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Russians. they believe the president is morale lined with them than he is with us. if they believe that, they'll keep doing that. intelligence officials don't have directives from this president to stop the interference campaign. it's on congress. if the executive isn't going to defend the country, our congressional leaders need to unite and say we're going to do all we can to protect the ballot box. >> where are the republicans on this? >> i think the one chance they had to rebuke the president on something firm that came out was what we learned happened in helsinki, when we learned president...

Keep doing that. intelligence officials don't have directives from this president to stop the interference campaign. it's on congress. if the executive isn't going to defend the country, our congressional leaders need to unite and say we're going to do all we can to protect the ballot box. >> where are the republicans on this? >> i think the one chance they had to rebuke the president on something firm that came out was what we learned happened in helsinki, when we learned president trump discussed the possibility of letting americans be interrogated by russian agents. once we got word of that...

Same time, you can say there was no collusion and it didn't impact the outcome, but we do need to know what they are doing and what any other government out there is doing, because they are not alone, the russians, in terms of getting in the way of our elections and we simply won't stand for it. >> that's right. you can separate collusion from this interference campaign and say we are never going to tolerate an adversary doing this. martha, just weeks after the november election, i wrote legislation, bipartisan legislation to have an independent commission because i feared this was too charged...

To drop. zbl zbl zblen. >> and the white house saying the meeting with vladimir putin is still on. you could make the argument that today's indictment would give the president the evidence he needs to go into that meeting and hold vladimir putin to account for russian interference in the campaign. well, in advance of that meeting trump suggested he does not plan to confront putin very strongly. this is what he had to say earlier today. >> i know you'll ask will we be talking about meddling? and i will absolutely bring that up. i don't think you'll have any gee, i did it, i did it, you got me. ...

Morning asking why didn't the obama administration do something. he did something. he told president putin to cut it out as you say, the hacking, also there were sanctions implemented at the very end of 2016. are you satisfied with the obama administration efforts to thwart the interference campaign by putin? >> i think what we saw was candidate trump was saying this entire election process is rigged. i think what you saw is president obama bending over backwards to try to not interfere with an upcoming election by talking about this issue. when you absolutely felt they had to, they confronted...