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I think thats going to play a major part. and you are so right. and you frank, to spread the blame across everything we consume electronically during the day. >> im not trying to blame anyone attorney defendants, but to your point, the earth has shifted under our feet and this is a road map to how that shift occurred. there are things in this indictment that are highly disturbing, but so far, and im reading it when i have a moment, theres nothing thats terribly surprising. the disturbing part is...

To emphasize that this operation described in this indictment is not the hacking operation. so usually when we think of russian intervention in the election, and interference in the election, were thinking of stolen emails, right? and those are the subject of, for example, the trump tower meeting, the, you know, the george popadopoulos saying, you know, hearing that theres dirt on hillary, right, these are references, at least we assume to emails that have been per loined by russian hackers. tha...

>> sure. we published spreadsheets of the data. you can see that there. people can plug that in online into different web archives, but researchers can input it into powerful systems and software database analysis systems and find new patterns, that means finding new trolls that havent been identified, finding new behavior that can suppose further trolls and protect us from this kind of influence operations. >> what is social media -- when they look at this and theyre deleting these accounts, pr...

In a stark break with their boss, the president of the united states today americas top intelligence officials affirmed to the senate intelligence committee that the russian government successfully interfered in our elections in 2016 and said russia now is actively targeting the midterm elections in 2018. >> we expect russia to continue using propaganda social media, false flag personas, sympathic spokesmen and other means to be try to build on its wide range of -- and exacerbate political fissu...

Potential targets for russian influence operations. >> president trump has repeatedly dismissed the notion of russian interference in the election suggesting he believes vladimir putins denials. today chris wray said trump has not asked the agencyings to stop russia from intruding again. >> has the president directed you and your agency to take specific actions to confront and blunt russian influence activities that are ongoing? >> were taking a lot of specific efforts to blunt. >> directed by t...

Its a long list. >> reporter: offering this extraordinary disclosure. >> we have officers all around the world working diligently to make sure we do everything we can to support the u.s. pressure campaign and to tighten the sanctions. >> reporter: north and south korean hockey players are already training together but many say dont let sports disguise reality. >> a lot of caution is in order. north korea is a mafia state, a criminal syndicate and uses embassies for conducting influence operation...

Kushner and his wife, ivanka trump, to further the interest of the chinese government. what was crazy about the report, is a guy who owns "the wall street journal" quite recently was married to the subject of this article. according to this article, she was the subject of this article that she might be a chinese spy. it was her exs husband paper that was first to report on that warning. well, now we got a little more explanation where that came from. this is from "the new yorker." in march 2017,...

Was married to the subject of the article. according to this article, she was the is subject, the elephant in the room, that was her ex-husbands paper first to report on that warning. well, now we got a little more explanation where that came from. this is from "the new yorker." no march 2017, the fbi chief of counter intelligence visit the the white house and briefed jared kushner about the danger of foreign influence operations. he told kushner he was among the top intelligence targets worldwi...

Memo. if we get this memo into the public square, heads are going to roll at the filibuster and at the department of justice. i think there could be people could face criminal consequences as a result of the activities laid out in this memo. >> it turns out, it is not just republicans making this push to playing it public. russian linked twitter wkts the hashtag, release the memo. theyre also in on it. a twitter tracking tool called hamilton 68, theyre reporting that twitter accounts linked to r...

Partisan intent. what do you think about that? >> well, first thing i think about, just the view from the kremlin. i mean, its as if vladimir putin injected a virus into our political system and hes just reaping the rewards every day. its causing, you know, some measure of almost paralysis and an intense, well-deserved, media feeding frenzy, and it just serves the kremlins interests. as far as whether its deserved or not, i think there are a lot of questions about the dossier in terms of the sou...