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Was on steroids and paid internet trolls and botnets to push out fake news at a high volume focussing this material on to twitter and facebook feeds and flooding our social media with misinformation. this fake news and disinformation was then hyped by the american media echochamber to reach and potentially influence millions of americans. this is not innuendo or false allegations. this is not fake news. this is actually what happened to us. russia continues these sorts of actions as we speak. so...

The national conversation in america. the russians employed thousands of paid internet trolls and botnets to push out disinformation and fake news at a high volume, focusing this material on to your twitter and facebook feeds and flooding our social media with misinformation. this fake news and disinformation was then hyped by the american media echochamber and our own social media networks to reach and potentially influence millions of americans. this is not innuendo or false allegations. this ...

To ask. and youve got to then go through all the intelligence weve not all had full access to yet. in terms of thursday, what were going to do, it probably wont be an as explosive as last monday, were going to bring in experts to demonstrate how russia used these techniques in our past election and how they have used these techniques in places in eastern europe. its important to remember what we know for a fact that russians massively interfered in our ections. they hacked into both campaigns bu...

Buzzfeed that essentially accuses them of committing crimes against the united states by using their companies to hack computers of the democratic national party, which is an absolute fabrication. because the reputation has been tarnished, they really had no choice. >> tucker: i want to go right to the text here. this is from the now famous dossier published on buzzfeed. it begins, redacted. over the period of 2016, a company called webzilla and its affiliates had been using botnets and porn tra...

That a report was published by buzzfeed that essentially accuses them of committing crimes against the united states by using their companies to hack computers of the democratic national party, which is an absolute fabrication. because the reputation has been tarnished, they really had no choice. >> tucker: i want to go right to the text here. this is from the now famous dossier published on buzzfeed. it begins, redacted. over the period of 2016, a company called webzilla and its affiliates had ...

Dynamic change every single day that in some form or another youre going to want to hear every day whats going on whether its something electronic, someone giving an oral brief or some combination. hes going to have to figure out what hes comfortable with once he actually has the job. >> president obama announced he is ordering a full intelligence review into the election including the hacking allegedly by russia. how concerned with you about the russian interplay in the election this year? >> i...

Figure out how to govern together to improve americas standing and position in the world. >> it would be fascinating if he and donald trump do it. it would defy the expectations of both men. i want to talk to you about something different now. "the washington post" is reporting that russian propaganda outlets played a role with this fake news throughout the election. they have botnets, paid human trolls. i mean, when you look at that, it just seems a little crazy. >> i think you have to look at ...

And their proportional response. i think its a group of hackers that are just having fun with north korea because of the conflict. >> that was precisely my next question because we heard the president say proportional response. he wouldnt elaborate on what a response would be. that was the end of the year news conference. but certainly, you know, the white house wouldnt send out a memo if, in fact, this was happening. so you believe that it could be anyone, some small group deciding to toy with ...

was declared dead at the scene. alan duke is a cnn entertainment producer, so any more now on the details surrounding her death? >> reporter: in the last hour we have gotten official confirmation from her publicist who says that she has died, issuing a statement to cnn. note nothing about what she died in, what killed her is unexplained according to london officials earlier in the investigation. it was only this afternoon in her apartment where her body was found. it was two months ago...

seven people. the search continues today for more victims in the rubble of the destroyed buildings. it is the deadliest single attack in europe since the madrid train bombings in 2004. lets go straight to michael holmes there. hes on that island where that summer camp tragedy happened. so, michael, what has been happening there today? >> reporter: were actually a few miles from the island, just sort of over there about four miles away from where im standing. this hotel behind me, fre...