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Administration when national security agency director, the director of the national security agency said he had not been directed as head of the nsa to try to fight in the ongoing efforts by the kremlin to influence our politics. we now know from this latest indictment that in fact this effort run by prigozhin and the internet research agency and the elements of this russian government directed interference campaign, they didnt slow down after 2016. they kept right up and in fact kept scaling up...

Putins forces conduct a killing and the saudis allegedly conducting the killing in turkey. its an operating environment that the countries see they have because there is no moral authority in the world. that is very concerning and i think more will come unless the united states asserts itself and starts to step up. >> very quickly on thes a d peerns of the saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi. the president said it could have been rogue killers. >> again, it could have been china or a guy on his co...

Was not enough, it was time to accuse the democrats of colluding with russia. >> everybody understands there was no collusion, no rush s. it was all made up by the democrats. theyre the ones that colluded with russia. the democrats colluded with russia. >> as the president was telling that lie, "the new york times" was reporting new details on the mueller investigation. "the times" reports, a top trump campaign official requested proposals in 2016 from an israeli company to create fake online id...

Unclear tonight whether or not this operation was also directed by another foreign government. >> indeed. and let me read this quote from the "times" article. "the trump campaigns interest in the work began as russians were escalating their effort to aid donald j. trump. though the israeli companys pitches were narrower than moscows interference campaign and appear unconnected, the documents show that a senior trump aide saw the promise of a disruption effort to swing voters in mr. trumps favor....

Media. all of this was, in effect, a fraud that they were considering to be placed on the american electorate, and this is in some ways parallel to exactly what the russians did. in that case it was sponsored by the russian state which, of course, violates a whole other panoplea of american federal law. unclear if this operation was directed by another foreign government. >> indeed, and let me read this quote from the times article. the trump campaigns interest in the work began as russians were...

Intelligence to help defeat primary race opponents and hillary clinton according to interviews and copies of the proposals. the trump campaigns interest in the work began as russians were escalating their effort to aide donald j. trump. though the israeli companys pitches were nayoar than moskows interference campaign and appear unconnected the they saw an effort to swing voters in mr. trumps favor. investigators have obtained copies of the proposals and questioned the israeli company employees....

Media. all of this was, in effect, a fraud that they were considering to be placed on the american electorate, and this is in some ways parallel to exactly what the russians did. in that case it was sponsored by the russian state which, of course, violates a whole other panoplea of american federal law. unclear if this operation was directed by another foreign government. >> indeed, and let me read this quote from the times article. the trump campaigns interest in the work began as russians were...

Same day that the gru was actively looking for it. so, there is collusion in plain sight. but i dont know whether any of that rises to the level of conspiracy and whether that conspiracy rises to criminal liability for that conspiracy. >> you described in detail before congress an open setting congressional testimony last spring that in the summer of 2016, you at cia were alarmed by, said your radar went up about the number of contracts between russian officials and u.s. persons at a time that r...

That conspiracy rises to the level of liability. >> you in an opening congressional testimony last spring that in the summer of 2016, you at cia were alarmed by, your radar went up about the number of contacts between russian officials and u.s. persons at a time that russia was mounting the interference campaign. did your radar go up about that because it appeared that that russian operation had the engagement of americans toward that end? or specifically, because of the americans, the specific ...

Terms of gates and manafort and their connections to the whole russia investigation, they were in the loop on george papadopoulos campaign aide who pleaded guilty trying to broker a meeting between putin and trump. theres a lot left to be told about what they knew between campaign and russia. they were the most russia connected of any of these advisors. manafort came to the campaign working for free, flat broke, right. scrambling for cash. in debt. and the question is how desperate was he what w...