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Post." >> absolutely. phil is absolutely right. the president has every -- had every opportunity to understand what was going on here. and i think whats been more startling than anything from my perspective, and i talk to people in the national security space, and my former colleagues in the intelligence community. the president has not demonstrated a level of curiosity about this. the presidents most important job is making sure that he can protect this country and defend this country, and that...

Obstruction of justice, a means -- he won the election fair and square, but you can still win fair and square and have had russian collusion. we learned from director comey that he never discussed this from the president, never asked him about details or for a br f briefing, and jeff sessions as well never had a briefing with the president about this. >> yeah, i think when you look at what the administration is saying, a lot of it has to do with the allegations of collusion. and thats, i think, ...

Collusion between the campaign and russia, which he is very concerned about and denies. as a member of the house intelligence committee, do you think the president should spend more time making sure u.s. elections are never hacked again and less time trying to refute any collusion? >> well, as a member of the house intelligence committee, im involved in this investigation. the most important thing is the investigation is bipartisan and thorough. yes, we should all be concerned with the russian a...

Election and the prior administration, but not much about what this administration plans to do or is doing about the next cyber attack. i spoke about it earlier with republican congressman will hurd, a member of the house intelligence and homeland security committees, also a former cia officer. congressman hurd, president trump has spent a lot of time focused on russia. the vast majority seems at least publicly to be refuting collusion between the campaign and russia, which he is very concerned ...

This. >> to shawns point, you know, if the president is actually interested in russian interference, because clearly this is so wrapped up in the allegations of collusion, the allegations of obstruction of justice, that the president takes this personally, that this is somehow, you know -- hes said this in the past -- a means of making his election invalid, which it is not. he won fair and square. but you can still win fair and square and still have had russian collusion. we learned from directo...

Administration should have done more. yet, there is no indication, as you went through in the last hour, and as many people have reported on, that this administration has moved to do anything to address the underlying concerns. put aside for a minute the question of collusion and obstruction of justice and all of those kind of ancillary investigations. >> right. >> the question of what is this administration doing to directly address the russian activities and to prevent them in the future seems...

To be focused on this. this is the battlefield of the future. the russians are definitely coming back, and they have proven that they are effective at it. so we have to have a plan, and its got to be serious and sort of on a war footing, but from a cyber perspective, not a battle perspective. >> it seems like the presidents plan is go after the obama administration for not doing enough, and certainly theres plenty of criticism whether they did enough or what they did do. >> right. but the thing ...

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