was hacked. the strategic release of the material. e-mails and especially the clinton e-mails. i don t know how much effect it had or not. but trump has taking a surprising number of republicans with him into an accommodating of putin position. we ll see how long it lasts and we ll see how long it lasts for trump incidentally. i have been a little shocked, with a few exceptions, how many trump supporters, advocates, people who wish trump well, decided to go down the road with them and not picking a fight with putin as they see it. that s true. to be fair, you have mccain and graham traveling to eastern europe. not just them. mitch mcconnell, saying it was russia. we need even more serious sanctions. paul ryan saying the same thing. i think that is a very telling illustration of how strangely off the reservation trump and his supporters are in terms of their extreme efforts to downplay, disregard, question what seems to be the unanimous conclusion of the intelligence community t