Transcript for Former DNC chair to Trump: Tell Putin U.S. won't 'tolerate another hacking'

We confront foreign inference american elections. It's important for us to avoid thinking politically as reor democrat and instead to think patriotically as America onse must nopend on whicside was viczed. That's deputy attorney general R rosenstei fr announcing Robert Mueller's latest indictment in the russiaestigation. Let's bring in the "Powerhouse roundtable," democratic strategist Donna Brazile, she served as the DNC chin 2016 after thckng of ls from thdecratic national committee. Chris Christie, former new jersovernor anabnews contributor. He led prent trump's transitieam in thein months of the campaign. Eve Inskeep, host of NPR's "Morn edition" and Elisabeth bumiller, Washington bureau chief of "The new yoimes." Donna, Thi had to be personal experience reading this indictment. What wenthrough Yo mind asou read the details, thexhstiveetails? First of all, it is finally acknowledged thae hacking was a cr that number one. Number two the time the hag no one believed us. And we didn't have anyone to come tr defense.president ump this mor said that the democratic party should be ashamed of itself. Well, my Resto the president is that there was no way could go Ta Best Buy or office depot or office max to buy anti-gru military intelligence sore to protect and defend ourself. When the counts under attack, the DNC was under H -- in the Clinton campaign. So here's what I'de to thesident, coront Mr. Putin. Give him this men. Lehim know tt the unit states will not tolerate another hacking of our ens 2018, . Like president Obama, also make sure that the federal aies E prepared this election cycle. All urintegrity thing now that we know E are sel tches, not 400-pounduy sitti on the the president neeo acknowledge thnd recogni that he has toro and defend our democracy. The Russians took our emails, took our data, and it co still use informati to Y to sow disrd and to damage our democratic itutions. Governor Christie, if you look at one of the most remarkable things in tindictment, I says that the Russians took actions to et Hillary clintopersonal email server on or about July 27th, 2016.th the president had ay on thatay. Ill they will you this, Russia, I you listening, I hope you're able to F the ,000 email tt are mig. I think Y willbl be rewardedhtily by O press. What the president said -- I remember. He saleember -- Listen -- Dirtly asked Russia to get the emails and they acted.jo let's not -- S an what is an extraordinary bit of work here by Mueller and his people and the department of justice by trying to connect those if you read the whole indictments all these attempts started in and apr before tt so the aminum foil hot folks want to sa oh, well, trump said this on the 27th so they did it. They'ven workingogether -- You don't find that to be an traordinarin Every once in a while there incidences life, and the idea they coulart an operatiosed upon wt ey heard in the morning from the president or in ev the prident and the pridential date donal ump is jusridiculousn you read this entire indictment.-the presidentiandidate dad trump is just ridiculous when -the presidential candidate donal trump is just ridiculohen U Reath presidtial candidate Donald Trump is just ridiculous when you rehis entirendtment. This was aabsolute plan to go after Hillary Clinton, the DNC and thher democric can committs and so the idea that somehow they were spurred on by whald trump said inktely ridiculous. The idea that they had here from the Benning and laid out in that indictment very clearly Andi was say trlier, it' a talking indictment, it allowed us to really see a lot of the idence a lot more than Y ally put Ian indictmen thathese Russian military actors had every intention of damage this election process and to hurt Hillary Clinton. That's wt they weryi do. They didn't need Donald Trump's suggestion T it. Ey were dog it months before that comment. And ts is a solid. I mean there's -- S not a product ofitch-hunt.this is --O, and let's make this stinct too I think E president's reference to witch-hunt has always been about collusion and that's the way I've Al read his statement is that T allegation of collusion between the trump campaign and the Russians is a wihu and I think that you get some support for that in this indictment when the deputy attorney general says there's idence of ericans owingly speaking to Russian military acres who werpuing this on. D I think the thing that people haven't said before, I think io said for the American people who are ltening there, this isn't just the rtment of justice or Bob Mueller. In a grand jury in the district of Columbia who heard this and have said there is pro cause to believe thhiwas committed beyond a reasonable doubt. That's powerful for the americanople who are listeniut er this isn't a group of lawyers sitting around. This is a group of regular citizens serving as grand jurors the distrt Columbia who have said this evidence Dess their vote and they gave it to them. Steve. The presi has not sd anything you just said, governor, said as stly as you DI said this indictment shows an attack on the united states.that's note preside's message today. The president's ag that democratsre to blame. He hasn't spoken up for the country in any statement that we have yetee this is an indictment that shows a series of actions that not only targeted certain people in the United States, but clearly affected the election campaign.we can't say it affected anybody's vote. We don't know that anybody voted differently, but we do know that these hacked emails were a huge pt of the news of the campaign at various points over a perimonths. By thy, the intlie agencies in January of 2017 found that the goal of the runs was to lp Donald Trump as well as to hurtryinton. So the idea that somehow -- and I agree with you, the white house statement ame out after the indictment was mostly about there wereamericans involve therwasn't a word and the president has not said a word about the ct that this was an taelectoral system and that it coulppen again in 2018. But let me ask you, this indictment makes it clear S a Russian tary intelligence operation that hacked these es, and as U said, it dominated the news for a good part of the campaign. Dohe news mea bear some the responsibility? Yes. All. Y. Over day ter day -- Yes. -- Reported the Sance in details of these emails that were stoby -- Blewhe -- blew it out of portion. 184 time what wikileaks did once th received tormation is they used it strategicaea to shape the pical narrave and the media played it up. It was they story. It was very difficult to break rough the a once thacame the stof the day. It was a very highly sophiscated cyberation thatad to involve someone who understood how to E this narriv That is certainly true but what would you have had the media do? You shoul have said this information is froolen hacked emaand the lis that you put at risk when this happened the lives U put at rk you used this nation and weaponizt, it wentig to the heart of what Putin was trying to do in our election. , Let's be candid. I was working on the other side time to Tim In hindsight. But the point is thatlive in a culture today that cares about getting ve wh is new first, and ea of what de that mouse or not cause becomes a secondary or even tertiary con. And, Y ow, Donna right. Peopere put atisk. There should have been a lot more work done. F course. Of course. But I want to agree one Rd that donnile used. You talked about a narrative. If embarrassing information is out there about you and E S embarrasng informaon about Yo we got to report it. We can't pretend it's not there. But you got HD informatiobeuse you hacked had hacked stolen emails. You had haf my files you DI have my who files. What Putin wanted to do, and it wasn't personal -- look, I understood wasn' personal, and I didn't T personally. My jobas to try focus on the election. But what your job was was to say that these hacked, seen emails and they came from a corrupted source. Anu H to say THA but yodidn't do that. Well, there's where I would agree with you is that the media should be careful about thrr they sketch and what is the story that's being told. It was given lete credibilit I WOU defend my news organization. It wasiven cete -- I would at the reason we know much about this is because of WHE wrote, T storcaed the per weapon when we went through this, Eric Lipton, David Sanger. Scott Shane. I agree. The reason you know much about this and we knew about it so early because ohe reporting we did afterward and went through the entire narrative sty step. Nd we work with your reporters and I appreciate the work that you did. I ally do. But remember one other thing. At was allfter the fac but at the time you were playing this, thmedia was plg this the time as if this was credourcing and at Donna said is ablutely right. You had to know they didn't have of her emas, they Ju took the most embarrassing ones and you can't assehe edibility some withust part of a story but the media banged her and a lot Ofer people the Clint campaign unfairly. We have to take a break

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