what he s saying. if you view it in the larger context of all the statements, standing next to vladimir putin monday, refusing to say anything tough or reality based what russia did in the elects, this is a president who for 18 months manufactured his own reality and republicans have gone along with it. what was different and why so many are not going along with it the same way is this is about our national security. and you could sit here and say we don t need to pass legislation. trump understands the threat. monday made it very plain and obvious, it showed the entire world he does not appreciate or care to see the threat posed by rush skpij that s why the reaction to this has been different, you see a white house and president who doesn t apologize or backtrack, backtrack being from the statement he made in the cabinet room and backtracking from what he said on monday. let s go a little deeper. the reason we know they re lying