California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, blasted President Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin.<\/b>
\nCalifornia Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, blasted President Donald Trump\u2019s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
\u201cHow can we really believe that the president pressed Putin hard when only the day before he was denying whether we really knew that Russia was responsible, \u201d Schiff asked rhetorically during a Sunday appearance on CNN\u2019s State of the Union .
\u201cWhat kind of a tough negotiator, and this is the way the president like to portray himself, goes into a negotiation, betraying his own position a day before, calling into question the probity of his own intelligence agencies?\u201d Schiff asked host Dana Bash. \u201cThat just doesn\u2019 t make any sense.\u201d
Schiff played off of Trump\u2019s best selling book, \u201cThe Art Of The Deal, \u201d in a Sunday morning tweet.
No art to this deal: What kind of \u201ctough negotiator\u201d goes into talks undermining his country\u2019s own position, as you did attacking US intel? https: \/\/t.co\/sHTa9mmy2J
\u2014 Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) July 9,2017
Schiff also criticized Trump for suggesting that Russia could be a partner in combating cyber security. The president said that he discussed with Putin the possibility of cooperation with Russia on an \u201cimpenetrable Cyber Security\u201d unit.
Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..
\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9,2017
Schiff called the idea \u201cdangerously naive.\u201d
\u201cIf that\u2019s our best election defense, we might as well just mail our ballot boxes to Moscow, \u201d he said.
Democrats weren\u2019 t the only ones criticizing the idea of cooperating with Russia on cyber security. Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham both blasted the idea Sunday. (RELATED: Graham Blasts Trump For Suggesting Cooperation With Russia)
Schiff has been a vocal critic of the president, emerging as one of the strongest opposition voices in Congress.
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