Lanny Davis admits to being anonymous source in CNN’s Trump Tower bombshell that is now under fire

Published August 28, 2018 3:00am ET



Lanny Davis, who is representing President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, admitted Monday that he was an anonymous source for a CNN report about the infamous Trump Tower meeting that has come under scrutiny.

The report by CNN said Cohen saw Donald Trump Jr. notify his father of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer before it took place, contradicting what Trump’s denials of knowing about it ahead of time. The report also claimed that Cohen was willing to disclose that information to special counsel Robert Mueller. Three people have bylines on the report: veteran journalist Carl Bernstein, CNN’s chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto, and CNN researcher and producer Marshall Cohen.

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