President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that he doesn't always have to agree with his intelligence officials' assessments of international threats.
"I am going to trust the intelligence that I'm putting there, but I will say this: My intelligence people, if they said, in fact, that Iran is a wonderful kindergarten, I disagree with them 100 percent," Trump said in the interview with CBS News' "Face the Nation."
He added, "I have intel people, but that doesn't mean I have to agree."
Trump's comments come days after he blasted his top intelligence officials for their statements at a Senate hearing on the U.S. intelligence community's annual report about national security threats facing the United States. In their testimony, the intelligence chiefs contradicted Trump's positions on Iran, as well as on Syria and North Korea, saying in the case of Tehran that the Iranian government has been compliant with a nuclear agreement signed during the Obama administration that Trump has since pulled out of.
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