In a shocking press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump said he didn’t “see any reason why” Russia would have meddled in the 2016 election. Instead of criticizing the Kremlin over its illegal annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, the president blamed both the U.S. and Russia for the strained state of relations, and called Robert Mueller’s investigation a “disaster for our country.”

Arizona senator John McCain described the 45-minute press conference as “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.”