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Administration when national security agency director, the director of the national security agency said he had not been directed as head of the nsa to try to fight in the ongoing efforts by the kremlin to influence our politics. we now know from this latest indictment that in fact this effort run by prigozhin and the internet research agency and the elements of this russian government directed interference campaign, they didn't slow down after 2016. they kept right up and in fact kept scaling up their efforts and spending more money to try to influence american voters and american politics in...

Putin's forces conduct a killing and the saudis allegedly conducting the killing in turkey. it's an operating environment that the countries see they have because there is no moral authority in the world. that is very concerning and i think more will come unless the united states asserts itself and starts to step up. >> very quickly on thes a d peerns of the saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi. the president said it could have been rogue killers. >> again, it could have been china or a guy on his couch in new jersey. that's it is how he talked about russia's interference campaign. he a debtly is...

Was not enough, it was time to accuse the democrats of colluding with russia. >> everybody understands there was no collusion, no rush s. it was all made up by the democrats. they're the ones that colluded with russia. the democrats colluded with russia. >> as the president was telling that lie, "the new york times" was reporting new details on the mueller investigation. "the times" reports, a top trump campaign official requested proposals in 2016 from an israeli company to create fake online identities to use social media manipulation to gather intelligence to help defeat t primary race oppo...

Unclear tonight whether or not this operation was also directed by another foreign government. >> indeed. and let me read this quote from the "times" article. "the trump campaign's interest in the work began as russians were escalating their effort to aid donald j. trump. though the israeli company's pitches were narrower than moscow's interference campaign and appear unconnected, the documents show that a senior trump aide saw the promise of a disruption effort to swing voters in mr. trump's favor." berit, a couple things come to mind. number one, i wish we could look at a story like this and...

Media. all of this was, in effect, a fraud that they were considering to be placed on the american electorate, and this is in some ways parallel to exactly what the russians did. in that case it was sponsored by the russian state which, of course, violates a whole other panoplea of american federal law. unclear if this operation was directed by another foreign government. >> indeed, and let me read this quote from the times article. the trump campaign's interest in the work began as russians were escalating their effort to aid donald j. trump. though the israeli company's pitches were narrower...