adversary nation that is russia. he did not sit down with him as an equal and call him a great nuclear power. president obama demanded a stop to the attack on our state election systems and threatened severe consequences if that didn't stop. he did not say he would simply ask president putin about it. president trump said over the weekend he was going to maybe raise this, he would ask president putin about it. that's like asking the defendant if he's guilty. you don't ask something you know the answer to. president trump's own intelligence community and own justice department laid out a very clear set of evidence about the attack on our democracy and president putin -- president trump, rather, it's as if he doesn't credit any of that and leaving the question open for president putin. the real question, john, is not what did his predecessor did, but what are we doing today, right now, what is this