National security adviser John Bolton said Sunday the Trump administration is not looking for "concrete deliverables" from Russia after the president's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Bolton added that he thought that it's "pretty silly" for Trump to demand Russia extradite the 12 intelligence officials charged with conspiring to hack into U.S. systems during the 2016 elections. In a CBS interview broadcast Sunday, Trump said he was considering asking that.
"You know, it’s pretty silly for the president to demand something that he can’t get legally. And this is a very serious matter," Bolton said on ABC's "This Week."
"You know, the Russians take the position, you can like it or not like it, that their constitution forbids them to extradite Russian citizens," he said. "They have an agreement with the Europeans that looks a lot like an extradition treaty. Europeans, frequently, tried to use that to get the Russians to extradite their nationals and they flat out refused to do it."
"We have asked, and the Russians have agreed, that it will be basically unstructured. We are not looking for concrete deliverables," Bolton added.
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