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Nevertheless, we told the american people, we took a number of steps that we believed were appropriate at the time. now most important is what were going to do now. this president haas a very good ability to draw our attention backwards so that we have these debates about two years ago. the question is what are we doing to harden our election cyber security in this midterm. the intelligence community warned us last week of an ongoing attack and an ongoing threat so the question we need to ask th...

Pattern. the president deferring to, if not flattering, russia. >> look, the president is pretty consistent on some things and this is one of them. and hes had a pretty consistent response whenever this story comes up and this controversy comes up. hes either dismissed it altogether or focused on the part of the revelation that has to do with the 2016 election. the one thing we rarely hear are strong words about what happened to the electoral system, not to him, and assurances that the administr...

Facebook executive who essentially contradicted what was in the mueller indictment. we have that tweet there. so lets pull that up on the screen and you can see here this is, again, facebook executive essentially saying at this whole operation was not about influencing votes. it was more so about causing divisions. the president retweeted that. i guess to you, brian. youve been keeping tabs on all of this. is it even clear whether companies like facebook, have they done all they need to do, seei...

United states electoral process and they are looking particularly to what might take place during the midterm of 2018 this year and then on to 2020. i want to bring up a statement made by the director of national intelligence earlier this week. listen to what he has to say about his concerns about that. >> there should be no doubt that russia perceived that its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 u.s. midterm elections as a potential target for russian influence operations. frankly the...

Democrats do not want solved. all of this is an effort by the democratic party to provide themselves a current underclass. they need a permanent underclass that is dependent on the government for their survival. >> the president also blamed failure on democrats but they push back. >> for the speaker to say this to be march 5, he does not know the fear that they have instilled into the families into the hearts of these children. >> as we know, republicans have their own fractions. moderates are w...

Particularly to what might take place during the midterm of 2018 this year and then on to 2020. i want to bring up a statement made by the director of national intelligence earlier this week. listen to what he has to say about his concerns about that. >> there should be no doubt that russia perceived that its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 u.s. midterm elections as a potential target for russian influence operations. frankly the united states is under attack. >> under attack. that...

Bob mueller might be figuring out. what the president of the united states ought to do right now, he ought to convene a presidentially appointed task force and swear in people from his own government, from outside the government, tech expert, campaign operatives. there ought to be a presidential level task force designed right now to stop the russians from meddling in this midterm and in the next presidential election. this is where you have to learn from what happened and stop it from happening...

Counsels investigation continues. so theres no clear indication that there wont be more indictments in the future and secondly aside from calling russia a bad actor theres really no condemnation of of what russia did in the 2016 election and, further, no exact outline from the administration of how theyre going to pursue any kind of sanctions or attempt to prevent russia from interfering in future elections, including the midterm elections in 2018, which are just a few months away, fred. one las...

Citizens need. this belongs the people of our state not an out-of-state member of the national establishment. bob anderson, chairman of the republican party early in the week and also criticized clarified his criticism via interview. take a listen. >> if you are facing a battle, we pick up the stone and put it in march out. i think theres some people that may have run that will not based on romney candidacy. >> and romney made a couple of more points making a joke that being called a junior sena...

Congratulations. rachel: i live in one of those states. pete: absurd. rachel: wisconsin was really impacted by that ad. it was very powerful. the dnc ought to keep -- hire this russian company. it was so effective. this is so crazy. griff: well see. i went to some of those rallies when i was covering the campaign. pete: you went to russian rallies. griff: trump and anti-trump rallies. one of the ones described in this indictment in new york im positive i was at. heres the other thing we need to ...