today the special counsel robert mueller indicted 13 russian nationals and three russian companies for engaging in information warfare on the united states and interfering on the election. this indictment shows this was widespread in terms of a russian effort and dates back to 2014 during the obama administration and meant to sow discord in the political system. the obama administration has a lot to explain about why they did not act. >>> also breaking tonight, the department of justice is saying that the russian interference did not affect the outcome of the election and no americans were wittingly involved. there is nothing in the indictment about trump/russia collusion which continues to prove that the media has been fly-out lying to you. and the demoted department of justice official, bruce orr did not disclose to ethics officials that his wife was being paid by fusion gps, the company that paid for a phony dossier filled with russian government lies. and byron york is asking why james comey's memos about his conversations with president trump being kept secret. here's a hint. trey

of 13 russians and three russian companies for interfering in the 2016 u.s. election. one of the russians indicted last week by the justice department, russian billionaire yevgeny prigozhin, who owns the internet research agency, the russian troll farm that was involved in the russian election meddling, his nickname is reportedly putin's cook. he is also believed to control the russian mercenaries who attacked u.s. troops and their allies in syria this month. i asked masha to talk more about him. the russian state in the russian government is a mafia state comes so the easiest way to think about it is it is a klan with the patriarch in the middle who nominally owns what does not make a whole lot of difference because -- so they created this troll farm. someone -- it had to be a private company. someone has to nominally own it. there's very little doubt it is getting funding from the kremlin. so it is in fact the klan. we do know a fair not about how that company functioned. again, there is been great russian reporting on what they were doing. a lot of that re

gorka, they paid the russians to be involved in this, short of the trolls, and why wouldn't the russians think that they could get away with it? vladimir putin put his operatives in america and got our uranium, why would they think anything else? >> there are categories from the cold war, michael moore was a useful idiot when he shows up at the administration against donald trump that is organized by the russians, but we are not talking about useful idiots when it comes to the fisa courts surveillance and the steele dossier. let's use a phrase from the military, hillary clinton, herer lawyers and the dnc were forced multipliers for russian propaganda that attacked a presidential candidate during an election. they were not unwitting, they actually paid for it. more than $12 million of russian propaganda paid for and funneled into an illegal surveillance warrant against the u.s. citizen. >> sean: i have to roll, you guys have been doing amazing work. keep up the good work. we need your voice every night, i wish that there was the oneee big moment that you cross the finish line, this is goi

'cause just listen to how he trolled the u.s. - [speaking russian] - [speaking russian] [laughter] - yeah. trump is an open person. that's exactly what we're worried about. remember the last time he spoke to the russians? he accidentally spilled israeli state secrets. that's what he does. like, right now, the best we can hope for is that trump is so full of bs that he's too unreliable to be spied on, you know? because we know he'll say anything to make himself look cool. you know, putin will be like, so, donald, how many nuclear submarines do you have now? and trump will be like, let me tell you, vlad, we have literally millions of submarines. no, no, donald. no. no, donald, no. that can't be right number. i've heard we might have a submarine under this very dinner party right now. unbelievable. i'm starting to miss hillary, oh, my god, this-- [traditional russian music] for more on the russian effort to influence american discourse, we're joined now by our senior american correspondent, michael kosta, everybody. [cheers and applause] michael-- michael, as an american, are you worrie

this indictment names 13 russian individuals and three companies, not the russian government. what do you make of that? >> well, it's interesting because we know that while the russian government itself is not mentioned here, that some of the figures that are have very close ties to the kremlin. and it's interesting as well, we're showing some of the sound from h.r. mcmaster at the munich security conference. i also understand seg guy kislyak, the former russian ambassador to the united states, was pressed on a panel there about whether he was aware of any potential russian role in this conspiracy to interfere with our election campaign. he was, not surprisingly, nonresponsive to those questions. of course kislyak is a key role and one of the other figures that's caught the attention of the special counsel, michael flynn. those contacts flynn had with kislyak during the transportation team we know are something the mueller team has been looking at. while the kremlin is not specifically referenced in this indictment, we know the special counsel has their eye on them as well. >>

