Effective way to ensure that that didnt happen was to talk to him directly. Tell him to cut it out. There were going to be serious consequences if he didnt. In fact, we did not see further tampering of the election process. Im finding it a little curious that everybody is acting surprised that this looked like it was disadvantaging Hillary Clinton because you guys wrote about it every day. This was an obsession that dominated the news coverage. My principal goal leading up to the election was making sure that the election itself went off without a hitch and we accomplished that. When it comes to dealing with russia, president obama says the United States needs to be cautious with how we react. We went out there and made big announcements and thumped our chests about a bunch of stuff that somehow that would potentially spook the russians. The relationship between us and russia has deteriorated. So how we approach an appropriate response that increases costs for them for behavior like this in the future but does not create problems for us, there are times where the message will go will be directly received by the russians and not publicized. I gotta man up here and said yesterday i said the fbi didnt agree with the cia and clapper. Juan was accurate. He said they did. Here is my question. Everyone knows russia is hacking. Everyone knows china is hacking. Is there any indication that it actually did influence the election . President obama said there was no evidence of actual voter fraud in terms of tampering with any of the systems in the United States in terms of how people cast their vote. Then it remains to be seen for those that are wildly spec ta e i speculative as to whether any of the information released did influence the way that the voters decided to choose for president. I ask you this. President obama, this is his house, this is the house he has been in for eight years, had ample opportunity to make sure that state department stimeyste were safe and intact and adequately protected from cyberattack. If there was evidence and warnings that this was occurring, he should have actually done something to stop it. Instead of going like this. Russia, are you scared now . Thumping the chest. At what point . You were right. I stand corrected from yesterday. This is new information. Let me ask you this. Why dont we get the evidence . They say, we agree. How about the American People see some of the evidence . I think the evidence is forthcoming. The question it may not satisfy you when the report is released. The question is, is it concrete . Is it something you can say, you know, here is the smoking gun, we see where russia actually did it . As the president said today, sometimes these folks have shadow actors or blind people, and then you troy trace it back and all that. I thought it was compelling when he said, you know, theres no question you dont see the russians doing something without Vladimir Putin being in charge of it. That he is in control of that entire government. What interested me and where i was wrong yesterday was i was pretty angry yesterday at president obama because it looked to me like he had just sat on his hands while this was going on and he had the opportunity to save to say the russians are trying to influence. Today he said, im trying to play it straight. If he had said the russians are doing this, it would have seemed that he was just being partisan and in his words it would have been part of the political scrum. He says he thinks they handled it right. I still am not convinced of that. If they did know way back when before the election, why did they do nothing . Why now president obama today says, i told putin, cut it out or else. Im not sure about any of this. The timing of it. I dont understand exactly what theyre trying to accomplish by talking about it now. Its for the sake of transparency . Okay. Or prevent it from happening in the future, i get that. Clarity, that would be good. Or is it to delegitimatize and play down the win of donald trump in the election . The other thing is if the cia memo that brought this to light leaked when those memos go out to staff, they know its going to leak. It seep seems there might be political appointees who are leaving the agencies who are going to be transitioning out who wanted to get this information out there in some way. I understand also president obama saying he didnt want to escalate a cyber war. But it seems like if this was happening, then i dont know what the further escalation is. You can shut down their electricity grid in moscow. It seep seems to me that it ha happened to the republicans, the republicans would be mad. Interestingly on the front page of the wall street journal today is the story that says the rnc was able to thwart the hacking attack. Maybe they were trying to hack the republicans as well. One of the most concerning things that very long press con it was more than an hour and a half. At one point president obama said, were not that sophisticated. Its easy to hack us. Well, yeah, except for Everyone Wants to hack us. Whats the answer . Do we need to spend a ton of money on Cyber Security . They did hack our military was it august 2015 . They tried to seize the emails of our joint chief of staff. And white house in 2014. Its a forever game for the russians. Right now they are high fiving. We cant think its going to end here. Theyre going to do the democrats, republicans, everybody. Theres a theme that he hit on