[Breitbart] Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday that he wished President Donald Trump had made a different statement at his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki summit on Monday.Coats traveled to Aspen, Colorado, where the nation’s elite gather annually to exchange ideas under the auspices of the non-partisan Aspen Institute. He was interviewed onstage by Andrea Mitchell of the left-wing cable news network MSNBC.
"I wish he had made a different statement, but I think that now that has been clarified," Coats said, referring to the president taking Putin’s denials of interfering in the 2016 presidential election seriously despite the assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies. He noted that Russian interference had not changed the outcome of the election.
Coats had other criticisms for the commander-in-chief.