Sen. John Kennedy hits back at Hillary Clinton's Russia accusations — Transcript

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1. 0:00I think both Russia and Ukraine meddled
2. 0:04in the 2016 election the fact that
3. 0:06Russia was so aggressive does not
4. 0:08exclude the fact that President
5. 0:11poroshenko yeah actively worked for
6. 0:14Secretary Clinton all right that was
7. 0:16Senator John Kennedy over the weekend
8. 0:18saying he believes Russia and Ukraine
9. 0:20meddled in our 2016 election claiming
10. 0:23the former Ukrainian president had ties
11. 0:25to Hillary Clinton then Hillary Clinton
12. 0:28went after the senator tweeting senator
13. 0:30Kennedy
14. 0:30why are you parroting Russian propaganda
15. 0:34that US intelligence officials tell us
16. 0:36are designed to divide our country did
17. 0:39you miss the briefing that day well
18. 0:41Senator John Kennedy joins us right now
19. 0:43from the Russell rotunda senator did you
20. 0:45miss the briefing that day I yeah I
21. 0:51think I tweeted back to Secretary
22. 0:54Clinton bless bless your heart Madam
23. 0:57Secretary I hope you're well and I'm in
24. 0:59it I try not to worry too much about
25. 1:02what anyone thinks about me
26. 1:06except dogs I like dogs I think what the
27. 1:11secretary is talking about is I was
28. 1:14asked if if Russia or Ukraine had tried
29. 1:18to influence our 2016 election and I
30. 1:21said both and I believe both I base that
31. 1:25on on eight long opinion pieces op-ed
32. 1:29pieces in the Politico Financial Times
33. 1:33the hill Washington Examiner CBS News
34. 1:37economist Bloomberg News and the New
35. 1:40York Times all reputable periodicals and
36. 1:44newspapers and put the political
37. 1:46headline for example was Ukraine efforts
38. 1:49to sabotage Trump backfire mm-hmm the
39. 1:54Financial Times this is August of 2016
40. 1:58it's a really good piece headline is
41. 2:00Ukraine's leaders campaign against Trump
42. 2:05Bloomberg news headline is quote
43. 2:08ukrainian officials meddled into
44. 2:112016 election by leaking secret mana
45. 2:15fort ledger court says they're referring
46. 2:18to a court in Ukraine that found that
47. 2:21their public officials had meddled in
48. 2:23our election so senator while you know a
49. 2:25lot of people say look we know it's been
50. 2:28proven that Russia was involved and then
51. 2:30senator Kennedy's talking about Ukraine
52. 2:32that's just the conspiracy theory but
53. 2:35you are citing those news sources as
54. 2:37proof that there's some there there
55. 2:38right well no I don't believe that these
56. 2:43I don't believe the Politico and
57. 2:45Financial Times and Bloomberg and the
58. 2:48Washington Examiner or fake news I mean
59. 2:52I think they're reputable there they're
60. 2:54reputable members of the the radio and
61. 2:58that I mean they're reporters I trust
62. 3:01them sure so senator then even even if I
63. 3:03didn't they're lawyers aren't going to
64. 3:05let them print lies that's exactly right
65. 3:07so why are so many people coming after
66. 3:09you I think many of my Democratic
67. 3:12friends think that this somehow
68. 3:14undermines their impeachment of case
69. 3:18against the president I'm not sure why
70. 3:20because the Ukrainian government not the
71. 3:26people but the government and everybody
72. 3:28knows this it's well-documented is
73. 3:30historically and organically corrupt now
74. 3:34I hope that the new president is elinsky
75. 3:37does much better and I want him to
76. 3:38succeed but President poroshenko he did
77. 3:44try to influence our election as these
78. 3:46journalists have pointed out and
79. 3:49President Yanukovych was just as corrupt
80. 3:54as he could be now that doesn't mean
81. 3:56that Russia didn't try Russia was the
82. 3:57master
83. 3:59Russia is a third-rate country with
84. 4:03great cyber skills good spies and
85. 4:05nuclear weapons and they did try to
86. 4:07big-time influence our elections in 2016
87. 4:11but I believe based on this reporting
88. 4:13that so did Ukraine all right there you
89. 4:15go Senator John Kennedy Republican from
90. 4:18the great state of Louisiana senator
91. 4:20thank you very much for joining us to
92. 4:21set the wreck
93. 4:22straight thank you folks all right