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Richard Clarke, former adviser to President Reagan, joined Real Time with Bill Maher this week to discuss Russia’s involvement in Donald Trump’s election win, claiming that they conducted “the largest psychological warfare campaign in history and they won.” The national security expert and author further stated that the Trump administration has done “nothing at all” about it.

“After what happened in the last election, the U.S. should have instituted a comprehensive program to ensure that Russians never got involved in our election again,” Clarke said. “And they have done nothing. Nothing at all. And, as James Comey said, they will be back.”

Maher, comedian and host of the late night HBO talk show, then addressed the fact that the United States has since learned that Russia did indeed access voter rolls, prior to hacking Hillary Clinton‘s emails and attempting to hack into physical polling booths.

“They were micro-targeting individual voters in swing districts shaping their opinions — its psychological warfare on a grand scale. They conducted the largest psychological warfare campaign in history and they won,” Clarke said. “This is the 21st century equivalent to having Russians land Marines on the Jersey Shore,” he later added.

A concerned Maher, with a look of utter disappointment, then spoke on his realization that the American people might never get to know what actually happened because our current President benefited from the targeted attack. “That’s why he’s not investigating it,” Clarke agreed. “That’s why he’s not doing all the things we need to do to make sure it can’t happen again.”

Clarke just co-released a brand new book with R.P. Eddy titled Warnings: Finding Cassandras To Stop Catastrophes. You can watch the full interview below:

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