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Interference campaign. it wasnt. >> let me put a fine point on this. which country attacked the united states election system in 2016? >> russia. >> is there any evidence that you saw that there was a top-down effort by ukraine to attack the 2016 election. >> no. >> what do you make of republicans, including the chair of the senate intelligence committee, richard burr, suggesting, and this was to nbc last night, i dont think theres any question that elected officials in ukraine had a favorite in...

Who said they werent crazy about this guy because he essentially countenanced the dismemberment of their country by russia. but thats a lot different than the campaign that the russians undertook. >> no top-down effort. no systematic effort by the ukrainian government to attack the united states election. such a big difference there, senator. thank you for helping us understand what that difference is. you also have an op-ed in "usa today" which quotes a sherlock holmes story about the dog that ...

Want to support the president will go along with that approach. >> so one of the things that youre arguing here or that republicans are arguing is that ukraine is a problem and the president was right to look into corruption in ukraine. he was right to ask about the 2016 election because ukraine meddled. our intelligence community did not find that ukraine meddled. our intelligence community found that russia was the one that attacked our elections. republicans keep pointing out a politico artic...

Anything against donald trump by the ukrainians to medal in the election. that, you know, what russia was doing was a top down effort mandated by putin to interfere in the u.s. elections and nothing ukraine did amounted to anywhere close to that. >> im glad you have brought her up because i just want to play some of the sound of the testimony she gave. lets listen. >> some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our coun...

Meddle in the u.s. election and if, indeed, democrats were somehow helping that happen, that would be a terrible thing, and we should be doing just like weve been saying about the russia scenario, everything in our power as a country to prevent foreign meddling in our elections going forward. what is -- in that sense, its a similar situation, of looking at a foreign country trying to have influence in our election perhaps. as you noted, it doesnt seem to be in the reporting from politico or sinc...

Pro-russian guy. what ended up was there was an investigation and we found out that there was a ledger with alleged payments from this pro-russian guy to paul manafort. so this came out in the public. it put a lot of pressure paul manafort. paul manafort eventually stepped down from donald trumps campaign. it was a big political deal if you remember around the time of the conventions, but when you talk to people who are analyzing both sides of this they say there are big differences here because...

Has said about how we are losing this war to isis in terms of recruitment. heres what he has said. we have an effective counternarrative. but the sheer volume we are losing the battle. their amount of use of social media eclipses our effort. >> how can isis this band of 30,000 maybe, be beating the u.s. in terms of getting recruitment and people becoming radicalized here at home? >> well a good metaphor is almost thinking about this as something like microsoft versus youtube. one is a top-down e...

Will get shot in the face. the right to bear arms is my constitutional god-given right and i will exercise that right until the day i die. whats in this letter is nothing compared to what ive got planned for you." so going full circle and coming back to this topic, anne, it obviously is this letter sort of reigniting at least part of the conversation, but there also was an even bigger conversation, obviously, after newtown. after you heard -- and i hope you could hear what our guest had to say, ...

>> let me ask you this. so if theres this large group of independents who are dissatisfied with both parties and looking for an alternative but just dont want to waste their vote, we had an experiment with that this year the americans elect organization which set up a process, put a lot of money behind it to put forward a third party candidate and it basically failed pretty spectacularly. you know, how would you explain the failure of that group and of buddy romer and other potential third-party...