30 Apr 2017 7:32 pm
Poor John Dickerson.
It was like pulling teeth to get 45 to say that it was the Russians who hacked the DNC.
Notice how 45 just kept changing the subject.
It was like pulling teeth to get 45 to say that it was the Russians who hacked the DNC.
Notice how 45 just kept changing the subject.
JOHN DICKERSON: You said yesterday on FOX that Russia is a phony story.
Which part of it is phony?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The concept of Russia with respect to us is a total phony story.
JOHN DICKERSON: Meaning the Trump campaign?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Of course, it's a total phony story.
In fact, I just heard where General Flynn got his clearance from the Obama administration.
JOHN DICKERSON: But you don't mean--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Excuse me. I didn't realize this, when he went to Russia, it was 2015 and he was on the Obama clearance.
When General Flynn came to us, as you now know, he already had the highest clearance you can have.
I think the same clearance as the president of the United States would have.
He had this really high clearance.
And, by the way, they're so devastated because this only came up two days ago.
JOHN DICKERSON: Let me ask you this, sir.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Why wasn't this reported months ago?
JOHN DICKERSON: I--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But I watched one of your other competitors, and they were devastated--
JOHN DICKERSON: Look--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: --by this news, because you know what?
That kills them. That's the end of that subject.
JOHN DICKERSON: You don't think it's phony that they, the Russians, tried to meddle in the election?
You believe that?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That, I don't know. I don't know.
JOHN DICKERSON: That you don't know or you do know?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I have a problem. You have Podesta, who, by the way, I understand has a company with his brother in Russia.
Hillary's husband makes speeches in Russia.
Hillary did a uranium deal with Russia.
Nobody ever talks about that. But I don't know--
JOHN DICKERSON: You don't--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: --because the F.B.I. was not allowed by Podesta to go in and check all of the records on their servers and everything else that you would normally have to check.
That's number one.
Number two, knowing something about hacking, if you don't catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it's very hard to say who did the hacking.
With that being said, I'll go along with Russia.
Could've been China, could've been a lot of different groups.
JOHN DICKERSON: So President Donald Trump is ambivalent--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But it could've--
JOHN DICKERSON: --about or not ambivalent, you're not just not sure?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No. We have to find out what happened.
I'd love to find out what happened.
JOHN DICKERSON: But you don't think it's the Russians--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I can tell you one thing. Had nothing to do with us. Had nothing to do with this, and everyone knows it.
And by the way, even my enemies on your show said, "We haven't found anything that the Trump campaign did wrong."
JOHN DICKERON: But--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Do you agree with that?
JOHN DICKERSON: But there is agreement in the intelligence communities and other places and investigative communities on the Hill that Russia was--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I'm okay with it.
JOHN DICKERSON: --involved in the election.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Honestly, John, I'm okay.
But why didn't Podesta and the Democrats, why didn't they allow the F.B.I. to eject the server?
They hired some company who somebody said some pretty bad things about, to go and check their server and give the information.
So they were hacked. Why didn't they -- the Democrats allow the F.B.I.?
They told the F.B.I., "We are not going to allow you to do it."
Why did they do that? Why did they do that, John?
Why wouldn't they let the F.B.I. go in and check?
And by the way, why didn't the F.B.I. complain about it?
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