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Questions, well jump in. Plus Kamala Harris leaving for pennsylvania where her Campaign Plans to pinpoint critical slivers of the electorate including Polish American voters. Will that be the key to winning the biggest prize on the Swing State board. And russia accused half a dozen british diplomats of Spying And Sabotage and kicked them out of the country just as President Biden is about to meet with them at the White House. What does the timing of all it tell us. We start with Donald Trumps un...

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During a Capitol Hill briefing on November 14, Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., former Assistant Secretary of US State for Political-Military Affairs,

Meta has removed several accounts on Facebook and Instagram associated with the U.S. military, saying they were used as part of covert influence operations targeting the Middle East and Russia.

The covert influence operations originated from 2017 through mid-2021 and targeted both foreign and domestic public debate.

>> lets go through this, all right? so i want to get back to this meeting, okay? the meeting. its in the oval office. according to president trump, vladimir putin asked him to have that meeting. this is while the russia investigation is going on and only one day after the president fired the fbi director, james comey, which the president would later admit to lester holt on nbc news that he did because of the russia story and now stories of boasting about classified information, is this everythin...

Honest, everything the russians ever dreamed of? >> oh, oh, my. look, let me join consensus with former dni jim clapper who said that the russians effort here has had a massive return on investment and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. this is the most successful covert influence campaign in the history of covert influence campaigns. the russians by what they have done, in fractures within american society and the american political dialogue, have opened these seams and have us now shooting...

Easier on russian aggression. >> this is the biggest thing russia wanted was to be able to get away with what it did in ukraine. general hayden was right in sort of saying this is the biggest win -- have you ever seen a bigger win for a foreign intelligence service. >> in the history of covert influence. >> better than anything. >> cold war. >> lets bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt. what was it like there as this was all playing out? >> i do think michael hayden was talkin...

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