The White House said Trump didn't know about his son's meeting with the Russian lawyer. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump learned of the meeting "in the last couple of days," adding that Trump Jr. "did not collude with anybody to influence the election." Kellyanne Conway denied evidence of collusion, saying "everybody is trying to convert wishful thinking into hard evidence and haven't been able to do that."

“There’s no evidence of collusion,” White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told “Good Morning America,” a position seconded by deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who told reporters later Monday in an off-camera briefing that “there was simply no collusion.”

“The president’s campaign did not collude in any way. Don Jr. did not collude with anybody to influence the election,” Sanders said. “No one within the Trump campaign colluded in order to influence the election.”

The White House sent Sanders and Conway out to defend Trump Jr. — in addition to representing President Donald Trump himself — at the daily press briefing and on the morning shows, respectively.