Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally MORE (R-Ky.) on Sunday said he doesn't think it's unusual for an incoming president to want to get along with the Russians.

"My suspicion is these hopes will be dashed pretty quickly," McConnell said in an interview on CBS's "Face The Nation," regarding Trump's hopes to have a good relationship with Russia.

"The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election."

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McConnell said Trump is also filling his incoming administration with national security leaders who know Russians "are not our friends."

He added that he accepts the intelligence community's report regarding Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election. But he said the Russians were naive in thinking they'd be at an advantage if Trump was elected.

The president-elect tweeted on Saturday that having a good relationship with Russia is a "good thing."

"Only 'stupid' people, or fools, would think that it is bad!" the president-elect tweeted.

"We ... have enough problems around the world without yet another one."