perjury and financial information about mr. trump. this information was provided as part of last week s classified intelligence briefing. the world s senior most intelligence officials took the allegation of compromising material seriously both on president trump and on president obama to a dossier compiled by a british intelligence agent. in conversations described in the dossier russian officials and others claimed to have personally and financially compromising information on trump. can you tell us why you included a now famous dossier werchs to the president? well, we thought it was important he know about it, that was the main point. not to comment on the voracity. so what happens the next time
pushed for more robust response including stricter economic sanctions. in broad the president feared escalation with russia and at moment charges of influencing the election. at a time when anything that was said by me or anybody in the white house would immediately be seen through a partisan lens. i wanted to make sure that everybody understood we were playing this thing straight. as election day approached, the obama administration s greatest fear was that russian would disrupt actual voting systems. the fear so great that president obama warned putin face to face at a g20 meeting in china. i felt the most effective way to ensure that didn t happen was to talk to him directly and tell him to cut it out, there was going to be serious consequences if he didn t. later obama made rare use of a secured direct messaging
system to the kremlin, similar to e-mail, originally intended to overt nuclear war, this time to warn putin again. i see it now donald trump will carry the state of north carolina. donald trump will carry the state of florida. donald trump wins the presidency. how damaging was this to the clinton campaign? look, it was our job to win and we didn t do it. what went into that, a lot of thing, and we bear our own sense of responsibility for that. but i think it was an important element of electing donald trump and i think the russians got what they paid for. after election day with growing urgency, the obama administration finally retaliated, closing russian compounds in the u.s. believed to be used for spying, expelling
some 35 russian diplomats and imposing more sanctions on russia. in secret, mr. obama considerrd taking more aggressive steps, including initiating a plan to take cyber weapons inside the russian testimony as reported by the washington post . for attempting activation if russia was to attack again. next was president trump also in russia s cross hairs. we thought that it was important that he knew about it.
of democratic contenders. join my campaign, join this effort, let s go win for america. it was now one year to el fbi agent called again with even more alarming news. a dnc computer was now transadmitting information back to russia. still dnc executives claim they were not made aware of the threat, leaving the russians to room free inside the democratic computering for months, in the end giving them further and further ammunition to interrupt the election. a hostile foreign power is trying to engage in our process you would have thought that we have risen up to the attention of the other intelligent agencies in the white house itself. it goes to the fundamental core of our democracy. tom don t lin, president