Politico reports:

Carter Page, the former foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump’s campaign now at the center of the ongoing Russia investigation, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday that he has never in his life communicated with the president.

“I never spoke with him since. I never spoke with him any time in my life,” Page said when asked by ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos if he had spoken to the president since a secret surveillance warrant against Page was approved in October, 2016. Stephanopoulos followed up with Page, asking, “no e-mail, no text, nothing like that?” to which Page replied, “never.”

Page mostly continued his habit of dodging questions about his connections to Russia. As he has before, Page denied one of the key points of Steele’s dossier, which is that Page had a secret meeting with a Russian oil executive, a close ally to Russian President Vladimir Putin, about possibly lifting sanctions against the country. Trump officials have consistently tried to downplay Page’s role in the campaign.