United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday urged President Trump not to dismiss the intelligence community’s findings that Russia ran an influence campaign on the presidential election in his favor.
“Take it seriously,” Haley said on NBC Thursday. “We cannot trust Russia. We should never trust Russia.”
Haley said the investigations into Russian meddling in the election need to be completed before any further action is taken against the Kremlin. But, she said that no amount of meddling in American elections can be tolerated.
“When we see the facts, we absolutely should have some sort of action we take in response to it,” she said. “But, we need to know all the facts first.”
WATCH: “We cannot trust Russia. We should never trust Russia.” @nikkihaley on Russian hacks/election meddling https://t.co/9RtXq2HhcI— TODAY (@TODAYshow) March 16, 2017
At the same time, Haley said she’s OK with Trump keeping an open mind toward working with Russia. Trump believes Russia can be a good partner in the fight with ISIS and she’s not concerned about his possible relationships with Russian diplomats.
“He’s very open-minded about working with everyone,” she said. “He doesn’t want to cut anyone off. What he has allowed me to do is when I see something wrong, I call them out on it; I will always do that. But, at the same time, if I see an opportunity to work on something with them, like we do with ISIS and Daesh (another name for ISIS), we will absolutely do that.”
