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| Vladimir Putin & Donald Trump |
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Republican leader in the U.S. Senate said on Sunday U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's hope to improve relations with Russia would be "dashed" quickly.
"My suspicion is these hopes will be dashed pretty quickly," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in an interview with CBS.
"The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election," he added.
On Saturday, Trump tweeted that "Only 'stupid' people, or fools" do not want a good relationship with Russia.
"When I am President, Russia will respect us far more than they do now and both countries will, perhaps, work together to solve some of the many great and pressing problems and issues of the WORLD!" he tweeted.
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