Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio said Sunday that he supports President Donald Trump interacting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but said Trump should be aware of Putin’s human rights record and zero-sum approach to the US-Russia relationship.
Trump clarified his remarks after returning to the United States, saying that after reviewing a transcript and video of his statements, he realized he had misspoken in a key sentence about Russian interference in the 2016 US election.
«The sentence should have been: ‘I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia,’ » he said. «Sort of a double negative.»
Referring to Trump’s claim later that he meant to say «wouldn’t» instead of «would» at the summit, Rubio said, «I’m glad he came back the next day and sort of walked that back.»
