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Light house and how the election process will go. the idea being that maybe there is some middle ground here. the president has talked about maybe tighter mental health background checks, that sort of thing. and other republicans have talked about maybe addressing some of these weapons themselves. but in baby steps. what do you see happening? >> well, i think congress represents the american people, neil. the american people are tired of seeing the senseless violence occur over and over again. m...

The police state fully at this point. steve: listen to this. we have a sound bite for you jerry nadler a congressman, a democrat from new york state. he actually compared the russian meddling to pearl harbor. watch. >> this is a very serious attack against the united states by a hostile foreign power and an attack against our election process, our entire governing process. that we know that the attack is continuing. the president and the republicans in the house for that matter refuse -- refuse ...

And less stable. so that would be my first piece of advice. accept that this is happening, condemn russian aggression in the united states during our election process and ask your supporters to put their faith in the media organizations that are reporting on this issue and trying to kind of call balls and strikes on whats real and what isnt. >> jonathan morgan, thank you very much. great advice, great information, appreciate it. well be right back.

Good to see you. >> good to see you. >> tell us how effective this russian campaign was. >> absolutely. so i think what weve seen here is probably one of the most effective propaganda operations launched in the united states in quite some time. we saw russian operatives i am ta -- imitating americans, spreading their message, spending millions of dollars every month to sow discord in the american electorate. also to get us fighting with each other, to break down our social fabric so it was desta...

Here. >> i think in the exchanges they made pretty clear and we learned a week ago they were getting information to then direct your call me because obama wanted to know everything were doing. to say he knew nothing about it would be a stretch at best. the american people in my view are looking at 13 indictments of russian national saying a million dollars was given by a buddy of vladimir putin to try and create social media chaos and no outcome on the election. a lot of folks are thinking, when...

>> well, again, lets sort this out. president trump had nothing to do with this outcome. it was about comey and president obama was on top of it and he didnt say anything. i think he is going to have account for that the fact of the matter is, in the end, the election was decided on the basis of what comey did, not on anything else. rachel: lets take a look at what jerry nadler, a democrat from new york said just yesterday on msnbc. >> this is a very serious attack against the united states by h...

>> theres no reason we are not sanctioning the russians. eric: he could say perhaps it is an international relations. >> he could say lots of things. so were talking about -- eric: wetting your view a chosen that he would impose sanctions. >> 100% to not treat putin like a drinking buddy. they would successfully interfere with our elections by imposing all sorts of campaign ads in all sorts of efforts to disrupt american political system. treat them as an enemy could until the white house starts...

Of this entire operation, which was almost like a business -- they were running it as a business, and all the purpose was to create this information warfare to infiltrate really our country, and to infiltrate our election process. >> and it did begin back in 2014 according to the department of justice. >> it did. >> so even before donald trump was announced as a candidate, they wanted so sow discord, they wanted to impact the election. >> thats right. the russians have been known this is what th...

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 ...

>> tucker: would you concede that were spending a lot of time examining, and i dont think its bad, but russian influence on our country, society, our politics. do you think this will kick off a new era where we take a close look at the influence of a lot of other countries on our politics. if not why not? >> well, i think the issue of foreign influence in american elections is a serious one. its a real one. you know, you just mentioned one example. im sure there are many others. of course, we wa...