Trump claims he doesn’t recall adviser pitching Putin meeting

President Trump — who a week ago bragged he had "one of the greatest memories of all time" — said Friday he has no recollection of a campaign meeting with an adviser who bragged of connections with the Kremlin.

Trump called the 2016 sit down with his foreign policy advisers a "very unimportant meeting" and said he doesn't "remember much about it."

Trump's claim comes as a former campaign adviser says the president listened as adviser George Papadopoulos presented the idea of a meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

"He heard him out," J.D. Gordon, a campaign national security adviser who attended the March 31, 2016 meeting, told CNN Thursday.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions reportedly shut down the idea.

Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Moscow to disrupt the presidential election, according to court documents.

"All I can tell you is this, there was no collusion, there was no nothing," Trump said Friday as he left for a 12 day trip to Asia. "It's a disgrace frankly that they continue."

Addressing the meeting, of which Trump tweeted a photo at the time, the president said his memory was a little fuzzy.

"I don't remember much about that meeting," he said. "It was a very unimportant meeting. Took place a long time -- don't remember much about it."

Last week, Trump touted his mental prowess during a press conference on the White House lawn and tried to discredit the widow of a slain Army sergeant.

Trump, pointing to his temple, said his account of a phone call between the two was correct because he has "one of the great memories of all time."

Trump also said he and "a lot of people" are disappointed in the Justice Department and the FBI for not investigating Democrats with what he sees as the same vigor that they are looking into Russian meddling and his associates.

"I'm really not involved with the Justice Department, I'd like to let it run itself," Trump said Friday. "But honestly, they should be looking at the Democrats."

Another Trump adviser, Carter Page, testified to Congress on Thursday that he told Sessions during the campaign that he was traveling to Russia.

Sessions testified earlier this year that he knew of no one in the campaign who had "conversation with any Russians or any foreign officials."

The former Alabama senator was already under fire for not disclosing meetings he had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and then saying the encounters were not campaign-related.

Kislyak told superiors in Moscow the two not only discussed the campaign, but policy issues important to Russia, according to reports.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday he was still learning all the details of the Trump campaign meeting with Papadopoulos.

Asked if Sessions should amend his testimony before his committee, Grassley told CNN, "I'm looking into it."