current and former intel officials expressing everything from disappointment to outrage. some suggesting president trump was out foxed. i felt like the president s comments made us look as a nation more like a pushover. he should have marched in, put the indictment on the table, and demanded justice. the early indications are that this is going to cost the president dearly. the president backs up putin. will it make the world a safer place ultimately? that remains the most important question to consider here. sandra: let s go to our a-team michael blake vice chair of the democratic national committee. brad blakeman, a former dep see assistant to george w. bush and noah rothman, associate editor. sandra: looking at that it framed what we saw yesterday.
interference in our 2016 elections, the president has managed to point his finger at just about everybody except the cull prichlt it s inexplicable. or maybe it s not. president trump has blamed secretary clinton. he has blamed the dnc. he has blamed the fbi. he said that, quote both countries are responsible for the state of relations between the united states and russia. the one person he hasn t blamed is the person he stood shoulder to shoulder with this morning, vladimir putin. on friday, rod rosenstein and bob mueller handed president trump the evidence that predator putin had requested, the 29-page indictment is a document of unparalleled work and is exactly what the president needed to stand up to mr. putin. he should have marched in, put the indictment on the table, and
about everybody except the culprit. it s inexplicable. maybe it s not. president trump has blamed secretary clinton, blamed the dnc, he s blamed the fbi, he said that both countries are responsible for the state of relations between the united states and russia . the one person he has not blamed is the person he stood shoulder to shoulder with this morning, vladimir putin. on friday, rod rosenstein and bob mueller handed president trump the evidence that president putin had requested. the 29-payment indictment is a document of unparalleled work and is exactly what the president needed to stand up to mr. putin. he should have marched in, put the indictment on the table and demanded justice. rather than taking the opportunity to confront putin,
of this country. it wasn t just democrats getting upset. republicans speaking out about this. this was the theme from chuck schumer. take a look. he should have marched in, put the indictment on the table and demanded justice. he took the world of the kgb over the men and women of the cia. neil: all right. we re going to be rifling through a lot of the republicans that had problems with this, including senator john mccain and orrin hatch and paul ryan. they all said the russians interfered with the election. we don t think it will change the outcome or altered the final results that had you declared the electoral vote winner, but the russians were involved and had the capability to be involved and you should do something about it and say something about it. we re all over it with john roberts in helsinki, finland and
managed to point his finger at just about everybody except the culprit. it s inexplicable. or maybe it s not. president trump has blamed secretary clinton. he s blamed the dnc. he s blamed the fbi. he said that, quote, both countries are responsible for the state of relations between the united states and russia. the one person he hasn t blamed is the person he stood shoulder to shoulder with this morning, vladimir putin. on friday, rod rosenstein and bob mueller handed president trump the evidence that president putin had requested. the 29-page indictment is a document of unparalleled work and is exactly what the president needed to stand up to mr. putin. he should have marched in, put the indictment on the table, and demanded justice. rather than taking the