to the demands that alzheimer s is going to place on our nation. actor peter gallagher and so much more. thank you, sir, i appreciate it. thank you, richard. best to you and your family. thank you, sir. and you too. that wraps it up this hour. i m richard lui. we ll have much more on the health care battle and the topic of russia. stick around. er to bring you more ways to help reduce calories from sugar. with more great tasting beverages with less sugar or no sugar at all, smaller portion sizes, clear calorie labels, and signs reminding everyone to think balance before choosing their beverages. we know you care about reducing the sugar in your family s diet, and we re working to support your efforts. more beverage choices. smaller portions. less sugar. balanceus.org. at crowne plaza we know business travel isn t just business. there s this. a bit of this. why not? your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do.
books. this is a realm of policies just developing as cyber attacks are more increasing. so the obama administration, you know, they faced the russia cyber hack at the end of tear term. there was no precedent for this. there was no u.s. policy on the books about what to do if this were to occur. i get some sort of sympathetic to their ability to formulate a response. having said that you feed to have a firm response, not just to punish the russians for this type of behavior, but to deter the russians from taking this type of behavior again so they know there is going to be a strong and firm response from the united states, whether that s an overt response in economic sanction osar a covert response, which we may or may not know is actually happening. what we understand is this is a cyber counterresponse it was a put into place once it was decided. what do you know about this cyber response coming from the united states and can it be stopped by this administration? reporter: well, i
the response on the russians the obama administration issued a diplomatic response and economic sanctions response. there may have been covert responses at play t. dministration may or may not. obama dministration may or may fought speak about those, president trump administration may or may not speak object that, at least until after the fact. i think it s important to have overt measures in place. you want other countries and non-state actors to see there is punishment. so you want the response to be public because the russians aren t the only once to have hacking capability for systems of candidates and election systems. they might have a lot of focus on this issue. they re not the only ones that can do it. what is good for the goose is good for the gander. president trump it appears says he does believe there was russian meddleing, to move from one category to the other if a matter of a day without much major announcement to that is
approach. having said that, it s not like the trump administration came out definitively with strong statements about the hacking. president trump himself has not confirmed or publicly denounced russian hacking. secondly, it s not like the trump administration has taken a strong diplomatic response if terms of sanctions or what not. now president trump is president, it s up to him to tick a reasons. the russians will be back in the next election. this problem is not going away. depending on your ci amilitary analyst hat for a second, up get this information. you say, hey, look, this is happening. would your suggestion, your white paper, whatever that memo is, would it but need to do something now regardless of political ramifications? reporter: my argument would be that you do. having said that the united states cyber security policy is very early stage as we haven t had a lot of policies on the
to medicaid specifically. the bill would cut health care subsidys to middle income americans while cutting taxes on the wealthiest people in the country. meanwhile, on an interview with fox and friends on sunday, president trump blasted democrats for fought doing more to help replace obamacare. it s doing just fine. it s going to be a good bill. we have to remember obamacare is dead as a doornail. it s a failure. but it would so great if the democrats and republicans can get together, wrap their arms around it and come up with something that everybody is happy with it. it s so easy. but we won t get one democrat vote. not one. health care is not the only thing on the president s mindsh russia is never too far away. in the wake of the washington post report friday, detailing the cia s adestaneement that vladimir putin was directly involved in russia s meddling in last year s election to help hillary clinton, president trump is now questioning why president