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To cancel his summit in helsinki with Vladimir Putin on monday in the face of this, new charges brought by the Department Of Justice. Whats your take on this . I agree, he never should have taken the meeting to begin with. I mean we have no idea what he would hope to gain from this. What we know quite clearly, these were not lowlevel operatives, ali, who were indicted. These are highlevel people who worked very closely with the Senior Leadership in russia. We know putin knew this. Donald trump i...

Measures to carry out defensive operation so that it doesnt happen. but thats the united states government. when i wrote my book "plot to hack america" two years ago, i had proposed a joint public/private partnership to strengthen all aspects of the united states private security. so that the department of homeland security and the national security agency could give them the tools that they have. that has not happened because the government no longer believes in that, so what we have is we have...

>> malcolm, again, im sort of hung up on the fact that the white house doesnt seem to be grasping the importance of this or is deliberately being misleading about it. but the fact is youve written a book on this. the idea that they got, according to this indictment, as close as a software vendor to state election boards, that they were able to steal somewhere near half a million e-mails of voters with a lot of information, and the white house is carrying on about how no votes were changed. look ...

Saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, qatar and russia. joining me is msnbc contributor and author of "plot to hack america," and journalist and author of "the view from flyover country" sarah kensor. books a million. im going to start with you here, malcolm, so you have michael cohen getting all of this money from companies like at&t, novartis, its all very strange. but of course is all has to come back to another russia connection, the firm that paid michael cohen $500,000 deeply tied to thi...

Corporation from its record highs to kind of where we sit right now. a lot of that is on concerns about whether facebooks business model can sustain itself given the kind of scrutiny were seeing both from lawmakers and regulators potentially and what that means going forward. a lot of the prepared testimony from zuckerberg we know already. what we dont know is how zuckerberg, ceo of facebook, will sustain or stand up to that real hard questioning coming from lawmakers out in washington. thats th...

They spewed messages like war against democrats several times. they also tried to use black lives matter. could they have done that without some american intel on who to target and what to say? >> no. when i wrote "plot to hack america" i think my initial estimate was the russian intelligence contribution to the plan, as i calculated right down to the individual watch stand, would have been about 300 people who would be 24/7/365 watching u.s. media. but the level of targeteering is es poe th exp...

Intelligence spy hunting team going through his links to a possible gru and other intelligence agencies. peter smith in relation to mike flynn is a tier three person. roger stone being the second tier there. there were, obviously, multiple dirty tricks who were there trying to coordinate this information. and i happen to know because i wrote about it in my book "plot to hack america." the genesis of this story came from russia in march of 2016 and it came to fox news through judge napalotano whe...

Going to give you something that you want for whatever you pay him. either thats money or is, you know, not disclosing a secret or something else of but just getting somebody to do your bidding without them absolutely knowing, thats to me is impossible. >> malcolm, same question, what you know about how this process works. >> well, its quite simple. and what jack said there was very, very true. this is a relationship. its a dance that goes on between two people. and if you dont know that that of...

Talking about the russian investigation. >> do you get the sense the federal investigation into this includes something beyond the trump campaign, a cover-up question? >> i think thats right. it does. i know what the president told me when he called to say he was firing him. that turned out not to be the reason. >> im ask you, malcolm, how wide range doing you think this investigation ultimately will go? >> you know, as i wrote in my book "plot to hack america" i will be discussing with john dea...

In the country started to exacerba exacerbate. where the audience went thats where the business goes. i would say the legacy is very complex and gretchen carlson, a very good friend of mine, former miss america, and hold her in high regard. there is a legacy of what he did in business and people he worked with. we should always try to balance and lack at both. as individuals when were remembered we want to be remembered more than our demons. >> you said something very important to one of my favo...