Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says a secret briefing to congressional leaders Thursday did not change his confidence in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, NPR reported.
"The two investigations going on that I think will give us the answers to the questions that you raise — the [Inspector General] investigation in the Justice Department and the Mueller investigation," McConnell told NPR.
"I support both of them, and I don't really have anything to add to this subject based upon the Gang of 8 briefing that we had [Thursday], which was classified."
A group of eight top congressional leaders got the briefing from law enforcement and intelligence officials — and came after claims by President Donald Trump that the FBI placed an informant inside his campaign.
Pressed on whether anything in the meeting changed his mind about the Mueller probe, McConnell repeated: "I don't have anything new to say on that subject."
The GOP Senate leader also supported Trump's abrupt cancellation of a summit with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday.
"I think the president did exactly the right thing, because they were playing with us," McConnell said, adding there has been a "pattern of that over the last couple of decades" by the North.
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