Thus far, contributing to those "specious" claims, the following are people who stated they never met any Russians and failed to report any such meeting as required,

All members of the campaign.

All of these, and the list grows daily, have now admitted to meetings with Russia...ALL BECAUSE THE MEDIA HAD THE INFO AND WERE GOING PUBLIC......

Michael Flynn
Jeff Sessions
Jared Kushner
Paul Manafort
Donald Trump, Jr
Carter Page
J D Gordon

Very "specious"