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Kremlins interference effort. >> this is a reminder that once again, right now, the biggest national security threat facing the united states is donald trump. and its donald trump because hes ignorant and hes undisciplined. when he sits in an interview and describes information coming from russia to people campaigning the united states as oppo research, it is just such a categorical failure about what the information entails and what his responsibility is as the commander in chief and the presid...

October 10th, 2016. this wikileaks stuff unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you got to read it, donald trump. october 12th, 2016. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove, donald trump 31st, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks, donald trump, november 4th, 2016. would any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> um, im not sure, and i would say -- >> how do you react? >> well, its probably -- problematic is an understatement in terms of what it displays in terms of giving some,...

Manipulation -- >> well, detroit and philly. >> right. the geographic targeting is a very interesting part of this. i also think it is not particularly difficult to determine the society whether its gun rights, african-american rights, you know, military and veteran issues. so i think that there are serious questions about certain aspects of this campaign. but broadly this interference effort was based on things that are very obvious about american society. i also think that the russians campaig...

Over the past few weeks one of the surprising terms in the special counsel investigation into russia meddle with our presidential election has been the revelation or at least the reporting that special counsel robert mueller is looking beyond russia to see if there were other countries also involved in that interference effort. last month "the new york times" reported on a previously unknown meeting that happe trump tower in august 2016 ahead of the election. in that meeting donald trump junior ...

Chris cillizza, is "outfront" tonight. chris, the reports, trump and mcmaster, they havent got along for months. weve heard those stories. what do you think is the behind-the-scenes story here? >> well, first of all, donald trump is hard on the furniture, to put it one way, which is just to say, he is very tough on staff. look at who he has run through in his year and a little bit in the white house, jim. and then we got a signal in regards to the russia investigation on saturday, general mcmast...

Role the trump campaign may have played in all of this? how much is the trump campaign invoked in the document before us here in these 37 pages? >> i havent read every word, but as far as i can tell, it does not address that crucial question. i was told that any americans mentioned in this were -- have played an unwitting role in this interference effort. what it does lay out is a very complex conspiracy and it even shows that, for example, once the russians realized the fbi were on to them, the...

Russia and hacking in or creating bots where russia, they were actually able to use american bank accounts, american identities and even go through pay-pal to do exactly what they did. so that tells two things, one, its going to be really difficult for tech companies like pay-pal, like these social media companies going forward to detect outside interference when these outside interferers are able to use american bank account. it also says that richard pineto may be able to hand over other peopl...

At this case the way ive heard a lot of legal experts, a lot of people believe its unlikely robert mueller will be able to prove that donald trump intentionally colluded with the interference effort. many people believe hes vulnerable to money laundering, the business he did with the russians. in 2008 donald trump jr. made a comment that a disproportionate amount of our assets come from russia. thats never been explained. ive heard thats the key to this is the business that the trump organizatio...

During last years election in the us facebooks chief executive mark zuckerberg has pledged to boost the transparency of the companys paid political advertising heres what he had to say i wish i could tell you that were going to stop all interference but that just wouldnt be realistic there will always be bad actors in the world and we cant prevent all governments or all interference but we can make it harder we can make it much harder weve been working to ensure the integrity of the german elect...

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