or any russians did russian nationals or people who speak russian or people in the russian government but there is no evidence that any of this affected the election whatsoever isn't that fascinating and if it didn't affect the election what's the point of this. supposedly inc with russia has also landed the dutch foreign minister in trouble he's resigned after admitting he lied about a meeting with president putin in two thousand and six but in a flow of. them they don't. i mean is that we both want to. excuse. for you to use. an emotional resignation how old is old departure comes just a day before he was supposed to meet his russian counterpart here in moscow let's listen for a moment to the remarks that ultimately finished his career. because. fish in early two thousand and six i was about to meet putin's countryside house but i stopped at the back of a room or a meeting was being held but i could hear very well vladimir putin talking about a greater russia he said this included russia belarus ukraine and the baltic states and that kazakstan would also be nice to have but one of t

gets you through the long russian winter but i suspect when you say russia in their struggle and contacts. the associations are probably not so positive are they. they can be quite negative unfortunately we have been fed a diet of cliches about russia. russia is still very much seen through a post soviet lens as the success the state to the soviet union and somehow or other images of go leg and stuff in the countries of extreme cold discomfort of rudeness and these are the kinds of things that unfortunately still linger on and you wrote the whole book to address some of those negative stereotypes and i think you have a very unusual take for a western or former western diplomat. when it comes to russia because. i think there's a lot of understanding there's also a lot of compassion in your book and i really appreciate that but i will want to ask you whether you ever felt that you are giving this country an easy pass i don't think i think that the majority of the content of my book deals with the sometimes very disagreeable parts of russia's history i've got a chapter on the leg museum i've

and who's not a russian by. you know i don't want to you know. i don't know this and it goes. like. this problem is. that you're. a christian man lawyer and a political activist believes that the move goes against free speech form like twitter facebook or instagram these are forms where people have the ability of expressing their freedom of speech and their opinions i think that that's the point of these social media sites so if they begin to censor people just because they're coming under pressure then you know what's going to come next i think that this country has been characterized as always for the protection of freedom of speech regardless of what you think and as long as the message that you're portraying is not racially offensive or sexually offensive and you know other ways possible then you can not censor the opinion of a person simply because they go against you or simply because you disagree with them and staying with meddling accusations in new york times article has listed the many cases in which t

mandan in russian ok. well probably. later in the week we'll go back to a member of there's going to be more memos coming up but i want to talk about some diplomacy and optics mark the opening of the olympic games. who's the winner and who's the loser from an optics point if you go ahead peace peace the winner is the winner the site of the two koreas the north korean delegation entering south korea and marching together the end lympics under a unified unification flag with the other is what you're about there without the border this was incredible and there's one point person on scene who was extremely upset by this and had to give his protest against peace and that was the u.s. president mike pence. vice president i'm sorry. for doing so we could go to this interview ok mark knew from our own you know look like he refused to stand up for the for the host south korea because it was a joint unification team he refused to shake hands with any of the north koreans out of it's he had this look on his face and actually the th

at least about who is who in russian politics and in russian business you know if you take a look at the report it's what the designation criteria is and to your point you're correct in that some of the criteria is related to senior political officials in russia and some is just based on net worth and therefore you could have the latter group of people not have any ties to the russian government whatsoever and still find themselves in the report but done to the ask what's the point of compiling reports in the first place and i don't know if you would agree with me but that i think there is a certain degree of i think trolling and even read to kill police targeting not so much russia but the congress do you think the way this report has been compiled ease it in keeping it in compliance with the congress requirements i think they did their best to comply i think they're actually added more information than i even expected them to add. to your point though this design of this report was to be a name and shame list in the effects of the practical effect of it is that people business part

