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Stop here and remember what this is really about. lets remember that this is about a concerted russian attack on the u.s. democratic process. thats why im here. im here to look into that, to uncover the facts, to give you the facts, and to defend the national interests. i think thats a very strong statement that robert mueller needs to be allowed to do his job, and he needs to be left in place. >> do you have any sense of the timing here? it seems like things are picking up speed. >> very hard t...

>> for you? >> i think the key of this indictment is the word conspiracy. what the indictment lays out is that there was an organized conspiracy of an organization that was funded, strategic. it involved identity fraud, financial fraud, identity theft. this was organized and it was strategic effort to influence the u.s. democratic process. and i think what the american people need to take away from this is that this was a national security threat that was directed at the american people, and it ...

Flynn. >> lets put them all together. now we know, categorically, we know it from h.r. mcmaster, from everybody else involved in this, that russia had a subversive espionage program going on in the united states in which they sent spies, russian spies in the united states to subvert our democratic process. thats what the indictment says. and it goes into great detail, timelines and so forth. we also know that russia hacked the dnc. we know they hacked john podesta. they used that information to ...

And the implications are quite frightening. >> michael, ambassador mcfall, what does putin want do you think, and how much have we delivered for him thus far? >> well, putin wants many things. he wants first and foremost to discredit our democratic process. he wants there to be no truth anymore. he loves it when people talk about fake news. thats music to his ears because that means there is no truth. theres no difference between what he says and what anybody else says. and most importantly comi...

Massachusetts came out and told people go back to sleep, the british arent coming, turn out your lights and go back to bed. its an amazing warning to see shrugged off at the very top, and the implications are quite frightening. >> michael, ambassador mcfall, what does putin want do you think, and how much have we delivered for him thus far? >> well, putin wants many things. he wants first and foremost to discredit our democratic process. he wants there to be no truth anymore. he loves it when pe...

National intelligence released a declassified version of its analysis into russian interference, which included assessments from the cia, fbi, and national security agency. it said, quote, putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016, aimed at the u.s. presidential election. russias goals were to undermine public faith in the u.s. democratic process, denigrate secretary clinton, and harm her electability, and potential presidency. on june 5th of 2017, the intercept published a leaked nsa document...

But imagine if the governor of massachusetts came out and told people go back to sleep, the british arent coming, turn out your lights and go back to bed. its an amazing warning to see shrugged off at the very top, and the implications are quite frightening. >> michael, ambassador mcfall, what does putin want do you think, and how much have we delivered for him thus far? >> well, putin wants many things. he wants first and foremost to discredit our democratic process. he wants there to be no tru...

Theres pretty clear evidence that the russians meddled. whether they affected the outcome is another question but they meddled and thats dangerous for democracy. >> that was former president george w. bush in abu dhabi this morning making no bones about the threat russia poses to the u.s. democratic process. this comes as an american official in charge of protecting u.s. elections exclusively tells nbc news that russians successfully penetrated voter registration roles in a number of u.s. states...

Election, but in doing so is he sewing the seeds of doubt about the american democratic process? >> yeah. i think that the key thing is for us as the american people to agree with president bush that this is serious and we -- we really do wish to get to the bottom of this because president trump may have some sort of need to think that he was elected in a landslide or had the largest inauguration crowd and things like that, but the rest of us dont have to share in that. the rest of us can say wh...

Pompeo was saying in the same breathe happening again, he doesnt think it will have an impact. but thats his professional opinion and that doesnt mean we shouldnt be ready to try to out weigh the impact that russia might be having. and the fact is as you said there isnt a plan in place. the congressional committees have been talking about this for months now trying to put a plan in place but because of the partisan divisions on this issue there hasnt been one. >> let me remind our viewers what t...