The Trump campaign's collusion story keeps changing — and Rudy Guiliani isn't helping one bit.
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00:00I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign.
00:04Yes, you have.
00:05I have no idea.
00:06I have not.
00:19Are there any ties between Mr. Trump, you or your campaign, and Putin and his regime?
00:24No, there are not.
00:25It's absurd.
00:26So to be clear, Mr. Trump has no financial relationships with any Russian oligarchs?
00:31That's what he said.
00:33That's what I said.
00:34That's obviously what our position is.
00:45We now learn from Yahoo News that Mr. Page has opened up private communications with
00:49senior Russian officials about lifting economic sanctions.
00:53If he's doing that, he's certainly not doing it with the permission or the knowledge of
00:57the campaign.
01:12Can you say whether you are aware that anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with
01:16Russia during the course of the election?
01:18Well, I told you General Flynn obviously was dealing, so that's one person, but he was
01:22dealing, as he should have been.
01:24I have nothing to do with Russia.
01:26To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does.
01:29We begin tonight with Donald Trump Jr. acknowledging he did meet with a Russian who he thought
01:34had damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
01:37Someone has information on our opponent.
01:38You know, things are going a million miles an hour.
01:41You know what it's like to be on a campaign.
01:43Maybe this is something.
01:44I should hear him out.
01:45Okay.
01:46When you read the parts about the Russian government or Russia supporting your father,
01:51how did that put off any sirens in your head?
01:53Honestly, I don't know.
01:54When I ran against them, they were looking for dirt on me every day.
01:58I mean, that's what you do.
02:00Maybe you shouldn't, but you do it.
02:01Nothing illegal about that.
02:03And even if it comes from a Russian or a German or an American, it doesn't matter.
02:10And they never used it.
02:11That's the main thing.
02:12Never used it.
02:13They rejected it.
02:14Colluding about Russians, which I'm not even know if that's a crime, colluding about Russians.
02:19Okay.
02:20You start analyzing the crime.
02:21The hacking is the crime.
02:22Well, he said nobody had any contact, tons of people had contact.
02:26Nobody colluded.
02:27The guy running his campaign.
02:28He didn't say nobody.
02:29He was working on an issue at the same time as the convention.
02:32He said he didn't.
02:33He didn't say nobody.
02:35How would you know that nobody in your campaign.
02:37He actually did say that, Rudy.
02:39He said nobody.
02:40Well, I never said that.