Mark Corallo, who briefly as spokesman for President Donald Trump's legal team, claimed Hope Hicks gave a different story to special counsel Robert Mueller's team about the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
He was referring to the administration's original explanation to The New York Times, which broke the story in July 2017 of Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort meeting with a Russian lawyer who claimed to have dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Hicks, then White House communications director, was on Air Force One when President Trump helped draft a response that the meeting was about Russian orphans.
A former Trump aide suggested Hope Hicks gave a different story to special counsel Robert Mueller's team about the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting
Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigated the Trump Tower meeting for his Russia probe
Mark Corallo briefly served as spokesman for President Donald Trump's legal team
Meanwhile, Corallo had given a separate statement that claimed 'participants in the meeting misrepresented who they were and who they worked for.'
Corallo recalled to ABC News how Hicks called him about that separate statement 'started laying into me.'
'Then she admitted that yes, they had crafted this statement on Air Force One and that they'd handled it. You know, she said, I had the New York Times handled and I'm going - you did? You work in the White House. This is a private matter. This is not the president's conduct of his office. This is matters to do with him as a private citizen, really, not even him. This has to do with his son, son in law, and former campaign director. So, so I just I listened to her yell and then I said well you know you've probably made yourself a witness in a federal criminal investigation,' he recalled.
Then he talked about how she called him again the next time and this time she had President Trump on the phone with her.
'They both start to sort of lay into me and he's laying into me for, for you know who approved this statement. I said, 'Mr. President please talk to your lawyers about this. Don't talk to me about this. Talk to your lawyers,'' he said.
He told ABC News that he told the two that their statement on the meeting was inaccurate.
'I just pointed out that the statement that they put out on Air Force One or from Air Force One was inaccurate. That this was not going to go away. And because it was inaccurate, an inaccurate statement - it was only going to inflame the story over the next few days and eventually the New York Times and every other, you know, media outlet was going to get the truth and then they were going to look, well, the way they did. Like they were trying to hide something,' he said.
He said Hicks claimed that documents which showed the meeting was actually about something else would never be seen, which he worried would be an obstruction of justice.
'I pointed out that the statement was inaccurate and that there were documents, that I understood
