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Trump gets echo of Obama’s Russia crisis with lame-duck hacking Nick Wadhams A massive hack on the federal government presents President Donald Trump with the same choice Barack Obama faced in the waning days of his tenure: whether to impose sanctions on Russia, and how severe to make them. So far, Trump has shown little willingness to impose costs. Confronted with evidence that Vladimir Putin’s government orchestrated cyberattacks aimed at interfering with the 2016 election, Obama levied sanctions against Russia’s intelligence services and expelled 35 diplomats. Now, it’s Trump’s t...

Other than the north korea link than the russia bank? >> it is a good thing to do and reenforces there is a sense of two separate governments working here. officials who carry out these steps which are all well-advised and the president who seems to be giving a different message entirety and under cutting the effects of it. putin will hear about the sanctions but he's also hearing from the president of what he says. i have been told the by the russians that sometimes these strengthen him. >> i am going to ask you to stick around for us, christopher painter and director mclaughlin, thank you bo...

With the hoax, his crowd and base, you know at this rally and i was there last night, they want to hear that. they want to hear that what he's doing is trying to have diplomacy with russia and trying to make a better world and they want to hear that his election is credible because they all believed in it. he obviously is worried of the legitimacy over the course of time and he said both things that the russians interfered and he believed vladimir putin when he says he did not interfere and having any degree of variance on that opens the door to those who would call it a hoax as he has. >> chr...