MELVIN: Pete Williams, let me come back to you, because President Trump was asked about precisely what we were just talking about, this idea that his campaign at the time had a number of conversations with suspected Russian operatives, that was the question. Not sure if folks at home could really hear the question being asked. President Trump choosing to ignore that question in the Oval Office. But you were saying that some of these reports it sounds like some of these reports may be a bit overheated. Is that a fair adjective to use based on your sources?
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WILLIAMS: What I was going to say, Craig, is theyre just about midway through this. Theyve got several months more to go. They found no indication that there was any collusion. The number of these contacts was not a large number, they were not constant. They were not contacts, as far as the U.S. knows, with Russian intelligence people. One official told me today, You never know with the Russians, but there is no confirmed connection between these Trump associates and any Russian intelligence figures.
