until after the hack and leak operation against the hack and leak operation against the democratic national committeet was too slow to recognise the threat, it didn't take action to protect the uk in 2016. one would have thought that once the existence of the threat had been understood, saying what had happened in the united states, that someone happened in the united states, that someone here would have wanted to understand the extent and nature of the threat to the uk and we wanted to see the post—referendum assessment, but there isn't one. there has been no assessment of russian interference in the eu referendum and this goes back to nobody wanting to touch this issue with a ten foot pole. this is in stark contrast to the us response to reports of interference in the 2016 presidential elections. no matter how politically awkward or potentially embarrassing, they should have been an assessment of russian interference in the eu referendum and there must now be one. the public must be told the results of that assessment. we heard last week the government disclosed details of attempts to influence the

it not it wasn't hacked they were given it and of course what that showed was that the democratic national committee was rigging the election and nobody in the us or anywhere else was suggested that the what's in that document is not correct the real scandal is that there rigging the elections and of course they then pretend that the russians on leaking this material because it's incredibly embarrassing that they've been caught rigging the elections and i think what's going to you know we don't know what's going on here but it's all mixed up with this is it politics at play 1st and foremost here because surely you know better than me but the british government things have enough on its plate at the moment without making these rather vague accusations against russia the public how do you think they'll view that. well i think what because they've got this rather embarrassing report come out we don't know what scene 8 but it probably suggests linkages between top tories and russian business people wouldn't be at all surprising if they got funding from that direction and that's a point that's quite like

time their attacks to 2014 they really believed to be behind the 2016 attacks against the democratic national committee as well as other attacks against countries around the world the coordinated warning across continents seems designed to add weight to the announcement and prompt other potential targets to protect themselves a global bid to combat not only across the continental security breach but a virus that poses a major threat to humanity across the globe. now to syria where president bashar assad is marking 20 years in power parliamentary elections take place there on sunday like all previous elections no real opposition is permitted so despite a civil war that's lasted 9 years assad looks set to stay in power. well well if you are you. into july the 17th 2008 just 34 years old basher al assad is sworn in as president following the sudden death of his father. he quickly finds his feet meeting the great and the good road to syria this is. often accompanied by his british born wife asma. from the start of his presidency asset bill close ties with both russia and iran strategic relations that will

president, they were involved in the creation of that dossier which was funded by the democratic national committee and in coordination with the hillary clinton campaign and was used to spy on the trump campaign to launch a three-year investigation into the russian collusion that ultimately ended and exoneration among the president and a weight on the tax payer dollars. they had a full line of questions to answer for. >> why was it behind closed doors and why wasn't it televised in the public interest? >> that would be questioned for congress, but the public deserves to know his answers on this matter. >> [inaudible] democratic lawmakers are calling for a briefing from intelligence officials. they were not satisfied with the white house [inaudible] >> look, i think democrats should come forward in good faith, and if anyone has politicized intelligence, we've had "the new york times" acting irresponsibly and the democratic party politicizing misinformation, which i think is absolutely disgraceful. >> the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said today that russia should, quote from absolutely must

time there are talks to 2014 they really believe me behind the 2016 attacks against the democratic national committee as well as other attacks against countries around the world the coordinated warning across continents seems designed to add weight to be announcement and prompt other potential targets to protect themselves a global bid to combat not only across continental security breach but a virus that poses a major threat to humanity across the globe. now from some of the other stories making news today brazil's health ministry has reported more than 2000000 rotavirus cases it's another grim milestone the country which is average some 1000 daily deaths from covert since may present higher balls than are as played down the dangers of the virus and has avoided measures that he says could stall the economy . a joint space mission by european and u.s. scientists has taken the closest photos ever of the sun scientists say the new images reveal count was small solar flares dotted across the sun's surface the solar orbiter was about 77000000 kilometers from the sun when it took these high resolution ima

>> what we know so far is that the same russian group that hacked the democratic national committee wasain to intellectual propert and supply chain and from nation related to the vaccine development for the coronavirus. so far t we don'tnk any public health was affected, likely just economic impact, but this is rely a scary indication of where we are in riterms of coun russian information operation. we have had for years to get it together and we have done very little to deterussia and other better, of which there are many, from these kind of exploits. not only are they tryin to do with coronavirus vaccine information, they are trying to influence elections. the trumpas administration said that he has trusted putin's word over the word of his intelligence community. we all need to be very worried in w terms oft is to come in november. william: dimitri, you are familiar with this particular russian unit. what is your sense otrwhat they arng to get at? were they trying to look at the development of the vaccine, steal something? what do we know about that? >> this is one of the units respo

