Trump walks back on Russia meddling comment

Blistered by bipartisan condemnation of his embrace of a longtime US adversary, President Donald Trump backed away from his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he simply misspoke when he said he saw no reason to believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election. "The sentence should have been - I don't see any reason why I wouldn't or why it wouldn't be Russia," Trump said Tuesday of the controversial comments he had made standing alongside Vladimir Putin on the summit stage in Helsinki. (Text: AP)