He was saying the the Russia Red Scare of late isn't a gigantic deal in the grand scheme, singularly, because it's happening all around the world every single day. Even within our own country we find people meddling with other candidate's behind closed doors (cough cough democratic primary 2016) in illegal and immoral fashions.

The idea is to combat the happenings as a whole, and not blow one small example way out of proportion while ignoring everything else.