The lawyer, Robert J. Costello, had about a dozen conversations with Mr. Trump’s lead lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani

In fact, the popular 1990 single that Brooks recorded is titled, “Friends in Low Places.”

...his admission that he fears that lying for Donald Trump will be on his gravestone stood out as the most honest answer among screeds of spin and distraction.

...and not intended to convey facts.

But I can tell you, from the moment I read the story, I knew the story was false.

Trump’s legal spokesman Rudolph W. Giuliani on Wednesday night appeared to grant the possibility that members of Trump’s campaign did, in fact, collude with the Russians during the 2016 presidential election campaign.

“It’s not a contribution if it’s intended for a purpose in addition to the campaign purpose,” he said.

Considering his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, did the same thing, it all looked like part of a coordinated strategy to plant doubts about the ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

"Over my dead body. But, you know, I could be dead."

“Nobody got killed, nobody got robbed… This was not a big crime”

...the point of this action was to find the “source of the leak of information to Rudolph Giuliani in October 2016 that then-FBI Director James B. Comey was going to reopen the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of personal email system.”

...information was leaked to Giuliani in October 2016 [...] giving the former New York mayor a tip that then-FBI Director James Comey was going to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server

“Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message”

Giuliani, one of the president’s personal lawyers, acknowledged the arrangement on Tuesday and defended it as a source of valuable insights into the special counsel’s inquiry

Giuliani expressed breezy confidence about Trump's legal position: "I don't think they have any evidence of collusion of any kind. I think their obstruction case, as a legal matter, doesn't exist."

Soros, a hedge fund manager and longtime donor to the Democrats and other liberal causes, is often the target of a right-wing conspiracy theory that claims he controls global politics.

“I don’t know when we’re going to overthrow them,” Giuliani was quoted as saying by Reuters.

The former mayor’s theatrical, combative style of politics anticipated—and perfectly aligns with—the President’s.

...and renewed questions about his continued work for foreign clients while representing the president.

Giuliani isn’t just saying that the investigation is illegitimate — as he has many times before — or that he’s preparing for the after-action. He’s admitting that job No. 1 is to undermine the man in charge of it.

"My statement was [...] referring to the situation where two people make precisely contradictory statements, the classic 'he said,she said' puzzle."

Giuliani not only disputed the special counsel’s tactics, but the very notion of reality.

"And when you tell me that he should testify because he’s going to tell the truth and he shouldn’t worry, well that’s so silly because that’s somebody’s version of the truth, not the truth," Giuliani said.

Giuliani essentially conceded that he was saying things not necessarily because they were correct but because he was being strategic.

Giuliani appeared to blame the maelstrom he kicked up on inquisitive New York Times reporters who he suggested had compelled him to proactively spin a potentially damaging story that may or may not actually be real.

“To say he wasn’t there implies that it happened and he wasn’t there.”

“I have been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime,” Giuliani said on “Fox & Friends.”

"He's lied all his life"

Trump would agree to an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators if it’s limited to questions on whether his presidential campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 electio

...according to the president’s lead attorney on the matter, Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani told Politico he made the comments simply because “That’s what I’m supposed to do.” “What am I supposed to say? That they should investigate him forever? Sorry, I’m not a sucker”

"I don't believe Mrs. Trump has ever discussed her thoughts on anything with Mr. Giuliani"

By invoking the specter of a self-pardon, the president and his defenders are implicitly suggesting that only Congress can constrain an executive's lawless behavior.

“It is for public opinion,” the former New York mayor admitted ... “Because eventually the decision here is going to be impeach or not impeach.”

...Giuliani’s claim was “entirely made-up” and “another apparent effort to pressure the special counsel to hasten the end of his work.”

“I have no knowledge of that,” Giuliani said. “But I would think if it was necessary, yes.”

What a humiliating time to be a New Yorker.

In the past few days, he has launched a series of rants in the media, assailing his former colleagues in law enforcement — and the work that they have done — as Nazis, frauds and garbage.

Trump said Giuliani needed more time to “get his facts straight,” on hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels, noting that the former New York City Mayor “just started a day ago.”

Neither, Giuliani now says, was actually based upon his own knowledge of how things went down. He was just passing along things he had heard or suspected, without taking care to verify them.

The details of the payment, and whether and when Trump knew about it, have important legal implications. A payment intended to protect his campaign from political damage could be a violation of campaign finance law. As a candidate, Trump was permitted to spend an unlimited amount of his own funds on his campaign, but such sums should have been reported to the Federal Election Commission.

“Imagine if that came out on October 15th, 2016, in the middle of the, you know, last debate with Hillary Clinton,” Giuliani told Fox News’s “Fox & Friends”

They may not ask all the tough questions, but their easy rapport with members of Trump world can promote loose talk that breaks news.

... appearing to contradict Trump’s assertion last month that he was unaware of the payment.

These questions were not leaked when they were first communicated to Trump’s team in March, but only now, after Giuliani has come on board.

The former New York City mayor and federal prosecutor may be a witness in the Russia probe, and has other entanglements that could complicate his new role.

Giuliani, a longtime friend and outspoken ally of the president’s who was on the short list to be his first secretary of state, is expected to take a lead role as Trump’s personal representative in navigating the Mueller investigation.

On February 21, Senior Advisor to the President, Stephen Miller, told Fox News that the new travel ban would have the same effect as the old one. He said: “Fundamentally, you’re still going to have the same basic policy outcome for the country”

"And what we did was we focused on, instead of religion, danger," Giuliani said.