Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein reported there is no evidence that President Trump discussed supposed Russian bounties to kill U.S. troops in classified phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

CNN’s sources, the Watergate sleuth wrote in a sprawling report published on Monday, said Trump and Putin discussed the U.S. president’s desire to end the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, but the two leaders never broached the topic of bounties that have now been widely reported in the media.

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