jill stein. laughter ) even in russia, they're like, "stay home or vote for jill stein. is same. same thing. same thing." ( laughter ) it's almost like the phrase, "vote for jill stein," is just a new way of saying, "waste of time." you know, like, one kid is going to be like, "dad, i want to be a d.j." "no son of mine is going to vote for jill stein his life away. it turns out the russians spent a lot of effort specifically trying to convince black americans not to vote. like, look at this meme that they put up. this is a real meme they found came from yjr russians. it says, "before you vote, listen to m.j. all i really want to say is that they don't really care about us." and i feel bad for michael. the man died 10 years ago, and now vladimir putin is using him for a propaganda tool. if you told him russia was using a people of him, you know what he would say. "what's a meme? oh, kids like them? show me how to make one." ( laughter ) too soon? ( laughter ) and what's crazy is that sometimes the

grow a spine, vote jill stein. here's a search of rtm sputnik shows 100 stories on air and online were friendly to stein and the green party. that's interesting. if you think about the picture you've seen of michael flynn with vladimir putin, you look at the rest of that picture you will see jill stein was at the same dinner. that's an anniversary dinner for rt. suddenly, the move to stein makes sense because stein is more hospitable to some russian views so there's some logic behind the move to get people to shift over to stein. that said, if you take the baseline vote for jill stein and this is convenient, because she was the candidate of the party, four years before, so you have the same candidate which means you kind of control what people thought about the candidate. if you take the difference between her vote in 2012 and assume 2012 is her base level of support given a traditional democratic and republican nominee, and look at the difference between that and the vote that she got in three key battleground stat

book jill stein.here's the search and buy a news outlet, a search of sputnik archived shows that 100 stories on air and online were in the green party. >> that's interesting. and if you think about picture you've seen of michael flynn with vladimir putin, you look at the rest of that pictureand you'll see jill stein was at the same dinner . as an anniversary dinner for rt riyadh so suddenly, the move stein makes sense because time is more hospitable to russian views been gary johnson had been. so there's some logic behind the move to get people to shift over to stein. that said, you take the baseline vote jill stein and this is convenient because she was the candidate of the party for years before so you got the same candidate which means you control what people thought about the candidate. take the difference between her vote in 2012 and interbase level of support given the traditional democratic nominee, and you put the difference between that and the boat she got in the three key battleground state

i didn't vote for jill stein. i cast my ballot for hillary clinton in the general election.he primary. and i think that we live in a binary two-party system and that a vote for anybody other than donald trump or hillary clinton in the general election was a vote that in my opinion didn't necessarily count. it was not a true participation in democracy. i think third parties are something that could be viable one day. folks haven't done the work to make a third party viable. but the russians didn't just meddle in 2016, don. we know they have been -- they were around in 2017, that they tried their hand in 2018 and they will in fact be back in 2019 and 2020. so the question is what is the federal government and states across the country, what are we doing to shore up our elections, our cybersecurity, and what kind of safeguards are folks like facebook and twitter putting in place to make sure there are platforms cannot be weaponized in the same vein again? >> it's interesting, you said you had no idea. and i don't think many people across the country or most people knew that the

no, then i am ordering the jill stein as a protest order. >> trevor: so let me get this straight.tell the kids the truth about santa. >> yes, buddy. because the truth is always better. kids, let uncle neal chat with you for a minute. santa didn't bring you those gifts. your parents paid for them. how? by working their fingers to the bone at a job they hate that doesn't pay them enough. so they go into debt to put a smile on your little face. a debt which has compounding interest that they will never truly get out from under. st just grows and grows and grows, weighing them down for their entire life until they are finally freed from their obligations by the sweet release of death. and that, children, is the true meaning of christmas. (laughter) (applause). >> trevor: neal brennan, everyone. we'll be right back. we'll be right back. (applause) this is big! t-mobile is offering the awesome iphone xr, with an unlimited plan, for just $40 bucks a month. unlimited. with the new iphone xr?! yeah! iphone xr included. for $40 bucks?! that is big. ♪ do i use a toothpaste that whitens my te

they are trying to undermine hillary clinton by trying to promote jill stein. this was a huge trove of data handed over by twitter, facebook, and let's look at the numbers. they posted some 10 million tweets, 116,000 instagram posts. 61,000 facebook posts and 1,000 videos. on top of that, there were 44 video accounts that collected around 600,000 followers. even though the reports of those doing the reports got this trove of data, they said it was the bare minimum that the companies could have handed over. one of the major headlines here is the activity and malign activity they did in targeting the african-american population. in deploying what are suppression tactics on the black community and they are fear mongering on the right. a lot of this happened on the social networks. these reports are saying that the ira actively tried to recruit assets to do things that they want them to do. particularly they say within the african-american community. there is a christian facebook group and if you have a sex addiction, you can call this line. that would open people

