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An attempt by russian intelligence to infiltrate them? no, they did not. and did this guy papadopoulos tell these senior officials in the trump campaign that the russians had offered him hillary's e-mails? well, these documents are silent on that question. but you can bet that robert mueller knows the answer to that question, because he's got papadopoulos's e-mails, and he's got a lot of other information about who he was talking to in the campaign. >> it's great having you on, frank, frank figliuzzi and ken dilanian, you're my man. facebook estimates that, catch this, 126 million americans,...

What this is specifically, chris, this is content that was generated by page, fake pages that were backed by russia. so it was things like videos or fake news or, you know, pictures, things like that. and they were posted. and then, you know, the way they got to 126 million is initially 29 million people saw that content directly. but then they reposted it, shared it, liked it. and it got spread. so it grew and grew and grew to this 129 million number which as you mention is a significant number. potentially, about half of eligible voters in the u.s. would have seen this content. now facebook ...

It's very clear, chris. it's clear to every american with any common sense that the russians have tried to manipulate on both sides of the aisle in the 2016 election. but in fact -- >> just reported 126 million people were given facebook advertisements from the russians to influence the campaign. isn't that significant a little? >> chris, listen to me. number one we all have to be discerning consumers of information. that's imminently clear, no matter what our political persuasion. but there has been an avalanche of information. use know, the fbi has just released a major in fact from his nda ...