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The russian propaganda efforts during our election, is that much of the content is targeted toward enflaming divides and deepening divisions and creating discord, and all of that is true. but if you look at that ad in particular, whats interesting is it is, again, about activation, its about behavioral change. its not just information. its not just we want you to understand this. its targeting a specific group of people to see if they can get them to go out and protest, to demonstrate, to organi...

Is this a new training ground? >> absolutely not. this is something thats been a persistent issue for years, don. when the group announced that it had declared or established a caliphate in mid-2014, it unleashed the most aggressive and effective global recruitment and incitement campaign of any terrorist group in history and a majority of that has occurred in the cyber domain. what youre seeing is all of this propaganda, like the propaganda theyre talking about today in these hearings, these pr...

Election, and what were seeing in these ads is really disturbing. lets discuss now. molly mchugh is here, an expert in information warfare. lets dive right into these ads because its the ad content thats concerning, okay? we have a few of the right-wing ads on screen, but lets talk about this one, showing a depiction of jesus arm-wrestling with satan. it says "satan, if i win, clinton wins." "jesus, not if i can help it," and that is from a facebook group called army of jesus. whats the goal of ...

Talking point coming out of the hearings this week and sort of what people have learned about the russian propaganda efforts during our election, is that much of the content is targeted toward enflaming divides and deepening divisions and creating discord, and all of that is true. but if you look at that ad in particular, whats interesting is it is, again, about activation, its about behavioral change. its not just information. its not just we want you to understand this. its targeting a specifi...

Activation and mobilization and behavioral change within a population. and this one in particular seems to be targeting a group that has for a long time been targeted by russian propaganda and far right propaganda, the kind of evangelical landscape and making it a simple black-or-white choice -- if you vote for clinton, youre voting for satan, which is a very odd message, but it does appeal to a certain audience in a variety of ways, but i think its, again, this sort of defining an enemy and mak...

Photos that you got from isis propaganda sites. whats important about this photo of children? lets put that up. >> so, one of the things that is known in terms of the comments that the terrorists responsible for the attack in new york has made is it refers to the durability of islamic state. and this is a theme that is very common in islamic state propaganda. and one way that theyre highlighting this durability, building this perception that the group will be capable of threatening americans and...

To be targeting a group that has for a long time been targeted by russian propaganda and far right propaganda, the kind of evangelical landscape and making it a simple black-or-white choice -- if you vote for clinton, youre voting for satan, which is a very odd message, but it does appeal to a certain audience in a variety of ways, but i think its, again, this sort of defining an enand making you make a choice about it that is the interesting aspect of some of these ads. >> okay. this is a left ...

By john podesta. according to a source we spoke to who worked for podesta for years, the company received huge sums of money from a pro-russia shell group in order to bolster russias interests in washington, all without declaring itself an agent of a foreign power, which it demonstrably was. election hacking might also look like the infamous and fraudulent trump dossier which was compiled in 2016 and then released this past january by buzzfeed as a laughably stupid news story. much of that infor...

Visiting family and returning on monday, then i flew in that monday to meet with mr. campos. >> tucker: huh. no one would begrudge the man a vacation, of course, but because he was a key witness in this investigation that was still ongoing and chaotic at thatrs point, did investigators have qualms about him leaving? >> not to my knowledge. there were no qualms about him leaving, because his plans had been made prior and he intended to return on monday, which he did. >> tucker: by car up and back...

Mr. campos was going to be visiting family and returning on monday, then i flew in that monday to meet with mr. campos. >> tucker: huh. no one would begrudge the man a vacation, of course, but because he was a key witness in this investigation that was still ongoing and chaotic at thatrs point, did investigators have qualms about him leaving? >> not to my knowledge. there were no qualms about him leaving, because his plans had been made prior and he intended to return on monday, which he did. >>...