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Prosecution, theyll never submit to the jurisdiction, come to this country so theyre never prosecuted. so, therefore, do you use a lower standard for indictment because in the back of your mind im thinking im never going to have to prove this beyond a reasonable doubt, or given the visibility of a case like this and the importance of it, do you use a higher standard for indictment? >> i think the justice departments practice is the right one and its the ethical norm to which all federal prosecut...

Repercussions for an indictment like this but they would do it in order to show russia that they can see everything theyre doing and its not going unnoticed and they think that might protect them going forward in future elections. >> ron cline, one of the considerations you can imagine in some other administration is that other administration would have taken some sort of action against russia for doing this and, therefore, not welcome the indictments because they have another way of dealing wit...

The white house to determine if a course of action should be puffer sued in a case. here because of the context which were operating because the president himself is the subject of an investigation it creates a difficult situation to figure out a platform for having those kinds of conversations. >> julia, your reporting has some information about the complexities that paul fishman was just talking about. tell us what you learned about how the special prosecutor is approaching what is really a co...

>> its possible if an indictment is brought. but its no longer justice department policy to name unindicted coconspirator as a general rule. but i think the interesting question is theres a certain category of cases that the justice department investigators which its clear for there to be any political involvement whatsoever. a bank robbery case, insider trading case. but a case where the justice department is involving bringing national security, implications for foreign relations with other co...

Like that in a case like this. if you think back to when this investigation started, back before bob mueller was appointed, the one crime that everyone knew had been committed was the hacking of the dnc. so it ap not surprising at all i think that bob muellers charter has included trying to figure out whos responsible for the hack, whos responsible in russia and whether anyone in america was a coconspirator before or after that hack occurred. >> thank you all for joining the discussion tonight. ...

Sensitive methods that to disclose that information would actually damage a lot of the capabilities of u.s. national security and the u.s. intelligence community. another thing when were talking about the president, in order to do this kind of indictment that would have national security implications, one important one to the look at is an indictment against chinese hackers that the justice department filed in 2014, these are hackers that they knew theyd never be able to bring to the united stat...

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