Sen. Christopher Coons Christopher (Chris) Andrew CoonsTrump's push for win with Sudan amps up pressure on Congress Murkowski: Supreme Court nominee should not be taken up before election Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight MORE (D-Del.) raised questions early Wednesday after White House press secretary Sean Spicer said he has not talked with President Trump about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

"It's just puzzling for Sean Spicer to say he doesn't know, he hasn't talked to him about it," Coons said on CNN's "New Day."

Coons called it "striking" that former FBI Director James Comey testified that Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsRoy Moore sues Alabama over COVID-19 restrictions GOP set to release controversial Biden report Trump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs MORE had "never sat down with him to ask him in detail about the Russian intrusion into our 2016 election and what we should do about it."

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"The more important thing is that it's not clear that President Trump takes this seriously as the assault on America that it is," Coons said.

"Here in the Senate, on a bipartisan basis, we passed strong sanctions against Russia by a vote of 98 to 2 last week and I think that shows that Republicans and Democrats have come together to confront this threat."

Coons said it's important for Congress to be working on a bipartisan basis on this issue.

"This isn't an election issue for 2016," he said. "This is an election issue for 2018 and 2020."

Spicer on Tuesday said he had not spoken with Trump about whether the president believes Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential race.

"I have no sat down and talked to him about the specific thing," Spicer said during Tuesday's press briefing.

"Obviously we've been dealing with a lot of other issues today."