president obama in the past for talking to vladimir putin, now they re supporting donald trump, who has praised putin. so that shows you how much the president is not just thinking about hitting the republican candidate, but also all of those other elections that are happening down ballot. he wants to include republicans that are supporting donald trump in his comments against them, wolf. yeah. the president had said at the beginning, be a little more reluctant to go after trump at this event with the visiting prime minister of italy but really let loose on that issue of trump s whining about this election. michelle, thanks very much. i want to bring in our panel to discuss what we just heard from the president of the united states. we have our cnn politics editor juana summers with us. political commentator ryan lizza, and mattea gold for the washington post and chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. so how effective, juana, was the
enough for me to have assaulted. implicit, that is if they are attractive enough maybe you would have done it? right? and then you have well, two pieces. having my rick perry moment here. forgot my third point. melania is in a tough position. she s the candidate s spouse. natural to want to defend your husband. but i don t think it s credible when she says it was billy bush s fault he egged him on. i live to that tape, that s not how i saw it. i don t think billy bush pushed trump into saying those things. he was bragging. mateo, was the interview pro, help for for donald trump and his campaign or hurt his campaign? i think it told us something about the thinking inside the campaign. they put melania in an all too familiar political arc type. right? wife standing by her husband when he s been accused of some kind of inappropriate behavior. hoe wouldn t have done that and kept that story alive if he didn t feel this was hurting
geopolitical romance between putin and trump is what could be a reasonable discussion of the obama legacy in terms of the relationship with russia. obama in 2009 with hillary clinton as secretary of state had this reset, the famous reset button in geneva. that has failed. right? you can argue whether that might have happened anyway, regardless of what u.s. policy is, but that s a substantive discussion you could have and all of these debates and in all of these interviews with presidential candidates, and particularly buy hillary clinton was then secretary of state running against donald trump. but donald trump has swung this election in a direction not even his own party wants to go. donald trump saying he might meet with putin before being i na inaugurated should we win.
here and i ll be happy to take a question or two. yes, please? [ applause ] reporter: could you tell me what, if anything, you think this says about this year s campaign season? well, i m not in the habit of blaming victims of crime and what happened here on saturday night was utterly inexcusable. it was an act of political terrorism. against the good people of orange county and really against the american political system. i think it we all of us across the political spectrum condemn the acts that took place this week end in the strongest possible terms and we d do well-to-do th well-to-do that. reporter: yesterday you talked about the rigged election. do you agree with your running mate donald trump that polling places in this country are going to be rigged? he specifically said polling
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