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Your business are very illustratetive and how people ought to think and report. and are people learning right now about our constitution? are they learning? >> yes. well, i think so. i mean, i dont know that i have my finger on the pulse of anybody other than myself and im not even sure how well i know myself sometimes. but through our own process of reporting on and trying to explain this presidency for the past two plus years i feel like, boy, have i learned a lot about, you know, the federal ...

>> yes. well, i think so. i mean, i dont know that i have my finger on the pulse of anybody other than myself and im not even sure how well i know myself sometimes. but through our own process of reporting on and trying to explain this presidency for the past two plus years i feel like, boy, have i learned a lot about, you know, the federal court system. boy, have i learned a lot about foreign influence operations. boy, have i learned a lot about the fbi and the cia and presidential scandal and ...

And so this one seems a little bit different to put it mildly. i imagine that whatever john is doing is being run up the flag pole. >> do you think that this news tonight and the prospect of criminal charges being brought against intelligence and law enforcement officials who were involved in the opening of this inquiry, what sort of impact do you think that will have both on the people who are potential targets of this criminal investigation, potential targets of criminal charges if it gets tha...

Attorneys office opens grand jury investigations every day. happens all the time. and so this one seems a little bit different, to put it mildly. and i imagine that whatever john is doing is being run up the flag pole. >> do you think that this news tonight and the prospect of criminal charges being brought against intelligence and law enforcement officials who are involved in the opening of this inquiry, what sort of impact do you think that will have, both on the people who are potential targe...

Were talking about. i dont think the united states has a real hold on how are we going to address influence operations in a country that is probably more divided than ever. if democrats dont want to talk to republicans and republicans are immediately suspicious of anything that comes from democrats, you know, that is just fertile ground for an influence operation. this goes all the way back to the cold war. that part is not new. its just -- its propaganda on steroids. i think that is the hardest...

>> my experience of working many years against russian services, i could see vladimir and the kremlin breaking over vodka bottles how hes poured gasoline over the fires. he mounted really effective influence operations. injected our political process with a virus. >> dan, did you learn anything new? there were two -- mueller was in front of two hearings, the judiciary committee and then the intelligence committee run by adam schiff. did you learn anything new about russian interference? >> no. i...

To elections, and vladimir putin wins an election like that you tend to question the way in which an election is run in a country like that. we no longer can hold ourselves up to that standard any more. to that high standard of free and fair elections in this country, especially when you hear something like what we heard from the president of the united states yesterday. >> well, even though the 2016 election was contentious. i think it was a clean, free and fair election. in so much as the ball...

Reporting that weve got, right? we know that two days into the trump administration jared kushner initially applied for a security clearance and listed no foreign contacts. yeah, not even like the trump tower meeting and not even like the meeting with the sanctioned russian bank ceo. nothing. he listed nothing. we know that he had to revise his security clearance application more than 40 times over the course of him starting his employment at the white house. we know that "the new yorker" and "t...

Commonwealth of virginia. well, with all that, lets bring in our leadoff panel on a monday night. clint watts is a lot of things, graduate of west point. army veteran, but most importantly for us, hes a veteran of the federal bureau of investigation, whose past research has focused on russian influence operations. he happens to have written the book on the subject, "messing with the enemy." its about russians and the hacking of our democracy. barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern...

Influence went. did the companies give you any explanation when they werent supplying what would seem to be fairly simple information? >> well, the reason i think they didnt supply it was probably user privacy. if youre sharing comment data, you would have to anonmize it. that said, i think they responded to the senates request for information, not to mine. the senate was who provided the researchers with the data set. so my understanding is the senate reached out and said can you provide us wit...