Washington( CNN) President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between senior Trump campaign officials and Russians “was originally for the objectives in getting information about( Hillary) Clinton, ” but denied any collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
“Well, because the meeting was originally for the purpose of get information about, about Clinton, ” Giuliani said on NBC's “Meet the Press, “later adding, “That was the original intention of the session. It turned out to be a meeting about another topic and it was not pursued at all. And, of course, any meeting with regards to getting information on your opponent is something any candidate's staff would take. If someone said, ‘I have information about your opponent, ‘ you would take that meeting.”
In the interview, Giuliani sought to excuse the meeting because of the outcome, as the President has appeared to do, although critics have alleged that the intent of the meeting — to get grime on Clinton from the Russian government in an effort to harm her candidacy for chairperson — could provide evidence of collusion with Russia to affect the 2016 election outcome.
