Michael Cohen sat down for his first interview since he was implicated, pled guilty and was sentenced for his crimes. Donald Trump’s former “fixer” said he wanted to talk with George Stephanopoulos after seeing Trump’s tweets about him Wednesday morning. Here’s some of what he said:

ON TRUMP’S ACCUSATION HE IS LYING

“He knows the truth. I know the truth, many people know the truth. Under no circumstances do I want to embarrass the president of the United States of America. The truth is, I told the truth. I took responsibility for my actions. And instead of him taking responsibility for his actions, what does he do? He attacks my family. And after yesterday, again being before the court and taking the responsibility and receiving a sentence of 36 months, the only thing he could do is to tweet about my family?”

“The man doesn’t tell the truth. And it is sad that I should take responsibility for his dirty deeds.”

ON TRUMP’S CLAIM HE NEVER DIRECTED COHEN TO DO ANYTHING WRONG

“I don’t think there is anybody that believes that. First of all, nothing at the Trump organization was ever done unless it was run through Mr. Trump. He directed me, as I said in my allocution and I said as well in the plea, he directed me to make the payments, he directed me to become involved in these matters. Including the one with McDougal, which was really between him and David Pecker and then David Pecker’s counsel. I just reviewed the documents … in order to protect him. I gave loyalty to someone who truthfully does not deserve loyalty.”

ON WHY HE SHOULD BE BELIEVED

“Because the special counsel stated emphatically that the information that I gave to them is credible and helpful. There is a substantial amount of information that they possessed that corroborates the fact that I am telling the truth.”

In the second part of the interview, Cohen touched on whether Trump was telling the truth about Russia. Watch the full interview below.