our government should be doing or the intelligence community to protect america against russian interference in our election system? i don t recall a conversation like that. never? no. i know nothing but what i ve read in the paper. i ve never received any detail briefing on how a hacking occurred or how information was alleged to have influenced the campaign. you received no breeflg on the russian active measures in connection with the 2016 election? no. i don t believe i ever did. sometimes sessions reminds me of sargeant schultz in hogan s heroes. i know nothing. the trump administration has taken little meaningful action to prevent russian hacking, leaking or disruption in the next presidential election or congressional election in 2018 despite warnings from intelligence officials that it will happen again. back to you, adam. and i mean back to you, malcolm in my questions. you re the expert on this.
each other s national infrastructu infrastructure. president trump has to understand it is imperative that he take action. if he doesn t, that tells us quite a bit about his views with russia. adam, this charge of high school harry number, trump now accuses obama of collusion. what? he helped trump win. what kind of collusion would obama be involved with here? he threw that word at him like show s you re all men. what does it mean when a president says collusion by your predecessor. he accused president obama by having him surveilled. wire tapped. wire tapped. which was metaphorical for what b.s. there were suggestions of tapes. the latest thing he says is there s no tapes so i m innocent. he was the one talking about tapes. he was the one who claimed he had tapes and then turned out he didn t have the tapes which we all pretty well knew and then he says, but they don t have any tapes against me. he uses language in a demonic way to confuse the unsubtle mind
to suddenly do a 180, this is certainly solely for his political audience and he doesn t care what the rest of the world thinks, whether it appears that he s once again telling a fantastical lie. 5d a.adam, let s start with piece for the weekend. sensible mission by obama. go for it. right. just to make clear. i m not sure that trump was actually briefed before the election on the details of what was being collected because the fbi was not briefing president obama on what they were doing as far as this investigation of possible coordination between trump and the campaign. he definitely was briefed on this in january when that report came out. what do you make of the charge the last several hours by trump that obama let it go? the argument could be made that obama could have done more. you said he wasn t briefed on it. he wasn t briefed on the possibility of collusion, but he was briefed on the russian intervention and the role of putin in that intervention. the issue is why
what he s up to. who s got tapes, who doesn t have tapes. how do you follow trump mentally? it s impossible. it is it is a challenge to try to figure out what he means. i want to ask you about it. what collusion could obama have been capable of? i have no idea. he was for hillary. trump won, he wasn t for trump. what tapes is he talking about? i m not sure. see, i mean, this is a crumb trail that i do think we need to talk have a discussion about collusion though because there was a lot of contacts going on throughout the course of the height of the hacking campaign and so we as reporters with hospitwhom? by trump officials. we know. right. but we need to set a bar and understand as reporters as well what would constitute collusion because that s not something that s been a meeting at the may flower, at the rnc, in trump tower. you know, all kinds of places. in the oval office. all kinds of meetings. thank you adam, heidi, malcolm