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ago he called this a hoax and they are saying this is a major danger to the united states. one of the most revealing lines is when john bolton said, the president has made very clear what his priorities are. by that, i think bolton meant he has a priority focusing on russia. in fact, the president has made very clear his priority is not to focus on the russian threat, he only views this through his political self-interest. he doesn t care about getting to the root of the russian interference in the 2016 election or in the future, all he cares about is saving his own political skin, which is why he and other senior officials have now taken to referring to the mueller probe as a rigged witch hunt delegitimizing the investigation and essentially doing vladamir putin s work for him. i talked to michael hayden and director clapper, all saying having the president be the one on top of all his national
one final point and more significant, the domestic message the president has to send, in new york you live in new york, anderson, time and time again they say the new york police department and fbi have secret work to do. if you see something say something. the governor and mayor had a message to the people. and the facebook intervention they talked about this week, what has the president said to the american people and who is the messenger to the american people. i don t see one, anderson. if this were so important, should the president have been there or echoed this at least tonight saying, you know, i ve i totally agree with what my intelligence chiefs said and as opposed to talking about it as a hoax? of course, anderson but it is clear the president does not agree with what the intelligence chiefs are saying. you saw the clip a few moments ago he called this a hoax and they are saying this is a major
will the president make this declaration in his own voice and use his bully pulpit to call out russian election hacking and say it is a problem? we have been to rally after rally where the president has called this a hoax. we ll see if he changes his tune tonight here in pennsylvania. the great commonwealth of pennsylvania. my experts are here with me. let s be honest here. my guess is the white house did this because they were being attacked and criticized by republican officials and not just democrats including james langford about how the president has not focussed enough on the threat. so the messaging he has put out on it the point being that everyone else is paying attention to it so we should be not as concerned as people are. what do you make of this?
the president just arrived there, in fact. reporter: he did indeed, brianna. he arrived here in south florida a short time ago. he said he intends to visit at some point the site of the shooting earlier this week, that he does plan to spend the rest of the weekend at his mar-a-lago retreat. but he was talking of course before he left the white house earlier today about this stunning indictment. now, he did get first hand information. the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein went to brief the president on this earlier today. of course the president has long called this a hoax. he has long called the whole idea of russian meddling nothing more than a witch hunt. back in november the president said he talked to vladimir putin and believed his denials on this. the justice department said today they did not and laid out in sweeping fashion the extent to which the meddling actually unfolded. now, the president of course put out a statement essentially saying it exonerated him from all o