that kind of bugged me. He kept talking about the polarization and division, which is there, theres no question its there. It culminated during his reign. The division deepened while he was president. So its like him complaining about polarization is like a refinery complaining about pollution. He created a lot of it. The thing is, that doesnt bother me about the whole idea about people favoring putin over hillary and whatnot. Its assuage. It breaks my hearts to see conservatives trusting assuage over our intelligence agency. Asausuage is one of the most antiamerican person on the planet. He leaked named of afghans who were cooperating. He claimed wikileaks uncovered american atrocities. He compared gitmo to auschwitz. He praises hezbollah. He leaked a memo of an army device that jammed ieds. Were calling him a hero . When president obama said, reagan is rolling lets do this. Stay right there. You accurately point out divisions that are being pushed, pedalled. You talk about assuage being praised by conservatives. President obama widening the divide. Skip this one. Listen to this. There was a survey some of you saw where this is just one poll but credible source. 37 of the Republican Voters approve of putin. Over a third of republican voter s approve of Vladimir Putin, the former head of the kgb. Ronald reagan would roll over in his grave. Greg, now, liberals are saying, assuage was ours and republicans are saying, wait a minute, reagan is ours. It is flipped. Its flipped. He is right. I think president reagan would g go, i cant believe this is happening. Now were embracing the former head of the kgb. Replace russia with mexico. Replace trump with hillary. Mexico tampered to get hillary in. We would be flipping out. He has a point. Build a wall on canada. Exactly. Your thoughts on president obama invoking Ronald Reagan suggesting that i guess the he party ofe party or reagan . The one thing i thought of was everybody tries to use reagan. He has done this before. All the president ial candidates on the republican side invoke reagan at some point. Everybody tries to use his legacy. It started out in Obamas Administration that he wanted warmer relations with russia. Actually go back to 2001, george w. Bush wanted warmer relations. Its a foolser ra efoolse err. Is it okay to have warmer relations with putin . If theres a payoff. There was the potential for them to join with a new kind of alignment in europe at one point. To spread western europe towards the east. Putin is not a player. He is a player, but hes not a fair player. He is not interested in any kind of an alliance. He is not interested in peace. He is just interested in making it clear that the former soviet union is still a power in this world and they shouldnt be looked down upon. Final thought there. Thats for sure. Thats his objective. Thats his goal and focus. Then we have ours. Thats why its so crucially important to make sure you have the right people in place that know how to handle them, that are going to be strong and follow through so theres that level of fear and respect at the same time that he knows that if we say enough is enough that there will be consequences. Thats going to be the job, we will see, of the future secretary of state thats been nominated, rex tillerson, among others to negotiate and talk to him. At least he has some past history and dealings. He knows who will be across the table from him. He will be nobodys fool. The importance of that pick. Very good. We turn our focus to the humanitarian crisis in syria. Many say this will be the biggest stain on president obamas legacy. His response to that next. Later, facebook friday. Post your questions for us on our facebook page. We will be right back. Its your tv, take it with you. With directv and at t, stream live tv anywhere datafree. Join directv today starting at 35 month. 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There are thousands trapped inside the city, including women and young children. The Obama Administration is back on the defense over its syria policy in the wake of the humanitarian crisis in aleppo. At his final press conference, president obama addressed the uni United States role. This blood and these atrocities are on their hands. The United States continues to be the Worlds Largest donor of humanitarian to the syrian people. There needs to be a broader ceasefire that can serve as the basis for a political rather than a military solution. Thats what the United States is going to continue to push for, both with our partners and through multilateral institutions like the u. N. You may achieve tactical victories over the longterm, the assad regime cannot slaughter its way to legitimacy. While he stands firm, Charles Krauthammer argues it will be one of the greatest downfalls of his presidency. He imagines the obama deal is his legacy. It is not. Aleppo is his legacy. History will remember this as kind of a symbolism of the whole policy of retreat and the unhe have table outcome. The only thing that could have stopped this ultimately would have been some kind of deterrent from the United States, a warning to keep the russians out. We didnt. And now we have what we have. Greg, in regards to that evacuation, apparently the russians maybe there was confusion on the ground, fog of war. But they put out notices today that the evacuation was complete. Then people who were returning to their homes because they had no way to get out. Yeah. This rips with pit