russian state but it's not. developmental competency that the russian state the kremlin may cheer upon without actually the kremlin for asking the kremlin first absolutely and to believe that mr putin. controls. with what is happening in russia or. our society is much much much worse organized and i think. putting it on competency when it comes to social media is rather questionable it is well known that he's not using smartphones so he's knowledge of. tool of communication. maybe he's in charge so maybe he is the one who should be indicted after all now if you look at some of the output of the troll sweatshop it uses magical language what they would call rather than american english i think shows very poor knowledge of the american domestic politics brush style to it all you know it looks very amateur at the level of a high school newspaper at bath and yet a lot of very well placed in very well educated people in the united states take it as nothing. either a declaration or an act of waging war on the united st

rodchenkov knows about russian said publicly that he can confirm that the russian football team and soccer team as he knows it was protected by the state-sponsored doping system. there is a pending investigation going on. i am not sure if it is a credible investigation, but he is certainly going to cooperate with respect to that investigation. on your larger question, i do not really know. ruption is not a long game strategy. all over the spectrum of issues that are being faced in the world, people are being empowered to step forward and tell their secrets. in the #metoo movement, thank god. we see it in other areas and we will see it in doping. the number of investigations is dizzying. viable, theyto be should stop the corruption or even the appearance of corruption. because with all of these issues swirling around, to have the world cup in sochi of all places -- since a terrible message. >> great. with dr.onversations rodchenkov, have you spoken to him about the incentive for a nation to dope. in the short term, you can imagine, but it does seem the tio is wayd ra out of wack. >> i can t

and i are supposed to be in the so-called deescalation zones part of a russian led cease fire deal for territory held by the rebels the u.n. says the increasing violence is making a mockery of the zones and has called for a month long truce to allow the delivery of eight now the four deescalation zones were created after many rounds of talks in kazakhstan's capital asuna and were meant to reduce violence protect civilians and ensure humanitarian access to mainly opposition held areas russia turkey and iran who signed the deal act as guarantors at the exact borders of those zones remain unclear but they come apart and the tukey a province western areas of aleppo and northern areas of hama the second zone he's eastern guta in the northern countryside of damascus where over four hundred. hundred thousand people have been besieged by government forces for the past four years the third deescalation zone is in parts of northern homs and finally the last one is further down to the south along the border with jordan so let's bring in our guests for today's inside story joining us in moscow dim

some russians can avoid the u.s. or london or any other international airports and hope it goes away. but mueller could be talking to people closer to the u.s. or in the u.s., if those people are covering their tracks, now they're on notice because this indictment of foreigners is not coming in a vacuum. it comes with a former trump aide rick gates looking to join michael flynn to cooperate with mueller, it comes after robert mueller took paul manafort back to court for getting busted for trying to talk to a ukrainian about a new pr campaign, as mueller releases the guilty plea of this mysterious californian for fraud connected to the case and as we emphasized in our reporting, mueller obtained that ple two weeks ago. only he knows all the reasons why he's releasing it today. bob mueller is releasing all of this to show a timeline. from what russians did early on researching how to do this in 2014 to escalating in june, 2016 and then of course, it was july 2016 the next month when trump said this -- >> russia, if you

to the unexpected new round of indictments in the russian meddling investigation. of 13 russians. at least three take-aways. no americans were witting participants. it did not impact the election. that according to the deputy attorney general. and 193 russians have to be extradited by moscow to face american justice. all of that, according to the jules advertise department tonight. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has the details. >> defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare against the united states. >> with direct oversight of the russia special counsel probe the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein said 13 russian nationals and three organizations were charged with, quote, conspiracy to defraud the united states illegally using social media to divide americans and disrupt the 2016 presidential election. >> the russian conspirators want to promote discord and underline public confidence and democracy. >> as early as 2014 the 37-page indictment allegation the russian defendants including a businessman with deep ties to pushgs preside

