has every intention, we are told, of doing it again? what is he doing about it? look, just last week, the department of homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen met with a number of relevant stakeholders. they are discussing this process. everybody wants to blame this on the trump administration. let s not forget that this happened under the obama administration. reporter: this happened over a year ago. what s he done about it? we ve spent a lot of time working on cyber security, focusing on protecting the fairness on our elections. reporter: most recently, the president has criticized barack obama for not responding to the meddling. as for putin, he has suggested the russian leader is sincere in his denials. i believe that he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not, i m with our agencies, especially as currently constituted with their leadership. reporter: he hasn t even called out putin, he criticized obama, he critic
look at the facts. he didn t elaborate, leaving the explanation up to press secretary sarah huckabee sanders at yesterday s briefing. the president has been extremely tough on russia. he helped push through $700 billion to rebuild our military. i can assure you russia is not excited about that. he helped export energy to eastern europe. i can assure you russia is not excited about that. he has put and upheld sanctions that the obama administration put in place and upheld those and closed three diplomatic properties that were russia s here in the united states. he has taken number of actions against russia and put pressure on them, he s helped arm the ukrainians through a number of places that obama was too weak and refutesed to take and put pressure on russia where this president has. he hasn t even called out putin. he criticized obama and criticized the fbi. he didn t even criticize vladimir putin. he has been tougher on russia
but he didn t elaborate leavinging the explanation up to sarah huckabee sanders at yesterday s briefing. watch this. he hasn t even called out putin. he criticized obama, the fbi. he didn t even criticize vladimir putin. he has been tougher on russia in the first year than obama was in alt years combined. he has imposed sanctions, he s taken away properties, he has rebuilt our military, he s done a number of things to be tough on russia. why hasn t the president implemented the sanctions which congress passed last year? look, frankly that is not completely accurate. this president has been tougher on russia far tougher the sanctions. there is a process that has to take place. and we re going through that process, that that law also says that the countries have to violate something in order for those sanctions to go in place. and that hasn t necessarily
with election vendors to make sure that our election system is secure. last week they melt with state and private officials on how best to secure the election system from foreign interference. we re not the only targets and we re working with our allies on the daily basis to make sure that we re following best practices. this has been a topic of conversation with multiple foreign heads of state. president trump and the administration have made it clear that interference in our elections will have consequences and we will continue to impose last week, we called out russia by name. the first time you ve seen something like that taking place. we ll continue to do that. he doesn t even called out putin. he criticized obama, he criticized the fbi. he didn t even criticize vladimir putin. he has been tougher on russia in the first year than obama was in eight years combined. he s imposed sanctions, rebuilt
several weeks, along with election vendors to say that our election system is secure. last may, they met with state and private officials on how best to secure the election system from foreign interference. we re not the only targets of foreign interference and we re working with our allies on the daily basis to make sure that we re following best practices. this has been a topic of conversation with multiple foreign heads of state. president trump and the administration have made it clear that interference in our elections will have consequences. and we re going to continue to impose consequences in response to russian cyber attacks. just last week, we called out russia by name. it was one of the first times that you ve seen something like that take place. we re going to continue doing things like that. he hasn t even called out putin. he criticized obama, he criticized the fbi. he didn t even criticize vladimir putin. he has been tougher on russia in the first year than obama w