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Includes russian government operatives. but the important point here i think is that this is not new. in fact, this tendency on the part of republican leaders and i'm using that term leaders loosely, republican leaders to protect president trump against these unexplained russia ties predates the election. in late summer of last year, the obama administration approached senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, gave him the full brief on russian meddling in the hopes he would go along with a bipartisan show of force to show the russians we would not take in this and to encourage states to protect...

Obama administration approached senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, gave him the full brief on russian meddling in the hopes he would go along with a bipartisan show of force to show the russians we would not take in this and to encourage states to protect their own systems. he wouldn't sign on to it. it was an abdication of leadership. he was putting party above country. that is consistently what we've seen from republicans across this country. >> david, a politician saying i won't answer a hypothetical, every single campaign question to a candidate is a hypothetical thetical. if you are ...

Night from moderator chris wallace. will you accept the outcome of the debate as a bipartisan tradition of the country. donald trump still a showman position on that point. >> that is absolutely right. he is continue to cater to the core group of supporters he has and the populous far right and what used to be the fringe and now taken center stage. he could have made one last effort to try to pick up some of the undecided voters who are still three weeks out from the election and have not made up their mind. he knew that question was coming. he knew the campaign question was coming. he decided...

Sense and not noise. if you explain qualmly and show character and leadership that will prevail. that's what he's trying to do. >> there seems to be a republican hunger for someone frontation. and they have been too quiet and they want somebody who wants to nail, nail people to the wall? >> i think they wantú1wpx confrontational. fvrh they have to couldn't front reality. and not confront imaginations in the hope of knocking down imaginary demons. >> is it an appropriate campaign question at this point? we are talking about an election in 2016? is it fair to look back on what

Donald. [ cheers and applause ] you remember the rubble? >> jeb bush is outraged at donald trump for having said something that is incon trofrtably true. george w. bush was president when nearly 3,000 americans were murdered in the worst terrorist attack in u.s. history. he'd been president for about nine months. and even after hearings and years of reporting on the 9/11 commission and its report there continues to be a tremendous deal of debate about what could have been done if anything to prevent that attack. but there is no debate about who was in charge when it happened. the larger campai...