election meddling by russia. let me say that again. they knew about the election meddling by srussia. did nothing about it. why? in all caps. saturday tweeted again. since the obama administration was told way before the 2016 elections the russians were m meddling, why not action? focus on them not t. yo, not t. just like mr. t. what s your favorite mr. t st y story? i ve got one. do you have a favorite mr. t story? mine comes in episode four. mine is in real life. he moves into the swankiest neighborhood in chicago known for their beautiful trees. mr. t, he cuts down every tree in the neighborhood. why? why did he do that? because he doesn t like trees. he s mr. t. he didn t want to compete with another t word. i liked him best as clever lang. fantastic. speaking with fox news, president trump said the washington post report was the first time he had heard about any of this very bad news. i just heard today for the
interview sunday on fox news. well i just heard today for the first time that obama knew about russia a long time before the election and he did nothing about it but nobody wants to talk about that. the cia gave him information on russia a long time before they even, you know, before the election. and i hardly see it. it is an amazing thing. to me, you know, in other words the question is, if he had the information, why didn t he do something about it? he should have done something about it. but you don t read that. it s quite sad. for more on this and contributor and former moscow chief jill dougherty joins us from moscow. jill, trump acknowledged that russia did interfere in the 2016 presidential election but is now trying to blame predecessor barack obama for kremlin interference. is that likely to get any traction and change the focus of this store wrib do y
report he just lies. he s telling a lie. he s telling a lie as he s trying to, in some ways, recruit news that in some ways he thinks recuperates himself. let s move it from donald trump to barack obama. a lot of people have been asking the question over the weekend, if barack obama knew they were meddling, why didn t he do something? why did he just sit back and let them keep doing it? because, yes, they were trying to undermine american democracy and once again barack obama just sort of sat back and let it run its course. joe, this is what frustrated republicans for eight years with his foreign policy. the reticence to ever take action, leading from behind, classic leading from behind in the runup to this election and sit around and talk about the russia problem but not actually do anything. but, again, though, mark, he knows that the russians are not only trying to influence the
president trump received his first intelligence briefing on august 17th about russia s efforts to meddle in our elections, but he continued to doubt their findings even after the intel community went public on october 7th. but now president trump is seemingly acknowledged russia s meddling in the 2016 election. it comes in response to the washington post report we first featured on our show friday about the obama administration s five-month debate over how they should respond to that meddling. the post reported president obama deliberated and had some options including cyber attacks on russian infrastructure, the release of intel that might embarrass putin. in the end the president did little to nothing. that came after the election on december 29th. in response to the post reporting friday, president trump tweeted, just out the obama administration knew far in advance of november about
first time that obama knew about russia a long time before the election and he did nothing about it, but nobody wants to talk about that. the cia gave him information on russia a long time before they even, you know, before the election. and i hardly see it. it s an amazing thing. in other words the question, if he had the information, why didn t he do something about it? he should have done something about it. but you don t read that. it s quite sad. again, and that is shot from the fox and friend bathroom cam. he s on there so much. he s on there nonstop. they have a different camera in it every room. they just press it. it s a good strategy, though. this press strategy of putting him in front of such a sycophant and letting him keep talking and digging deeper and deeper and deep er, this is more harmful than if he actually sat down and had a legitimate interview. i ask you the question it s not helpful.