it's russians. it's been tweeting at us and trying to influence us with thousands and thousands of followers for years. >> well, one of the issues that came through to me at the justice department is that the deputy attorney general made the point of operations in the future. you know from earlier this week, all of the intelligence officials made the case there's evidence that the russians are targeting the mid-term elections. what we heard today is not in a vacuum. but the russians played a long game, they are chess players and they also see this as an inexpensive way to create chaos and discord within the system and undermine the democratic process. i asked the deputy attorney general what the chances were of these russians being brought to the united states for prosecution. here it's his answer. >> no communication with the russians about this. we'll follow the ordinary process of seeking cooperation and extradition. >> in my experience, an indictment like this has two functions. it puts out in t

he's involved with the russians and becomes the man with the russians for the trump people. somehow, somehow trump says he should never be investigated for being the liaison with me and the run yashs even though that's exactly who obviously he was. >> it's unconscionable. chris, you've been around washington long enough. >> look at this. just watch, judge for yourself. >> there's some committees beyond partisanship to a certain extent you leave it at the door. the ethics committee and intelligence committee. >> that's the man they're basing everything on in the future of the republican party. >> nice hat though. >> take the hat. not what's in it. >> what's the real danger is that you will are undermining institutions and organizations that are important for democracy. look, you know, don't take it from me. leon panetta was on talking about how this endangers us with our allies, people and sources we have to work with on the frontlines of terrorism. this is not only -- this is a dangerous to our democracy, undermines our safety. govern kasich was right. speaker ryan should te

he is now indicted 13 russian individuals and 13, and three russian organizations. he will see what he can get out of that to move to the next target. the washington examiner has been reporting today that they seem to have some problems with mike flynn and some unusual developments there with a new judge. i think robert muller actually needed to get some good news and some display of activity going on here because there's been some questions arising about how solid the cases against mike flynn. >> and forget about where they're going with all this, i'm wondering if this has changed this whole investigation because again, i see things often and they tanked on the first hint there was going to be this announcement. and then, you both keenly pointed out the fact that americans might've been unwittingly involved but not deliberately involved so this might just involve these russian entities and there's nothing sticking to the trump white house. my quick interpretation is that the markets turned around with 91 points, this is limited. this is not touching the white house

it came in a federal grand jury indictment of 13 russians and three russian companies. according to the mueller indictment, at defendants' operations included supporting the presidential campaign of then candidate donald j. trump and disparaging hillary clinton. among the charges, conspiracy to defraud the united states, the indictment provides a comprehensive blueprint of that conspiracy, detailing exactly how the russians conducted information warfare against this country starting back in 2014. those methods were described today by the justice department official who oversees the special counsel's probe. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> the defendants allegedly kunged what they called information warfare against the united states. they used stolen or fictitious american identities, fraudulent bank accounts and false identification documents. the defendants posed as politically and socially active americans. advocating for and against particular candidates. they established social media pages and groups to communicate with unwitting americans. the russians al

it's in american interests to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive . in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's long debt. and studying so hard it requires tranch if it's going through humiliation to enter an elite society. and parching to death sometimes quite literally. want other true colors of universities in the us. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself in taking your last wrong turn. you're out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secre

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mandan in russian ok. well we'll probably. later in the week we'll go back to a member memo gate and there's going to be more memos coming up but i want to talk about some diplomacy and optics mark the opening of the olympic games. who's the winner and who's the loser from an optics point if you go ahead peace peace the winner is the winner the site of the two koreas the north korean delegation entering south korea and marching together the end lympics under a unified unification flag with the other is what you're about there without the border this was incredible and there's one point person on the scene who was extremely upset by this and had to give his protest against peace and that was the u.s. president mike pence. vice president sorry. friday and so they could go to going to be ok mark new to morrow you think he refused to stand up for the for the host south korea because it was a joint unification team he refused to shake hands with any of the north koreans out of it's he had this look on his face and actually the the

