Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser to President Trump, attends a meeting with Trump and congressional leadership in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on June 6, 2017. (Photo: CFP)

Jared Kushner, White House senior adviser and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, told congressional Russia investigator that “he did not communicate with WikiLeaks and did not recall anyone on the Trump campaign who had, CNN reported on Saturday, citing sources close to the matter.

But Kushner received and forwarded an email from Donald Trump Jr. about his communications with WikiLeaks, CNN reported Friday. 

Kushner was asked in July during his closed-door congressional testimony if he had any contacts with WikiLeaks or its founder Julian Assange and he responded that he had not, CNN quoted sources close to the matter as saying. Kushner told Congress he did not know anyone on the campaign who had contacted WikiLeaks.