Watch: CNN host asks John Podesta an embarrassing question about the Clinton campaign
“You know we had Tim Kaine was there  [former President]  Barack Obama  was in ”  he  explained  “and she spent enormous time in Pennsylvania initially. And we spent a lot of effort  we had more staff in Wisconsin than  even President Obama  had in 2012.”
“But I think that begs the question ”  he  continued. “I think we focused on places we thought were  that were in contest  and at the end of the day we fell short in those states and I think that this active measures effort by the Russians could have tilted the election in Donald Trump’s favor.”
“But I think what the real issue is how  he  has reacted to it ”  he  claimed. “And in that context  if this is information warfare then I think  he ’s the first draft-dodger in the war.”
“ He  has done nothing but tried to undermine the Mueller investigation ” Podesta charged  “ he  hasn’t implemented the sanctions that were passed by the Congress and that  he  signed in reaction to the activities in the 2016 election. We learned this week   he ’s ordered no effort to try to get the intelligence community to get together to try to prevent further activities in the 2018 election.”
“You know we had Tim Kaine was there  [former President]  [TGT]was in ”  [TGT]  explained  “and [TGT] spent enormous time in Pennsylvania initially. And we spent a lot of effort  we had more staff in Wisconsin than  even President Obama  had in 2012.”
“But I think that begs the question ”  he  continued. “I think we focused on places we thought were  that were in contest  and at the end of the day we fell short in those states and I think that this active measures effort by the Russians could have tilted the election in Donald Trump’s favor.”
“But I think what the real issue is how  he  has reacted to it ”  he  claimed. “And in that context  if this is information warfare then I think  he ’s the first draft-dodger in the war.”
“ He  has done nothing but tried to undermine the Mueller investigation ” Podesta charged  “ he  hasn’t implemented the sanctions that were passed by the Congress and that  he  signed in reaction to the activities in the 2016 election. We learned this week   he ’s ordered no effort to try to get the intelligence community to get together to try to prevent further activities in the 2018 election.”