of the journalists acknowledged Friday.

McClatchy’s Greg Gordon told MSNBC Friday that neither he nor colleague Peter Stone ever personally saw the phone and intelligence data, originally obtained by an Eastern European agency, that they claimed provides evidence that President Trump’s former lawyer could have been in the Czech capital in the summer of 2016.

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