Sanctions on russia, we will speak to members on both sides of the other, donald trump questions president obama s handling of moscow s meddling in the 2016 election. leland: the fight over the future of the nation s healthcare system, our panel on what this talk in washington means for you. elizabeth: democrats debate the future of their party after their fourth loss in a row. why there is such a growing problem, nancy pelosi might go. donald trump calling on his predecessor for how he handled russia s meddling. president taking to twitter to question with the obama administration knew and why they do more about election interference. this stems from a washington post reported which a former senior obama administration official said i feel like we joked in our response to russia back in august, three months
His election and focus on threat russia faces to defend and protect, what is countering this. your argument is your particular bill you are working on is focusing on the cyberwarfare, works together which you feel needs to be approved in sanctions. i introduced it last week. one of the number one thing this is requires the white house a comprehensive plan to counter russia. one of the biggest things is to kick the president, to actually countering russia in doing. we need a comprehensive plan to stop focusing on the election,
Fake news or whatever, russia is a threat. the white house is countering. elizabeth: we look forward to seeing progress on your bill. leland: senate leadership once a vote on their health care bill next week but first, mitch mcconnell, enough republicans on board, five gop senators say they can t support it. they can only afford to lose two gop senators, garrett tenney following the debate here. there are a lot of phone calls and arm-twisting and golf games this weekend. good weather for golf games works out well for the gop but can t support it yet. that is the keyword. that is what republican leadership is banking on, they hope between now and wednesday or thursday where a final vote is expected, they negotiate their way to 50 yes votes, republicans can only lose two of their own and if changes aren t
Issued statements in early october on russia meddling? he spent weeks calling the election rigged, but another former senior obama administration official told the washington post that he believes we sort of choked in their response to russian interference in the u.s. elections. leland. leland: stunning admission there. kristin fisher, north lawn of the white house. kristin, thank you. let s bring in tom from the washington examiner for more insight. put aside for the time being, this is on unnamed sources that president trump says he doesn t like. put up perhaps the answer to president trump s question why the administration didn t do anything. this from the washington post. the assumption that clinton would win contributed to the lack of urgency. shocking. very shocking. look, and i think there are a couple of other factors there, that play into this. we ve seen in recent weeks, the
Question. is the president, and members of congress, so upset over how the obama administration handled the russian hacking and russian attempts to influence the election, why is the administration and why aren t republicans in congress pounding the desk demanding more be done against russia as punishment? people want something done, there are investigations going on right now but the bigger problem is the previous administration s feckless foreign-policy, this issue is so critical because it is nested that policy. leland: that foreign-policy before, the president from january 20th on could have radically changed foreign policies, much tougher, that