to suddenly do a 180, this is certainly solely for his political audience and he doesn t care what the rest of the world thinks, whether it appears that he s once again telling a fantastical lie. 5d a.adam, let s start with piece for the weekend. sensible mission by obama. go for it. right. just to make clear. i m not sure that trump was actually briefed before the election on the details of what was being collected because the fbi was not briefing president obama on what they were doing as far as this investigation of possible coordination between trump and the campaign. he definitely was briefed on this in january when that report came out. what do you make of the charge the last several hours by trump that obama let it go? the argument could be made that obama could have done more. you said he wasn t briefed on it. he wasn t briefed on the possibility of collusion, but he was briefed on the russian intervention and the role of putin in that intervention. the issue is why