and how the democratic national. committee. trying. to present. that was something that i think the american public is really important about wiki leaks is that the russian government has engaged in espionage against america and then they have that information. wiki leaks for the purpose of putting it on the internet. of a $2.00 and. some very you know means which. is to convince us that this information was from russia well you know i don't. know whether it was from russia. leaks julian hasn't told me it was an. old. when they revealed those the dirtiest facts about hillary. and the hole he received behind it and so want everyone he was saying yah but it's not so bad but when she lost the election everybody said like oh my god this was the reason why it happened because they needed some explanation . the reception of those cables west pretty nasty i think it did there was even this outrage. and these hate make him stop making stuff make a songe stop he came out of the embassy silence he guy came. when the years went by his situation became more d

but this is what i thought was really interesting this week we had a headline who says democratic national committee is warning against campaigns on using tik tok. even the democratic national committee is voicing concern, amazon of course we know already banned tik tok from employee phones. you say these are data collector s. >> yeah, amazon actually, they announced it and then they backed away from it which shows the power of the chinese communist party on corporate america and that's the problem. this guy running tik tok now a disney executive whose nor compromised than the disney kingdom over in china, because they want to sell all of their disney world tickets over there. they want to sell all their disney content and so if tik tok , if it separates as an american company, that doesn't help us, because it's going to be worth, we're going to have to give china billions of dollars for the privilege of having tik tok operate on u.s. soil, so tik tok, wechat and india banned 70 of these things so tik tok and we chat, i suspect the president is just getting started with those two. maria: well that's

>>crowded convention per se it's just not the right time for that the chair of the democratic national committee quick to point out their party got their first tweeting from the very beginning of this pandemic democrats have put the health and safety of the american people first. >>unlike trump we follow the science listen to doctors and public health experts and work their plans to protect lives. and june dnc leaders announced plans to move their convention to a smaller venue. >>while presumptive democratic nominee joe biden will physically go to milwaukee to accept the nomination, they are advising state delegates not to travel on the gop side, however, so the delegates are going to north carolina. >>and they'll be doing the nomination. and we're going to do some other things with tele rallies in online the week. that we're discussing which will be. >>really good at the white house i'm karin caifa. >>across the country that have closed during the pandemic supposedly temporarily we'll likely not reopen. want restaurants to open? and schools? want the economy to get back on track? you're not alo

e >> well, what know so far is that the same russian group that hacked the democratic national committee in 2016 was trying to gain access to intelctual property and supply chain tnformation related to the vaccine developmor the coronavirus. so far, we don't think any publ health was affected, likely just economic impact.s but this really a scary indication of where we are in terms of countering russian information operations. we have had four years to get it together, and we've done very, very little to deter russiaan other bad actors of which there are many from these sorts of ploits. not only are they trying to, you know, deal with coronavirus vaccine information, they're also, you know, still trying to influenceur elections which are approaching ever more quickly. the u.s. government hasnot done enough to deter these organizations, and the trump cministration, instead, h idea favor with putin and trustedut's word over the word of its intelligencey. commun i think this is a dereliction of duty and we should be worried for what's to come in november. >> reporter: dmitri, you're obvious

they were behind 2016 cyber attack on democratic national committee. investigators say the hackers used spear fishing where the cyber criminals send messages as though they are from a trusted source to get the victim to reveal sensitive information. all this cyber experts say aim ton their own research for a covid-19 vaccine. now, we're still waiting to hear how many researchers and pharmaceutical firms were targeted. the kremlin has denied all of the allegations saying that there's no proper evidence for the allegations. i'm sharon ckatsuda. >>> a new mandate for face coverings. starting monday cvs will require all shoppers to wear the masks in addition to target and sam's club. walmart starting august 1st. alabama issuing a similar order. texas governor meanwhile issuing this plea. >> all we need is for everyone to wear a mask. if everyone wears a mask, nothing will be locked down. >> a new gallup poll says while most americans say they wear masks in public, 14% say they never wear one. cdc pleading with the public to comply saying masks are key to s

