(AP) — “I think he did make a comment, but he did it with a smile,” Johnson said at his weekly press conference. “I took that as a joke,” he said. “He was trying to be humorous about it.”

The Republican leader was recalling his understanding of what transpired at the closed-door meeting this week with the so-called gang of eight top congressional leaders and Trump administration officials.

“Do we know if there’s going to be some kind of financial arrangement in these negotiations? None of us know,” Johnson said.

“Marco Rubio did not go into the ‘gang of eight’ and say the president’s going to buy Greenland,” he said.