In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper late Tuesday night, Sekulow said that Trump had not been aware of a meeting his top campaign officials had with a Russian lawyer last year until “very recently,” as the story emerged from The New York Times over the weekend.

“The President, by the way, never saw an email — did not see the email — until it was seen today,” Sekulow said, referring to Donald Trump Jr.’s disclosure of the email thread on Twitter shortly before a Times story containing the same information was published.

“So I want to be clear on that,” he added.