mission was to defeat or diminish one of the candidates. that s a very serious thing. so this, in my view, goes to the top of the temperature chart. i would be hopeful that we could. why do you believe the white house isn t acting as if they re as concerned about what russia is doing, period. regardless of the separate allegations of cloogsollusion. the larger story here, that russia has an agenda at upending western democracy. well, russia does have an agenda. and this makes it such a big problem. we know the ukraine, we know the french election, the german election, i m told brexit. so there are a number of areas
will be a turnout election. the reason that barack obama is spending so much time there is he can galvanize those constituencies lagging behind, younger, african-american voters, he s going to markets in florida where the same is true and the visit to philadelphia is a turnout visit. we are now in that phase of the campaign where we are talking about turn out. let me make a point where i think the campaign is and how we got here. a lot has been put on the fbi tape. i think what s happened is that as we get a distance from the release of the access hollywood tape and the debates and trump has settled down and is reading off of teleprompters and isn t acting up republicans are coming home to him and this is becoming more of a traditional naushl election and turnout will be in the battleground states a big deal. you made an interesting point last night which is that states return to their dna.
reporter: yeah, you re absolutely right. they re planning for a major crisis of immigrants coming here to europe, that s going to last for a very long time. the big problem the european union has it s absolutely divided on this issue. of course, we see the amount of people who are in absolute misery coming to europe, they have been in hungary and vienna and austria, thousands of people pouring here into the european union and the head of the european commission just held a very important speech. he said, listen, the response europe is giving is absolutely inadequate. he said europe isn t acting as europeans. . the big problem that they have the countries higher in europe are divided. on one hand, germany are taking in a lot of refugees. on the other hand, countries like hungary and many eastern european countries who don t want to take in more migrants
traveling with the president in palm springs this afternoon. do we know details around the president s discussions that i was alluding to earlier with the national security adviser? well, the white house hasn t read out the details of the discussion except to say that susan rice updated president obama on the intelligence as he continues to stay in close contact with his entire national security team about what the united states s next steps will be in iraq. we should say president obama spoke with susan rice on friday and then again on saturday from palm springs. as to the republican criticism that president obama isn t acting quickly enough, the white house pushes back and says part of what they are trying the to do is get accurate intelligence once the administration official says they can t rely on the intelligence of the iraqi governments or the united states trying to gather intelligence so they can come to a conclusion thats has the impact that they desire to have. one of the
has said hadn t really been backed up by real threats, and that s why vladimir putin, for example, isn t acting as sort of afraid as some would like him, but president obama s operating in an atmosphere after the iraq and afghanistan wars where there just isn t a lot of appetite either in the united states or internationally. there is not a lot of appetite for using force, for going in there, and i think he s trying to juggle both, you know, having this real threat out there, but also understanding that using force and going in isn t what is really wanted by the public at this point. gene robinson writes exactly about that history with iraq and afghanistan. let me read to you where he argues about this credibility problem, as he put it is. the united states, frankly, has limited standing to insist on absolute respect for the territorial integrity of sovereign states. before iraq, there was afghanistan, there was the