Thats president obama talking to npr. As we mentioned, were learning more tonight about the evidence he may be basing his decisions on. Jim sciutto joins us now once again. What are his options . He has an escalating ladder of options. It really starts with naming and shaming russia in private. And then in public. And we know thats already happened. Obama confronted putin in china. This is last summer. Then in october, a month before the election, you had the director of national intelligence, the department of Homeland Security come out in public and say, this is the belief of the u. S. Intelligence community, with high confidence. And then you have, other more punitive options, one being economic sanctions. Thats the tactic that the Obama Administration clearly likes. They used it against russia for its military action in ukraine. Of course, they used it against iran for a number of years. And you could then escalate above that with real retaliatory cyberaction, everything from simil
The kremlin. And trumps concerns that it detracts from his victory. Heres a portion of what president obama said to National Public radios steve insky. I think there is no doubt that when any Foreign Government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action and we will, at a time and place of our own choosing. Thats president obama talking to npr. As we mentioned, were learning more tonight about the evidence he may be basing his decisions on. Jim sciutto joins us now once again. What are his options . He has an escalating ladder of options. It really starts with naming and shaming russia in private. And then in public. And we know thats already happened. Obama confronted putin in china. This is last summer. Then in october, a month before the election, you had the director of national intelligence, the department of Homeland Security come out in public and say, this is the belief of the u. S. Intelligence community, with high confidence. And then you have,
Country. We will straighten that out. And ill tell you what, its what i do. It wont even be hard. And in the end well all get along. But they understand, and theyre trying to act like, well, we fought with you in the war. They dont mention the fact that they have trade barriers against our farmers, they dont mention the fact that theyre judging almost 300 tariffs. When it all straightens out, well all be in love again. The president was supposed to meet earlier today with the french president Emmanuel Macron. The meeting did not happen. Officials say potentially it could be rescheduled. The president also meets later today with the canadian Prime Minister, the host, Justin Trudeau. His relationships with trudeau and macron specifically have been rather strained in recent days over the tariffs and other related issues. Lets go to jim acosta. The president told aides he would go in swinging. Give us a sense of what we can expect from this rather contentious gathering among allies. Report
He wants the meeting to become official. He also mentions election meddling specifically. It seems like things are on track until august 28th when politico says the white house has been keeping military aid on hold for months if is pretty clear they were taken by surprise because he text the article to volker and says they need to talk. State officials were told that President Trump canceled plans to meet with zelensky. The u. S. Ambassador to eu was text writing this are we now saying that Security Assistance and white house meetings are conditioned on investigations . Sonland says call me. Eight days later taylor brings up this issue again writing as i said on the phone, i think it is crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a political campaign, but this time sonlan says bill, i believe youre incorrect about President Trumps intentions. He has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. Then sonlan says we should stop texting about this. We have a lot to get into. W
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