Papadopolous: Trump ‘Was Very Vocal About Pursuing’ a Relationship with Putin

RUSH EXCERPT:

STEPHANOPOULOS: "You wanted to join the trump campaign for a long time. From 2015. Didn’t work out right away but in March of 2016 you had a talk with Sam Clovis about joining the campaign. He told you a focus of the campaign as he was hiring you would be improving u.s./russia relations. De tell you why and how did you follow up?"
PAPADOPOULOS: "I didn’t really understand why except that obviously candidate trump at the time was very vocal about pursuing some sort of working relationship with president Putin should he ever be elected president so it was no secret that the campaign especially when the boss is looking to improve relations at some level with Russia, that my supervisor at the time during an interview would be asking me if I’d be, you know, inclined to support that initiative."