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McCaul though criticized what he described as a lack of \"repercussions\" from Biden against Putin on cyberattacks, saying, \"I think we need to demonstrate -- and the president needs to demonstrate to Putin -- there will be consequences to your actions if you continue to do this.\"

\"I think sanctions are great, but I think it's time to start thinking about hitting back,\" he said. \"They need to know that when they do this, there are consequences to their actions and we're going to hit them back. Until we do that, they're going to continue with bad behavior.\"

.@martharaddatz: \"Who wins in a cyber war with Russia?\"

Rep. McCaul: \"I think we need to demonstrate and the president needs to demonstrate with Putin, there will be consequences to your actions if you continue to do this.\" https://t.co/nsKMEa03d6 pic.twitter.com/HdBQWxGhUn

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 13, 2021

Some Republicans have argued that Biden should not meet with Putin during his presidential debut on the world stage because of the controversies surrounding Russia.

When pressed by Raddatz on whether he agrees with Republican critics of the meeting, McCaul called the one-on-one with Putin the \"most powerful and most dangerous meeting\" of Biden's overseas trip.

\"I think the price for admission to the ticket for this seat was way too high,\" McCaul said of the meeting, citing as an example the moving forward on construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which some critics have warned will increase Russia's leverage over Europe and which McCaul called a \"bad move.\"

Biden said Sunday that the U.S. is not seeking conflict with Russia.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in an earlier interview on \"This Week,\" said that Biden is meeting with Putin to talk \"directly\" and \"clearly\" about Russia's recent aggressive actions.

Secretary Blinken tells @martharaddatz: \"No responsible country should be in the business of harboring, in any way, criminal organizations engaged in cyberattacks\"

\"The President is going to make that very clear to President Putin.\" https://t.co/PKkrzoXn4Z pic.twitter.com/AwqUYNxA9a

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 13, 2021

McCaul reacts to Trump DOJ controversy

McCaul also spoke to Raddatz about a controversy in the U.S. that spilled into public view last week with reports that prosecutors with Trump's Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for data from at least two Democrats who served on the House Intelligence Committee, as well as aides and their family members, one of whom was a minor.

McCaul, who previously served as a federal prosecutor for the Department of Justice, said he agreed with the Attorney General's office's decision to turn the matter over to the Department of Justice Inspector General for investigation.

\"Any time you open a case against or a subpoena against a member of Congress or a journalist, there's a very high predication to that,\" he said. \"In the journalists' case, you're looking at First Amendment protections. With a member of Congress, obviously, you better have your facts together before you do something like this.\"

\"I don't have all the facts here, but what I will tell you is, the inspector general is ... now investigating this, and I think that's where it properly belongs,\" McCaul added. \"That's where the investigation should take place and let's see how that investigation turns out.\"

When asked by Raddatz whether he would encourage Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions, former attorney generals who served under Trump, to testify under oath, McCaul said the public needs to know \"why this decision was made.\"

\"I think we should have the benefit of the doubt of the decision-making that took place,\" he said. \"Whether it has to be under oath or, you know, in what context that is, I think we need to know why this decision was made and I think the IG, that's within the proper purview of the IG.\"

ABC News' Jordyn Phelps contributed to this report.

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