I don't know what happened in that meeting. I think as time goes by and the president has already mentioned some things that happened in that meeting, I think we will learn more. But that is the president's prerogative. If he had asked me how that ought to be conducted, I would have suggested a different way.
Dan Coats expressed uncertainty about the details of the meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin, indicating he would have preferred a different approach.
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The purpose of the authority is to give the United States intelligence community the upper hand in trying to avert these types of attacks before they transpire.
They endanger the men and women of the intelligence community, the armed services and those who serve overseas. They give our adversaries knowledge of our activities.
I have never been pressured, I've never felt pressure to intervene or interfere in any way with shaping intelligence.
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