and condemn russia's interference in our election. we have not seen him come out and say, i'm going to do everything in my power to ensure this never happens again. and we also haven't seen the president follow through on imposing russian sanctions that have been overwhelmingly aproved by congress. so sarah sanders can go out and say what she feels she needs to say from the podium in that briefing room, but i think a lot of people are looking at this saying, why would we believe this if it doesn't come from the president directly? and his actions have really not backed up her words at the podium today. >> and this this president always needs a foil, so it's either hillary clinton or barack obama or the media. that's why he keeps going back to the obama well. i have to ask you, sarah sanders also made this false claim about the president's response to russia. take a look. >> the president hasn't said that russia didn't meddle. what he's saying is it didn't have an impact and it certainly wasn't with help from the trump campaign. >> the facts don't bear that out either, do they? >> look, don, i think if the