Adam Schiff: The Biggest Impediment to Dealing with Russia Meddling Is Trump Who Won’t Acknowledge It Happened

‘The biggest impediment to that is the fact our president won’t acknowledge it happened calling it a witch-hunt’

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TODD: "What's the first two or three things in a congressional bill that would be unveiled, say, soon, that you would like to see done to prepare us against election interference in 2018?"
SCHIFF: "Well, I think actually the first and most important thing that we ought to be doing isn't going to be contained in a bill. That is, we need to forge a national consensus, any interference again, we will reject it, no matter when side it helps or hurts. The biggest impediment to that is the fact our president won't acknowledge it happened calling it a witch-hunt and fake so it's very hard to get to that consensus. The reason it's a Democrat report only is not unlike the situation in the White House where it's reported if, you bring up Russia to the president, he uses it as an attack of are him holding office and wouldn't surprise me if the Republicans on the Senate felt the president would read that as a hostile act. That leaves us very unprepared. I would say developing that national consensus, hardening our election's infrastructure, making sure that we have our intelligence indices protecting against Russian intervention are among the top three steps we can take."

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