commission on voter integrity and he, himself, has used the power of the bully pulpit to express his resistance towards any type of outside interference. he has the power of the i don t know if that s true. i would argue this is not true. this question that should be very simple. intelligence agencies have come forward and said with high confidence that we assess that russia meddled in the election last year. that is a completely separate question from trump actually winning the election. no one claims that they were involved in rigging the vote totals. that they affected any of the voting systems. but no doubt, according to our intelligence agencies that they were meddling. trump cannot get his head around that because he sees that as not a national security question, but a challenge to his lugist maes. until he can get across that line and see this for the national security issue that it is, i think you re going to
level of anger and frustration they feel over this, but it has also been useful in a way that ordinary russians now view these stories as either offensive or simply ridiculous, the more of them that come out, and a sign of political chaos in other countries, which is useful for president putin. there s a presidential election coming up next year. he s widely expected to run for another six years in office. he has an energized opposition here to deal with. mass protests are expected across the country on monday. so, to appear calm and composed in comparison to other countries is a good thing for him. and there s another side to this as well. russia has ramped up its accusations of outside interference in its own affairs leading up to that election next year that the upper house of parliament just this week has agreed to set up a commission to try to prevent outside influence in russia s affairs, whether it s controlling ngos or other measures. so, there s a sense here that the chaos in
cuba. wisconsin election officials are expected to meet today to discuss a timeline for the recount of that state s presidential election, this after green party candidate jill stein raised the prospect of hacking last week. stein also says she will petition for recounts in pennsylvania and michigan, and reportedly raised over $6.2 million to fund the process. on saturday democrat hillary clinton formally joined the efforts with campaign counsel mark elias saying they had quietly explored the possibility of outside interference in the vote tally, because we had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology, we had not planned to exercise this option ourselves, but now that a recount has been initiated in wisconsin, we intend to participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides. on saturday president-elect trump tweeted, the green party scam to fill up their coffers by asking for impossibl
no evidence that there was any thought of outside interference but now that the stein campaign has taken this step, the clinton campaign is going to join them to rule out any possibility. what is the white house saying about this call for a recount? there are a couple of things they want to reemphasize. they still believe that russia, at least tried, in part, to influential the election, that they did, in part, ask or order hackers to do so. they are not absolving russia s role. they also believe they were not effective in doing that. this is from a senior administration official i spoke with earlier today who told me that the federal government did not observe any increased level of malicious cyberactivity aimed at disrupting our electoral process on election day. as we have noted before, we remain confident the overall integrity of electoral infrastructure, a confidence borne out on election day. as a result, we believe our elections were free and fair
and everybody in the international community should be invested in making sure that the economic deterioration that s happened in the ukraine stops but also that these elections proceed in a fair and freeway in which all ukrainians, including russian speakers inside of ukraine are able to express their choice of who should lead them. and if we have a strong robust legitimate election, then there shouldn t be any question as to whether the ukrainian people are governed themselves without the kinds of outside interference that we see russia exerting. thank you very much, everybody. a brief remark from president obama following the unveiling of his budget at elementary school in washington, d.c. we were also listening to secretary of state john kerry on the ground in kiev in ukraine. let me bring in peter alexander