Politicos and pundits debate whether Dan Coats should resign over Trump's Helsinki remarks

Lawmakers, national security experts, and political pundits were divided over whether Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats should resign after President Trump broke his own U.S. intelligence community when he characterized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denials that Kremlin-linked operatives interfered in the 2016 election as “extremely strong and powerful.”

Former DNI James Clapper, Coats’ immediate predecessor, said during an interview with CNN on Tuesday he would have stepped down in “a heartbeat, particularly after being publicly thrown under the bus, internationally thrown under the bus by the president.”