Sen. Coons: ‘Puzzling’ for Spicer To Say He Doesn’t Know if Trump Acknowledges Russian Hacking

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COONS: "It’s just puzzling for Sean Spicer to say he doesn’t know, he hasn’t talked to him about it. It was striking in the recent testimony by former Director Comey that Attorney General Sessions had apparently never sat down with him to ask him in detail about the Russian intrusion into our 2016 election and what we should do about it. The more important thing is that it’s not clear that President Trump takes this seriously as the assault on America that it is. Here in the Senate, on a bipartisan basis, we passed strong sanctions against Russia by a vote of 98-2 last week. I think that shows that Republicans and Democrats have come together to confront this threat. Former Director Comey said in his testimony before the Senate recently that because Vladimir Putin’s Russia succeeded in interfering in our 2016 election, we can expect them to come back and try again and try harder. We need to be working in a bipartisan basis. This isn’t an election issue for 2016. This is an election issue for 2018 and 2020, Chris.”