Asked why he issued that statement in response to Trump's siding with Putin in Helsinki, DNI Dan Coats says: "I was just doing my job...I believed I needed to correct the record...I wish he had made a different statement but I think that, now, has been clarified." #AspenSecurity
More Coats: "The very pillar of democracy is the ability to have confidence that your leaders were elected legitimately." #AspenSecurity
Coats on Trump/Putin private meeting: "I don't know what happened in that meeting...I would've suggested [it be done] a different way, but that's not my call." Coats adds that "that risk is always there," when asked whether the Russians may have recorded the meeting.
