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International? i worry about that. >> i cant even believe were having the conversation and youre making the point that you are, but we have to. clarissa, the other thing is the timing of all of this, right? you know, you cover a lot of russia. right after the russian president vladimir putin just signed a law aimed at foreign journalists that the president decides to take to twitter and do this this week. essentially this law says that the russian government can designate foreign media companies...

Rt an online content provider and sputnik, an online media group. and google the way theyre ranked on google from the two outfits, with censorship, not the only companies to do it. >> karen tso live for us in london, thank you. >> i want to turn to bonnie schneider with the weather. >> hi, yasmin. were looking at rain through parts of the northeast right now, thats where week-r were expecting the rain to continue along the jersey shore. take a look at impact on air travel. we may see rain in bos...

Called, whatdoesitmean.com. a mythical character, a conduit of information from sputnik, rt and other russian stories that put this in an obscure conspiracy theory website and then got to napolitano and 27 july trfansferred to donald trump. >> and we know the people who like donald trump are avid viewers of fox news. to you does it make sense that if the kremlin wanted to plant the fictitious idea that they had the 20,000 to 30,000 e-mails hillary clinton deleted because they were personal, when...

President personally intervened with doj to advance case against political opponent its beyond disturbi disturbing. i intend to pursue a new probe. meanwhile twitter pulling all ads p purchased by russian and sputnik. rt and sputnik will be allowed to continue producing content on twitter but are banned from advertising on the site. twitter facebook and google executives face a public hearing on capitol hill to address the roles they inadvertently played in russians effort the to meddle in ame...

Russia today and sputnik. nbcs jo ling kent has more. >> reporter: sam woolley has been tracking how bots influenced the 2016 election. >> so-called fake news can have real world consequences. >> fake news, its fake. >> reporter: bots are fake automated social media little that can post, retweet, like and share thousands of times foster than a real person. >> politicians, journalists, people that really spread and make news were actually sharing bot content online. they were sharing fake stories...

What appears to be a brewing constitutional crisis in spain. we want to turn back to here at home. were gearing up to whats going to go on next week when reps from facebook, twitter and google are coming here to capitol hill to answer questions publicly in front of the senate and house intelligence committees, its part of that investigation into russian sbeer feerns in the 2016 election. ahead of those meetings twitter is making moves. first, it promised more transparency, stricter policies su...

>> a lot of people will find that a highly debatable conclusion. for more im joined by mike mcfaul, former u.s. ann to russia during obama administration and msnbc contributor and senior fellow at stanford. susan glass is with us, veteran correspondent cheech international affairs columnist for politico, formerly co-bureau chief of the moscow bureau in the washington post. welcome to you both. ambassador, before we get to sanction, just on what we just heard from rosenstein, as i said, its going...

To the index. the major headline from twitter. the company says it will now block ads from two kremlin-backed media outlets. rt and sputnik. rt claims that twitter pursued them as clients to buy advertising during the campaign. the extreme weather threat tonight. our weather team tracking a deep freeze in the midwest. whiteout conditions in minnesota. the system moving east. and that major system threatening the east coast. heavy rain, wind gusts and possible flooding tracking northeast throug...

The focus remains on the use of soernl media to influence the election. twitter is now panning adds by russian media outlets, rt and sputnik of the "the new york times" reports the decision marks one of the most aggressive moves by an american social media company against the out lts which u.s. intelligence officials both covert and overt to disrupt the 2016 presidential election. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, however, and interestingly is down playing the impact of those fake ads. >> ...

Decisions. >> a lot of people will find that a highly debatable conclusion. welcome to you both. ambassador, before we get to sanctions, just on what we just heard from rosenstein, as irsd, its going to be highly debatable. people may see that as an unsophisticated take. were talking about companies like rt and sputnik. those are the overt labeled companies. but it was the covert stuff that got in peoples heads, its argued that might have swayed some opinions. >> well, brian, there were multiple...