on it, against hillary clinton. does the president accept that aspect of what the intelligence agencies are saying? honestly, i ve never asked them that specific question. i ll be glad to follow up. congressman, i sometimes wonder if we sometimes get down in the weeds on this getting a yes or no out of the president. i suspect it isn t just russia constantly trying to do mischief in our cyber warfare. i expect iran, china, north korea, although i do believe russia was the one in the election stuff. but are we getting down into the weeds to try to force the president to say yes, it was russia? i really don t care whether he says yes or no now. at this point, i want to know what is he going to do to protect future elections. is he going to give the resources of the department of homeland security in every state and county? is he going to allow a dialogue for awareness that the americans need to have around fake news? or continue to undermine what the intelligence community s doing
he doesn t shoot straight or have a concern for shooting straight. to quibble, i think your phrase, hack the election, is grossly misleading. there was no election stuff happening here. but we know it happened. the fact that donald trump took so long to say that he we know that he tried to meddle in the election. the fact that donald trump took so long to admit that and that he was so warm to putin is another reflection of how trump has sort of this soft spot for these strong men. that s very worrisome. you take issue with the use of the word hack because it implies that russians were tinkering with voting machines, i assume? yeah. i think hack the election is very imprecise. you could argue that if you he meddled with the election. if you hack an e-mail, let s say if you were to hack into john podesta s e-mails and it included an election, you hacked into an election? there isn t evidence it tilted the outcome one way or the other. again, as journalists, we ought
be focused on? byron york is a correspondent for the washington examiner . great to see you this morning. you believe that what we need to talk about really is the fact that we haven t solved this problem. we haven t been alerted to it sufficiently into action over the course of the last several years. right. a lot of republicans have pointed out this current outrage is a very recent vintage when, in fact, russia has been trying to hack american institutions and systems for many years. and a lot of republicans have been calling on the obama administration prior to this whole recent election stuff. had been calling on the obama administration to get tough about it. they re saying gee, only now that hillary clinton has lost an election does this become a hair on fire issue. but a lot of republicans are saying this is something that the united states should have been fighting back against all along. martha: you look back at the sony incident. the dnc over the summer and didn t bother
traditionally that s true, especially the last 21 days. most valuable asset is a candidate s time. i don t know if it is true. pic where he wants to go or but if i m an incumbent senator that s right with the election stuff i m not sure i want him by my side in pennsylvania or some other places. pat toomeydus not want donald trump anywhere near him. they are praying to god there will be a significant ticket splitting going on in the middle part of the state. pennsylvania has more democrats than republicans registered so it was already mathematically also impossible for toomey to win re-election but statewide republicans have done so in the past, rick santorum, you re going down the list. the question does he hold the middle part of the state in the tea area and whether or not philadelphia and pittsburgh votes for clinton but also
politician loves the way they re mocked on snl but one thing hillary clinton has learned to do is laugh at herself a little bit. she got it just as good in this skate. the moment where they were making how she had to walk towards the audience member who was asking her a question. left, right, left, right. and she doesn t know her granddaughter s name. chelsea junior. comedy. right? that s right. thank you. great to see you guys. thanks so much for being here. thank you. well, i want to see what they do with the p.e.d. stuff that trump is alleging now can t wait to watch next week. after all that election stuff we need some good stuff next. whatcha doin?