to exploit divisions over gun laws in the aftermath of this horrific tragedy in florida. what these bots have been doing is exploiting schisms, trying to undermine our democracy and create more divisions among americans. what you re talking about here is an indictment of some of these creators, internet exploitation experts who are connected in the past, we know, to russian intelligence, the gru, to the sr svr to other russian entities in the government. that s absolutely right. and one of the questions raised by the conduct you just described is what can the u.s. government do about it? this appears to be robert mueller s answer. he can file criminal charges. now will he ever get any of these defendants into court? that seems unlikely. what he s done is essentially named and shamed them. we ve seen the justice department do this before in the case of the chinese and they ve indicted they indicted five