Biden Defends Obama Not Getting Tough with Russian Meddling: ‘We Didn’t Have Hard Data’

RUSH EXCERPT:
BIDEN: "Well, I don't think -- I think if we had said more about it, we would have further undermined the legitimacy of the process. We didn't have the information we had 15, 20 days after the election was all over. We didn't have hard data on -- we knew that what was happening in terms of intercepting e-mails and the like, but we didn't have the whole picture. And we knew that -- we believed that one of the purposes of what Russia was doing was to discredit the process, the whole process. And so if we came out and looked like we were bigfooting the election a couple weeks before the election, implying that this is all about the Russians trying to help defeat Hillary Clinton, then it would have just thrown it into chaos. But if we knew what we knew in January, it would have been a different story."