29 or cozy bear, believed to be backed by russia and implicating russian hacks of the democratic national committee in 2016. russia denied the allegations saying they have nothing to do with these attempts attorney general bill barr today also warning about the threat from chinese hackers who the fbi says tried to steel vaccine research in may. >> they have targeted american universities and firms in a bid to steal the ip related to coronavirus treatments and vaccines sometimes disrupting the work of our researchers. >> reporter: the attacks come just as british and american researchers get closer to a vaccine johnson & johnson saying they expect to start human trials ahead of schedule. this game is so high stakes that even medical research for the benefit of all mankind is not considered off limits. >> think of the political benefits if you could announce we have the -- we have the virus, we have the vaccine, we have the cure >> reporter: a cure so valuable it may be worth stealing matt bradley, nbc news >>> as school districts across the country consider reopening they might learn from the experi

mass how can leak operation as was done in the 2016 run up to the us elections with the democratic national committee you bring up a good point the u.k. named russian intelligence and cozy beer today in this report how difficult is it to to be able to name and shame when you're on a cyber crime trail like this. well actually she is difficult but it's not impossible especially when you have the resources of the u.s. canadian and british intelligence services if they're actually beating with this level of confidence and also making the connection between this outfit cosi bad and the the russian intelligence service i see this as part of a strategy you know you can get the attribution yourself and then it's another strategic decision about whether you announce it publicly and in doing so and standing side by side with other allies this is an approach that we've seen over the last 2 years trying to perhaps raise the reputational costs to states like russia of doing this kind of activity and if you do have the resources the power of the u.k. the u.s. and canada here are able to track these hackers trace t

knowledgeable about the release to wikileaks of thousands of e—mails hacked from the server of the democratic national committeetenced to more than three years in jail and been due to report to prison in georgia before next tuesday. well, now, he won't be going to jail at all — his longtime friend president trump has intervened, as indeed he had promised to do, or certainly hinted at doing for many weeks. roger stone himself has issued a very brief — a statement, saying that he welcomed the news and was very grateful. the white house, for its part, has said that this was an overzealous prosecution, and that the prosecutors in the case had been pursuing a case that "should never have existed". i i think one can trace this back, james, to the antipathy that president trump has displayed to special counsel robert miller's —— mueller‘s investigations into allegations of interference with russia before the 2016 election. the president has consistently called that whole enquiry a hoax and sought to clear the name of the people who were surrounding him and were subsequently convicted because of that enquiry. that incl

nothing to do with the russian intelligence services and what it showed was that date democratic national committee were rigging the the elections that is a story and of course the story became russian hacking and that of course is a classic look over there there's a school on the same thing happened here with lots of contentious matters including the scriptural case and so on but you've got to be allowed to have a different point of view otherwise freedom means nothing and if everybody ablaze the rules and everybody knows artie's the state funded organization just as a.b.c. is in australia the australian broadcasting corporation or they demand to be say we're not going to listen to them fox news is out rights trump propaganda should we ban it i don't think so does this create a problem for of comet self because i mean its reputation is based almost entirely on the notion that it is independent that it is impartial and the decision now that would follow immediately after what's perceived openly to be government pressure would would harm its reputation. well you'd like to think so it's not a whole h

to 2014 they were the group that's believed to be behind the 2016 attacks against the democratic national committee as well as other attacks against countries around the world the coordinated warning across continents seems designed to add weight to the announcement and prompt other potential targets to protect themselves a global bid to combat not only across continental security breach but a virus that poses a major threat to humanity across the globe. now for many people who've suffered serious kovan symptoms and survive there's still a long road to recovery along with the physical or deal patients also have to cope with the psychological impact did obviously hasa met one survivor here in berlin this. this is the 1st the faster i got green. the lung test at the rehabilitation clinic is still exhausting for director neill of each. the berliner is a covert $900.00. yeah he's a very positive results. oh i'm glad you know who. here at the vibe clinic name back to back she's making great progress in late may she was admitted to hospital with bronchitis under severe fever an initial coronavirus test w

britain's my child and russia report mentions by name is wiki leaks revelations of the us democratic national committee's attempts to destroy bernie sanders 2016 presidential campaign it has been widely reported in asian nation media that it was somehow evidence that wiki leaks founder julian assange is a russian assets currently being tortured by u.k. authorities in belmarsh prison in london according to the un is expected to be back in the u.k. courts in september he's not been forgotten by pioneering fashion designer vivienne westwood going underground fine ahmed's went down to the old bailey to ask what she thinks of accusations that a sandwich is a russian asset well everything's a spin everything i've ever heard the press ever says about judean is a love i and when if the lattes lied to about him all ready with regard to russia and so i'm assuming that this is just another you know the bit of rubbish added to the back to the last time that i spoke to you of course are very different circumstances jeremy called and lost boris johnson in the us now joe biden has called joining us on a digital terrori

of the democratic national committee the d.n.c. a top political operative who worked on hillary clinton recently judges presidential campaigns she's currently an advisor to several n.g.o.s and center left political groups i'll ask them where the democratic party leaders also have blood on their hands whether they behave that much more responsibly or effectively than president trump and are they continuing to fail the interests of poor americans they claim to represent. just o'connell thanks for joining me on head to head thanks for having me bernie let me begin by asking you what i asked former republican congressman jack kingston at the start of part one given that the massive coronavirus death toll here in the u.s. do you believe president trump has blood on his hands that he's directly or even indirectly responsible for a lot of those deaths yes well i think certainly president chavez out of the gate had leadership and responsibility for this entire pandemic in the united states he has originally really just wasted a lot of time right me he told us for a few months at the beginning o

