comcast business. powering possibilities™. welcome back fox news is doubling down on its defense that airing false claims about election fraud were, quote, newsworthy. it comes in response to a defamation lawsuit from smartmatic, the voting software company is suing fox for $2.7
officer s point of view, she is a traitor. from the point of view of people who want to know more about how russia hacked and the point of reporters who think that way too much gets classified, and this particular administration s probably not in the business of declassifying a lot of it to share details with us. well, she did a service. so this is going to play out in court though, and she is probably going to get a very long jail sentence. i don t see with what shoee s already apparently told the prosecutor, and now with this jailhouse phone call, her building a very strong case of innocence. but i am not a lawyer. very quickly let s talk about what was in that document. it detailed the cyber attack by russia s military intelligence unit, gru, on a software voting software company and 122 local elections officials just days before the election. there is no evidence they were actually able to manipulate any votes but what does this reveal
russia s interference in our election. this week the intercept reported new details about the russian hacking, including their attempts to penetrate a voting software company. the vice chair of the senate intelligence committee mark warner reacted to that report, telling usa today that russian attacks on the election were even broader than what has been reported so far. we need to declassify more of that information so that americans can fully appreciate how broad and far-reaching this russian attempt to interfere in our most basic democratic process. i don t believe they got into changing actual voting outcomes. but if the extent of the attacks is much broader than has been reported so far, again, i m trying to work through a declassification process. according to a new washington post /abc news poll released today, 56% of americans think president trump is trying to interfere with investigations
he said he had nothing to do with russia, had not been involved with hookers in russia, and had always assumed he was being recorded when in russia. he asked what we could do to lift the cloud. the russian prostitute story that the president was talking to james comey about was first revealed in a dossier compiled by christopher steel, a former british intelligence agent. we don t know how much of that dossier is true or false, but it was the first attempt at a written description of donald trump s russian connections and russia s interference in our election. this week the intercept reported new details about the russian hacking, including their attempts to penetrate a voting software company. the vice chair of the senate intelligence committee mark warner reacted to that report, telling usa today that russian attacks on the election were even broader than what has been reported so far. we need to declassify more of that information so that americans can fully appreciate how broad a