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Tennessee and florida, all of this comes back. >> right. and my publication daily beast was the first to report that the twitter account was actually a russian sock puppet account. that was an account that had an extraordinary and huge reach during the election, upwards of 100,000 followers. as i was putting together that report, i chatted with a republican operative who's extremely plugged in the conservative digital world that he has sensed that ten gop was not an american citizen. it raises questions how effective they were. one of the reasons the indictment is important is effectively acco...

They came out last week after the washington post reported on some of this stuff and they disclosed the results of one investigation that found about $100,000 in ad spending and 470 sock puppet accounts linked to this shadowily kremlin-linked russian group. those are the kind of figures you disclose if you want to minimize the extent of the problem. 100,000 in ads on facebook can go a long way if it's targeted well. and there have been reports that suggested this may have translated to 20 million, 50 million, 100 million people in the united states seeing these posts on facebook in their feeds...

Facebook, how that played out on election day is impossible. what we do need is a lot more information from facebook about the extent of the prop problble. they came out last week after the washington post reported on some of this stuff and they disclosed the results of one investigation that found about $100,000 in ad spending and 470 sock puppet accounts linked to this criminally linked russian group. those are the kind of figures you disclose if you want to minimize the extent of the problem. 100,000 in ads on facebook can go a long way if it's targeted well. and there have been reports tha...

Steve: with just three days until the final vote, the french presidential race is tightening up. centrist candidate, emanuel macron holds the lead with just under 60% and far right candidate marine le pen has a solid 40. brian: here is hoping i can some day say those things like you just did, steve. last two weeks le pen has been closing the gap on the favored to win candidate. could would he be seeing the frump effect happening in france? here to weigh in is author and journalist mark steyn. who do we root for in this in the american progressive. >> i'm routing for marine le pen, macron is li...

House could have a big night with missiles and all of the praise he's picked up over the last 24 hours? wouldn't it be so nice if you couldn't even in your wildest dreams imagine a scenario like that?n i don't know what it is, is it a 2% chance, is it a 50% chance? i don't know. but what -- i don't think it's a 0% chance, and it used to be with every other president prior to donald trump. jesse: i'm just laughing. i don't even know what to say, mark. what do you have to say about that? >> there's a conspiracy theory i could get behind. [laughter] so if you're bashar assad and putin has gone to...