>> all i can do is ask the question. my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others, they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> boy, oh, boy, you want to go back to obama when he said the -- to then-president medvedev after the election, i'll have more leeway on policy. you guys made it seem like it was traitorous. yet he said that on the stage in helsinki and you want people to believe he cares about the issue. >> first, ambassador bolton noted the very first issue brought up in that meeting with putin was election interference. >> by whom? >> by president trump to vladimir putin. he brought up election interference. i wasn't in that -- >> like in that last press conference where he said hey, don't interfere in our election again. >> it was brought up, chris. and i would contrast this, by the way, to susan rice, obama's nsa national security advisor