studied the 2016 election, and all of the data of his 77,000 point win in three states alone, where jill stein'sn was material, and he has not done anything to expand beyond his coalition, and bolsters and people around him are telling him he has to, and part of president trump's -- the way he operates is to stay on offense, and newt gingrich said donald trump wakes up trying to stay in the offense, and i don't think he wants a wall to talk about in front of the cameras, and he wants to keep fighting and i doubt he will take whatever package to open the government, and he wants to continue fighting and he wants to be seen as fighting for the base. i do not see him compromising coming to the middle and reaching out to independents or democrats in the next two years. >> the president writes if we had wall they would not even try to bring their kids, and migrants would not even come. if only it were that easy, you know? and only if there were such a simple solution. democrats keep wanting comprehensive immigration reform and some republicans do as well, but the president rarely, if ever, talks abou

pro-trump, anti-clinton, suppressing the african-american vote, which is largely democratic, helping jill stein, who was a spoiler for hillary clinton. and now attacking robert mueller. all of these separate efforts are completely aligned with donald trump's interests, often word for word, and it's what russia has been doing covertly. it is extraordinary. >> i see the clues planted in conservative media. where the russian trolls got their ideas, abbie, for exactly the sweet-spot, exactly how they knew what would appeal to people on twitter, i mean, there are things that i heard years earlier about robert mueller on fox news that they seize on, that now we know. here's one example. this is where they claim that robert mueller is the russia special counsel. he worked with radical islamic groups. i remember that being a talking point on fox and friends in probably 2010. and that's -- i mean, i can connect the dots. this is where russian trolls figured out, oh, this is going to make an impact and they're still doing it today. >> yeah. there is this feedback loop. these originate perhaps on social m

black community, were told their vote would not really matter, that maybe they should vote for jill steinad of hillary clinton. built deep ties in these social networks, they started spreading the political message they wanted to spread, once they developed that trust. amanda: how hard is it for platforms that built their existence on the notion of being agnostic to content start monitoring and police for this type of behavior? sarah: it is extremely hard. we are not just talking about bots or fake accounts. we are talking about accounts that are run by real people out of russia. that difficult to untangle from real user activity. in many cases, the russian influencers try to integrate their accounts with real u.s. accounts, real u.s. businesses. to promote hashtag purchasing products made by local black artists. these are things they tried to do in order to legitimize themselves and get followed back. .manda: that is sarah frier for more, tune into "bloomberg technology" at 5:00 p.m. and hear from one of the authors of the senate intelligence committee report. coming up, kkr has a new in

one thing was to boost clinton's opponent, jill stein of the green party. back to the scale. look at the numbers. these are post that is the ira made. they were part of the data that was handed over by the social media giants. 10 million tweets. 116,000 instagram posts. 61,000 facebook posts and 1,000 videos. on top of that, 44 twitter accounts that posed as u.s.-related news organizations that had collected around 600,000 followers. the report is very critical about the giants. they say they handed over the bare minimum in terms of data that what they analyzed so far is only what the companies felt they had to give to the intel committee as an absolute minimum. they said as a result there are likely out there far more russian accounts that social media companies have not yet identified. one of the important points is that another person besides donald trump was wikileaks and its founder, julian assange who we know has been connected to the russian military hackers that were indicted by mueller. it's a detailed and disturbing report not just about the last presidential campai

another talking about jill stein with black hands.nd it did show some sophistication of cultural issues here in the states and how exactly to target particular groups and what to target them with. when they look at this sophistication, what is the takeaway? >> well, this is been a big question as to how much help they had from americans. in the mueller indictment it made cheer this w made cheer this was sophisticated. they had some understanding of american culture. particularly american troll culture. and that's what this laid bare. they knew which memes to target to which age group. and these russians took crown jewels of the american technology industry, this wonderful spoem has expanded democratic conversation online, i know vented by americans, and they used it against us. we still don't have a defense because there hand been a government response. there's talk in congress about some legislation to perhaps regulate and put some sort of rules on social media companies. it is really difficult because we value the first amendment an

goal of driving down election turnout, such as this meme with the african-american community, and jill steinmarch. on the most fundamental level the russian trolls understood our identity politics divides, the kind of focus on common enemies is the real source of weakness in our society, and they exploited it with unwitting americans' help. there's a phrase used by the mass murdering founder of the soviet union that applies to these folks, useful idiots. and that's your reality check. >> sobering, and i am not talking about the muscular bernie sanders. >> it's surreal and sobering. >> thank you very much. >>> hacked cables revealing how the international community really feels about donald trump, iran and russia. the reporter that broke this story joins us next. [dog sfx] hey, mi towel, su towel. more gain scent plus oxi boost and febreze makes gain flings our best gain ever. gain. seriously good scent. on your wild west vacation... guarantee you'll find gold but we can guarantee the best price on that thar rental cabin or any hotel, home, boat, yurt, whatever. ♪ just don't get carried away

