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Mr. watts? >> i think this answer is very simple is what is no one is really saying in this room, which is part of the reason active measures have worked in this u.s. election is because the commander in chief has used russian active measures at time against his opponents. on 134 august 2016, his campaign chairman after a debunked -- >> when you say "his". >> paul manafort cited the story as a terrorist attack on cnn and used it as a talking point. on 11 october president trump stood on a stage ...

This u.s. election is because the commander in chief has used russian active measures at time against his opponents. on 134 august 2016, his campaign chairman after a debunked -- >> when you say "his". >> paul manafort cited the story as a tryst attack on cnn and he university it as a tauksds point. on 11 october president trump stood on a stage and kited what appears to be a fake story from sputnik news that disappeared from the internet. he claimed that the election could be rigged. that was t...

True story without reference to the origin of the news or without checking it with u.s. sources? >> right. and it wasnt even just that. the story was debunked. it happened at the end of july. we published it, i believe it was on the 8th of august. on the 14th of august is when paul manafort went back and cited that story whenever he was doing an interview. why would you take a russian propaganda line to begin with in a story that had clearly been debunked in the days before and regurgitate that ...

Spicer. but i have to say watching him try to explain the tweets. it reminds me of the time i was in north korea. and this poor north korea was claiming there had never been any crime ever in north korea. when year trying to compare the white house spokesman to a north korean spam, boy, that is a problem for the country. >> and rick wolf, i compared him to baghdad bob. >> sure there. >> are no infidels in iraq. there are no american attacks. it is not happening. he does that day after day after ...

Genetically inferior as well. the most flimsy pseudoscience debunked in every way possible and yet people continue to take it seriously. >> tucker: you are saying that someone who is make racial inflammatory claims that have not been vetted by academics shouldnt be allowed to speak on the college campus and yet people have said that of you, you called on twitter -- white genocide. obviously a racially inflammatory thing to say. people shut you down and you call those people in a mob. how is he m...

Mr. watts? >> i think this answer is very simple and its what no one is saying in this room, part of the reason active measures worked in the u.s. election is the commander in chief used it against his opponents. on 14 august 2016, his campaign chairman after a debunked -- >> when you say "his"? >> paul manafort cited the story as a terrorist attack on cnn and he used it as a talking point on 11 october, president trump stood on a stage and cited what appears to be a story from sputnik news. >> ...

This is not new for the russians. theyve done this for a long time across the europe. why now? mr. watts? >> i think this answer is very simple and its what no one is saying in this room, part of the reason active measures worked in the u.s. election is the commander in chief used it against his opponents. on 14 august 2016, his campaign chairman after a debunked -- >> when you say "his"? >> paul manafort cited the story as a terrorist attack on cnn and he used it as a talking point on 11 octobe...

Propaganda at times which did happen. but what did happen was his campaign manager cited russian propaganda seven days after it had been debunked in august of 2016. we see lots of lines that are pushed by the kremlin that are fed into information briefings, and so the otherart is the coordination. we see hacks, we see leaks, and those are very sink rynchronize come out quickly with the campaign in august, cemenseptem october. that tends to lend to the belief there was coordination. >> you think ...

Matthews, x kwlrks z. the usualens didnt do this because they like republicans. the russians did this because they thought it was in their advantage, and it was going to hurt our country. so everybody needs to be worried about this no matter where you fall on the political spectrum because theyll be back in 2018 if we dont have better defenses and, frankly, arent willing to strike back. >> were going to be watching. the committee is doing important work. senator mark warner, thank you, sir. >> t...

This is the sort of thing now the committee is investigating. in addition to investigating whether the trump campaign was doing anything wrong. you now have so many targets being investigated for so many things it can muddy the water. as jessica mentioned you have 74% of republicans who believe the trump campaign was wiretapped. the idea there was an fbi person tapping the wires at trump tower has been debunked is being looked at and appearances matter a lot in politics and thats the challenge t...