Jake Tapper told Democratic Congresswoman Amy Klobuchar Monday that much of the blame for alleged hacks into the 2016 election lies with President Barack Obama.

“Obviously, if Russia committed this interference as the U.S. intelligence community says it did, this is Russia’s doing,” Tapper first stated. “But on another level, to be perfectly candid, isn’t this all a huge failure of the Obama Administration in terms of the cyber security and foreign relations?

“Under his watch, all this happened on his watch to his party and to the detriment of his would-be successor, Hillary Clinton.”

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Klobuchar responded that “it’s easy to cast blame.”

“You can look at things, this has happened to other countries as well,” she added. “But in our country I don’t think we were ready to think that a major nation like Russia would get into this kind of mess with our own country.”

“Do I wish we had done things differently? Yes,” Klobuchar added. “Do I wish we had responded more quickly? Yes. My question now is how do we work together across the aisle to respond more quickly.”

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