tonight, question, the government he serves already has the answer. russia meddled in the election. the last administration announced it and acted on it. congress, in a bipartisan manner, has acted on it. and trump apparently brought it up today while also sowing more doubt about it. illogical, that position. but perhaps predictable. she s saying russia, russia, russia, but i don t maybe it was. i mean it could be russia, but it could also be china. it could also be lots of other people. it also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay? she doesn t know if it s the russians doing the hacking. maybe there is no hacking. once they hack, if you don t catch them in the act, you re not going to catch them. they have no idea if it s russia or china or somebody. it could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. joining me now is david filipov from hamburg, germany, michael mcfaul, and julianne smith, former national security
or china or somebody. it could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. joining me now is david phillip from hamburg, germany, michael mcfaul, and julie ann smith, former national security adviser to vice president biden. ambassador, how unusual is this request that our folks provide the evidence to their folks, and who won the meeting? well, to your first question, it s very unusual, you re absolutely right. it s not the job of our intelligence communities to share intelligence to somebody who violated our sovereignty, right? it s like as if a criminal came into your house and they stole your data. they stole your television set. and then the police are supposed to provide data to them about what they did. putin knows what he did. putin expected trump to say something about it, and it
but president trump has repeatedly denied russia s role in the 2016 election, disparaging the efforts to punish russia. last year nbc news reported that president trump received his first intelligence briefing on august 17th about russia s efforts to interfere in the election, but continued to doubt their findings even after the intelligence community went public on october 7th. take a listen. i don t think anybody knows it was russia that broke into the dnc. she s saying russia, russia, russia, but i don t maybe it was. it could be russia, but it could also be china. it could also be lots of other people. it also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. okay? any time anything wrong happens, they like to say the russians. she doesn t know if it s the russians doing the hacking. maybe there is no hacking. hacking is very interesting. once they hack, if you don t catch them in the act, you re not going to catch them. they have no idea if it s russia or chin
catch them in the act, you re not going to catch them. they have no idea if it is russia or china or somebody. it could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. personally, it could be russia. i don t really think it is. but who knows? i don t know and they don t know. do you accept their opinion that he vladimir putin ordered the hack of the dnc, the attempted hack of the rnc? i think it was russia. but i think we also get hacked by other countries. and other people. you don t mean to tell me the russians tried to meddle in the election. that i don t know. if you don t catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it is very hard to say who did the hacking. with that being said, i ll go along with russia. it could have been china. it could have been a lot of different groups. what s with the hedging? joining me, a member of the tension committee. jonathan swan of axios.
earlier today in the st. petersburg international economic forum, nbc a megyn kelly asked russian president vladimir putin about the hacking allegations. his rhetoric sounded very familiar, by the way, to guess whose. trump s. let s watch. translator: you know, a kid of yours can send it. your girl that is 3 years old can perpetrate such an attack. they have no idea if it s russia or china or somebody. it could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. translator: the trump team has turned to be more efficient during the electoral campaigns than the other team. they made a mistake, and they don t want to recognize this mistake. it s easy to say it s not our fault. it s all it s the russians. they intervened. i think it s just another excuse. i don t believe it. i don t know why. and i think it s just you know, they talked about all