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States. with that we bring chairman, former special envoy chief of staff from clinton administration, you think how much of venezuela has changed since bill clinton and your team were in the white house, didnt take long and its now a disaster in. >> its a disaster. but youre right about venezuela, once hugo chávez took control in command has gone socialist and terrible, terrible humanitarian crisis they are now. leland: you dealt with crisis at highest level, somalia, humanitarian crisis mixed ...

The 2016 election. >> the special prosecutors office also announced it has reached a plea deal with a california man who committed identity fraud as part of the russian criminal conspiracy. the charges against richard pinedo indicated he sold bank account numbers using the stolen identities of u.s. cities to people outside the united states. as part of the plea deal, he agreed to cooperate with robert mueller. its noted, his plea deal does not include all of the facts known to me regarding this ...

Individual defendants worked at various times for a company called internet research agency, llc, a russian company based in st. petersburg. >> rod rosenstein gave us a new lech i con for lexicon for this investigation. information warfare according to the 37-page indictment the russians began amassing weapons against us in 2014 and continued through the election in 2016 and beyond. the allegations the russians posing as u.s. persons and creating false u.s. personas operated social media pages a...

Unwitting individuals associated with the trump campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities. asked whether trump campaign officials had had knowledge of the russian scheme or were d duped, rod rosenstein chose his words carefully saying that particular allegation is not included in this indictment. >> there is no allegation in this indictment that any american was a knowing participant in this illegal activity. there is no allegation in the indictment t...

On this? >> maybe youre so senior now you dont get on the street. if you walk on the street, theres lots of accents. >> but russian. >> theres lots of russians here, as well. its a good question. it depends what level these operatives were. the russians are very, very good at this. they have a lot of people who speak languages well. they train them well. if you watch "the americans." >> the indictment alleges to fund their massive influence campaign on social media, the russian defendants and co...

Mueller. his plea deal does not include all of the facts known to me regarding this offense. that indicates that he has told the special prosecutor much more information than is revealed in his plea deal today. the indictment of the 13 russians today says defendants also used the stolen identities of real u.s. persons. heres what the president had to say today when he was asked about all of this. >> do you feel vindicated in the mueller investigation? >> mr. president will you punish russia? wil...

Information warfare according to the 37-page indictment the russians began amassing weapons against us in 2014 and continued through the election in 2016 and beyond. the allegations the russians posing as u.s. persons and creating false u.s. personas operated social media pages and groups using stolen identities of real u.s. persons. it alleges they travelled to the u.s. under false pretenses and procured. >> and used computer infrastructure. and staged political rallies inside the united states...

The indictment, 12 of the individual defendants worked at various times for a company called internet research agency, llc, a russian campaign based in st. petersburg. >> rod rosenstein gave us a new phrase for this investigation, information war faer according to the 37-page indictment the russians began amassing weapons against us in 2014 and continued through the election in 2016 and beyond. the allegations the russians posing as u.s. persons and creating false u.s. personas operated social m...