I want this man to stay out of our election and quit disrupting the world. So being tougher than Obama doesn't get me to where I want to go. If you were really tough on Putin he would not be doing what he is doing.
We need to harden our electoral infrastructure, and you need to be the leader of that movement.Īnd you need to work Congress to come up with new sanctions, because Putin is not getting the message. Don't meet with this guy from a position of weakness. Just have sanctions that can fall on Russia like a hammer. GRAHAM: Well, you need to get with Rubio and Van Hollen, myself and others and come up with a set of sanctions that would be a hammer over Russia's head if they continue to interfere in the 2018 election. Get your entire government, which is doing a lot of good work, but nobody knows about it, sit down with Congress and the administration, and you lead this nation to hardening of the 2018 election process before it is too late, not just from Russia, but from others.īRENNAN: Well, it sounds like you are saying, after a week of, you know, some conflicting statements, that you still aren't sure the president is fully believing what his intelligence community is telling him. Harden our electoral infrastructure for 2018. It could some other power, not just Russia. President, they meddled in the elections. You didn't collude with the Russians, or at least I haven't seen any evidence. If you suggest that Russia - Russians meddled in 2016, he goes to the idea that, well, II didn't collude with them. But I think the president gets this confused. The Carter Page warrant is whether or not the Trump campaign colluded the Russians.
GRAHAM: This is completely different than whether or not the Russians interfered in our election. BRENNAN: I am pressing you on this because you have expressed some concern about the president's skepticism about his own intelligence community and this specific criticism of the FBI.
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