All right now does anybody have any questions? As I said I overslept. What do you think about the CNN Obama slam article? You know I saw that headline and I didn't see who wrote it. I was assuming that if it's on CNN and it slams Obama — Mueller report looks bad for Obama is the headline — I just wanted to see who wrote it. Scott Jennings. Huh. Oh so Scott Jennings is a pro-Trumper, right? Yeah.

So if we're being fair, and sometimes I like to be fair, if we're being fair CNN does have guest opinion pieces on their website that are from pro-Trumpers. So they do occasionally have Steve Cortes and every once in a while they'll have somebody who's a pro or do an article. So you got to give them credit for that. They do give a platform. But the truth in terms of communication, the truth that people hear has a lot to do with frequency and context. So if you only have one pro-Trumper and you have a hundred anti-Trumpers on your network you can't really say you gave them a fair platform because the volume of one kind of opinion is always going to be more important than the fact that you allowed another opinion. Just the fact that it was allowed, if it's dwarfed by all the other opinions, you're still sending the message that one of them is true and the other one is an outlier.

So let us take stock of the number of things that people assumed about this presidency that didn't work out. They assumed the economy would crash. Wrong. They assumed we would be getting into more wars not fewer. Wrong. A lot of people assume that the president would not be tough on Russia. Wrong. I mean I think maybe somebody would argue about that but I'm pretty sure that the United States administration is tougher on Putin than we've ever been.

One of the things that people always say is how come President Trump isn't doing more to stop Russia from interfering? What's wrong with that opinion? When people say hey the Trump administration they should be doing more to stop Russia from interfering, again what's wrong with that opinion? Is how in the world would we know what they're doing? Should we know what they're doing? Would you want to know what they're doing? Because it seems to me that we usually respond in kind. So in other words if another country does something to us we probably respond with something that's a similar level or a similar situation.

Wouldn't it make sense that our cyber experts are so far up Putin's ass right now that they can look at his eyes? Don't you think that the president and the administration has sent a message to Putin that if they see a trace of this again they're going to take him out? Take him out meaning that their cyber operations would get pretty serious. Sort of a mutually assured destruction. Because you could imagine that our cyber forces could do any manner of damage over in Russia. And now having warned them as clearly as possible about what would happen if they do it again and knowing that we could probably detect it, would they do it again?

And what more could the president say that would be more effective than whatever we've already said? Let me ask you this. Do you think Putin is sitting over there in Russia and saying to himself I've got a free pass this next election, I'm going to go interfere again because it wasn't, you know, the blowback wasn't that big? You know I think there were some sanctions, right? Do we still have some sanctions on them because of their involvement in the election last time? I don't think so. Do you think Putin is saying it's totally worth it, I'm going to do it again? Probably not. You know that doesn't mean he wouldn't consider things that he thought he could get away with because if he thought he could get away with it of course he'd do it. But does it look like they can get away with cyber stuff anymore?

We're all going to be looking for it. We're going to see Russian involvement even where there is no Russian involvement. We're going to see nothing but Russian involvement everywhere. Everybody's going to be looking for it. So it feels to me that Trump or the administration is probably doing as much as they possibly could in terms of making sure Russia has a very clear message: don't do this again. And also probably making it clear that they know exactly what their future looks like if they do it again and it's probably not pleasant for Russia.

I wish someone would publish what exactly they posted. I don't know what that means.