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Gainesville, 164,000 residents there when school is in session. trying to figure out how to recover in the days ahead. ari. >> morgan radford, thanks for your reporting. stay safe. now back to the fbi digging into sputnik. michael mcfaul, thanks for being here ambassador. youve dealt with sputnik in professional capacity and its hard to know what to call it. that itself is part of what is under dispute and investigation. walk us through your experience with employees and what you thought of th...

Public opinion. rt and sputnik spreading false hoods and negative hillary clinton stuff. but it was also social media. the russians formed a greek chorus online that existed to amplify negative information about hillary clinton and in particular to amplify and direct people to that stolen information, the hacked stuff that russia obtained in the second prong of their attack when they went after the dnc and the clinton came pan. they invented fake immediapersos so people would see the stolen stuf...

Leaking of democratic e-mails on -- or the fire hose of stories, true, false and in between that battered mrs. clinton on russian outlets like rk and sputnik. far more difficult to trace was russias experimentation on facebook and twitter, the american companies that invented the tools of social media and did not stop them from being turned into engines of deception and propaganda. nbc newss keir simmons and, let me start with you. first on the news that american companies developed the very tec...

Pushed on social media but a former breitbart employee and sputnik news and fringe conspiracy theorists and access and propaganda? someone not particularly influential but extremely noteworthy. michael flynn junior and general michael flynn. partly because of the box. they say the campaign began in earnest and five controversial officials of the nfc brought in by flynn. w. rich hagans was fired by mcmaster subject to debate. some sources say and the matter

And popping off for the next few days? >> i do think its an open question interfering with the u.s. election and also investigating who is behind this campaign to go after mcmaster? we know at least one person employed by sputnik news owned by the russian government who is doing it. stay with us. were going to talk about president trumps other war of words with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. thats next. but if thats not enough, we have 7500 allys looking out for one thing, you. call in ...

At will employment agreement. sputnik elected not to renew his agreement. joining me, andrew fineburg, former correspondent for sputnik. thank you for being here. >> hi, joy. >> we read the statement about your firing. i want to allow you to walk back, tell me about it. did tweet in may i no longer work for sputnik, i would love to tell you why. seems sputnik isnt happy with real journalists, they would rather have propagandaists. they dont want reporters to have their own reputation, it is easi...

But they do this because when theres no name on a story, theres no accountability, when no one is accountable, they can write whatever they want. >> what did they want you to write about this seth rich conspiracy story? >> my last week there was when the president was on his first foreign trip. on friday, may 26th, last day there, i was called into a meeting with my editor, the guy who supervised me day to day, and a man i never met, older man who later would identify himself as the bureau chief...

I said i wasnt comfortable with that and they said in that case we have a termination letter for you and handed it to me right then. >> the bureau chief you never met before, was he american? >> no. >> did you know where he was from? >> i assumed based on his accent and name that he was russian. >> you said you never met him before. >> not once. >> when you went to work for sputnik, did you know it was owned and operated by the russian government. >> of course. heres the thing. i said this many ...

White house was involved in getting the story published. wheeler claimed he and ed butowski met with spicer. wheeler claims he later told him the president read the article before publication, wanted it published immediately. the white house denies trump had any knowledge of the story. butowski says the lawsuit allegations are false and he has never spoken to trump. adding more to the drama, news that the russian site sputnik pressured its own white house correspondent to advance the fake se fak...

Eye to eye. but there are other areas of cooperation when it comes to some cooperation on syria, cooperation on space agencies, the two space agencies work very much hand in hand here. but of course, theres a lot more disagreement. and we saw that in a continued russia reaction to the sanctions. in fact the dispute prime minister is in iran meeting to talk about ramping up iranian and russia cooperation. russia considering from a readout from the sputnik news agency giving more russian aid to ir...