president vladimir putin before mr. trump took office. for more about it, here is cnn s brian todd. reporter: in his own words before becoming president, donald trump either had a longstanding relationship with vladimir putin or had never met him. he could not have been nicer. i never met putin. i don t know who putin is. reporter: now a bizarre new twist in the odd year s old alleged bro mance between the two men. in one dated february 8th, 2017, comey writes about what he perceived the president s obsession that the russians taped him with prostitutes in a moscow hotel room. the president said that it s nonsense and putin told him we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world. he did not say when putin told him this, inny notes. the alleged comment is now tr k
attracting attention because the two had only spoken to each other once just 11 days earlier on january 28th of last year. that was a phone call between the two leaders on trump s end, vice president pence, steve bannon, reince priebus and sean p spicer and michael flynn were in the room but neither the kremlin mentioned prostitutes being discussed. for years before he ran for president, trump repeatedly claimed to have met putin. i met him once. have you met vladimir putin? yes. you have? one time, yes, a long time ago. do you feel reporter: later when he was running for president, trump s story changed. i never met putin. i have nothing to do with putin. i ve never spoken to him. reporter: they say with trump embellishment and reality sometime collide and resulting in confusion and say trump s previous claims to have met with putin may have referred to a meeting trump wanted to have with the russian president in
although they are the best in the world. reporter: could trump have simply embellish to say that putin told him about russian prostitutes? could trump have misremembered something? or did he really have this conversation with putin? donald trump is somebody who likes to talk about his interaction with other famous people and it puts him on the same level of them in a number of instances before he became president of the united states. it s not entirely clear whether this interaction ever happened. reporter: we sought clarification in washington and moscow over putin told trump that prostitutes were the most beautiful in the world. the white house didn t get back to us. putin spokesman said the russian president, quote, could not say such things and did not say it to president trump. brian todd, cnn, washington. billions of people are celebrating our planet sunday and shining a light on a major pollution problem across the globe. we will tell you how you can help fight the crisi
2013 when trump hosted the miss universe pageant in moscow. biographers say the meeting never happened but trump sent putin a lacquered box. then this. i got to know him very well. he were 60 minutes we were stable mates. but at a different time. he says these conversations are quite meaningful. if he s on a tv show and a few minutes later someone else is on the same tv show, he might consider himself stable mates with that person. reporter: but none of that trump watchers say explain the comment about discussing prostitutes with putin. putin did mention in the russian prostitution when the russian president dismissed the claim that trump watched prostitutes urinate on each other in a hotel. it is hard to believe he ran to a hotel to meet with our girls after low social class,