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Part of this network. its what they told us about, and heres our sputnik, and this is what i focused on. they are out in the open, and thats what the intelligence community says, vast network we talking about now on facebook and twitter. they are very open about their aims of rt as they deny everything else. >> how sophisticated were the people you dealt with. one of the big arguments that democrats make is there had to be collusion because theres no way the russians on their own did things they...

Dollars of ads. what does that tell us about this investigation? should facebook do more to prevent these types of ads from being bought? >> i would actually be surprised had the russians not leveraged facebook as part of their multi-pronged effort to influence the november electorate. we know they used rt and sputnik their official propaganda arms and facebook is a platform that can reach millions of americans so when the news came out last week that some $150,000 worth of ads were purchased by...

After r an investigation about a free-willing investigation that can go where it is. trump is very concerned about who is running this investigation, whether it was comey, whether it was sessions or rod rosenstein or this in case mueller. trump is obsessed with who is running it. >> he doesnt have any independents out there certainly not going after him. thank you. another great report. another report on russia meddling in the election. describing russia state run medial outlet. in an in-depth...

Landscape quote creates a perfect opportunity for mass disturbances or initiating mass support or mass disapproval. as yahoo! news reports, sputnik is under information for potentially violating the foreign agents registration act which is intended to chekt foreign propaganda. im joined by jim rootenburg, the author of the times. congratulations. it is a tokyo rose stuff, if you will. its propaganda, meant to infiltrate us. why do people on the organization on capitol hill allow those organizati...

Meddling in the u.s. election. here to talk about all of this is ned price, former special assistant to president obama and former senior director of the national security council. ned, lets start with you. because the chairman of the intelligence committee, richard burr also had something to say about all of this, listen. >> now that weve opened up this avenue of social media, its of great interest for us to get a full accounting from everybody who operates in the space. >> it seems like all si...

U.s. affiliate of russia today being notified by the justice department that they must register as a foreign agent. that is disseminating propaganda in the united states. so both sputnik and rt starting to feel some heat in this country this week, ten months after they were named by the -- or eight months after they were named by the intelligence community for their role in the russian attack last year on the u.s. election. but if youre looking for something in this field of study to keep you up...

Putins information campaign in the u.s. had all these different facets. hacking, democratic targets, getting private e-mails, getting confidential documents, leaking those out. also using overt propaganda sites, russian sites in english like rt, the tv network, and website and sputnik. and then you have this activity on facebook and twitter. you know, i think whats most significant about this is that the russian efforts will clearly be back possibly in 2018, certainly in 2020. you know, it just ...

Employee of one, the sputnik, was on "the beat" just last night in his first interview since he spoke with the fbi. >> did this new interview you had with the fbi suggest theyre looking at making sputnik potentially register as a foreign agent? >> absolutely. that was the purpose in the interview. >> it doesnt stop there. u.s. intelligence on russian hacking has already named sputnik and rt propaganda outlets. it is the russian outlet that paid mike flynn $35,000 to go to that gala where he infa...

>> i cant speak to that. i can say thatle of the most popular arrests about things like wikileaks and pizza gate and other conspiracy theories were prominently featured on the sputnik website. i worked for the news wire division which is a separate part of the office. they were featured on the website. they get picked up by other american outlets. right wing outlets. and sputnik functions as part of the right wing media ecosystem and theres a big difference between the americans exercising their...

The flip side going in, why was this such a surprise that it would be like this? >> thats a good question. i dont think i was naive when i took job. i knew that sputnik was russian government backed. i went in to interview for the job of they asked me questions. i asked questions. and they made certain he assurances. they told me that i would have the editor i cant independence and the ability to work in the same manner that i would work at any other journalism organization. and those promises t...