Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) on Tuesday said it's "not helpful" that President Trump shared information with top Russian officials, calling the move "weird."

"It's not helpful that this was with the Russians, right? I mean, this is just weird. We and the Russians do not have aligned interests," Sasse told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

"They want to exacerbate our internal distrust of each other; they want to fracture NATO."

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Sasse said Russian President Vladimir Putin is an "enemy of the freedom of speech, religion, press and assembly," which he called the "beating heart of what American means."

"Again, there's technical stuff that happened in this meeting that we don't really yet know about," he said.

"But one of the basic duties of someone who's in a public office and has a public trust responsibility should be to be celebrating what America is about and to be telling that story."

Now, Washington isn't doing that, Sasse said.

The Washington Post reported Monday that Trump revealed highly classified intelligence information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador while meeting with them last week.