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The european union. i havent heard that rhetoric in a long time. through nato, providing a force multiplier for forces around the world and increased our national security here at home. it is extraordinary to me that our strongest ally in the continent, germany, would feel that way. >> i remember in brussels, at the end of nato summit, she had a speech which she said this is not a time to build walls, it is time to tear down walls. thats because of the mexico border wall. new president of france...

To know what he could possibly shed on it. we should also add, obviously, heretofore, we know the trump white house has been saying that, you know, everybody else, that the fbis been taking a look at, is peripheral to the trump operation. well now, this is his son-in-law, this is somebody who is one of his closest advisers and hes inside the white house. don? >> interesting. youre reporting kushners role helping to run the campaigns data analytics is part of this probe. why is that, evan? >> wel...

Some of this news that they were -- some of the e-mails that they had stolen from the dnc and some of the stories associated with that, including from russian outlets like rt and sputnik and making sure that it was first in the search patterns of people in pennsylvania, in michigan and wisconsin. again, these are things that the fbi is still looking at, so it very much has to do with the campaign and it very much has to do with the theory of russian coordination or russian collusion. >> anderson...

Some of the russian press of the state-run russian media and they have been very critical, even spreading rumors and stuff about him. its interesting the russia angle in this election. >> well, this is hugely important. as one of the leading candidates who did not make it through in the primaries but a very highly respected former foreign minister also republican in other words a conservative, he said that for the very first time ever russia has staked its claim and has a favored candidate in ou...

Heritage foundation or brookings we think of in the united states. >> it reports to a president vladamir putin. he picks the director of the institute. the institute identifies the president of russia as its founder. >> what did you learn through your reporting? >> what we learned essentially this document -- two documents came in after the election. what they did, their internal russian government documents in whereby describe a strategy to influence the u.s. electorate through regular media pl...

Russian government documents in whereby describe a strategy to influence the u.s. electorate through regular media platforms like those associated with russia today, sputnik and social media. not only did the u.s. know about hacking of russia in the democratic campaign and clinton campaign they had a policy document talking how to do this. >> the significance of this, this is a clear line to the kremlin, the u.s. intelligence community had already said that they believe russia was involved, this...

Recognizing? >> right. i think its very fluid. and what you see, these documents, the significance of them are that they are russian government documents written by an internal kremlin think tank that reports to vladimir putin, whose directors are appointed by the russian president and whose directors, the last two have both been former senior leaders of the russian foreign intelligence service. >> and do these documents outline their techniques? >> well, what they do in effect, the first one is...

>> well, i think the document is very concise in its language, according to the interviews that we have done. and what it refers to, though, are outlets that it has influence over so that would be russian outlets. so russia today, sputnik and others. one of the other things that helped frame this first document was the united states was aware that there was a march meeting of the putin presidential administration with russia outlets such as russia today, sputnik and others in which the putin adm...

Beneficial to both russia and the united states and not carry on the current -- the then current policies of the obama administration, which this paper described as harmful to russian and the united states. >> did the documents get into specifics about friendly media? because during the campaign, sean hannity, for example, at fox news could not have been more friendly to this kind of information from russia or anywhere else. >> well, i think the document is very concise in its language, accordin...

>> well, what they do in effect, the first one is from june 2016. and it is -- its a document that circulated at the highest levels of the russian government. and what it says is that the russian government should work through a media campaign through media outlets that it has influence with, such as russia today and sputnik and others, and also through social media to influence the u.s. electorate to pick a new u.s. administration that will have policies that are beneficial to both russia and t...