“We’ve got to think what is happening to our political culture here. The Russians can’t change us or significantly weaken us. They are a smaller country, they are a weaker country, their economy doesn’t produce anything that anybody wants to buy except oil and gas and arms. They don’t innovate,” Obama said.
Obama assured Americans that the ballot itself was not rigged and promised to “send a clear message to Russia or others not to do this to us, because we can do stuff to you.”
“But they can impact us if we lose track of who we are.