conspiracy theory, that ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, not russia. they seem to be picking up on this, concluding that it was russia, actually, that interfered in the election. and there is one senator in particular, louisiana senator john kennedy, who has continued to muddy the waters on this. i think both russia and ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. russia was very aggressive and they re much more sophisticated. but the fact that russia was so aggressive does not exclude the fact that president poroshenko actively worked for secretary clinton. you ve done cannotexactly wh russian operation is trying to get american citizens to do. is there no consideration that you ve been duped? now the president is thanking the republican senator for the
forward as they were in the intelligence committee. we ve heard a number of republicans talking about how ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. senator john kennedy is among those republicans who are still pushing this conspiracy theory. kennedy, in fact, at one point apologized for it to our chris cuomo. but listen to what happened today. i think both russia and ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. the fact that russia was so aggressive does not exclude the fact that president poroshenko actively worked for secretary clinton. now, if i m wrong actively worked for secretary my goodness. wait a minute, senator kennedy you now have the president of the ukraine saying he actively worked for the democratic nominee for president. come on? you realize the only other person selling this argument outside the united states is this man, vladimir putin. this is what he said on november 20th. thank god nobody is accusing us anymore of interfering in u.s.
ukraine meddled in the election. i think both russia and ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. i think it is been well documented. reporter: louisiana gop senator john kennedy has twisted himself into a pretzel on the issue resurrecting the talking point as he seemed to back away from it last week. i was wrong. the only evidence i have and i think it is overwhelming is that it was russia who tried to hack the dnc computer. that is what the consensus is. yep. eve seen no indication that ukraine tried to do it. reporter: that is enough to earn presidential raise where it counts on twitter. thank you to great republican senator john kennedy for the job he did in representing both the republican party and myself. and just a few moments ago the president and the first lady stepped off of air force one arriving here in london for these nato meetings and we should mention the white house, they like the split screen of seeing the president over here
nor do you. nor do any of us. i was wrong. the only evidence i have and i think it is overwhelming is that it was russia who tried to hack the dnc computer. then why do you think the president keeps saying something that he also knows is not true? well here is why. there is a lot of evidence problems and unproven, everybody has an opinion, that ukraine did try to interfere along with russia and probably others in the 2016 election. i think both russia and ukraine meddled in the in the 2016 election. two things. one unproven evidence isn t evidence. i m no lawyer but that is true. and now he can have an opinion that they both meddle in the election but that is not a fact and there are no facts that bear that out. here is what we know. thanks to the senate intelligence committee chaired
election into full view. and now republican lawmakers seem to be picking up on it. here s senator kennedy peddling that conspiracy. i think russia and ukraine meddled in the 2016 election. russia was very aggressive and they re much more sophisticated. but the fact that russia was so aggressive does not exclude the fact that president poroshenko actively worked for secretary clinton. all right. if any of that confused you, it may be because this is not the first time senator kennedy has muddied the waters of the 2016 election interference. here he is denying russia s hacking of the dnc on fox news then walking back the same comment here on cnn the next day. was it russia or yukraine? i don t know. nor do you. nor do any of us.