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MEDDLING IN ANOTHER ELECTION PROCESS, WE KNOW ABOUT RUSSIA IS
TRYING TO MEDDLE WITH DEMOCRACIES.
>> EVEN HOUSE SPEAKER PAUL RYAN CAN ADMIT THAT WHAT HAS BEEN SO
HARD, THAT RUSSIA INTERFERED IN THE 2016 ELECTION, ACCORDING TO
THE RUSSIAN VERSION HE WITH WHAT HAPPENED TODAY, THE PRESIDENT
ACCEPTED PUTIN'S DENIAL OF ANY INVOLVEMENT IN THE ELECTION.
GIVING EQUAL CREDENCE TO THE U.S. INTEL XHUBLT'S FINDINGS IS
A GRAVE DERELICTION. THE TWO --
>> FIRST YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS IDEA OF A WORKING GROUP BETWEEN
THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA TO EXPLORE ELECTION INTERFERENCE OR
CYBER SECURITY. >> WELL, YOU KNOW, I HOPE THAT
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WON'T FALL FOR THAT KIND OF PUTTING
TOGETHER OF SOME KIND OF COMMISSION TO DEAL WITH HACKING
AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE DESCRIBING.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, I THINK AMERICANS SHOULD BE VERY, VERY
CONCERNED THAT THIS PRESIDENT SAT DOWN WITH PUTIN WHO WE KNOW
HACKED INTO OUR ELECTION SYSTEM TO THE DNC, AND TO MANY OF THE
STATES THAT ARE NOW COMING FORWARD WITH THIS INFORMATION.
AND TO SIT DOWN WITH HIM AND NOT HAVE A REAL DISCUSSION.
TO DELVE INTO REAL CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING AND GET A
COMMITMENT FROM PUTIN THAT THEY WOULD NEVER DO IT AGAIN
AMERICANS WANT TO HEAR THAT CONVERSATION.
OBVIOUSLY, THIS PRESIDENT BROUGHT IT INTO THE ROOM.
THERE WAS. SO PRESSURE, FROM THE MEDIA AND
EVERYBODY ELSE, HE COULD NOT AFFORD TO GO INTO THAT ROOM AND
NOT PRETEND HE WAS DEALING WITH THE ISSUE.
HE DIDN'T DEAL WITH IT. HE TOOK IT UP FIRST.
IT WAS DISMISSED. IT WAS INTRACTABLE.
NOW LET'S MOVE ON. AND THIS THING ABOUT A
COMMISSION AND ALSO, WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO WITH SYRIA
AND HAVING SOME KIND OF CESSATION OF THE WAR THERE.
I DON'T KNOW IF PUTIN WAS IN A POSITION TO NEGOTIATE AND MAKE
ALL THE DIFFERENCES FOR SYRIA. NOT THAT I CARE ABOUT ASSAD.
BUT I WOULD A ASSUME THAT HE WOD HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT IT.
I THINK WE'RE GETTING PLAYED BY OUR PRESIDENT AND CERTAINLY BY
PUTIN. I DON'T LIKE THE IDEA THAT OUR
PRESIDENT, AGAIN, WOULD GO INTO A ROOM WITHOUT ANY NOTE TAKERS,
WITHOUT ANY STAFF, WITHOUT OTHERS WHO SHOULD BE IN THE ROOM
WHO REALLY UNDERSTAND FOREIGN POLICY AND WHO REALLY UNDERSTAND
PUTIN, AND COME OUT OF IT SAYING HOW HONORED HE IS TO MEET WITH
HIM AND HOW IN FACT THEY'RE GOING TO START MEETING TOGETHER.
THIS IS BALL SANCTIONS. OF COURSE, TILLERSON WAS IN THE
ROOM BECAUSE THAT'S AT THE TOP OF HIS AGENDA.
TO LIFT THE SANCTIONS SO THEY CAN DRILL INTO THE ARCTIC.
YOU HAVE TRUMP WHO IS AGREEING TO LIFT THE SANCTIONS AND ABOUTT
THE DNC DID. BUT THEM THEY FULLY COOPERATED
WITH THE REQUESTS THAT THE FILIBUSTER MADE.
SO THIS GUY IS UNHINGED. AND I THINK HE IS UNDER SO MUCH
PRESSURE FROM THIS RUSSIAN ARE INVESTIGATION THAT WHEN HE IS IN
THE CORNER, ALL HE DOES IS HE STRIKES BACK AND HE DOESN'T CARE
ABOUT WHETHER ANYTHING IS TRUE OR NOT TRUE.
>> WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THAT STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT?
>> WELL, HE DOESN'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT
PODESTA'S ROLE WAS WITH THE DNC AND CLINTON.
WHAT HE THOUGHT HE WAS SETTING UP WAS THIS PROOF THAT WE HAVE
NO PROOF. THAT'S WHAT PUTIN HAS SAID.
THAT'S WHAT HE CONTINUES TO SAY. IT IS ALMOST IN YOUR FACE, YOU
CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANT BUT YOU DON'T HAVE ANY PROOF.
I THINK THIS PRESIDENT, TRUMP WAS PLAYING INTO THAT AND TRYING
TO SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE PROOF IF THEY WANTED TO
SHARE IT BUT THEY WOULDN'T LET US SEE IT SO THEY MUST NOT HAVE
ANY PROOF. HE THOUGHT WHEN HE DID THAT,
THAT HE WAS NAILING PODESTA. BECAUSE HE HAD CONTROL OF THE
DNC AND THE SERVER SO WE CAN DISMISS THAT AS ANOTHER TRUMP
NOT KNOWING WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT, NOT KNOWING WHAT HE'S
DOING, AND TRYING TO GIVE SOME COVER TO PUTIN.
THAT'S WHAT THAT IS ALL ABOUT. PEOPLE, WE MUST KEEP OUR EYE ON
THESE SANCTIONS. FIRST OF ALL, THE UNITED STATES
SENATE HAS PASSED LEGISLATION. VERY STRONG LOTION SANCTIONS.
WE MUST SUPPORT THAT. BECAUSE PUTIN DIDN'T JUST THE
WANT TRUMP ELECTED BECAUSE HE DIDN'T LIKE HILLARY.
IT IS BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT TRUMP WOULD BE A PART OF HELPING TO
LIFT THOSE SANCTIONS. AND I CALL THE KREMLIN KLAN ALL
OF THOSE ALLIES OF THE PRESIDENT WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM IT.
WHO HAVE INDICATED THEIR CONNECTIONS TO RUSSIA AND TO
PUTIN AND THE OLIGARCHS. SO THEY'RE TRYING TO PLAY US.
WE SHOULD NOT BUY INTO ANYTHING THAT WE'VE HEARD HAPPENED.
BECAUSE WE DON'T REALLY KNOW. AND HE DOES NOT WANT US TO KNOW.
HE WANTS US TO BE IN THAT POSITION WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO
FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY SAID AND WE CAN'T BE CERTAIN.
IT IS NOT SUBSTANTIVE AND WE HAVE T

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