that he did talk to people who wear contacts within the russian government. but he himself is not a hostile foreign power. the president, what he was talking about their was trying to skirt those rules. the fcc is clear about this. it is a difference between paying and receiving something about the donation where there might be reciprocity. he s got the email saying we might have some dirt on hillary clinton and he responded, i love it. the issue is what might be exchanged from that. a british person then took it immediately to the intelligence harris: there was money exchanged, the clinton campaign didn t all of the russian government anything. but the fcc is clear about these investigations and the fcc came
the best equipped to take him on and take him down. you noted that amped up rhetoric. i think one of these questions out of what joe biden is going to say today is, is this the right way for a democrat to take on donald trump or have we seen this before and it didn t work effectively? one of the things that he s doing in this speech, and i agree, people say biden s too focussed on the general election. this is a primary strategy. the primary is joe biden s primary strategy, but there s new elements in the speech where he gets to a populous theme, and he takes on the president for not managing the economy well for american workers and for being out of touch. i just remember four years ago or i guess three years ago, joel benenson telling me one thing the clinton campaign didn t do that he regretted was making more of the fact that donald trump is this rich guy who lives in manhattan and isn t in touch with the working people. it seems joe biden is trying to do a little bit of that in
2016. it s no secret the clinton campaign didn t knock a door in michigan or wisconsin. and michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania were some of the gaps in those states were some of the deciding votes on whether donald trump or hillary clinton was the 45th president of the united states, and we all know how it went down. so i think the lesson we take from this going into 2020 is one, we have to make sure that we are shoring up that we are shoring up our cybersecurity. we have to be wary of information. we have to triple-check where information comes from. we need to find the source. but also we need to nominate really good candidates. we need to have a very robust nominating process on the democratic side of the aisle so that the person that comes out understands and wants to knock doors in michigan and wisconsin. i voted for hillary clinton. i think the clinton campaign did some really good work. i think there were some gaps and those gaps are evident. symone, thank you. either you
i think to be clear-o bama will never be on the ticket again. so for so many people who were saying obama wasn t on the ticket, he ll never be back on the ticket. he won t be running for president again unless there s a constitutional amendment that i don t know about. so one, did the russian meddling affect folks who did or did not go to the polls? absolutely. the russians were complicit in releasing e-mails from the democratic national committee and the clinton campaign via wikileaks and that did influence the way that a number of people decided to engage in a general election. that is not the only reason i would say one third of african-americans in america did not go to the polls in november 2016. it s no secret the clinton campaign didn t knock a door in michigan or wisconsin. and michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania were some of the gaps in those states were some of the deciding votes on whether donald trump or hillary clinton was the 45th president of the united states, and
he felt he had a sense of duty to do so as a former government official, and that he had gone to the fbi, worked with the fbi in the past on numerous cases and gone to authorities in the past. this wasn t some kind of political trick. it was something that was consistent with the way he s operated for years. he was very worried about what he was learning about trump, and but he did not inform the clinton campaign about going to the fbi. so the clinton campaign didn t actually know there was an fbi investigation of trump all summer long. and the white house learned belatedly the extent of the investigation, not before january 5th, after the election? the white house was also so far out of the loop, it was just wild. so on january 5th in the oval office, james comey, director of the fbi, finally briefs him on the dossier and tells him the details of this sort of alleged