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Last june that involved trump campaign officials and a whole bunch of other russians, according to the financial times tonight, he has just given testimony to special counsel robert muellers grand jury for several hours. on august 11th he apparently did this testimony. this is only the second time weve learned about specific people who have been called to testify before the mueller grand jury. he is a naturalized u.s. citizen. hes russian born. he retains a russian passport. he has numerous ties...

Jury. he is a naturalized u.s. citizen. hes russian born. he retains a russian passport. he has numerous ties to russian intelligence including military intelligence. hes also been associated with at least two previous campaigns where hes worked for pro-putin business figures whose opponents in financial or business or legal combat have found themselves targeted with computer hacking and stolen documents that are then turned against them in the public sphere. just in case that sounds familiar. w...

My program saturday, an academic name dav lemon from carneg carnegie-mellon who documented on 61 occasions in 80 different nations from the post world war ii era through 2000, we have been involved, not in computer hacking, but in trying to determine the outcome of elections. is there a moral equivalent between us supporting a pro democracy force when the opposition was communism, thats subject to debate. i think its a fair point that we dont entirely have clean hands. >> it also doesnt mean you...

Assist gets a bump of about 3% to their vote share, but that is an average effect. in other words sometimes the effect is much larger and sometimes much less, so to speak. >> your research ended in the year 2000, the birth really of the internet age and era. have we ever done what the russians are -- have we ever hacked? >> we did not use computer hacking, no. >> in each of these instances, because this has quite a negative connotation to hear that some will take away from this, well, the u.s. h...

Sometimes it is much less so to speak. >> your research ended in the year 2000. the birth really of the internet age and era. have we ever done what the russians are -- have we ever hacked? >> we did not use computer hacking, no. >> in each of these instances, because this has quite a negative connotation too hear some take away from this, well, the u.s. done it to is it always in the name of democracy? have we always sought to oppose communism? oppose a theology governing a nations politics? wh...

War, we have the treason statute. in times of undeclared war, and that was throughout the entire cold war period, and today, we have other statutes to address conduct which is essentially treasonous, which is a conduct undermining the american system of democracy. we have statutes that govern computer hacking and computer crimes. we have statutes that govern campaigns, foreign nationals and foreign governments are not supposed to be making contributions in kind or in any way to american politica...

Maggies meeting "before arranging a meeting with a lawyer he believed would offer compromising information about hillary clinton, donald trump jr. was informed in an e-mail the material was part of a russian effort to aid his fathers presidency. mr. goldstones message as described to "the new york times" by the three people indicates that the russian government was the source of the potentially damaging information. it does not elaborate on the wider effort by moscow to help the trump campaign. ...

Obtained through espionage and computer hacking, which is the way they generally obtain information, hed have exposure there as well. we need to know the facts and know which statutes apply. >> in the white house defense that nothing came of this meeting, does this cover him on this? even if nothing came of it, does that matter? >> first of all, you have a meet with the top three people. donald trump jr., kushner and manafort are all there. and they say that nothing happened at the meeting. niet...

Meeting, and if he intended to receive information on clinton from the russians at a time that the russians were known to be engaged in computer hacking in the united states and had been doing it for quite some time and also to have animosity toward hillary clinton then hes in a situation where hes going to the russian agent for the purpose of receiving stolen information on hillary clinton. this is illegal, and i think this is treason if he knew he was assisting the russians on carrying out an ...

I see increasing evidence that the trump camp has been collaborating with the russians on cybersecurity issues over a number of month, if not a year, but this has got to stop. this is not the way to protect the united states and our interests and we are very vulnerable to computer hacking, much more vulnerable than we thought and the president needs to take the issue seriously and thats not what hes doing. >> richard painter, thanks so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> were back in a...