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That the attack took place will not defend us from the ongoing attack. >> can the republicans do anything if the administration isnt spearheading this? >> certainly. first of all, they can admit whats going on and they can pressure the administration. we could also set up -- you could have committees looking into this. the democrats on a couple of congressional committees the other day came out with a program for half a billion dollars of shoring up our election security and all the various stat...

In a larger sense hes talking about why people can violate the laws and not have a particular impact on the election if thats the case. you can still violate it and endeavor to do so. hes prosecuting those very crimes. its kind of a talking indictment however because he may not be able to extradite the people hes trying to condemn. >> hes not going to get any of these guys. >> what hes going to do is signal to the president of the united states this actually is, in fact, happening, to the congre...

Right, the white house put out a written statement that gives a nod to our institutions. that is worth noting. the presidents initial reaction, that tweet came out first and the presidents initial reaction was, i got a clean bill of health here, folks, nothing wrong with the trump campaign, no collusion, i told you this all along, i won fair and square. nothing about how hes responding to the attack on our democracy and more importantly not looking backwards but how is he going to prevent it fro...

Exonerates him, it didnt affect the election. that is not what the indictment says. he calls it an anti-u.s. campaign. but as phil said, did he read this because it gets to the point that as it did move toward the nomination of donald trump, this campaign coalesced around him. >> right. its not that he didnt read it but he misses the mark entirely. the focus on the idea of him being exonerated was not the issue. it wasnt talking about the tenants of democracy. they pinpointed areas of the law th...

That there were russians who concealed their russian -- there were defendants who concealed their russian association, who posed as americans and contacted trump campaign officials. what do you think they were trying to do? >> they were clearly trying to help the trump campaign in various ways. the indictment lays out that they were buying ads on social media, that they were inventing their own social media, having their trolls. they invented a site purporting to be the tennessee republican comm...

So how did the new yorker come up with the details? a friend gave the magazine eight handwritten pages. >> she wrote a detailed chronicle of the a fair in selling the story. >> it did sell to the national inquiry for $150,000 days before the election. according to the wall street street journal hand new yorker. why didnt you read it? because the inquiry did not publish the story. but by paying for it legally blocked anyone else, including her, from coming out with details. they have made no comm...

Elections. yes, we should do that regardless whether the president wants to deny what everybody else knows. >> certainly we look at the house and that investigation is quite the mess right now but on the senate side there still is a bipartisan investigation were watching. i do want to ask you -- >> thats an investigation of the past. what im saying is they have to have -- >> for the future. >> the willingness to protect us going forward. >> i wonder -- i know youve seen the presidents written st...

Out information like, for example right here, not my president. after the election, clearly intended to divide america and bring american democracy to its knees, in my judgment clearly also so putin could continue inventions in places like crimea. the fact that the hill committees couldnt have a conversation about the hijacking of our democracy in the past year in light of this indictment, it couldnt be starker. incredible. >> what do you think about that? >> i think phils right. look, this docu...

I dont know how you can read the document and not draw that conclusion. the last thing id say about what the president has said and what i draw from this document, he went on to make other allegations about the document. for example, it lets him off the hook. i mentioned earlier on the election and in other areas, most of what he spoke about in his tweet i didnt find in the document. i cant correspond what i read today and one of the most intelligent documents ive read with the president saying ...

Expect. it condemns the findings about russia here, but the tweet, lets look at the tweet from president trump. it says russia started their anti-u.s. campaign in 2014, long before i announced that i would run for president. the results of the election were not impacted. the trump campaign did nothing wrong, no collusion. what strikes so many people who follow these kinds of things is that the president doesnt condemn russia. normally you would expect we would be reporting on the internal delibe...