Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle condemned Trump’s failure to hold Russia accountable on Monday during a joint press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a Monday press conference in Helsinki. Despite U.S. intelligence agencies concluding Russia meddled with the 2016 elections, Trump said "I don't see any reason why it would be" Russia.

“I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today," he said, also mentioning Coats, his director of National Intelligence, as the person who told him the intelligence community's conclusion.

Coats - a former Indiana GOP Senator - quickly issued a statement contradicting the president shortly after the Trump/Putin event. He reaffirmed the conclusion that the U.S. holds Russia responsible for attempting to hack the election and called Russia out for "their ongoing, pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy."

Coat’s proactive measure and grumblings reported among members of the intelligence community raised questions over a potential mass exodus of national security officials from the Trump administration.

“Each of them has to deal with in in their own way, I talked to someone yesterday overseas who’s involved with national security issues on our side and you can tell, people are trying to think through, how do they deal with this,” Corker said.

And the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee intends to “have private conversations” with top security officials in the Trump administration - who he says are in a “challenging position.”