As Franken points out, “I didn’t ask him if he met with the Russians, I asked him ‘what would you do if someone from the campaign met with the Russians’”, and he answered he hadn’t met with the Russians–
Mom asks young son “what would you do if you found out your sister took the cookies out of the cookie jar?” and the son replies “I didn’t take the cookies out of the cookie jar.”
Oooookaaaay. . . .
I think he knew that 1.) he had met with the Russians and 2.) he was basically a part of the Trump campaign at that point. And probably 3.) they discussed stuff they shouldn’t be discussing which is why it was so important to just deny it all.
