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White house facing fierce criticism from fellow democrats about how they mishandled the russian attack. tim kaine blasting the obama administration for its lack ire. >> there was smoke in the kitchen and the response was to open the windows when we needed a fire extinguisher. >> former dhs secretary jay johnston defending the administrations russian response. >> you have to think about the affect of injecting ourselves into the campaign. you have to think about and anticipate what the russian re...

Not the least of which that north korea acts as a buffer to the tens of thousands of u.s. troops that are currently stationed in south korea. and so the big question now moving forward for the trump administration and, frankly, a question we dont have an answer to yet, is if the trump administration feels that china isnt doing enough to push the north koreans to stop developing these weapons, what is the trump administration going to do next? we dont know the answer to that. and the broader impa...

Putin wants the sanctions to be lifted. they must be working to some affect. >> theres two issues on the sanctions. one is on the ukraine. the other is our election. everyone agrees that putin med led in our election. it came directly from him. what are the possibilities to impinge on him to make a difference with him? >> well theres one very important person that hasnt quite agreed. he said if the russians meddled in our election. the president hasnt come to that conclusion. i think there shoul...

The presidential election. >> correct. >> do you stand by that? >> yes. thank you for that cl clarification. >> its not the job of the intelligence agency to determine whether the information dumped had an affect on the outcome, only whether machines were impacted, not people? >> correct. you would need a social scientist to do that. >> i wanted to ask you about the information concerning potential coordination with the russians. are you aware of the basis -- we heard testimony that the fbi inve...

Campaign. or taking steps to themselves delegitimize the election process and undermine the integrity of the election process. so we considered all those things. the decision was made that the director of national intelligence, secretary of homeland security should together make this statement. there were public statements made by various administration officials, including myself, all through the campaign season, pre-election, to the same affect. >> i yield back. >> secretary johnson, welcome. ...

In. we needed to bring the whos to water to seek our cyber security help. so making the designation would have in my assessment driven them in the opposite direction. my number one priority pre-election was to get them to seek our cyber security help. for the most part, they did. >> thank you, mr. secretary. >> thank you. i will begin by yielding a moment to the ranking member. >> thank you. just a quick follow-up. you have been asked about whether the vote tallies were impacted. some have sugge...

Anti-trump, just look at the health care fight. the republicans are trying to fix obamacare and democrats are refusing to do anything to help fix the bill and system that they created. thats not a recipe for success, and i think the sourcing more than anything else. >> bill: is there an effect on this and republicans in congress? >> i dont know if there is a positive affect. if you didnt have a lawsuit in the media it completely going overboard, the fact that you wont be hearing all that gives r...

About what the republicans did was how they tied pelosi. nancy pelosi and the leaders in the house to ossoff in a negative bad way. >> its remarkable how this works. its been years that this is going on and it does. we talk about how local voters in the district vote the district and vote the candidate there, theres a reason people are spending lots of lots of money nationalizing the company because people know those messages are effective. and clearly we saw that she had a set back tonight. >> ...

>> i would. china has been enabling north korea for 65 years and hasnt had any positive affect. i think a succession of administrations have relied on china to do something positive and it hasnt worked out. short of doing something milltarially. theres lots of things we can do and they are being considered right now. they include putting real stricter sanctions on north korea. we have some sanctions on them but if we would just preclude their capability to exchange currency through the system so...

Forward and say full on this was an unprecedented act that needs to be responded to. >> what do you make of jay johnson saying he waited to go public with this? >> i asked him about that. he had call with secretaries of states in august and talked about hacking going on but he didnt specify it was russia. it was said in terms that you could have just as easily ignored. i think it was a chilling affect on the obama administration to take the kind of action they should have taken because donald tr...