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the democratic national committee pushing back on joe biden about defunding police. >> joe biden wants supporting our police departments, make sure we are providing them with the tools they need to succeed. rob: the national association for police organizations endorse donald trump despite going with barack obama and joe biden in 2008, and 2012. rob: joe biden said he would redirect funds from police after his comments from last week. with this flip-flop will we ever know where he or the democrats truly stand? they try to play both sides on this issue. joining us is david webb. democrats are trying to please the far left and moderate democrats at the same time. >> they are confusing their base, left-wing socialist base or people who are no longer relevant to the biden platform, the, quote, centrist democrats, joe biden flip-flops because joe biden doesn't know where he is, he is simply upon for the left, upon for the political opportunists which is why he would never be an effective president because he cannot have a direct agenda, he never really has. he is a political player. on the

todd: here's what the governor of south dakota is saying about this tweet from the democrat national committee, george washington unified our nation. thomas jefferson wrote all men are created equal. abraham lincoln in did slavery. teddy roosevelt was the first president to dine with a black man at the white house. it is shameful for the democrats to slander these great leaders. are you worried cancel culture has become so powerful we run the risk of losing hundreds of years of history in just a few months? >> i agree with you 100%. america is the greatest country to be in no matter what group you are in. we did not start as a perfect nation but when you look at the progress we have made, the civil war we fought to bring this nation to gather, civil rights, the fact that a black man talking to you running against an immigrant that recently moved here. those are the types of things, opportunities america offers people, framers of the constitution had a lot to do with as we keep honoring them instead of criticizing and pointing out things like white supremacy. jillian: you are racing to unseat i

guy: i think the advanta i democrats hathat the demo attic national committee and the bidenampaign --mittee and the biden campaign have had weeks to prepare for a different convention. with the republicans, donald trump has been delaying and waiting, with a lot of bluster, saying he is going to bring people together regardless. i think what he recognizes now is that with these numbers in florida, he needed to make a n u-turn and godifferent direction. judy:ta let', both of you, about how the campaign is different ndcause of the ic. hn, the candidas c't go t people in person. they have got to communicate online. at does that mean? what is lost by that? ly get todon't re kickires. so much of the campaign isto gog be edited versions of what we see. i think this is a frustration for the trump campaign. i think they believe that if joe biden is forced to not talk with a teleprompter, is not forced ti haved content where they can take mistakes out, that people would see thes probl why he should not be president. the opposite is true with president trump. he is a live candidate he can be ent

2020 a situation where there are over 100 lawsuits, most of them filed lawyers for the democratic national committee who are funded by george soros and other left-wing groups and donors to force states, through the courts, to have their election laws rewritten. and not by the legislatures. the legislatures have written trying to force changes in the statutes by judges without true opportunity. let me just go through some of the things i talked about. one of the things you hear a lot 2016, there was all this russian interference in the election. really? i think it was finally confirmed that somehow, some russian ot posted something like 100,000 dollars of ads on facebook. does anybody believe that that changed the outcome of the 2016 election? no, it did not. it had no impact. however, that has been used as a a pretext it was for getting facebook and twitter and all the big tech companies to either say they are not going to allow any political conversation or ads or to try to platforms from any election related communication. of course, that really ends up only applying to conservatives so it is a si

last night the democratic national committee took things past their normal garden-variety stupid by.a tweet the dnc took the official position that celebrating the fourth of july at mount rushmore is the equivalent of celebrating white supremacy. did i mention we're talking about the democrat party? the tweet has since been deleted but without explanation or apology to the president of the united states or the american people. and we're not going to wait on that, are we? members of the radical house democrats today received a white house briefing following new york times reporting that russia had paid the taliban to kill our troops in afghanistan. "the new york times" reporting dependent on anonymous sources, reporting that was knocked down in today's intelligence briefing. president trump, the white house, the pentagon, the director of the national intelligence all dismissing "the new york times" report. and they've denied that president trump was ever briefed on those charges. a conclusion that house majority leader steny hoyer today seemed to agree with. >> i also agree with john

