DNI Dan Coats on Russian interference statement: ‘I was just doing my job’

Published July 19, 2018 8:26pm ET



Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Thursday he was just “doing his job” when he rebuked President Trump’s remarks dismissing intelligence reports about Russia.

“I was just doing my job,” Coats told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell during an interview at the Aspen Security Forum in Aspen, Colo. “As I expressed to the president on my third visit to the Oval Office as his adviser, I said: ‘Mr. President, there will be times I have to bring news to you that you don’t want to hear. But know that it will to the best extent be unvarnished, non-politicized, and the best our incredible intelligence community can produce.'”

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