Mike Pence dismissed claims that the Trump team had communicated with the Kremlin at all during the presidential campaign on Sunday.

The Vice President-elect said that the claims Russia had talked to the Trump team during the hacking and leaking of prominent Democrat emails was a 'distraction' technique.

'Of course not,' he told Fox News Sunday when asked bluntly about the claim. 'Why would there be any contacts between the campaign?'

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Denial: VP-elect Mike Pence (left) told Fox News Sunday that the Trump team had 'no contact' with the Kremlin. Claims swirled that Putin-led Russia helped them win the November election

Pence had initially dismissed the question as being a mistake in the infamous Russian dossier that also accused Trump of unusual sexual practices.

The dossier claimed that Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, and Kremlin operatives had met in Prague in 2016.

But it later emerged that Cohen was elsewhere, and it was a different Michael Cohen at the meeting.

However, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace pressed him, referencing other claims put to FBI director James Comey in a Senate Intelligence hearing Wednesday that the Bureau was investigating links between Trump and Russia.

Comey had declined to say whether or not Trump was under investigation by the FBI.

But Pence waved off the claims, saying they were 'a distraction'.

The VP-elect said that 'it's all part of a narrative to delegitimize the election and to question the legitimacy of this presidency, the American people see right through it.'

Pence was also asked why Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak had met with retired Lt Gen Mike Flynn, Trump's chosen security adviser, the day that President Obama imposed sanctions on Russia.

Did Flynn talk about lifting the sanctions, Pence was asked.

'I talked to General Flynn yesterday, and the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to the new US sanctions against Russia or the expulsion of diplomats,' Pence said.

No talk: Lt Gen Mike Flynn (left), Trump's security adviser, met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak (right) but did not discuss the sanctions Obama laid down that day, Pence said