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It came to dealing with national security issues. whether you believe he did the right thing and not taking more substantive action and determining that politics were too much of a factor, that could be debated, but this issue with russia today is this president's issue. so the real question isn't why didn't president obama do more? that will be debated and historians will examine that and the real question is what is president trump going to do today to address the fact that russia, a foreign government and an adversary of the united states interfered in one of our most fundamental and founda...

Intelligence is well ahead of the game here. we don't talk about this stuff. we have cyber capabilities that i guarantee you outpace what the russians have and the thing about doing something about a particular hack, you can't put up a wall and say don't hack anymore and you'll have to launch a counterattack and obama determined that wasn't the right thing to do. >> it's not the time. >> he did respond and we know what he did as far as the retaliation and it came in december. he had the sanctions and got rid of people from the compounds that were here, but jack, the report in "the washington p...

The cracks in the foundation of the western world that slowly appear. >> jack, thank you. ali, great article. thank you very much. >> thanks. >> coming up, can anything -- i mean anything -- get done in washington next week? former fbi director james comey now to speak publicly for the first time. what kind of circus should we be getting ready for? plus president trump pulling the u.s. ought of a major international climate deal. the only other countries not on board, syria and nicaragua. will this move hurt america's ability to lead? will it tarnish the u.s. position in the world? that's co...

>> jack, your thoughts as this whole sort of russian thing is developing, when you sort of step back from your experience and you look at this whole investigation here in washington, what do you think? >> well, what i think, it looks like the '70s all over again when -- particularly what i believe the russians are after now is creating cracks within the western world, creating cracks between us and our nato partners, creating to the extent they can, creating chaos and confusion within the united states itself. and this was famously in the old days in the '70s, the kgb was very successful doing...

Diplomat turning up in odd places in the united states. intelligence officials concluding the kremlin is waging a quiet effort to map the united states telecommunications infrastructure perhaps even preparing for an opportunity to disrupt it. ali watkins is author of the article and correspondent for politico. and jack barski is a former kgb agent who spied on the u.s. nearly ten years, also author deep under cover, entangled allegiance as a kgb spy. welcome to both of you. these are russian diplomats, russian spies and we've lost track of them. how does this happen? >> this has been a running...