Former SecDef Robert Gates Doesn’t See a Great ‘Urgency’ from the U.S. on Russia

Chuck Todd spoke with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates for this morning’s Meet the Press and asked him, “Do you think there’s been enough of a sense of urgency about this from the Obama administration, from congressional leaders, Democratic and Republican, from Donald Trump?”

Gates said, “No.”

He even said that “people seem to have been somewhat laid back about it”:

“Maybe part of the problem was that it took the intelligence community a while to assemble really firm evidence of Russian involvement and Russian government involvement that delayed a response. Attribution is a challenge but it seems pretty clear to me that they’ve developed really reliable information that the Russian government was involved.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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