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Not a joke. i t preoccupied with covering tracks all together with the colleagues. joining me now, special prosecutor and msnbc contributor danny cevallos. lets start with you, jill. how wide ranging this thing was, how many people worked on it, how much money was spent on it, by the russians, according to the indictment. conspiracy, identity theft. what do you make of whats in the document itself? >> its a very thorough document. it tells a great story that anyone who wants to read it will unde...

Right now when even he has been forced to admit that the russians did interfere in our election, why dont we have sanctions? i ask mr. president, please implement these sanctions. >> we talked a bit about whats in this document, dan. youve been thinking about whats not in it. what stands out to you about what might be coming and what was left unanswered yesterday? and whats the significance of that? >> jill is right. the indictment gives us a lot of detail, much more than is required in a federa...

Dnc and of john podestas e-mails, wikileaks pushing it out. we know the president said to russia, oh, go get her e-mails and wikileaks, please release them. wikileaks did. we know that don junior said i love this dirt that im going to get. and especially if its later in the summer. so, they were helping to plan how it was used. the fact that its not in this indictment doesnt say it wont be in the next one and no one should jump to conclusions. theres no evidence theres no collusion. in fact, i w...

>> i wt you to respond to that. im also justurious as we learn about these 13 individuals, the couple, the two women who came out to scout out the electoral landscape, whats going to happen to them? whats the point of laying them out in this indictment like this? >> thats for the american public to understand how at risk our elections are and possibly rise up and say to congress, take action. protect us, pass new laws. theyre based on paper ballots. thats not what we have now. we have to take di...

Discord is a phrase we saw time and time again in that indictment yesterday. >> yes. >> to cause chaos or cause confusion. is that fundamental when you have things like the school shooting that these bots and trolls monopolize. >> what the russians care about is an issue that is divisive, will latch on to and feel strongly about. theres a lot of emotion wrapped in really tragic news incidents like this like a school shooting. we saw this happen right after the texas shooting, after the las vegas...

What did you learn from this indictment yesterday about the size of that effort? >> i mean, i think we learned that there was a real concerted effort, starting back in 2014, to actually influence american politics. i do think that the one thing we need to take apart what he said in the indictment there are no allegations that it affected the election. right? he specifically -- his words were really specific yesterday. he specifically said that this indictment doesnt point to that. what he didnt ...

Russia involvement is a violation of federal election laws, reporting acts. those are the kind of things we would have expected because thats the underlying theme of this indictment. why not charge that conduct? what are the things that this indictment doesnt tell us? believe me, we do not know the mueller teams entire end game and certainly did not get the full picture when the deputy a.g. gave that press conference the other day. theyre not showing their hand completely. there are more things,...

Senate and the house intelligence committee to the role that social media did play as part of this. its very much laid out in that indictment yesterday. weve also been speaking with social media companies. what they say is that belatedly, maybe, they are recognizing the role that their own platforms played in this and they are trying to address the problem and increasingly are saying they want the government to guide us in that effort. theyre taking steps to do so. weve seen legislation put forw...

That this was handled, you know, in a wrong manner and would you do it again differently? he said one-word answer. he said no. that doesnt point to an administration who understands that there is something wrong here. and as much as they want to blame it on the vetting process, to me right here, the vetting process works. the fbi told them the information. the vetting process was not what was wrong here. the vetting process was not what failed. what failed was the moral character and the underst...

Details of this, but we all knew shortly after it was published, we being everyone in the white house, which is just avoiding the question. it just sort of drags it on. >> thats exactly right. i think what jason laid out, while, yes, that would be the ideal, that would never happen in this white house. first of all, in order for this to be really cleaned up, you have to have somebody admit there was something wrong and there needs to be something cleaned up. trump on down refuses to ever say tha...