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Senators and congressmen who represent North Carolina were quick to disagree with statements made by President Donald Trump during a Monday news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In response to questioning, Trump said Putin had denied that Russia was involved in attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The four congressional lawmakers who represent the Fayetteville area issued statements critical of Russia following President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday.

Here is what they said:

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, Republican

President Trump on Wednesday stoked divisions in Europe by wading into the middle of an intense fight over the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, a project that critics fear will give Moscow new leverage in the region and could create a geopolitically dangerous Russian-German economic alliance.

At a high-stakes NATO summit in Brussels, the president blasted the $9.1 billion pipeline and argued that it is giving Russia undue influence over Berlin and, by extension, fracturing the solidarity of NATO.

President Trump tore into the NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday with a double-barrel assault on Germany, saying a pipeline deal would render the country “captive to Russia” even as Berlin looked to the U.S. for defense from Russian aggression.

The charge, leveled at a breakfast meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, surpassed expectations that Mr. Trump would shake up the old military alliance.

Five months after the October deaths of four U.S. soldiers in Niger, the government added the African nation and its neighbors to the list of countries where service members receive additional hazard pay.

To avoid future delays in payments for troops participating in an expanding theater of war, a North Carolina congressman who represents Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, where all four soldiers were stationed, wants the Department of Defense to reconsider how it determines who is eligible for imminent danger pay.