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>> my experience of working many years against russian services, i could see vladimir and the kremlin breaking over vodka bottles how he's poured gasoline over the fires. he mounted really effective influence operations. injected our political process with a virus. >> dan, did you learn anything new? there were two -- mueller was in front of two hearings, the judiciary committee and then the intelligence committee run by adam schiff. did you learn anything new about russian interference? >> no. i read the report, cover to cover. and the part about russia's systemic and sweeping interference, e...

To elections, and vladimir putin wins an election like that you tend to question the way in which an election is run in a country like that. we no longer can hold ourselves up to that standard any more. to that high standard of free and fair elections in this country, especially when you hear something like what we heard from the president of the united states yesterday. >> well, even though the 2016 election was contentious. i think it was a clean, free and fair election. in so much as the ballots as far as we can tell, we don't know exactly, but for the most part a free and fair election. 20...

Reporting that we've got, right? we know that two days into the trump administration jared kushner initially applied for a security clearance and listed no foreign contacts. yeah, not even like the trump tower meeting and not even like the meeting with the sanctioned russian bank ceo. nothing. he listed nothing. we know that he had to revise his security clearance application more than 40 times over the course of him starting his employment at the white house. we know that "the new yorker" and "the wall street journal" last year both reported that the fbi had come to the trump white house spec...

Commonwealth of virginia. well, with all that, let's bring in our leadoff panel on a monday night. clint watts is a lot of things, graduate of west point. army veteran, but most importantly for us, he's a veteran of the federal bureau of investigation, whose past research has focused on russian influence operations. he happens to have written the book on the subject, "messing with the enemy." it's about russians and the hacking of our democracy. barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. shane harris, intelligence and national security reporter for the "washing...

Influence went. did the companies give you any explanation when they weren't supplying what would seem to be fairly simple information? >> well, the reason i think they didn't supply it was probably user privacy. if you're sharing comment data, you would have to anonmize it. that said, i think they responded to the senate's request for information, not to mine. the senate was who provided the researchers with the data set. so my understanding is the senate reached out and said can you provide us with information about influence operations on your platform, starting around 2015, some of the com...