if trump is setting up a fig leaf scenario where he is not going to directly accuse putin of the hacking, but, rather, give him an opportunity to get some plausible denial so that putin might be able to step forward and say, well, i am going to out of the goodness of my heart work with the americans to make sure that no future hacking incidents eminate from russian territory or use russian code, and if reporters who stick microphones in trump s mouth force him to say stick-like things, then we don t have a good cop-bad cop. all we have is two bad cops. i think that, you know, we have an opportunity to get the desired outcome. is the desired outcome to just say bad things about putin, or is the desired outcome to change russian behavior visa vi hacking? i think we have the stick going on with president doing a great job with that. needs to be done. let s look at a vrariant, and se if we can get
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