maybe it was gary johnson or jill stein but probably trump. with trump's knowing assent did something to violate campaign finance law because he paid $150,000 -- >> why are republicans saying it's not a big deal? why are they say lots of folks in my caucus would be out of a job if you were going to prosecute for this. >> how you define impeachment is a political act. >> i understand impeachment. campaign finance violation. >> what it is that the house finds grounds to impeach a president on is not defined in law. >> no, it's not. >> it doesn't say he must obey the criminal code of the united states or campaign finance violations. if the democrats of the house think this raises to the level of considering the removal of the president of the united states they can take it on. there's an argument to say he did something bad, it's bad. it doesn't rise to the level of changing the results. >> you think is the worse for him than any collusion. >> i do. >> why? >> we have two crimes. >> clu we don't know about him and colluding. we don't know. >> now

vote for jill stein. it was a very sophisticated program. >> much more to come. and we look for a final report from the intelligence committee in january. thank you very much, senator. >> thank you, john. >>> up next, former president barack obama plays santa claus. we'll show you how. >>> but first, a new cnn film, "love gilda" airs new years day 9:00 p.m. on cnn. >> hi. i'm gilda radner. okay, now. >> people want to know what made you funny. i love to pretend. >> she was the first performer chosen for the cast of "saturday night live." >> they just loved her. >> i basically stole all my characters from gilda. >> i can do almost anything if people are laughing. >> boom ba ba boom. >> she was not herself. >> one morning she just said i don't know what's wrong with me. >> the comedian gets the most unfunny thing in the world. >> she felt that she could be of help, and that's exactly what she did. >> how often do we get to know exactly how brave we are. >> i always felt that my comedy was just to make things be all right. >> love gilda, new years day at 9:00 p.m. w

i spoke with two teenagers running for governor in kansas and to jill stein about the viability of third from tiger mom amy chua about our political tribalism, chatted with comedian d.l. hughley about how not to get shot. what else stands out? probably me quizzing best selling author of "fire and fury" michael wolff about how he talked his way into the white house. >> i think that we should point out that i'm someone in the white house that's obviously given you e-mails that i sent which is perfectly fine, but you are now doing the job >> how come i never get credit from the white house if i'm doing their job? there was me being quizzed by rapper meek mill about my views on gun possession. >> i always dreamed of being on like cnn, being able to express myself. i grew up in america in a ruthless neighborhood where we're not protected by police, we're not. you grow up with people selling drugs in our neighborhood on our front steps, we grow up in ruthless environments, around murder, see murder seven days a week. i think if you grew up in my neighborhood, you see seven people die a week, y

have to tell you every single time i see that picture and we have seen it dozens of times now, jill steins also at the table. all of this just speaks to how wacky, weird and bizarre so much of this is. >> or just the diversity vladimir putin likes to have at the dinner tables. >> nope. not at all. >>> next, global carbon emissions. >> this is serious. >> jumped this year and some scientists warn we are racing to a tipping point. we'll explain what's going on and what the united states must do right now to protect future generations. you are watching "velshi & ruhle." (whooshing) - [narrator] for powerful suction, you need a shark. with two swappable batteries, at maximum suction the shark ion f80 has more run time than the dyson v10 absolute. or, choose the upright model for whole home cleaning only from shark. i'm ray and i quit smoking with chantix. or, choose the upright model for whole home cleaning smoking. it dictates your day. i didn't like something having control over me. i wanted to stop. the thing is i didn't know how. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. chanti

by the way, maybe support a third party candidate like jill stein, and there was a lot of videos related to police violence and things designed to inflame the very real grievances that black americans have. and the result was to encourage them not to vote at all. that they can't get a fair shake in this election. we don't know to what extent that had an effect but hillary clinton underperformed with black americans in the 2016 election. >> garrett, what happens in those two reports. the senate intelligence committee, which has been a little more useful than the house intelligence committee, but does something happen with this information? >> well, i think they'll be included as part of the senate intelligence committee's broader reports. i asked richard burr about this. the chairman of the committee. he said they are getting close to a situation where they'll be able to put throughout reporting over that happened up to 2016. so i think you can think of this as a tool that will help them paint the complete picture of what was going to in terms of russian interference up to the election. b

they were urged to vote for a third-party candidate, jill stein, and they were fed all kinds of conspiracyies about hillary clinton, and videos about police brutality, feeding into their very legitimate grievances with society, chris. >> i wish i had an african-american on this panel. i feel a little uncomfortable with that. this came up as part of the discussion. what do we make of the fact they really were smart? some people can say everybody knows you can work the black vote by turning them off to both of the candidates, but i didn't think you could. >> yeah, i think that there are serious questions about whether or not certain aspects of this campaign was coordinated with the trump campaign, especially when it comes to the geographic targeting. how did they know how to target certain areas of the country that were more, perhaps, you know, vulnerable to manipulation -- >> well, detroit and philly. >> right. the geographic targeting is a very interesting part of this. i also think it is not particularly difficult to determine the society whether it's gun rights, african-american rights,