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Election loss? i'm about to be joined by ron clayne, a long-time democratic operative and philly brianis who worked for hillary and played donald trump. stay with me. i have something first. that is breaking news from carol lee with a big story separate from all this about how russian content reached people on facebook. you've got news and numbers. go ahead please. >> sure ari, what we've learned is that this content promoted by russian-backed fake facebook pages reached 126 americans. what is -- >> 126 million? >> yes. essentially if you're american, particularly one that's voting age, chance...

>> ron, your response? >> well that's just the jack boot voice of authority yarianism, fact that president would shut down a lawful investigation, turn the tables, trying to use raw power to imprison his opponent. that's a way of governing, in north korea, not the united states of america. i don't care if voted for hillary clinton or donald trump, democrat or republican, that comment should be highly offensive to every american. >> and fascinating coming from people known to be communicating with the president or allies of the president. i had other things to ask, hope you can join me later th...

To goose manafort and deputy into cooperating and as you were saying, to send a signal he will charge you with anything he's capable of, and if you cooperate, get lighter charge. but if you fail to do so, as in manafort earlier today, faced with potentially 12 charges. >> and just because other prosecutors haven't always enforced foreign power registration rules, which manafort's attorney pointed out today, that's true and doesn't mean they can't. he didn't need that on top of the financial crimes but threw in to show he's not playing. expertise from cia and fbi, ned and ron, thank you so much...