Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170626:23:08:00
Why didn't he do more before the election? the answer was, number one, he was worried if he did, putin would do something even worse, try to tamper on election day with voting machines, for example, and number two, that trump would politicize it. which clearly trump might have politicized it. >> by saying the russians were trying to help trump, by the very act of challenging that it may look like obama was jumping in unfairly? >> correct. that way it would have looked potentially like obama was trying to help hillary win the election. he wanted to avoid that. they decided to back load the sanc...
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