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Tension there is a bias in the meeting. imagine if emmanuel went out when clinton was president said i'm going to recruit candidates you don't want. i think that is the tension on obviously very interesting. we are following this on a day by day and minute by minute basis. >> you're saying is a really good story. let's arget a break. let us know what you are thinking. when we come back, to republican senators and the president. is this war being trumpeted by the press? and the top contributor with more sexual harassment allegations. this is the headline. ♪when you've got...♪ ♪...nausea, ...

Speculation, i should say, that over the course of the 2016 campaign, the russians understood that one of the best ways to sell chaos would be to promote donald trump's candidacy. and it's also true that vladimir putin has no good feelings towards hillary clinton. so, when you look at the sampling of the ads that we have so far, and again, it's a very small sampling, you do see a small percentage that did try to go after hillary clinton, that did try to boost donald trump. so, that was a piece of it. but, again, we can't think of it that way, we have to think about it much bigger picture. it's...

It helps them in that regard that donald trump is president. but it wouldn't be all that much different if hillary clinton were president, so long as americans feel pitted against each other, so many public opinion polls would suggest that's the case. the russians are winning in their mind. and that is really what this campaign was geared towards. when you look specifically at an account like this blacktivist account on facebook and twitter, you understand how they believed they could achieve this goal. >> how influential was this group? >> we looked at the facebook page. they had -- more than...

>> how influential was this group? >> we looked at the facebook page. they had -- more than 360,000 likes. you look at the official verified black lives matter facebook page, it has about 300,000. >> explain why you say this account is an example of war being waged by russia on two fronts. >> so when we look back to 2016, there was two fronts that russia is waging. one is the first that dylan just described, which is the sort of social, cultural disruption that they knew was catering to a lot of divisions within our own society. the second is, of course, the one that's being investigated by

Act. we thought that was over after it went down in flames in the house. they're trying to resurrect that now. so even when it comes to domestic policy, they're just all over the map. look at the president's budget. the president's budget actually targets many of the working people around the country that he said he was going to be the champion for. so, katy, i think the issue is where ultimately does the president come down on these issues and priorities? and the concern, and we're seeing it every day, is that he doesn't have any set agenda, it just happens to be whoever he talked to last. an...