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attention than they did to the questions that we knew something about that russia was potentially meddling in the election. i think that would have set off somewhat of a panic, particularly among republicans who had this underlying fear that the election was going to be illegitimate because of democratic meddling. so, i think the obama administration at the time was operating offer the assumption that hillary clinton was going to win the election. and that maybe this could be something they could focus on at a later date. a lot of people, lynn, wondering, okay, certainly, there could be questions about how the obama administration handled it. but that doesn t negate the current president, president trump, from doing something about it to stop it from happening in 2018 and 2020. any indication that there is something, some sort of plan in the white house to try to stop this? well, just the answer is no. and just think of the sound bite you used a few moments ago, where trump is sa
the election, but he did nothing about it. but nobody wants to talk about that. the cia gave him information on russia a long time before they even, you know, before the election. and i hardly see it. it s an amazing thing. to me, in other words, the question if you have the information, why didn t he do something about it? he should have done something about it. it s not true that president obama did do anything, he specifically asked vladimir putin about it at the meeting. and he certainly didn t go as far as some of the recommendations that were given to him. the obama administration officials were saying that the simple reason behind that the damage had already been done. and that president obama was very concerned about the political ramifications. that it would look as though he was helping hillary clinton in the election. now, it s also important to
election meddling by russia, did nothing about it, why? the fact that the president now seems to be acknowledging that there was some sort of russian interference, did that change anything when it comes into the investigation into collusion? well, christi, i think it does. we now have the first element of what someone, a special council or prosecutor could prove was unlawful interference. we now have evidence and president trump agrees that they did have information that they tried to influence the election. we now know that president trump after the fact has admitted that. the only question now is will the special council find collusion. collusion is not a legal term. it s really conspiracy, aiding or abetting. and did anyone in the trump transition team do anything to assist the russians either before or after the fact? that could be a prosecutable case. and questions about whether
think will happen if they do something. and we ve got to make this kind of behavior cost prohibitive. that wasn t the sound i was talking about, he said, to the house intel committee, one of the candidates was predicting that the election would be rigged. so, we were concerned by making the statement that could be challenging the integrity of the election process self-. sarah, is there a problem here for the reputation of president obama? should they have done more, should they have done something differently? it s impossible to know whether if the obama administration had done something different if the outcome could have been avoided. but clearly, jeh johnson was right, at the time when president trump was going on and on about how the election had been rigged and how the democrats were going to fix the results to make sure hillary clinton won. then a few weeks before election day if you have the sitting president of the united states come out and then drawing more