(CNN) Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said he is working on a resolution to "reaffirm support for the intelligence community," following President Donald Trump's comments Monday siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin over US intelligence agencies about election interference.

Notably Flake's measure is not legislation; it is a Senate resolution that would not become law. Flake said his goal is to bring the proposal to the Senate floor and have it pass with unanimous consent by this week or next.

Flake said Tuesday the President threw "basically the whole country under the bus" with his comments and called it disgraceful and "shameful."

Beyond reaffirming support for US intelligence agencies, Flake said the resolution would call for "some kind of hearing or briefing by those involved" in the private Trump-Putin meeting in Helsinki, "to try to find out what happened in that private meeting."

During a joint press conference in Helsinki with Putin, Trump said while he has "great confidence" in the US intelligence community, Putin was "very powerful" in his denial of Russian interference in the 2016 election, comments that he attempted to walk back Tuesday.

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