john bolten gave me that joke in the break. it's a good one. we have him back. mr. ambassador, thank you very much. obviously the former assistant to the president for national security affairs and former u.s. ambassador to the united nations. good to have you. so let's just step back. it's friday night. let's get this right. so we were talking about why it was hard for you when you were in the administration. i mentioned and showed the audience a reminder of the helsinki disgrace. what did you come up with as an idea for why the former president was so sensitive to being overtly aggressive toward russia on anything let alone cyber attacks where you have them so red handed? >> i think on russia in particular he thought that any reference that could be used against him for being complicit with the russians in the 2016 election would have undercut the legitimacy of his election. i didn't agree with that. i thought he ought to confront what russia was doing directly. i can tell you the components of the government did do a lot to try to, for example protect against rus

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