Several Republican lawmakers sought Sunday to distance themselves from President Trump’s comments he made about Russian President Vladimir Putin, made during an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. Trump said in the interview that he respected Putin, "but that doesn't mean I'm going to get along with him. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., immediately looked to distance himself from Trump’s comments in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”“Putin's a former KGB agent. John Kasich, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio also chimed in with their criticisms about Trump’s statements on Putin and Russia. @POTUS statement suggesting moral equivalence between Putin's Russia and the United States of America is deeply troubling and wrong.

Source: Fox News February 06, 2017 09:11 UTC