Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, rejected President Trump's statement today regarding his remarks at the summit.

“I don’t accept the President’s comments today," Warner said. "If he wanted to make those comments, he should have had the strength to make them in front of Vladimir Putin.”

Warner equated the behavior of the President today to his remarks in the aftermath of Charlottesville.

“My feeling is this has a strange resemblance to the President’s comments after he was so offensive to the disturbances in Charlottesville that he equated the Neo-nazis with the protesters," he said.

Warner continued: "He then walked back those comments a couple of days later for about twelve hours before he got on another Fox TV show or tweeted again. So, I give these comments about twenty four hours before he once again slams the investigation, before he once again sided with authoritarians like Vladimir Putin.”