This is such non news. The person who made the statement issued a clarifying denial explaining that he never spoke to the President. It's even in the article.
https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/interview-from-3-years-ago-a...
> Assange, said Rohrabacher, “emphatically stated that the Russians were not involved in the hacking or disclosure of those emails.” Rohrabacher, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, is the only U.S. congressman to have visited the controversial figure.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170817205448/https://rohrabach...