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And a different thing the dire so his message becomes clouded and it isnt as clear i suspect as not only he wants to get across but also that his voters want to hear from him. >> now, james, to you, the big question here is how do we deter russia from doing this? president obama enacting some economic sanctions against russian intelligence agencies, kicking out those 30-odd diplomats from russia, closing down those two compounds, one of them which may be opened again, have we done enough already...

Homeland security secretary jeh johnson who testified before the house intelligence committee this week he believes putin is still undeterred. listen. >> i think we have to assume for all the reasons that have been discussed here that the russians will be back and possibly other state actors and possibly other bad cyber actors. >> so we know in december there were the sanctions that came down. the closing of a couple of russian compounds. what were those punishments designed to accomplish? >> th...

Raid on the bin laden cam pound. do you have a sense of how security officials must feel that the trump administration is giving getting back the seized u.s. compounds to the russians? >> i think they are aghast. i think they feel like the punishment that has been inflicted on russia so far for this really historically troubling sbhfrns in tinterfere u.s. election was light to begin with and to signal that you might be inclined to lift some of those measures is astonishing. >> do you think this ...

Post" reporting it was an intelligence coup in the sense they got a very valuable piece of intelligence which frankly analytically we had assumed and sort of kind of -- come to the conclusion the while back. i think you have heard people on your program and others and myself included not a whole lot goes on in the national security front, on the intelligence front or any front in russia without vladimir putin being involved and its no surprise to me that a former intelligence officer like putin ...

To tout their successes shutting down the export of fentanyl. were looking at the press conference right now and official in their narcotics control bureau told the publication the globe and mail that the chemical compounds are almost changing too fast to catch it. they said, my feeling is that its just like a race and i will never catch up with the criminals. so, from your vantage point, can any law enforcement agency catch up with all the players involved and stop what were looking at right no...

Information. then it looked like they were trying to basically interfere in the election mostly by creating dou doubt. we create even further doubt by making this into a big public matter. >> the administration has been criticized by injecting politics here while on its face they seemed not to inject politics but the opposite happened. >> and i think he also worked hard to try to defend the idea that the obama administration did absolutely nothing which is what president trump suggested. we know...

Administration response to russian hacking. his comments come as the "the washington post" published in the article detailing the debate within the administration over how baste to respond. its a fascinating piece. besides rg a range of options including sanctions and release of embarrassing information on vladimir putin, the post also reports that president obama left president trump with a covert plan to attack russia with cyber weapons in the end the administration you might remember this dec...

There are people in the white house, including the president of the united states, who subscribe to his theories. how else do we explain the lack of pressure on putin, the conversation about lifting sanctions against russia, returning their diplomatic/intelligence compounds in maryland and new york, despite the fact that they have not yet paid any price for the hacking nor for whats happened in ukraine? >> well, i think the president still believes that he has a chance to get along with putin. a...

Sanctions. something that never happened. >> lifting sanctions as a free gift struck me, strikes me notice as a bad, bad idea. my colleagues were concerned about this and so was i at the time. >> reporter: the white house press secretary sean spicer would not comment on reports the administration is considering returning seized russian compounds here in the u.s. he says that jared kushner absolutely continues to have the full confidence of the president. jessica snyder, cnn, washington. vladmi...

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