The president's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen Michael Dean CohenJudge orders Eric Trump to comply with New York AG's subpoena before Election Day A huge deal for campaign disclosure: Trump's tax records for Biden's medical records Our Constitution is under attack by Attorney General William Barr MORE told lawmakers during a closed-door hearing earlier this year that Trump attorney Jay Sekulow Jay Alan SekulowNow, we need the election monitors Judge denies Trump's request for a stay on subpoena for tax records Judge throws out Trump effort to block subpoena for tax returns MORE instructed him to lie about when negotiations for a Trump Tower in Moscow ended, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Cohen falsely claimed in 2017 testimony that talks on the Moscow project ended in January 2016 before later admitting that discussions continued into June of the presidential election year.

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Democrats in the House are currently investigating whether attorneys representing Trump and his family obstructed the panel’s investigation into Russian interference by shaping or editing false testimony.

“We’re trying to find out whether anyone participated in the false testimony that Cohen gave to this committee,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff Adam Bennett SchiffPelosi, Democrats unveil bills to rein in alleged White House abuses of power Chris Matthews ripped for complimenting Trump's 'true presidential behavior' on Ginsburg Trump casts doubt on Ginsburg statement, wonders if it was written by Schiff, Pelosi or Schumer MORE (D-Calif.) told the Post in an interview.

The Moscow Trump Tower, which never came to fruition, was under discussion while the intelligence community says Russian was engaging in a multipronged election interference campaign with the intention of helping to elect Trump.

During two closed-door hearings before the House Intelligence Committee, Cohen was more specific about the changes Sekulow asked him to make, including saying Jan. 31, 2016, was the date on which discussions about the Moscow project ended, people familiar with his testimony told the Post.

Sekulow told Cohen the date was significant because it came before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, the opening contest of the White House race, Cohen reportedly told the committee.

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The four lawyers through their own counsels declined to comply with the document request or submit to interviews on April 5, describing the requests as “unprecedented” and outside the scope of the panel’s oversight authorities in a letter to the committee.

They also claimed the information requested would fall under attorney-client privilege.

"The privilege doesn’t apply if it’s being used to conceal a crime or a fraud,” Schiff told the Post in response to the lawyers declining to comply. “And if the attorneys were conferring amongst themselves and Mr. Cohen about a false statement they were going to make to our committee, there’s no privilege that protects that kind of conduct.”

Jane Serene Raskin and Patrick Strawbridge, attorneys for Sekulow, told the Post that “Cohen’s alleged statements are more of the same from him and confirm the observations of prosecutors in the Southern District of New York that Cohen’s ‘instinct to blame others is strong.’”

“That this or any Committee would rely on the word of Michael Cohen for any purpose — much less to try and pierce the attorney-client privilege and discover confidential communications of four respected lawyers — defies logic, well-established law and common sense,” they added.

When Cohen told the House Oversight Committee during a public hearing in January that Sekulow made changes to his 2017 statement, Sekulow called the assertion “completely false.”

The Hill has reached to representatives for Lanny Davis, Cohen's spokesman and lawyer, for comment on the Post's report.

A spokesman for the House Intelligence Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Cohen's testimony.

Cohen is currently serving a 3-year sentence for lying to Congress, financial crimes and campaign finance violations.

The claims from Cohen's testimony come as the Trump White House digs in against Democrats' attempts at oversight in the wake of the completion of special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE's investigation into the Kremlin's 2016 meddling.

Mueller did not accuse Trump or members of his campaign with conspiring with Russia, but laid out several instances of possible obstruction of justice from the president.

Since the release of Mueller's redacted report by the Justice Department, the White House has repeatedly refused House Democrats' subpoenas for records and demands for officials' testimony.