FNA - National Security Adviser John Bolton said Sunday that US officials are concerned about meddling in this fall�s midterm elections by China, Iran and North Korea, in addition to Russia, while declining to provide any evidence.

�I can say definitively that it's a sufficient national security concern about Chinese meddling, Iranian meddling, and North Korean meddling that we're taking steps to try to prevent it, so it's all four of those countries, really,��Bolton said on ABC�s �This Week"�on Sunday.


�I�m not going to get into what I�ve seen or haven�t seen, but I�m telling you, looking at the 2018 election, those are the countries we�re most concerned about,� he added.


His comments follow a tweet on Saturday by US President Donald Trump, who said the "fools" who are focused on Russia should�"start also looking" at China.


"All of the fools that are so focused on looking only at Russia should start also looking in another direction, China,� Trump stated, adding that �but in the end, if we are smart, tough and well prepared, we will get along with everyone!�


Bolton also said on Sunday that he�s sure that he will discuss the Kremlin�s election interference during a meeting later this week with his Russian counterpart.


�I had a discussion about it myself with President Putin when I went to Moscow originally to prepare the groundwork for his meeting with President Trump. President Trump raised it with President Putin,� he added.


�We'll see what their response is. But it's not simply a question of speaking with the Russians. At the president's direction � we had a press conference in the White House briefing room a couple weeks ago now with myself and four of the heads of the operating agencies and departments that deal with this, the layout � at least as much as we could in a nonclassified environment � what we were doing,� he stated.


�And there are a lot of things we're doing that we can't talk about specifically. And that includes both defensive and offensive cyber operations to protect the integrity of the election process,� Bolton noted.