“Russia is one of the great nuclear superpowers. It has not just an immense amount of political importance, you cannot jeopardize that critical relationship over some unproven allegations. However these allegations come out, at the end of the day, do you think that the President of the United States should be jeopardizing the U.S. relationship with one of the critical superpowers in the world over some unproven allegations apparently by a few Russian agents? Look, these kinds of things that the president has said have been going on for a long time, of the United States meddling in other countries’ affairs, and other countries trying to meddle in ours. We don’t know whether or not these allegations are correct but the fact remains is, it would not have been the right thing to go over to Helsinki, meet with one of the critical, the leaders of one of the most critical countries in the world, and then blow the whole thing up over these allegations over this Russia meddling in our elections. That would not have been good for the United States.”