Digging Into Sputnik News Today

That. fbi obtained thousands of internal memos from sputnik to see how it ran from the outside. another staffer says the outlet pushed him to try to obtain private e-mails from john brennan, and refused because viewed as request to commit espionage. sputnik says this inquiry undermines press freedom. look at this fairly. if the government is investigating a real news outlet for its journalism, could be bad for press freedom. but thats actually the whole question the feds are investigating. are o...

Everybody is compromised. thats what hes using rt and sputnik to do, undermine the position of legitimate media. >> so confusion and chaos is a goal in and of itself. >> in this particular case, fake news is a putin stratagem. >> hunter, your view of former employees that you spoke to. >> the company says theyve all had performance issues but justice department is clearly taking it seriously. as david was alluding to, rt and sputnik both described by u.s. intelligence community as part of the in...

Colleague mike issuekof focused on sputnik, its funded by russian government. but this afternoon rt, english language tv station run by russia and reporting that one of their suppliers has been contacted by doj and told to register under this act, fara, foreign agents registration act. it does seem to be widening, never seen fara used to go after foreign media, hard to tell where it would go. allows for criminal penalties up to five years in jail but wouldnt necessarily ban a foreign media outle...

Gainesville, 164,000 residents there when school is in session. trying to figure out how to recover in the days ahead. ari. >> morgan radford, thanks for your reporting. stay safe. now back to the fbi digging into sputnik. michael mcfaul, thanks for being here ambassador. youve dealt with sputnik in professional capacity and its hard to know what to call it. that itself is part of what is under dispute and investigation. walk us through your experience with employees and what you thought of th...

Day. when sputnik puts out #crookedhillary, its pretty clear what side theyre on. and theres normative and ethical and maybe legal issue we have to come to grips with as a country. we dont allow the russian government to provide direct noun a candidate right? thats illegal. should we allow the russian government to tweet #crookedhillary. and at minimum should we tell people that see that tweet its the russian government? >> and putting finger on the other issue. weve got reports they were there ...

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