. >> reporter: adapter democratic national committee of twitter account tweeted and deleted the upcoming fourth of july celebration at mount rushmore is, quote, a rally glorifying white supremacy at mount rushmore, biden offered a new approach to the ongoing destruction of monuments. >> don't be surprised if someone pulls down the statue of jefferson davis. it is better that they do not but it is different from pulling down the statue or going to the lincoln memorial and trying -- not lincoln memorial. >> reporter: donald to reject the new york times report of an alleged outing, joe biden is not taking it as the gospel truth injecting the phrase if it is true whenever he talks about the alleged bounty. >> cancel culture claimed another victim. where will it end? congressman jim jordan has got plenty to say on that topic next. aa is made for what's next no matter what challenges life throws at you, we're always here to help with fast response and great service and it doesn't stop there we're also here to help look ahead that's why we're helping members catch up by spreading any missed usa

the most powerful companies in the world are now weapons in the arsenal of the democratic national committeeey are working to stop the president for from being elected and republicans from taking the senate, for example. do they care? >> jim sensenbrenner is still going to get his check from google. many of the conservative infrastructures are funded by google's and many of these tech giants you're talking about, they love being in opposition because then they don't even have to pretend to do anything and they can continue to cash their checks, they all have lobbying groups that are waiting for them. i've been a personal crusade highlighting how many republicans, yes republican staffers are working for the chinese communist party controlled tiktok organization. they don't care about patrioti patriotism, voters, data, they care about one thing and that's making money and paying for their second homes. >> tucker: it does seem like, i want to end on this really quickly, their voters care. your average nonprogressive, understands that small groups of people control all the information are probab

most notably, on the republican national committee versus democrat democratic national committee court out of wisconsin to say that courts should, generally, be reluctant to impose new voting requirements at the last minute. how might that principle play out in controversies over absentee ballots, moving forward? and what kind of cases are you watching, most closely? >> so, we're going to see a lot of this. i think, right now, there is covid-related litigation pending in -- pending in, like, 38 or 39 states. so the road between here and november will be sort of peppered with these decisions, where you see -- and i -- i hope i'm wrong about this. but i suspect the supreme court will hold the line, and not be very protective of the right to vote, despite the circumstances. i know at the end of the most recent term, there was a few stories about whether or not the court had sort of drifted more towards the center after this past term. and if you look at the voting rights cases, that is not true. this is still a right lane in court. this is still a court that has not been protective of the

. >>> biden campaign and the democratic national committee just outraised trump and the republican national for the second month in a row, beating them in fundraising for the entire second quarter. the biden campaign did not disclose how much money they have on hand, trump campaign which has been fundraising since day one is flush with cash, reporting almost $300 million in the bank, which they're using for tens of millions of dollars worth of tv ads in key swing states that trump won in 2016 including a bunch he didn't think he would have to contest like ohio and georgia. it seems pretty clear as we head into the final stretch here the next four months that both sides will essentially have unlimited money for advertising. the deeper question is given the state of the country and its current polarization, just how much can advertising actually move voters' behavior in 2020? to talk than i'm joined by cornell belcher and rick wilson, former republican political strategist, co-founder of the lincoln project and a political action committee. i'll go to each of you in turn with this question of

cozy bear and fancy bear, they were the two malware groups that were found inside the democratic national committee back in 2016. now the british government with the american government are saying the same group, cozy bear, is trying to hack institutions that are actually trying to find a solution for our current crisis. they're trying to find a vaccine for covid-19. if this is true, if these revelations bear out, and it looks like there's a lot of agreement from bot the brits and the united states, it would show the russians don't see medical research like this as off limits. it doesn't look as though we're necessarily trying to sabotage research efforts. i seems as though they're trying to steal them. it goes to show the competition among countries to find this vaccine could reach such a fever pitch that governments are willing to weigh in and hack each other including private institutions for information. here in britain oxford university is very much involved in trying to find a vaccine, partnering with astrazeneca and they have gotten close to coming up with a vaccine. we have been reporting o

the two releasing a host of radical policy recommendations for the democratic national committee and,oon its platform. sanders says if biden follows those recommendations he will be the most progressive president since fdr. here is what that progressive platforms sounds like. >> you guys in the rain, or is that not rain? i thought that was rain. where is, the woman, can, delaware state news? i mean, delaware news journal i should say. that is my hometown team. i better call them that. my team and your team, already working closely together and to light up the path forward here. critical laws like the pro act to strengthen collective bargaining. politics like prevailing and -- look, i'm getting, i'm taking too much time. you're a lying dog face. that you are subject to. i can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man i'm running against. thank you so much. lou: we turn now to ed rollins, the top strategist for great american pac, former reagan white house political director, fox news political analyst. ed, we're watching joe biden turn to the