in 2015 when we really started to see them do influence and social media, they focused on social issues. that s what you re seeing from these facebook disclosures. race, religion, rich versus poor, police violence, bundy ranch standoff, jade helm, military exercises, second amendment rights. that s how they stack up. they find those audiences that are receptive to their message and when it comes election year, that s when they start pushing these themes on candidates. so, what you re seeing now is every social media platform is finally getting around to the data. they re using each other s data and we see these disclosures each day. and whether it s facebook to twitter, now twitter to google, you re seeing them reveal different parts of these networks and that is a built-in strategy from the kremlin. their active measures are meant to be distributed so they have plausible deny ability. they ll try all the techniques. they double down and triple down and that s how the system works acro
doesn t disqualify him anymore. take on the two things, one is trump silence on twitter at least and elsewhere and on bob corker and this bannon assault on republicans in the senate. the only thing i can think of is that john kelly literally stolen the phone away from donald trump. someone else is perhaps twitting the innocuous things because essentially what bob corker did was he outed himself and every member of the republican party for allowing someone who they believe is mentally unable to perform the office of the president of the united states, unable to form the duties, a risk to the country to remain. and in doing so, he raises not only a question about trump, but about the rest of them. what are they doing there if they truly believe that this man is about to cause world war iii or eventually will cause world war iii? what if tomorrow john kelly, mattis and tillerson all quit? would they feel that the country
that s when they start pushing these themes on candidates. so, what you re seeing now is every social media platform is finally getting around to the data. they re using each other s data and we see these disclosures each day. and whether it s facebook to twitter, now twitter to google, you re seeing them reveal different parts of these networks and that is a built-in strategy from the kremlin. their active measures are meant to be distributed so they have plausible deny ability. they ll try all the techniques. they double down and triple down and that s how the system works across all the platforms. we heard brad parskal tell 60 minutes to think there is a joke there would be any collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. but how would the russians figure out exactly where to target the possible flipping of voters so that you could affect the electoral college? there are very, very few political analysts who would be able to guide you in that.
inside the white house where aides feared possible ripple effects among other republicans on capitol hill. trump s sunday morning twitter tirade against corker caught staffers by surprise but the president was brooding over the comment for a few days. earlier about trump s chaos endangering the nation. one trump confidant likened the president to a whistling teapot saying that when he does not blow off steam he can turn into a pressure cooker and explode. i think we are in pressure cooker territory said this person. joining us now, chris whipple, author of the gate keepers,: the white house chief of staffs define every presidency. chris, this is the presidency not defined by a white house chief of staff. although, we certainly have the image of general kelly working overtime and obviously achieve some kind of success with trump on this because he has not responded in any way to bob
president of the united states. that was steve bannon, no doubt channelling donald trump tonight in his reaction to senator bob corker s attack on president trump. an attack about which the president has so far remained uncharacteristically silent. the washington post is reporting tonight senator corker s brutal assessment of the fitness of office, also landed like a thunder clap inside the white house where aides feared possible ripple effects among other republicans on capitol hill. trump s sunday morning twitter tirade against corker caught staffers by surprise but the president was brooding over the comment for a few days. earlier about trump s chaos endangering the nation. one trump confidant likened the president to a whistling teapot saying that when he does not blow off steam he can turn into a pressure cooker and explode. i think we are in pressure cooker territory said this