Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump on Friday denied his former personal attorney Michael Cohen's claim that he knew in advance about a highly controversial 2016 Trump Tower meeting, the latest public breach in the fraying relationship between the President and his former confidant. "(No,) I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr." Trump wrote as part of a series of tweets Friday morning. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2018Sources told CNN that Cohen claims that then-candidate Trump had advance notice of the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower involving Donald Trump Jr. and is willing to assert that claim to special counsel Robert Mueller. The sources said Cohen does not have evidence, such as audio recordings, to corroborate his claim, but he is willing to attest to his account. The meeting at Trump Tower -- which was attended by Trump Jr., his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort -- was first publicly revealed in news reports in July 2017, and Trump, his lawyers and allies have since offered misleading explanations and changing narratives about it.

Source: CNN July 27, 2018 12:17 UTC