Oh those crazy Russians!!!
Now we know who gets the catbird seat in the Trump press room!
Tass, the official government controlled propaganda fake news agency of the Russian Government.
I don’t really know what to make of this. Do foreign correspondents regularly attend Presidential press conferences? (I should know that, but I don’t.) Have they been called on in the past? Is it because of the kind of interruption this was that the President didn’t acknowledge this reporter?
Of course it mirrored it. Putin’s lap-dogs are now running interference for Trump, setting up pranks and counter-narratives for Trump and his minions to point to and say, “See, both sides do it,” or, “We’re just doing what the Democrats / previous administration / Obama did.”
It’s gonna be a long - looong - four fucking years.
Nicely done
In order: Yes, yes, and most likely.
Wouldn’t sweat that
Just remind folks what was Obama’s response and move on.
Sean Spicer better watch his back. Looks like he has competition.
I thought I’d heard this before.
Oh shit. 
This is total BS, this is a complete act of stunt journalism.
Unlike Putin, Obama likes to be asked questions, you know why? Because he’s a damn good talker, that’s why. Had he taken the question he would say that he is not attacking Russia, or its people, but the leadership who have so brazenly and stupidly interfered in our elections.
Putin thinks Trump is payback for the Ukraine, judging by his comments yesterday, but let’s not get confused. They are so stupid or arrogant, pick one, they are so stupid that when they stole all those documents from the DNC they used a M/S cloud to transport their booty back to Moscow. This is not a joke, Cozy Bear, the codename for the FSB hacker, was so brazen in what they did that it’s equivalent to robbing a bank then taking a public bus straight home to your house all on CCTV. The cloud told investigators everything they needed to know about who what when …
Obama is not attacking anyone. The evidence is so blatant that he can’t not say it, he would be derelict in his duty to protect his country against our enemies.
No, Obama didn’t “attack” Russia. The Obama administration issued sanctions against Russia based on conclusive evidence Russian cyber-espionage aimed at disrupting the 2016 US presidential election.
“Attack” is an interesting word to use and it is used incorrectly here. Correct usage might be something like “Russia attacked Ukraine and annexed the Crimea, part of Ukraine’s sovereign territory”. Or, Russian military aircraft attacked and destroyed every hospital in Aleppo".
Those would be appropriate uses of the word “attack”.
Awww… UpChuck Todd will be sad…
Earlier today he was convinced that PBO would get " hammered " with questions about Manning and there only one.
HA !
hey Circus, i hadn’t heard that before about Cozy Bear’s use of the cloud - what’s your source for that? i’d like to read more!
Dude was probably in there creating a distraction so that a comrade of his could hide some upgraded monitoring devices around the place. Kick the bastard out. His pass will get renewed on Friday anyway when tRumplethinskin takes over the place.
Putin surely OK’D Tass boy’s antics beforehand.
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming. I’ve seen this movie, it’s with Alan Arkin and Carl Reiner,
@Icelsie I’m thinking Todd is not the journo we should be looking to to explain the coming regime. Eichenwald, Fahrenhold, Tur even, but not somebody resembling Vidkun Quisling.
According to those present, the Russian reporter invaded the Polish reporter’s designated area.
Confiscated Lithuanian reporter’s notes.
And occupied the Ukrainian reporter’s seat.