President Donald Trump shied away from sizing up Russian president Vladimir Putin’s leadership during an interview aired Saturday, in an apparent divergence from past praise for the Russian leader.

“Don’t know him, but certainly he is a tough cookie,” Trump said on Watters’ World. “I don’t know how he’s doing for Russia. We’re going to find out one day I guess.”

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