administration and there s been some reporting out about some frustration frankly among foreign policy officials about how far this president obama was willing to go to combat election meddling. do you think the obama administration did enough obama administration did enough to try and basically you know push back on the russian effort or not? so i will say, i was no longer in the administration when all of this happened. i left at the end of 2015. i was watching it from outside, although i knew we had very good intelligence the little they were saying publicly made me alarmed. i believe they should have done more the putin and president understand no they only understand firmness. if are you not firm with them they will keep pushing, which is why we are in danger now. i don t want to second guess president obama. he had his reasons. he didn t want to escalate the situation. he didn t want president put on