This comes after President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had their first official sit-down meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday. During the two-hour meeting, the two discussed a ceasefire in parts of southwest Syria, whether Russia intervened in the 2016 U.S. election, and a plan—which Trump is already backing away from—to form a joint cybersecurity team to work against election hacking. On Sunday, Trump tweeted, “I strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. I’ve already given my opinion.....” Following the meeting, Russian President Putin said Trump had accepted his denial of election interference.

President Vladimir Putin: “Our position is well known. I’ve spoken about it. There are no grounds to believe that Russia interfered in the election process in the United States. He asked a lot of questions about this issue. I answered these questions as well as I could. It seems to me he accepted it and agreed. But you are better off asking him what he thought about it.”

Trump is now backpedaling on the plan to form a joint cybersecurity unit with Russia, after facing widespread backlash over the weekend, including from South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

Sen. Lindsey Graham: “And he had what I think is a disastrous meeting with President Putin. Two hours and 15 minutes of meetings, Tillerson and Trump are ready to forgive and forget when it comes to cyberattacks on the American election of 2016.”