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. >>> seemed like a miracle at least good luck aspiring writer jack delany, what he didn't know is that according to the fbi he was being tricked, duped by a russian propaganda operation aimed at interfering in the 2020 election. we have this exclusive report. >> i mean, this is -- this isn't the way i want to be getting media attention or getting notoriety. this -- i mean, it is embarrassing, right? it is like i wrote for a foreign government when i had no idea. >> reporter: jack delany is a 26-year-old aspiring writer who lost his day job at a restaurant because of covid-19. so he was delighted when somebody calling themselves alex lakusta messaged him on twitter, offering him a job for a left wing news website. >> the message was, you know, saying, hey, we liked your work, would you like to write for us, be part of our publication, we can offer you $200, $250 per article. at that time i was, like, this sounds look a good opportunity for me, i can make money, get my work published. >> reporter: everything seemed to look normal to delaney. >> i looked at all the editors, few of the edi

indeed it is believed that a crime was committed as chancellor merkel said the day after no other dana delany arrived and not to put it in the geopolitical context of the o.p.c. w or of nato and the o.p.c. w by the way as i'm sure your viewers know has already been criticized for its very politicized handling of other investigations in syria so this shows the completely fantastical nature of the german government's reaction it immediately and then once that russia was responsible as a state it immediately announced that a military grade nerve agent was used when the alleged victim hasn't even die. i mean what kind of unnerve a military grade agent is it where people don't don't don't i mean what do they think military weapons are for they're for killing people and the whole thing is a cock and bull story from beginning to end i'm sorry to express myself in that rather familiar language but i find it absolutely amazing that people can take this kind of stuff seriously well and along those lines and you mention and nato there what do you make of them rushing to demand an international response

ken delany joins me to break it down what is the back and forth all about and give us the reality checkit bluntly, president trump does not appreciate that fbi director christopher wray continues to plainly state the facts about two issues that really stick in president trump's crawl. that is foreign election interference and the source of protester violence let's take a listen to what christopher wray told congress about russian election interference. >> the intelligence community's consensus is that russia continues to try to influence our elections, to primarily to denigrate vice president biden and what the russians see as kind of an anti-russian establishment. >> president trump tweeted in response to that, i'm paraphrasing here, chris, what about china, you're not mentioning their massive interference campaign. the reality is, hallie, intelligence officials tell me and wray made it very clear, russia is the only country that is actively interfering in the presidential campaign. china has a massive disinformation campaign to promote chinese interests, but they're not in the same ca