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Broke saying he has full confidence in his ability to continue performing his duties. separately, white house press secretary sarah sanders pushing back on criticism that president trump has not been tuff n uff on russia for meddling in the u.s. election. parroting this false tweet from the president. >> he has been tougher on russia in the first year than obama was eight years combined. >> reporter: president obama confronted russian president putin after the dnc hacking, em pelling 35 russian ...

White house has taken some steps on ukraine and syria that angered the kremlin but obama was more forceful combatting election interference and the president doesnt give the impression he is tough on russia. major intelligence say with high confidence that russia interfered in the 2016 election. for a long time president trump refused to acknowledge russias role, even now he continues to down play the affect they may have had on the integrity of our elections. with tweets like this. with congres...

>> first there is this obsession with president obama. theres an obsession with hillary clinton. he ought to get over that. the russia investigation is not investigating barack obama. but number two, i dont know where he gets it from. this is a president who personally warned vladimir putin to stop trying to bless into the election. he imposed sanctions. he closed two of the compounds in the united states. we are still waiting for the president of the united states, the current president, to imp...

Sarah sanders is entering delusional territory there. ill give you an example. in january just before the inauguration, the obama administration impoess ad number of sanctions on russia specifically for election meddling after repeatedly saying in public many times and identifying russia being behind it. something the president hasnt done. you may remember they sanction ad number of russian entities and individuals. they kicked out 35 some odd russian diplomats. they closed the two compounds. to...

Hes been tougher than obama. hes rebuilt the military. hes done a number of things to put pressure on russia and to be tough on russia. >> that was white house press secretary sarah sanders moments ago, attempting to back up president trumps tweet plane that hes been tougher on russia compared to his predecessor. joining me to help separate fact from fiction, retired four star general heyden. so lets go through facts here. the obama administration called out russia in september and october 2016 ...

They did agree to sell weapons to ukrainians, unlike obama. the trump administration toyed with the idea of returning the compounds. that might be what sarah sanders said when she said they seized property. it is also important to note that trump never says a bad word about vladimir putin. is it accurate for trump to say hes been tougher on russia than obama? in your opinion. >> based on my knowledge of the facts, no. youre right. did he sell offensive arms to the ukrainians. javelin missiles. i...

What this signals for the rest of the presidents campaign team. all that coming up. but up first, president trump attacks former president barack obama over russia election meddling while the president has yet to confront russia or condemn vladimir putin. the president pointed fingers at the obama administration, tweeting this. i have been much tougher on russia than obama. just look at the facts. in an earlier post he tweeted, quote, obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election so why...

This morning president trump unleashed another round of attacks on president obama over the previous administrations handling of russia interference in the 2016 election. this morning the president tweeted, i have been much tougher on russia than obama, just look at the facts. lets look at the facts, then. the white house has not taken russia to task for its efforts to interfere in the election and the russians have not admitted to doing anything wrong. president obama warned russia against inte...

Russian election meddling. president obama did take action, including a personal warning to the russian president, vladimir putin. >> in early september when i saw president putin in china, i felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didnt happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out and there would be some serious consequences if he didnt. >> the observe administration also slapped russia with sanctions in december 2016, expelled more than 30 intelligence operatives ...

Been much tougher on russia than obama. just look at the facts. total fake news. obama personally warned putin against interfering, imposed sanctions on russian individuals, expeled 35 russian diplomats, closed two russian compounds in the u.s. >> the easiest way to get him to refuse a policy is say obama did the reverse. lots of democrats, including adam schiff, leading democrat on the house intelligence committee who have complaints that the obama administration did not do enough in 2016, know...