treasury department as one of the russian oligarchs. what do you make of that. >> van der zwaan was working on this report that helped to justify some of the political actions on the pro-russian yanukovych government in ukraine which also paul manafort worked for. when you're talking about alpha bank, manafort, van der zwaan, nothing we learned about is proof positive there was bigger collusion or conspiracy with president trump at the top. we're not at that stage yet. but there are a lot of dots that are starting to be laid out here and this that are being kecked by a special prosecutor mueller that seem to be leading in the direction of manafort. >> it's very interesting. the president tweeted once again today this. "i have been much tougher on russia than obama just look at the facts, total fake news." >> well, several times at the press briefing today sarah sanders said the same thing and that there was a lethal arms sale to ukraine but she couldn't point to anything that was tangible he did that was more than what the obama adminis

did play a role on friday thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies were indicted for meddling in the presidential campaign quotes russia says there is no evidence to support that but the u.s. special counsel robert muller says an attempt was made to sway public opinion and to promote republican donald trump's campaign ahead of his democratic rival hillary clinton did it have an impact on the election result trump has tweeted it did not we'll find out what i guests think in a moment but first rose jordan with this report. the munich security conference often focuses on weapons of mass destruction regional war and the threat from road nations and groups but at this year's meeting the conflict is between russia and the us which is now and died thirteen russian citizens for allegedly interfering in the two thousand and sixteen presidential race the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov called the indictments irrelevant. so until we hear the facts everything else is just blather the indictment says otherwise the defendants allegedly were promoting donald trump's candidacy and unde

the russian piece of this where he is now much more open to saying russians did something, well, the former ambassador to the united states from russia kislyak which has been a part of this long narrative of the russia investigation because some of his contacts with members of the trump orbit including jeff sessions, here's how he responded denying what's alleged in the new indictment. >> whatever allegations of the amount that they -- are simply fantasies that are being used for political reasons inside the united states. >> reporter: claiming this is all about domestic politics when the 36-page indictment goes into great detail on alleged crimes by 13 russians and three russian companies and a coordinated effort to use social media and in person sort of incentives for americans who didn't know they were being influenced by russians to show up at rallies and protest and spread messages that had been engineered by russian operatives in order to influence how people felt about the candidates, the election and larger political environment. this story always seems to have new twists and

russian mark and how does that make russians relive the 1990's? thank you. [applause] >> what i would like to do, since we are short on time. i would like to take a question from sergei and jeremy, turn to the panel, and then breathe a sigh of relief. we will continue to discussions in a more relaxed setting. sergei: thank you for a great panel. the 1990's were extremely important. on one hand, it is a soft landing of a superpower without violence. on the other hand, issues we have today in u.s. russia relations have their roots in the 1990's. the question that i have is a regard to the commonwealth of independent states. crimea speech said when the commonwealth was great, that was a joined a sovereignty. that was my understanding of the russian view in general. the russians had a different look at that. the u.s. role in that was incredibly important. there was the seriousness of independence versus the commonwealth is a form of russian control over the area and limited sovereignty. my question is mostly to strobe talbot. in the clinton administra

russians were behind it all. creating content designed to pit americans against one another. >> do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >> now capitol hill wants answers. >> the political ad was paid for by rubles. isn't that a red flag? >> how could that happen? >> almost all of the propaganda found so far traces back to the internet research agency. investigators say it was financed by a company owned by this man, russian oligarch evgeny prekochian is a wealthy businessman and part of putin's inner circle. >> they hired people that had a quota working in 12-hour shifts leading up to the election. >> there was an entire english language department specifically assigned to insert messages social media posts in the united states. they were required to watch "house of cards" to better understand american politics. >> in two weeks time, you will be heading to the ballot box to decide what kind of country you want to live in. >> the idea was to masquerade themselves as amer

robert mueller has handed down new indictments against 13 russian nationals and three russian entities. the indictment says russian operatives worked to support the campaign of donald trump and to disparage or denigrate the campaign of hillary clinton. joining me here on set is kara lee, one of our political and investigative reporters. carol, this is a remarkable document. what it alleges is there were grassroots operations, there were people staging operations, not just working through social media from someplace overseas. >> you're absolutely right. it's essentially a russian infiltration of the american tradition of political activism. you can't read this any other way. you have a number of americans unwittingly according to the indictment who were in contact with russians to basically organize political rallies, to support one candidate over the other. they did it in a way that was designed to mirror how an individual would already be thinking or leaning towards acting in a political campaign. and that is what is really startling about this because we knew before this came down th

the russian case is for real. when i come in later and try to prove obstruction, you need to care about it because this is what was being obstructed. >> seth, we noted that the president's been tweeting. he tweeted about this over and over again this morning. deputy white house press secretary said this. take a listen to this. >> first of all, we have to understand this began in 2014 under then-president barack obama's nose. he didn't do a thing about it. long before donald trump announced for president this was going on. also it points out clearly that in this process there was no collusion, as you just pointed out. the president said it multiple times this makes it clear and concise for the american people and proves the president correct, no collusion between donald trump, his campaign and russia. and also i think this is important too, it did not affect the outcome of the election whatsoever. >> seems the point is proves and didn't result any influence on the election. is that sort of the right minded way to l

it's in american interests to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive . a passenger plane with seventy one people on board crash shortly after takeoff from moscow leaving no survivors because of the tragedy is so far unclear. one of the aircraft's black boxes is recovered from the crash site where a massive search operation is ongoing. and in the russian city of course where the plane should have landed distraught relatives grieving the loss of their loved ones. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international but we start with some very sad news from russia playing with sixty five passengers and six a crew members on board has crashed outside moscow shortly after takeoff leaving no survivors. we want. to see it wasn't where it. was a way to hel

russians are responsible for those crimes. and now i think we want to know, did they work in partnership with any u.s. persons. also, the fact this occurred, these indictments are coming over a year after the election interference campaign shows how long it takes and the patience we must have to wait, to seek the evidence and wait for special counsel mueller to come back. also, i just ask the president, do you believe it now? because your department of justice has indicted russian individuals. and are we going to take this threat seriously? because i don't think they ever left our democracy. >> and this, when you see this, these indictments come out and you consider what we heard from the intelligence community before the senate intelligence committee earlier this week, i mean, fierce warnings coming from the head of our intel agencies about not only the meddling that russia had involved itself in in 2016, but looking towards this year, looking towards the midterm elections, looking towards the next presidential election, how

memory if people should make a difference this plane often there were stories of some of the older russian planes crashing the five fours except for but this plane and of one for eight reading up about it no it's not one i'm particularly familiar with fly this is very often it's a regional jet airliner apparently pretty new in design it first took to the. run two thousand and four. no i'm just looking at some of the stats about it no no particular. fatal crashes before there was an accident apparently during its development that was back in twenty eleven but it doesn't look like there's been any fatal accidents with it since so it seems like it's been a safe plane as you say these planes these regional airline is russia's a big country taken off every day every few hours flying people run from moscow and around this huge gonna be exactly the plane is you know buys the standards of aircraft it's relatively new and with these planes if you have the proper maintenance if you have the proper procedures if everything is followed the chance the chance of a catastrophe is this incredibly small th

it as a fact sophie i i i see it as the facts are clear that for whatever reason i question why the russian intelligence services. attacked our system so aggressively but i think that as a fact i don't i don't think that's the nihil the question then is what did that do and what impact did that have on the results of the election and for what reason did russian intelligence conduct that activity i don't have the answers to those questions and i won't speculate because i think that would be irresponsible i think we have to determine what happened and then decide what happened on the basis of the evidence and i don't think we're there yet but that's the thing i don't know that anyone has presented the evidence and the facts have been presented to the public by intelligence agencies american public has been misled intentionally or not by its intelligence community many times like i am i'm thinking w m d's in iraq for instance since the consequences of that are still felt fifteen years or so why are a whole hearted face in what the intelligence is telling them about russia now especially what y

and these russians allegedly went to great lengths. they started this operation back in 2014, and several of them at that point even traveled here to the united states. they posed as americans as well as u.s. social activists, and they talked to people here and they learned from that they should focus their efforts in those so-called purple states like colorado, virginia, florida. and even the russians operating abroad they also faked american identities and launched social media events and hashtags and even wired money on several occasions to several grass roots political groups here in the u.s. it spanned years. they even worked shifts that coordinated with u.s. time zones to send out their messaging, and the budget for this organization allegedly totaled millions of dollars each year. and the indictment says they even reached out to campaign officials via e-mail on at least three occasions. but we did hear from the deputy attorney general today. he made a point to say, of course, that there's no allegation in this indictment that an

the russians wanted this effect. they wanted this whether it was hillary or trump and we're playing right into it. we need to get past that this and focus on the fact they're threatening our electoral system and we need to stop this from happening again. >> what's the latest on rick gates? the "l.a. times" said he could be changing his plea to guilty? >> so far that report is unconfirmed. the "l.a. times" is the only one that's been able to report that. if it's true, and there's really no reason at this point to think that it's not, there are other reports saying that he was going to change his plea soon. it's big trouble for manafort. this is someone that's worked with manafort, really close business associate for over a decade. and could spell trouble for the trump campaign because, of course, rick gates was manafort's deputy and the two of them essentially oversaw the entire campaign in the summer of june 2016. even after manafort left the campaign, rick gates stayed on and he was there through the transition peri

announces sanctions against russians against four individual russian officers and three russian companies providing material support to those cyberoperations. 35 russian diplomats whom the administration said were intelligence operatives were given 72 hours to leave the country. two russian compounds are closed. >> and so in early september when i saw president putin in china, i felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn't happen was to talk to him directly. and tell him to cut it out and there were going to be serious consequences if he didn't. and in fact we did not see further tampering of the election. >> now let's take a look at president trump's actions related to russia. in april of last year he orders a cruise missile attack against the russian backed syrian regime. it is the first direct attack by the u.s. military in the country's lengthy civil war. under president trump congress has taken arguably the most aggressive actions against the kremlin. it was acting on the intelligence presented during the obama administration. in august of 2017, congress overwhelmingly

steve, you know all about russian espionage. are you surprised just how far russians went here? they focused on purple states, they created grassroots political groups, social media accounts, they bought political ads. talk about the organizing -- they talked about organizing protests. so talk to me about that. this is pretty severe. >> yeah, the russian intelligence services, i mean this is something they do and they've done for a long time. for example, if you take a look at -- if you work your way through the indictment and you see all of the different ways that they attain different personalities and manage to pull themselves off as americans this is something that russian illegal support officers, it's a long tradition in the russian intelligence services, how you cover your tracks, how you make yourself look like you're a member of the target society, in this case americans. actually sending a group of russians here to the united states is pretty aggressive. i was having a conversation with a friend of mine who's a political consultant who was saying how in the world would

it's being widely reported that these individuals thirteen russian individuals as well as three russian entities are being charged with meddling in the us election but if you actually read the indictment there are specific charges there is no such crime under the u.s. federal laws known as meddling at this point they're being charged with conspiracy to defraud the united states as well as violations of the federal elections commission is act and the foreign agents registration act essentially it's alleged that these thirteen people as well as three entities purchased advertisements on social media and gaged in some banks transactions and tried to influence the elections of the united states they supposedly were disparaging hillary clinton and favoring donald trump this is just the latest in the ongoing bob muller special counsel investigation being conducted by the department of justice into allegations that trump allegedly colluded with russia during the presidential elections and that russia is somehow responsible for the election results and now at this point there has already been t

