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>> the comments of president trump yesterday were extraordinary even in a trump world. we saw back in 2016 when then candidate trump basically invited russia, if they had any information, to bring it into the campaign. well, the russians heeded his words and interfered in our electoral process in unprecedented ways. now after the mueller investigation, after our investigation, after the work of the intelligence community that made clear that russia intervened in terms of weaponizing information, creating fake accounts in social media, trying to break into all 50 states electoral systems, the f...

>> it was the first time that a foreign adversary, in this case probably our greatest strategic adversary, not only hacked but then weaponized the information to use it to advantage one candidate and hinder another. that was unprecedented. it was an unprecedented assault on our democracy. >> it's not only foreign powers who are weaponizing information, websites like danger & play and true pundit pushed false conspiracy theories about hillary clinton's campaign which flynn and his son michael flynn jr. promote in their twitter feeds. >> pizzagate was a made up right wing scandal of a pizza parl...

Probably our greatest strategic adversary, not only hacked but then weaponized the information to use it to advantage one candidate and hinder another. that was unprecedented. it was an unprecedented assault on our democracy. >> it's not only foreign powers who are weaponizing information, websites like danger & play pushed false conspiracy theories about hillary clinton's campaign which flynn and his son promote in their twitter feeds. >> pizzagate was a made up right wing scandal of a pizza parlor in norther washington, d.c. it was asserted the clinton family was running a child sex slavery ...

The 2016 election in disarray. >> they haven't gone away? >> that's correct. we shouldn't be surprised they haven't gone away. we, in fact, been warned and told by intelligence officials for the last two years that they're not going away, that they're going to continue their efforts, and i want to at least make one point clear here. what they do is they do espionage as well as information warfare, which is weaponizing information they steal by putting it out into the public sphere, in a way that can embarrass a candidate or create confusion and discord. we don't know yet exactly what their goa...

Their weaponizing information and using it against us. this is dangerous for our democracy and we have to get our act together to be able to fend it off. >> senator angus king, thanks for making time. still to come, the trump administration was warned of the trauma they would inflict on children in their family separation policy. a warning that was ignored. plus tonight's thing one, thing two starts next. ty. until i held her. i found my tresiba® reason. now i'm doing more to lower my a1c. i take tresiba® once a day. tresiba® controls blood sugar for 24 hours for powerful a1c reduction. (...