Election Interferen News Today

A recap of the days news. Would do. Right . Instead this white house put on a display today in the briefing room. A display intended to send a message to the American People. That message is to convince you that this administration actually takes russias attacks on our democracy seriously. So they trot it out one top official after another. Every one of them pointing the finger at russia, which is all well and good, but obviously there is one person missing. Want to guess who it is . President d...

Interference. its political election interferen interference, and its wrong. they dont talk about the horrible consequences to our country of doing that, but they would be terrible. they would tear us apart for generations, and the american people wouldnt accept it. let me address in that context the importance of the vote for their inquiry, which also had bipartisan opposition. now they said, well, we were fine when speaker pelosi announced it. we didnt need a vote. the subpoenas were authorize...

And as they get bolder, the people are trying to help are going get more uncertain, i saw this in iraq and now in syria. >> reporter: this is as we learn president trump defended russia on a phone call to new york times last july saying russia was falsely accused of election interferen interference. russia returning that favor, calling the allegation that president trumps working for moscow is stupid. >> almost identical to the language that the president often uses when casting himself as a vic...

Number four, bob mueller indicting russians for election interferen interference. >> seeking to interfere in the united states political system. >> a historic development. number three, paul manafort convicted. trumps former campaign chairman found guilty on eight counts including tax and bank frauds and pleading guilty to conspiracy. striking a deal that bob mueller said manafort broke by lying. number two, metoo prosecutions. a movement thats been growing and moved from activism into the court...

Ran in "the des moines register." it had articles on chinese stance on the trade war. this seems to be the evidence that president trump is pointing to. a senior administration official late neither day back -- later in the day backed up the presidents statements. also amount to election interferen interference. he teased that vice president mike pence would have more details of interference next week. a chinese official who is the representative to the u.n. security council flatly denying any a...

Who are supportive of the investigation but frustrated with how long its taking but just also anxious and wanting to see answers to this very real problem. it will be pretty consistent with how theyve responded throughout this knowledge that there were concerns. you always have republicans pointing to laws being passed by congress and actions taken from the white house to show that the president is hard on election interferen interference. but these things conflict with what he does. >> thanks. ...

Glasser is here. good evening to you. >> thank you, don. >> what do you make of the timing of all of this? why today of all days did the white house choose to trot out all these intelligence people to talk about the russia threat? >> you know its a good question. i think were looking at extended play clean-up duty from the helsinki summit. clearly there was a sense that even among members of his own party felt that trump had gone too far in lavishing praise on vladimir putin and raising question...

Officials have the security clearances that they need to get access to the classified information about election interferen interference. >> and there was a lot of finger pointing about 2016. >> every time you get this on the hill, its like relitigating what happened in the fall of 2016. there was a remarkable exchange with senator dianne feinstein and secretary johnson who at that time was the head of homeland security about the decision to put out this public state in october of 2016 blaming r...

Creation of a story. >> wheeler said that the quotes that were attributed to him in that original story linking the two did not exist. he did not say them. >> chris, theres a lot to this story, but of course, you can read it and you should. thank you so much for joining us at this hour, "inside politics" with john king starts right now. thank you, kate, and welcome to "inside politics" im john king, thank you for joining us for sharing your day with us. number one the white house confirms the ...

Self-described master negotiator win over votes. long time trump associate roger stone agreeing to testify next month before a house panel on russians election interferen interference. stone is expected to challenge testimony of john podesta who met with investigators on tuesday and well talk about president trumps warning to the syrian regime about chemical weapons. we have it all covered. but lets begin with susanne live on capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning. well, the future of the sen...