The broadcast networks morning and evening newscasts, along with the cable news networks, have largely ignored the Tuesday report from Axios's Mike Allen that Hillary Clinton's campaign team blames President Obama for her loss in the 2016 election. Charlie Rose mentioned the revelation in passing on Thursday's CBS This Morning: "You have reports, for example, that the Hillary campaign thought it began with President Obama not doing enough in terms of the Russian hacking." On Wednesday, Fox Business Network's Kennedy program devoted part of panel discussion segment to the Axios report [video below].

Allen first spotlighted in his article, "Team Hillary blames Obama more than Putin," that "the worst-kept secret inside Democratic circles is how bitter Hillary Clinton's team is at President Obama over her election loss. We have heard from numerous, anguished people in Clinton-land blaming Obama -- more than Putin, FBI Director James Comey or, um, Hillary herself -- for the defeat." The journalist explained that the "Clintonites feel that if Obama had come out early and forcefully with evidence of Russian interference in the campaign, and perhaps quicker sanctions, she might be president today."

The Axios founder also underlined that " how upset some Democrats are. It's testing relationships between Clinton and Obama loyalists. It's making efforts to form a new Trump opposition coalition harder." He quoted an unnamed Clinton campaign veteran: "The White House was like everyone else: They thought she'd win anyway....If he had done more, it might have lessened a lot of aggrieved feelings, although I don't think it would have altered the outcome."

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On CBS This Morning, Rose turned to Bloomberg's John Heilemann for his reaction to the report (though he didn't specifically mention Axios). Heilemann indicated that he believed the reporting:

CHARLIE ROSE: Here, you have reports, for example, that the Hillary campaign thought it began with President Obama not doing enough, in terms of the Russian hacking. JOHN HEILEMANN, BLOOMBERG POLITICS CO-MANAGING EDITOR: Well, I think that's really a retrospective thing, right? I mean, I think now they look back, and given that the race was won or lost — you know, in the last seven days or so — you look back and say, 'Well, my God, there are a million things that could have changed the outcome.' That's a really big thing that might have changed the outcome. Obviously, they also think if James Comey hasn't done what he did, she might have won.

The previous evening, FBN host Kennedy (of MTV fame) raised the issue with TownHall.com's Guy Benson, columnist Michael Malice, and Fox News contributor Eboni Williams. The panelists unanimously went after the Democratic presidential nominee and her campaign for laying the blame everywhere but with Mrs. Clinton herself: