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That the attack took place will not defend us from the ongoing attack. >> can the republicans do anything if the administration isn't spearheading this? >> certainly. first of all, they can admit what's going on and they can pressure the administration. we could also set up -- you could have committees looking into this. the democrats on a couple of congressional committees the other day came out with a program for half a billion dollars of shoring up our election security and all the various states, getting rid of the pure electronic voting machines that are susceptible to electronic hacking ...

In a larger sense he's talking about why people can violate the laws and not have a particular impact on the election if that's the case. you can still violate it and endeavor to do so. he's prosecuting those very crimes. it's kind of a talking indictment however because he may not be able to extradite the people he's trying to condemn. >> he's not going to get any of these guys. >> what he's going to do is signal to the president of the united states this actually is, in fact, happening, to the congressional legislative committees that they can protect the midterms in 2018 and by the way, the...

Right, the white house put out a written statement that gives a nod to our institutions. that is worth noting. the president's initial reaction, that tweet came out first and the president's initial reaction was, i got a clean bill of health here, folks, nothing wrong with the trump campaign, no collusion, i told you this all along, i won fair and square. nothing about how he's responding to the attack on our democracy and more importantly not looking backwards but how is he going to prevent it from happening again? >> this is about a bigger issue than just the president. this is about the cou...

Exonerates him, it didn't affect the election. that is not what the indictment says. he calls it an anti-u.s. campaign. but as phil said, did he read this because it gets to the point that as it did move toward the nomination of donald trump, this campaign coalesced around him. >> right. it's not that he didn't read it but he misses the mark entirely. the focus on the idea of him being exonerated was not the issue. it wasn't talking about the tenants of democracy. they pinpointed areas of the law that are already concerning, campaign finance, the ideas of money laundering and schemes, the idea...

That there were russians who concealed their russian -- there were defendants who concealed their russian association, who posed as americans and contacted trump campaign officials. what do you think they were trying to do? >> they were clearly trying to help the trump campaign in various ways. the indictment lays out that they were buying ads on social media, that they were inventing their own social media, having their trolls. they invented a site purporting to be the tennessee republican committee which was not, in fact, the tennessee republican committee, but a lot of people believed it wa...