we re back with ambassador mcfaul and rick stengel. ambassador, i got to start with you on this. from an international perspective, i can understand somebody saying, ha ha, we ll get texas to secede and nobody will have to watch texans games and we don t have dallas and those things are good. but it actually would hurt the republican party because if texas somehow left the u.s. union, sort of like what you have in england right now, once ireland sort of left, now labor can t really win any national elections. what is the value of promoting something as ridiculous as texas secessionism? i understand that ted cruz is a kiss-up, but why would russia care? well, first of all, the idea that anybody would support secessionist movement in the united states, that weakens the united states of america. let s be clear about that at the get-go. maybe he was making a joke. i don t know. but that is not an american who wants america to be strong in the world. that weakens the united states of amer
on facebook called, stop islamization of texas, organized by a facebook group called heart of texas. heart of texas, with knowledge of the matter is among 470 fake pages facebook turned over to congress. ads facebook said came from an internet research agency that according to people who worked there, operated out of this building in st. petersburg. more than 5,000 miles from texas. the houston rally, an example of a russian effort that had real impact on the ground. while the stated mission of heart of texas was to promote texas secessionism, cnn has suggested parts of the account that suggest racial discord was also part of its playbook. one post asks, since when has this country turned into a