heighten these efforts to prevent future meddling, i think that would be a way for them to say, we are taking this seriously. instead he just continues to brush it aside and that is sort of harder for him to justify with what his own national security team is saying. in the last tweet he went on to say that the russians didn t have any influence. that is simply not true. the fact that they didn t maybe they didn t break in and change ballot counts like that, but as a campaign professional, you ve got 13 operatives and a multi-million dollar budget and you re advertising like crazy. of course it had an effect. it is unquantifiable whether it would change the election, but it clearly had an effect. the piece of this, julia, that i keep that i keep tripping over is this man is the commander in chief and there doesn t he doesn t seem to have taken it is obvious to say he hasn t taken a step from being candidate to president. in this case the stakes are so incredibly high. i f
an effort on the hill to try to heighten these efforts to prevent future meddling, i think that would be a way for them to say, we are taking this seriously. instead he just continues to brush it aside and that is sort of harder for him to justify with what his own national security team is saying. in the last tweet he went on to say that the russians didn t have any influence. that is simply not true. the fact that they didn t maybe they didn t break in and change ballot counts like that, but as a campaign professional, you ve got 13 operatives and a multi-million dollar budget and you re advertising like crazy. of course it had an effect. it is unquantifiable whether it would change the election, but it clearly had an effect. the piece of this, julia, that i keep that i keep tripping over is this man is the commander in chief and there doesn t he doesn t seem to have taken it is obvious to say he hasn t taken a step from being candidate to president. in this case the stak
president trump blaming former president obama for the russia investigation his administration is now facing. just moments ago tweeting this. by the way, if russia was working so hard on the 2016 election, it all took place during the obama administration. why didn t they stop him? i want my panel to weigh in. josh, take this one, brother. listen, stephanie, a couple important things for people to understand. first is we did stop the russians from succeeding in altering any of the ballot counts or interfering with the ability of americans to cast their ballot on election day in 2016. so from that stand point, and that s what former dhs secretary jeh johnson was talking about before congress yesterday. we did prevent congress from altering those kinds of ballot counts and effectively conducting the election. and the truth is in the weeks leading up to the election, it
director clapper the intelligence community said it will be extremely difficult to alter actual ballot counts or election results by cyberattack or intrusion, end quote. you ve stated that earlier today as well we have no evidence that vote tallies were altered or manipulated in any way. that s correct. that s what happened. let s discuss why. director clapper in response to senator nelson you stated that the report soon to be released will discuss the motive. would you care to give any kind of preview today? i would rather not. there are actually more than one motive so that will be described in the report. in your 53 years of intelligence is ascertaining the plans of foreign leaders is one of the hardest tasks we ask our intelligence services to perform? it always has been. this has been expressed by secretary clinton that vladimir putin favored donald trump in
outlined was part of my thought process. further in the statement, director clapper, quote, it would be extremely difficult for someone including a nation state actor to alter actual ballot counts or election results by cyber attack and intrusion, end quote. you stated that earlier today as well, that we have no evidence that vote tallies were altered or manipulated in any way. that s correct. okay. so that s what happened. let s discuss why, director clapper, in response to senator nelson, you stated that the report soon to be released will discuss the motive. would you care to give any kind of preview today? i would rather not. i didn t think so. there are actually more than one motive. that will be described in the report. in your 53 years of intelligence, is ascertaining the motives, plans, and intentions of foreign leaders among the hardest tasks that we ask our intelligence services to perform? it always has been. there s a widespread assumption, this has been e