President Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski looked to temper speculation surrounding revelations about a meeting held at Trump Tower during the campaign with Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer, saying on Sunday that “great” Russian spies would not have set up the meeting.

“If the Russians were going to hack the U.S. election system, the spies, the great spies of Russia, Vladimir Putin, the former head of the KGB, is he going to reach out to some television or movie producer talent, put it in a public email system, and then bring as many people as humanly possible to a meeting in Trump Tower?” Lewandowski asked Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“This is how the Russian government works? I don’t think so,” he added.

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Lewandowski’s comments come as the White House deals with fallout from the meeting between Trump Jr. and Natalia Veselnitskaya, which was pitched to him as a meeting where he would receive damaging information about then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Momentum growing among Republicans for Supreme Court vote before Election Day Warning signs flash for Lindsey Graham in South Carolina MORE.

Reports surfaced Friday saying there were at least eight people present in the meeting, including Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Putin was not the head of the KGB, but rather the director of the Federal Security Service, which is the successor to the KGB.