to battle russian interference the same f.b.i. that's been trying to investigate russian interference that has netted nothing we cannot point to anything other than buying an ad and as was indicated last week in the indictment so we discard now we want the f.b.i. to continue this investigation which netted nothing they could to new trying to find nothing and to prove or to expose or to ferret out examples of russian collusion where cured of war have proved nothing the democratic party are vowing more money more money earmarked not to stop real crime where the real victims and real pain and real sadness you know they want to go after who russian collusion well with so much talk of russian meddling around some people in the public gallery are picking up on the language. the previous administration kicked the russians out of their doctrines we have kept them out of their. the sonos k.g.b. colonel after i chewed. russia had engaged in attempts at developing compromise. a civil viki this sort of inner circle their business interests ha

russian relations. i think frank stag point d out in his presentation now roosevelt was able to employ these two. but what i am trying to understand, certainly clinton administration had empathy for russia. and the clinton administration had really the best exports there who were willing and wanted to help russia. so how does that not work out? i think to learn any lessons for the next opening, we have to understand how is that most well meaning and prepare the administration does not fulfill the goals for the russians and how does that make the russians feel about the 1990s. thank you. [ applause ] >> so what i'd like to do, since we are very short on time, is i'd like to go ahead and take a question from jeremy and take both those questions, turn to the panel, then we'll breathe a sigh of relief and continue the discussion also in more relaxed setting. survey. >> thank you for the great panel. 1990s was extremely important. on the one hand soft landing super power without major violence. on the other

for dossier filled with russian and russian government lies and propaganda. hillary clinton and the dnc shelled out over $12 million to fund this salacious and unverified dossier used as the bulk of information to get a fisa warrant to spy on the trump campaign. the same dossier the republican memos found that the fbi used to lie in that fisa court to get that warrant to spy on a member of the trump campaign. the fbi, fusion gps, nobody verified what was in the dossier, to this day we haven't proven a thing in the dossier. we know that the bulk of that fisa application was made up of a political hit piece document put together by a former plitish spy, christopher steel, using russian government sources and some of hillary's best friend as sources. now, also breaking, a lot of developments tonight as it relates to the case of bruce and nellie orr. this hugs band and wife duo, we reported after bruce orr high-ranking justice department official passed on the anti-trump field dossier, he gave it to the fbi. it was his wife, nellie, working for fusion gps on the

russians were behind it all. creating content designed to pit americans against one another. >> do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> now capitol hill wants answers. >> the political ad was paid for by rubles. isn't that red flag? how could that happen? >> almost all of the propaganda found so far traces back to the internet research agency. investigators say it was financed by a company owned by this man, a russian oligarch, a wealthy businessman and part of putin's inner circle. >> they hired people that had a quote ta working in 12 hour shifts. >> there was an entire english language department specifically designed to insert messages, social media posts in the united states. they were required to watch house of cards to better understand american politics. >> in two weeks' time you will be heading to the ballot box to decide what kind of country you want to live in. >> the idea was to mas ka raid themselves as americans. >> they understood that black lives matter ads sh

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the headlines: 13 russian nationals and three russian companies have been charged by the fbi, with interfering in the us 2016 presidential election. the defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare against the united states the stated goal, spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general. the fbi has admitted it failed to act, after receiving a warning last month from someone "close to" florida school gunman, that he was a danger. oxfam has agreed to withdraw from bidding for funding until the government is satisfied it can meet the expected standards. the number of young people in the uk who own their own home has fallen dramatically over the last 20 yea rs. and the alarming decline in the number of orangutans on the island of borneo, one of their three main habitats. more than a thousand have been killed of this endangered species since 1999. this creature is intelligent and capable of understanding emotions. in the film review we have a look at the shape of water in which sally hawkins falls in love with an unusual creature. good evening