WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said he respects Vladimir Putin , and when an interviewer called the Russian leader ``a killer,'' Trump said the United States has many of them. Our country's so innocent," he told Fox's Bill O'Reilly in an excerpt released by the network. Putin has called Trump a "very bright and talented man. "During Putin's years in power, a number of prominent Russian opposition figures and journalists have been killed.In the interview, Trump says, "I do respect him," and then is asked why. "The Trump administration on Thursday revised recent US sanctions that had unintentionally prevented American companies from exporting certain consumer electronic products to Russia.

Source: Economic Times February 05, 2017 14:07 UTC