reward good workers and top remove federal employees who obviously undermine the public trust or fail the american people. >> and joining us now is yamiche alcindor and jose barro. yamiche, when we talk about the role of russia in the speech or the lack of a role for russia in the speech, there's the investigation itself but also there's the question of russian meddling in the election, a governmental response to it, possible changes in policy and an approach for future elections and no reference at all to any of that in the speech. >> as soon as i got my hands on the speech which was about 13 pages, the first thing i did was search for the word russia. as far as i could tell it appeared one time in the clip you played where he talked about russia being a rival and somewhat of a challenge for our economy. he would not go into russian -- into the russian government's actions or future actions in our elections.