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Kislyak Won’t Name Trump Officials He’s Spoken To

November 16, 2017 at 10:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak said that it would take him more than 20 minutes to name all of the Trump officials he’s met with or spoken to on the phone, CNBC reports.

Said Kislyak: “First, I’m never going to do that. And second, the list is so long that I’m not going to be able to go through it in 20 minutes.”

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