President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani showed up on television again Sunday, telling CNN's Jake Tapper the president never had a conversation with FBI Director James Comey about former national security advisor Michael Flynn.
Just last month, Giuliani told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos the two men did have a conversation, but it was not as Comey had memorialized in his contemporaneous memos.
CNN:
"There was no conversation about Michael Flynn. The President didn't find out that Comey believed there was until about, I think, it was February when it supposedly took place. Memo came out in May. And in between, Comey testified under oath, in no way had he been obstructed at any time," Giuliani told CNN's "State of the Union" anchor Jake Tapper. "Then all of the sudden in May he says he felt obstructed. He felt pressured by that comment, 'you should go easy on Flynn.' So we maintain the President didn't say that."
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Giuliani said on Sunday that a flat denial of the "let this go" comment is "what (Trump) will testify to if he's asked that question."
"They already know that," he added. "Why are they asking us to repeat what they already know under oath?"
In July, Giuliani seemed to suggest on ABC's "This Week" that Trump did ask Comey to let the probe go. After host George Stephanopoulos said to Giuliani that Comey says he took Trump's remark as direction, Giuliani responded that he was also told, "Can you give the man a break?" many times as a prosecutor.
"He didn't direct him to do that," Giuliani said. "What he said was, can you, can you give him a break."
"Comey says he took it as direction," Stephanopoulos interjected.
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On Sunday's "State of the Union," however, Giuliani said he "never told ABC that."
"That's crazy. I have never said that," he added. "What I said was, that is what Comey is saying Trump said. I have always said the President denies it. "
Watch the CNN clip:
Giuliani: 'There was no conversation' between Trump and Comey on Flynn (CNN)