“We never heard about it [U.S. intelligence that Russia had placed bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan], because intelligence never found it to be of the -- of that level where it would rise to that. When you bring something into see -- into a president -- and I see many, many things. And I'm sure I don't see many things that they don't think rose to the occasion. This didn't rise to the occasion. And from what I hear -- and I hear it pretty good -- the intelligence people didn't even -- many of them didn't believe it happened at all. I think it's a hoax. I think it's a hoax by the newspapers and the Democrats.”