Rohrabacher also said he stands by comments he made last month on RT about the Ukraine-Russia tensions. In the Feb. 22 interview, Rohrabacher said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “demonized by a lot of people here when he’s ever watching out for Russia’s self-interest.”

“We’re acting as if it was the old Cold War days, and it was a Communist overture to do something—to dominate the world,” Rohrabacher told RT. “Well, Putin has a right to watch out for the interests of the people there [Ukraine], just as the way we do in the United States, and just as the Ukrainian government should be doing watching out for the interests of the people of Ukraine.”