milk the joke in an e-mail to which sam responds when i said sam, pardon me, sent me an e-mail showing donald trump trailing by hillary by 15. trying to stick it in my face. because after sam was fired he was anti-trump. i remained a strong supporter of the president and will continue to do so. so this is the continuation of the same joke. the important thing here is to understand that my passport, airlines records, customs records, surveillance cameras at the ecuadorian embassy where assange has to be one of the most watched people in the world would demonstrate this meeting didn t really happen. and then i offered the wall street journal who misquoted the e-mail an opportunity to see my passport. they declined. i also produced airplane tickets and credit card receipts that show i was in california in the period. shannon: okay, so the answer is no. the meeting did not happen.