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Profil profiles. didnt spell great. things like that. data showed all tied together. didnt do a lot to mask the fact this was large trolling operation. other people are a lot more sophisticated. other countries, china and russia, are a lot more sophisticated. so people who take the time to protect their trolling operations, protect their botnets are not being caught. well have a reckoning with this over the next year. >> moral of the story, somebody has more reach than kim kardashian-west, you k...

Committee. thanks so much for being with us. we really appreciate it. >> youre welcome. nice to be with you. >> i want to get your perspective on this -- these reports that you just heard about. specifically the fact that african-americans were targeted so specifically by this russian trolling operation, you are in a district in tennessee where almost two thirds of your district is african-american. as you see these results, i imagine it hits home for you and your constituents. >> well, its just...

Earned it, but those in her party want to take it away. how is this anything other than a trolling operation? you could easily argue that nancy pelosi is this villain for him he uses as a foil. how is that not what you and some republicans might be doing here? >> we have been working on this for six months and reform the rules of the house. i will tell you, there are members on both sides and they are so committed to row forming the rules and get the institution working again, this is not a ploy...

Different parts of the russian disinformation campaign in 2016. the first was a campaign that was undertaken by the main intelligence director of the russian military which is also called the greu and that campaign was mostly focused on stealing information and then using that stolen information, in particular, e-mails from the dnc and john podesta, to create news stories and amplify them that were harmful to hillary clintons campaign. the second component was the trolling operation which is mos...

Undertaken by the main intelligence director of russian military, which is also called the gru, and that campaign was mostly focused on stealing information and then using that stolen information, in particular e-mails from the dnc and john podesta to create news stories and then amplify them that were harmful to hillary clintons campaign. the second component was the trolling operation, which is mostly done by a group called the internet research agency of st. petersburg. that was a campaign th...

Wrist." joining me is alex stamos, now a visiting scholar at the hoover institution. thank row you so much for being the show tonight. >> thank you, kasie. >> lets start with what happened in 2016. what did facebook know? what, in your view, and how, did they fall short? >> so theres really two different parts of the russian disinformation campaign in 2016. the first was a campaign that was undertaken by the main intelligence director of the russian military which is also called the greu and tha...

Different parts of the russian disinformation campaign in 2016. the first was a campaign that was undertaken by the main intelligence director of the russian military which is also called the greu and that campaign was mostly focused on stealing information and then using that stolen information, in particular, e-mails from the dnc and john podesta, to create news stories and amplify them that were harmful to hillary clintons campaign. the second component was the trolling operation which is mos...

Who is the billionaire businessman, hes very close to putin, hes called putins chef. hes got a lucrative catering contract but hes got his fingers in all sorts of foreign policy pies in this country including it seems the trolling operation. >> all right matthew chance for us, outside the internet research agency, the troll farm in the middle of the election meddling of two years ago. thanks so much, matthew. we have breaking news. fascinating breaking news for mar-a-lago. a driver of one with...

It says the enforce began in 2014. no americans had knowledge of the so-called russian operation. rachel: so where does the probe go from here? pete: here to discuss is chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner" and fox news contributor byron york. byron, we have been covering this story all morning long. indictment of russians, no collusion with americans. what does it say about the special counsel going forward? >> well, it says that he is basically established what has been r...