are any connections between the Trump campaign and Russia or its president. “No, there are not. And you know, there's no basis to it."
Asked whether Page had contact with any Kremlin officials, Conway said, “If he's doing that, he's certainly not doing it with the permission or knowledge of the campaign, the activities that you described.” She goes on to add: “He is certainly not authorized to do that.”
Hicks, responding to public statements by multiple Russian government officials that they had indeed had regular contact with the Trump campaign throughout the election, gave the Associated Press a blanket denial. “It never happened. There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign."
Trump told reporters, “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does.”
Priebus went on later in the interview to add: "Let me give you an example. First of all, The New York Times put out an article with no direct sources that said that the Trump campaign had constant contacts with Russian spies, basically, you know, some treasonous type of accusations. We have now all kinds of people looking into this. I can assure you and I have been approved to say this -- that the top levels of the intelligence community have assured me that that story is not only inaccurate, but it’s grossly overstated and it was wrong. And there’s nothing to it."
Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders repeated the denial during a press briefing that the Trump campaign had no contacts with Russian officials during the campaign. “This is a non-story because to the best of our knowledge, no contacts took place, so it's hard to make a comment on something that never happened."