hint of that in his tweets. so it was disturbing. and then to use this terrible tragedy just 40 miles away from mar-a-lago and use that to try and deflect blame on the fbi and to try and discredit the fbi who he also tried to blame the former president saying the former president should have done and he said, this started in 2014 halfway through president obama s second term. should president obama have done more? i think if you knew then what you know now, perhaps so. i was thinking when i saw that tweet what exactly would donald trump have said if the president of the united states knew at that time and said the russians are actively involved in our campaign and they re trying to help donald trump defeat hillary clinton, what would donald trump have said? we know that mitch mcconnell
defeat joe mansion in this next election. the mansion bill when that was defeated because it couldn t get past the filibuster, that s the only time i saw president obama lose his temper. he did it in the rose garden. that s why i don t think this will work. maybe i m wrong. perhaps, i don t know where it would go or what they would do. what kind of fashion they would have. i spoke to ohio s governor, john kasich over the week about this. he argued because congress is paralyzed that it s the state and local legislatures that need to step in. listen to what he said. where we have to effect this, i believe, is at the local level and the state house because you can have greater access to politicians who serve in the state legislature, in a county commissioner, in a city council. that s where you need to put the pressure and call these people
why didn t obama do something about russian meddling? out front to talk about that senior washington correspondent for politico. happy president s day to you. i want to start with you. you covered this president saying that he is tweeting a lot is like saying it s monday. this was different. what you saw is a man stuck inside. he couldn t interact with anyone. they told him not to play golf. it was trump watching fox news and whiplash from every single topic that was catching his ire. it was realtime thoughts coming from his brain onto twitter.
he said, i ve seen all the russian ads, and i can say very definitively that swanky reelection was not the main goal. if the majority the russian ad spend happened after the election. trace gallagher following the story for us. good evening. president trump s rapid-fire birth with more than a dozen tweets this holiday weekend usually went after the usual targets, those who believes who are carrying out a witch hunt against him like cnn, the democratic party, and former president obama. he also added a few surprises by admonishing an ally. one of the ranking democrats, adam schiff, was pressed on something that trump has been saying for more than a year, the fact that russian meddling began midway through president obama s second term. schiff said this on cnn.
knowledge the russian interference. they were very wary to be putting their mand on the election. they did make an knowledgeable the following month. i think they should have engaged about sanctions at that time but none of that is an excuse for this president to sit on his hands. it is inexplicable that the president of the united states continues to sit on sanctions that congress passed, that congress once enforced over this interference. so they can t point the finger back when they sitting on sanctions that the congress on a very biparking lot stisan basis to be imposed. we know that the fbi failed to act on a tip warning about the shooter just last month. the governor of florida is calling on the fbi director to resign. do you think so too? i don t think the director should resign, no. there is clearly a serious