Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump blasted recent reports by The Washington Post and The New York Times that raised questions about his private meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and revealed an FBI investigation into his behavior after he fired FBI Director James Comey. During a phone interview on "Justice with Judge Jeanine," Trump told Fox News host Jeanine Pirro on Saturday evening that the stories were "all nonsense." Putin meetingsThe Washington Post reported Saturday that Trump had gone to "extraordinary lengths" to conceal the specifics of his conversations with Putin. According to the Post, on at least one occasion Trump confiscated notes from the interpreter present at meetings between the two leaders and instructed them not to discuss the details of the conversations with other administration officials.

Source: CNN January 13, 2019 08:11 UTC