before the election, president obama received the classified report with evidence vladimir putin s direct involvement in cyberattacks, to hurt hillary clinton, for the next five once the obama administration went back and forth about what to do, how to respond. they were worried about being seen as tipping the scales on a politically charged issue. donald trump is pouncing on their delayed response. he said on twitter just out the obama administration knew far in advance of november 8th about election meddling by russia and did nothing about it. other republicans are chiming in, jason chaffetz just this morning. this russia dust up, the democrats kicking dirt on trying to create more smoke out there
intelligence president obama did if you read this report it seems intelligent is pretty conclusive in terms of what russia did and why. why not advocate for punishing the russians strongly, swiftly and effectively? we are advocating that. leland: what should the president be doing differently? one of the things he has done
happens during barack obama s watch, he was the president of the united states and as trey gowdy got out of the homeland security secretary, the homeland security department tried to help the democrats and the democrats refused their help. for obama administration officials are giving it is unfair to base 2016 on what we know in 2017. reports of russian meddling with that sweet last night it appears donald trump for the first time has publicly acknowledged it was not a hoax and russia did not try to interfere in the 2016 election. elizabeth: thank you so much. leland: this new report brings up questions how candid the obama administration was with congress. congressman, thanks for being with us. this brings up an important
failed to deter russian aggression. mccain went on to say the current administration has not done enough either and to push for legislation that would sanction russia. almost two weeks ago, the senate overwhelmingly passed legislation to strengthen current sanctions against moscow and add new ones on individual engaging in corruption. the trump administration is lobbying against parts of the bill arguing it could preempt parts of the bill, that includes sanctions for iran and russia. elizabeth: thank you, alison, appreciate it. leland: the saber rattling continues as north korea remains defiant. if anything, they re doubling down, saying they are the biggest victim in the death of otto warmbier and testing a new rocket engine. let s bring in the senior research fellow for east asia studies at heritage foundation. nice to see you, sir. despite the tough words from the president, from the secretary of state, from the secretary of
he is now and has been for six months and has done not only nothing, he has on more than one occasion said the whole russia stories fake news. he planted the impression that it didn t happen when it clearly did happen, a profound threat to our national security. what i was going to say is we are upset was comey and the other stuff but it started as an effort to figure out what the russians did to put the investigation, to stop at. you want me to say the obama administration didn t do enough, clearly they didn t. why is the trump administration refusing to do anything, even acknowledge it happens? you said it is time for congress to take the lead and you feel it is time for congress to take the lead because you don t like the executive branch doing it. part of taking the lead