the attack our election more directly maybe tampering with the data in the computers. i can't say. i wasn't in those meetings the way to bet the kremlin to be stop is to be firm. >> i think actually it's slightly differently, i think the president didn't do it because he didn't want to be accused of helping hillary clinton win. the antidote was going to republicans sand thai say let's do it in a bipartisan way, they were shut down the message is that responding to russian afwregs in our elect, russian attacks has to be bipartisan. >> just be clear what the reporting is, so our viewers understand, there were people preparing secret cyber options to retaliate, including leaking information about putin's daughters and senior officials shut that off. they said stand down, we're afraid this will leak and box the president in. >> potentially have the president coming down on the other side, thank you both so