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Fri Nov 3, 2017, 11:29 AM Nov 2017

Adviser says Trump listened to Papadopoulos and 'heard him out'

By Jim Acosta, CNN
Updated 9:36 AM ET, Fri November 3, 2017

Washington (CNN)A former Trump campaign adviser says Donald Trump listened to George Papadopoulos when he presented the idea of a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"He heard him out," JD Gordon, a campaign national security adviser who attended the March 31, 2016 meeting, told CNN Thursday.

Asked about the meeting on Friday, Trump told reporters at the White House, "it was a very unimportant meeting, took place a long time, don't remember much about it."

CNN reported Wednesday that Trump did not dismiss the idea of arranging a meeting with Russia's president when it was suggested in a meeting with his campaign foreign policy advisers last year ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/03/politics/jd-gordon-trump-papadopoulos/index.html

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