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Everything else is just blather. >> reporter: then there are the rallies. in may 2016, a small sbrgroup o anti-islamic protesters gathered outside a center in houston, texas. it grew tense with a counter-rally. both pre and anti-trump demonstrations were held in new york. u.s. prosecutors say both events were organized by this same group half a world away in st. petersburg. russians traveled to the u.s. on a fact-finding mission in 2014, say prosecutors. it would be the foundation of a massive o...

Claims. >> translator: i have no response. until we see the facts, everything else is just blather. >> then there are the rallies. in may, 2016, a small group of anti-islamic protesters gathered outside a muslim community center in houston, texas, the situation grew tense with a counter rally. the very month of the election, both pro and anti-trump demonstrations were held in new york. u.s. prosecutors say both events were organized by the same troll group half a world away in st. petersburg. ru...

Doing to disrupt the 2016 campaign. some examples are stunning. according to the indictment, a russian group set up social media pages to look like they were being run by real americans and focused on highly devisive issues like this one showing satan backing hillary clinton and others like this one dealing with security -- border security. and then the black lives matter movement and some of the inflamatory social media posts even led to actual political rallies across the u.s. like this one in...

Would be able to stand against the multi billion dollar budgets of the u.s. security services. her boss sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister has also dismissed it saying hes heard much talk about state interference in the u.s. election process, but he says i havent seen a i thisingle fact date. but you mentioned 13 individuals, three companies identified in this indictment as being involved in election meddling, one of them known as the internet research agency was set up with the specific...

Take a listen. >> reporter: in may 2016, a small group of anti-islamic protest thors gathered outside of a muslim community center in the u.s. city of houston. >> down with the nazis. >> reporter: across the street a rally form and the two sides had a stark illustration of american division and discord. the organizers were thousands of miles away in st. petersburg, russia, working for secretive organization which according to the recent u.s. indictment had a strategic goal to sow discord in the ...

Anti-muslim rallies in various cities. one in particular, a rally took place in may, 2016, in houston, texas. they intervened in blogs and chat rooms, trying to turn opinion against hillary clinton and toward donald trump. its this troll factory that set out basically to try and distort the process in the united states and sow the system. yevgeny prigozhin owns a network of businesses, is a billionaire. hes known locally as putins chef because one of his businesses has a catering contract for th...

Hours the russian foreign minister say, look, i looked at these indictments and its, you know, paraphrasing him, but its all just blather is the word he used. again, other officials saying that this is just absurd. so theyre categorically rejecting yet again this idea that russia in any way intervened in the u.s. presidential election, tried to distort the political process in the united states. that, despite the fact that this indictment identifies 13 russian individuals, russian nationals invo...

Theres much talk of state interference in the u.s. election. he added, i havent seen a single fact to date. there are more denials coming from the russians. of course, the indictments id fi 13 individuals who the indictment says were involved in that manipulation of the election process. at least one of three companies is a notorious kremlin controlled. basically influence the politics and the election process in other countries, including the united states. take a listen. in may, 2016, a small ...

To acquire are more sophisticated and carry out more -- >> jon: it extended from march 2015 to may 2016 and only partial. >> melissa: the budget battle playing out in washington the house passed a measure to keep the lights on in washington until march 23. the senate is working on its own version. yesterday senate leaders reportedly met to hash out a funding bill to avert a government shutdown. it would boost both defense and domestic spending. the white house is hopeful lawmakers will come to a...

Russians hacked the dnc. i wonder if those two are related. nothing like that, zero. silence. the people who obviously were supporting a candidate who obviously was running for an office that he now occupies, that is supposed to protect and defend the united states never not once as far as we can tell reached out to u.s. authorities to sound the alarm. but now we have confirmation who obviously it was that did sound the alarm. as was previously reported by "the new york times," it was an austral...