show. What can you do . Theres nothing you can do or say. Aleppo this whom thing was allowed to unravel because of president obamas desire for a legacy through an iran treaty. He was busy watering the plant while the house next store was on fire. He could have hosed it down. We talked about diplomacy. Whats the common link in all of i guess this administrations embarrassments . A guy named kerry. I return to that james taylor moment where he brought a folk singer to an attack. There is naivete. Theres a misunderstanding of how to deal with the sober realities of the world. If you talk it out with them, everything will be fine. Sometimes they just dont understand talk. They understand action. President obama said he takes responsibility for whats happening in syria. And he should. I completely agree with his policy. Thats the weird thing is i think we need to have Political Solutions rather than military solutions in the middle east. Specifically in syria. Add humanitarian aid. Im against a military action there. Its his fault because he was the one who drew the chemical red line, allowed it to be breached and did nothing. Again, im all for you. If you want to go, go. If you dont want to go, im behind you as well. Whau whatever you decide to do, make syria know you mean what you say. I agree with greg on john kerry. He is the most incompetent secretary of state in our lifetime if not longer. I disagree you hosing down the next door neighbors house when its on fire. You put americans at risk. Im against doing that. When you put that house out, the house next door will be on fire and the next door. Eventually the whole idea of combating fires is you put out that fire so it doesnt spread. The problem is, president obama has this feckless foreign policy. He drew a line he had no intention of enforcing. Then what we see now, the result is the fall of aleppo and syria and assad has no ability with its military sources to hold and control that sit city, which is. This is a big problem because he didnt act. Now we have a situation where you cannot rule out military action because it is that far gone. He created this situation. Charles krauthammer is right. Now its a mess. Unless we do something to help there, if you dont control and deal with it there, then they want to come here. Thats not going to solve any problems either. In terms of the refugees and everybody being displaced. Unfortunately, president elect trump is inheriting the mess of this disastrous legacy of president obama. The world is suffering. Juan, when you think about the next 40 days, this evacuation is happening as we speak and the administration is wrapping things up and a new one is coming in, can we wait to do more . It seep seems its a done d. Assad has won. Thats probably to me the most tragic aspect of this all. If you recall the russians came in when we saw the rebels having some success and then assad and the russians respond. The United States does not act at that moment. The way i think about this is, what could the u. S. Have reasonably done . If you remember, Hillary Clinton had the idea of nofly zones to try to keep the russians out, also to stop that kind of not only attack on civilians but attacks that were against the rebels who were opposing assad. President obama decided no. Then if you impose that, then you are potentially in conflict with the russians. The question,how are you going to resolve that . I suppose thats the way he is thinking. Today at the press conference, what he says is, we cared. He has he was very he kno children are suffering, dieing who dont deserve it. How much do you put the United States at risk in order to resolve those issues . This is erics point. A degre i agree. I understand. I think at some point in this one, i just cant stomach assad winning after all the destruction, the murder. I think the ongoing situation with the evacuation, what is that but a slaughter . The only other when you say you cant stomach assads victory, imagine if it were isis. Thats the only if theres a Silver Lining somewhere in this horrible mess. Remember, there was a rebel group that the United States tried to if we had i dont i agree. They werent properly supported. Some of those ended up going to isis. 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As aleppo lies in ruins thanks to the Obama Administrations failed strategy, president elect trump offers his plan to help end the nightmare in syria. I will build safe zones in syria. When i look at whats going on in syria, its so sad. Its so sad. And we have to help people. We have the gulf states. They have nothing but money. We dont have money. We owe 20 trillion. I will get the gulf states to give us lots of money, and we will build and help build safe zones in syria have a chance. Obviously, the president elect sympathetic to the humanitarian crisis occurring in aleppo, wants do something about it. He wants other people to partner. He is mentioning the gulf states that could be helpful in creating safe zones there. One of the things i like about donald trump is his noninterventionist strategies. He was out there saying i was against the iraq war, i was against getting involved in the conflicts. I hope he stays with that. You need to provide aid. We are the richest country in the world. We can afford this. We can afford the help. We need to do we have to have politics get involved. We need a good secretary of state. If it gets bad and theres continued humanitarian atrocitie