helping donald trump. at various times they appear to be pro trump, pro bernie sanders, anti-trump and the bulk of their money appears to have been spent after the election. when you look at the totality of the resources spent in the election, what the russians did appears to me to have been muddled, ineffective and a drop in the bucket. and no connection and no connection to the trump campaign in any way, shape or form. but given the fact that even you are acknowledged they tried to do something, the president s lack of confronting vladimir putin about this issue does lead some people to be circumspect about his motives. do you think president trump should confront the russians more aggressively on this issue? look, the president doesn t to go didn t want to go to war over syria where hillary clinton favored that no-fly zone. he s there now. and the president is selling offensive weapons to the ukrainians over the objections of the russians.
to war over syria and hillary clinton was promising the deep state and expansion of the war there. if you look at syria, assad had that, on the other side, you have isis and a thousand other radical groups. we have no place here. donald trump does not want to spend borrowed american money or american lives going to war with russia over syria. a no-fly zone as favored by hillary clinton and john mccain would have been an indication for a world war iii. donald trump was the peace candidate in the last election. he has no illusions about russia or the fact that putin is a bad guy, but they have thermonuclear weapons, laura. perhaps we should be talking to them. laura: and the idea that trump is somehow softer on the russians then obama was i mean, obama s big push was december 2016, okay, we re going
to war over syria and hillary clinton was promising the deep state and expansion of the war there. if you look at syria, assad had that, on the other side, you have isis and a thousand other radical groups. we have no place here. donald trump does not want to spend borrowed american money or american lives going to war with russia over syria. a no-fly zone as favored by hillary clinton and john mccain would have been an indication for a world war iii. donald trump was the peace candidate in the last election. he has no illusions about russia or the fact that putin is a bad guy, but they have thermonuclear weapons, laura. perhaps we should be talking to them. laura: and the idea that trump is somehow softer on the russians then obama was i mean, obama s big push was december 2016, okay, we re going to kick these russian officials
the bad guy vladimir putin is. he would like to negotiate peace before thermonuclear war. that raises questions. you don t attack somebody. you have to sit down and negotiate world peace. the president attacks people he has to sit down with on a regular basis. you know that. it is part of his style. not putin. i don t think he has any illusions of the russian goulag or the system they have where they oppress gays and women ands christians. i don t think right in front of the negotiation which we will have i don t think syria is worth going to war over. that is a fine position. we have lavrov coming out and asking questions about the russian leginvestigation. the media is not allowed in. the russian ambassador with the
that is not true. here is the point. you don t think russia was behind? no. julian assange does not work for the russians. a 17 agencies? all headed by political appointees which are holdovers from bahamobama. these with people who said we were trafficking p.o.w.s. th these are the people who said there was an attack on benghazi. you believe there is a 17 agency, i guess, conspiracy, to mislead the american people of the source of the hacking? i believe our intelligence agencies are riddled with people unhappy about the outcome of the election because they want a war over syria and a no-fly zone. donald trump has no illusions of