insisting he was joking in front of an audience. >> if you tell a joke, if you're having fun with the audience, if you say something like russia, please, if you can, get us hillary clinton's e-mails, please, russia, please. please get us the e-mails. please. >> but that's not true. mr. trump made the remark at a news conference there response to a question from cnn. he didn't sound like he was joking. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> but there may be flu calls for other investigations into trump's actions in officer.