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Intelligence committee, the russians are engaging in an ongoing campaign to undermine american democracy, to attack our democratic institutions and to undermine the rule of law in this country. its playing out in the context of this criminal case. >> its incredible. what they are saying is its happening now which you point out the intelligence community has been loud and clear. they said it was a red alert flashing were the words used. here we are. do you worry that the russians will succeed in ...

Discovery. they have to get information turned over. this is exactly what the mueller team was concerned about and one of the reasons they asked a judge to limit the type of information that could be shared with the russians. sensitive sources and methods could be exposed there. >> thank you very much. i want to go to the democratic congressman member of the house judiciary committee. i appreciate your time tieonigh. lets start with this breaking news on the mueller investigation. more charges a...

Into their servers and show you all their secrets. according to this filing today, robert mueller, the special counsel says nobody actually broke into their servers. nobody has actually violated their own security in the special counsels office. what ended up online in russia was the material that was sent to these lawyers for concord management as part of the criminal case, as part of the discovery process. and in this case there is a protective order from the court which says that any material...

Journalists. barbara mcquade is the former attorney for the eastern district of michigan. she joins us tonight. thank you very much for being here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> first, you explained about what i understand as the discovery process and the duty of prosecutors to hand over the defense of the case theyre making in a criminal case like that. did i get that basically right? did i screw any of that right? >> no, you got it exactly right. the defendant is entitled to see the evid...

Discovery process so far, what they say today is that that material that theyve obtained in discovery thus far, it has all of the sudden turned up in russia in altered form, doctored and then used for what appears to be a kind of disinformation campaign to try to publicly discredit the mueller investigation, using u.s. journalists as part of the ploy. what? this is from the filing. quote, on october 22nd, 2018, so this past october, the newly created twitter account hackingredstone published the...

Online file sharing portal. the web page included file folders and structs that are unique to the files produced by the government in discovery, including tracking numbers assignsed by the special counsels office. what this means is that as a criminal defendant, obviously concord management is entitled to the same rights as any criminal defendant. they are entitled to see what the government has against them in terms of evidence. what evidence the government has used to build its case against co...

You cant make it public. youre only supposed to be able to use it inside the confines of this case. contrary to that order, what actually happened to that stuff they got through discovery is that apparently the stuff got sifted through. a bunch of those files got posted online. they got put in this online data portal, and then somebody anonymously claimed that they hacked that material out of muellers office, and they were going to make it available to the u.s. public by shopping it to u.s. jour...

The special counsel spells out about the nature of this material as it was posted online. what theyre saying here in this filing is that this wasnt just the material from the discovery process that got handed over to these lawyers, that got somehow hijacked or diverted and then handed off and then it was uploaded wholesale to a public space it shouldnt be. theyre not saying thats what happened here. what the special counsel is saying here is that their discovery materials were clearly obtained i...

Like never before store. the xfinity store is here. and its simple, easy, awesome. u.s. prosecutors today allege that one of the cases brought by robert mueller, the special counsel, has become a vehicle for what appears to be a new russian disinformation effort targeting americans. materials obtained through the discovery process in this case have turned up on a russian server doctored in such a way as to try to discredit the mueller investigation. those documents were then shopped to various...

Get to that in a second be. threw are two substantive things here. one is why is robert mueller so mad about this? i mean, to me, this is sort of amazing as a plot point. i dont know that i get it in terms of legal significance, but in terms of the human drama here, what is amazing is what the special counsel spells out about the nature of this material as it was posted online. what theyre saying here in this filing is that this wasnt just the material from the discovery process that got handed ...