as russia's ambassador of the united states for many years, sergey kislayak met with several people intrump campaign, those meetings and the fact that they were not initially disclosed, led to the firing of president trump's first national secure adviser michael flynn and his first national security adviser to recuse himself from the investigation. matthew, you had a chance to meet with him, tell our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world what ambassador kislayak had to say. >> reporter: absolutely, wolf, well, first of all, sergey kislayak was not expecting to meet us here in central russia. we have been staking him out in the city for the past 48 hours, when we finally managed to track him down and have a face-to-face interview with him, we asked him some of those key questions that have been hanging over the trump administration, the trump team, about the allegations of collusion with the kremlin. take a listen. did you discuss opening secret channels with the kremlin with jared kushner, for instance? >> i have said many times that we do not discuss our discussions with our a

stunning conversation with a man at the scene ter of some of the controversies between the -- sergey kislayaked allegations that he was a spy. >> hi, mr. ambassador, did you discuss sanctions with any members of the trump team when you were in the united states? >> with your respect, i'm here to talk to russian people. >> reporter: did you discuss opening secret channels with the kremlin with jared kushner, for instance? >> i have said many times that we do not discuss the substance of our discussions with our american interlocinterlockutors. >> reporter: that was a long convoluted story, it takes 15 hours to get here from moscow own on a train. the local administration they basically lied to us. they said he eat not here, he's in a village 3 1/2, four hours' drive from here, but we waited in this central location where he was meant to be giving a press conference and we had an opportunity to ---asked him about those allegations of collusion, and also asked him about that meeting in may with president trump alongside the russian foreign minute stister. when you met donald trump the president,