Welcome to The Investigation. I'm Chris Vlasto, senior executive producer here at ABC News, and I'm joined by my co-host, Kira Phillips, who's an investigative reporter here at ABC News.

Today we have a special guest. We have Ali Dukakis, who's one of our reporters on the task force team,

who has really focused a lot of her attention on the Roger Stone aspect of this investigation.

And one of the people that she came across is a guy named Michael Caputo. And he is a longtime friend

of Donald Trump. I think he's known him for almost 25, 30 years. I think he's also the best friend

of Roger Stone. He's been in the crosshairs of this investigation for a while, and he's been on TV

shows and he's talked, but the one person he hasn't spoken to in a long time since inaugural day

is Donald Trump. And that all changed after the Mueller report came out. And he got a call.

And he said, the president said, come on down. And so now we're going to hear from him for the

first time talk about that meeting in the Oval Office. Melania Trump was there. Michael, welcome to the show.

I'm glad to be here. Thanks for inviting me.

So glad to have you with us. Days after the Mueller reports release, President Trump called to

express his gratitude for your support. And it was the first time you guys actually spoke since

inauguration day due to the investigation. And then he invited you and your family to actually visit him in Melania at the White

House to catch up.

Curious to know, first of all, what was it like to get that invitation?

And then even more so, we really want to know what you talked about.

I can tell you uh just getting the telephone

call on monday after lunch was uh was i i i guess it was just transformative really because

our family has been through a lot a lot of families have i think there's between 40 and 50

families and individuals who worked who worked you, you know, original Trumpers,

as we call ourselves, who were caught up in this as witnesses and therefore became, you know,

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