Corker: Trump Comments ‘Regrettable and Very Disappointing’

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker responded Monday night to President Donald Trump’s comments after a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in which Trump appeared more sympathetic to Putin’s denials of Russian meddling in the 2016 election than to his own intelligence community’s assessment of the issue.

“My people came to me, Dan Coats came to me and some others, they said they think it’s Russia,” Trump said during a joint press conference with Putin after their summit in Helsinki, Finland. “I have President Putin, he just said it’s not Russia. I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be.”