Rudy Giuliani "adds value" to President Donald Trump's legal team, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters during Monday's press briefing.
"I didn't speak with him specifically about his feelings about it," Sanders said when asked whether the president was pleased with the interviews Giuliani has done over the past week.
"But [he] certainly feels that he is an added member — added value member to his outside special counsel."
Giuliani, who joined Trump's legal team last month, last week said Trump made a series of payments reimbursing attorney Michael Cohen for a $130,000 settlement with porn star Stormy Daniels despite the president's assertion in April he was unaware of the payment.
"Trump didn't know about the specifics of it, as far as I know, but he did know the general arrangement that Michael would take care of things like this, like I take care of things like this with my clients," Giuliani told Fox News' Sean Hannity. "I don't burden them with every single thing that comes along. These are busy people."
Later, Giuliani said during an interview with The Washington Post that when Cohen paid the settlement to Daniels, he knew Trump would eventually pay him back.
"The president was always going to make sure he got it back, and enough money to pay the taxes," Giuliani said. "There probably were other things of a personal nature that Michael took care of for which the president would have always trusted him as his lawyer . . . and that was paid back out of the rest of the money, and Michael earned a fee out of it."
Trump on Friday suggested Giuliani had misspoken about the payments and insisted he is not changing his story on the money paid to Daniels before the 2016 election.
Trump said Giuliani "is a great guy but he just started a day ago." He said the former New York City mayor is "learning the subject matter."
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