2020 offers his vision for america picks interviewed by donna brazile for much of the democratic national committee. this this is a weekly program wh with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> host: congressman john delaney, the author of the new book "the right answer." congressman, you wrote this book at a time when our country is very divided. what motivated you to spell out not just the challenges but also some of the solutions? >> guest: personal it's great to be here with you donna. i think the central question facing this country more than any particular piece of policy and i'm sure we'll get into different policy ideas and solutions but more than policy is how to take this terribly fractured nation and bring it back together. that's important for two reasons. reasons. number one is consistent with the we are as a people, it were

server, why didn't they take the server why was the fbi told to leave the office of the democratic national committee i've been wondering that i've been asking that for months and months and been tweeting it out and calling it out on social media. where is the server?

russians of hacking the emails and computer networks of hillary clinton's campaign, the democratic national committee, and the democratic congressional campaign committee. there have been a number of protests in helsinki process in both trump and putin, including 300 billboards lining the route from the airport to the site of the summit that criticized trump and putin's crackdown on the press. one poster at the airport read, "mr. president, welcome to the land of free press," while another r read "trump calls meda the enemy of the people." on sunday, thousands took to the streets of helsinki to protest against trump and putin's visit and to demand human rights, free speech, and pro-refugee policies. president trump also faced protest during his visit to scotland this weekend, where a paraglider flew over trump's turnberry golf course holding a sign that read "trump well below par," while protesters rallied outside his private golf resort. >> he is a racist and misogynist. a catalog of insensibility that he brirings to the esteemed offe of t president o of the united states. just go back to america. a

tom perez is the chairman of the democratic national committee. as tom says, we're going to get into some of the details about the references made to people, some of whom are not named in the indictment but basically anybody with google can figure out who they are. joining me now is adrienne elrod. good to see you. >> you too. >> there are more than 300 people in the dnc who were targeted. as we read the details of these indictments, it was effective, it was targeted, it was specific, and it seemed to have a goal in mind. the goal of defeating hillary clinton and spreading disinformation, compromising the campaign and helping donald trump. and then there are even things in the indictment which we'll talk about where there seem to be outreach from the russian agents to people connected to the trump campaign to say is this helpful? what do you think of the information we've got? >> yeah. i think it's helpful to getting us one step closer to actually figuring out what happened. was there collusion, was there not collusion. you know, look, when you're

the democratic national committee and the democratic national campaign committee? >> if you watch president putin in the various exchanges today, he could barely contain the glee. he is getting everything he wanted out of this president and more. hillary clinton two years ago in the campaign made a comment in one of the debates about how trump was going to serve as putin's puppet. at the time it seemed like rhetoric but it's reality. what putin wants at the end of the day is to for the united states to help him weaken nato and undermine europe. trump did that for him. he wants the american president to create a moral equivalence of the united states and russia. trump did that for him. he wants the american president to give him impunity for attacks on american democracy to keep attacking us and trump did that for him today. so, you know, they can barely contain their excitement in russia today and for the rest of us who care deeply about america's national security and even more importantly about the values that make this country great it's a very sad day. >> the p

the democratic national committee was begin, they said if you have anything hillary related, we want it in the next two days. the russians created a fake persona and wrote to a trump campaign person did you find anything interesting in the docs i posted? while that person isn't named in the indictment, it was roger stone a campaign advisor. his lawyer says stone had no involvement in the hacking and prosecutors also say a congressional candidate asked guccifer for stolen documents about an opponent and got them but today's charges don't accuse anyone in the u.s. of knowingly helping the russian hackers. >> there is no allegation in the indictment any american citizen committed a crime. >> reporter: there is no climb in the indictment the hacking affected the outcome. pete williams. nbc news at the justice department. >> reporter: i'm hallie jackson in london, knowing about the new indictments today the president blasted the investigation on the world stage. >> i think that we're being hurt very badly by the i would call it the witch hunt. >> reporter: it's been a sound track of his a

why was the fbi told to leave the office of the democratic national committee? i've been asking that for months and months and tweeting it out and calling it out on social media? where is the server and what is the server saying. with that being said, all i can do is ask the question. my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others and they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i'll say this. i don't see any reason why it would be but i do want to see the server. but i have -- i have confidence in both parties. i really believe that this will probably go on for a while. i don't think it can go out without finding out what happened to the server. what happened to the servers of the pakistani gentleman that worked on the dnc? where are those servers? they're missing. where are they? what happened to hillary clinton's e-mails? 33,000 e-mails gone. just gone. i think in russian they wouldn't be gone so easily. it's a disgrace that we can't get hillary clinton's 33,000 e-mails. so i have great confidence in my i

officers had fake names, fake accounts, and systematically went after the campaign arm, the democratic national committee, tohenterfere in election. this will be a test to the president. ddress putin on this and say we've got the goods? or will he attempt to maintai good relations with putin and not address it? christian: he was specifically asked about this today, what are you going to talk about with vladimir putin? of course, crimea and ukraine but also said yes, i am going to ask about the interference in the election. does that tell us he's com circle and accepts there was interference? ron clng -- ron: the question is, does he say, this is what the indictmen has, these are the officers named and what are you going to do to address them and bring them to justice. katty:on, thanks very much. another thing that perhaps might be raised in that meeting. british police have found a small bottle containing novichok in the home of charlie rowley. christian: for more on let's cross to the bbc's duncan kennedy in salsbury. g e us this report earlier. duncan: the news that they found th bottle came through fr

contact with senior members of the trump campaign. >> and very significantly, not just the democratic national committeeessional campaign committee, the hillary clinton campaign. it says they also managed to penetrate state boards of election and maybe stealing sensitive information from 500,000 or so american voters. >> although he did also say that there's no evidence any vote tallies were affected. this is chilling information that the russian military intelligence agents were able to get voter data information. right now i want to bring in evan perez, who was at that justice department press conference. evan, it is a stunning set of indictments and clearly indicates that a lot of what the president and his administration have said about the hacks on hillary clinton's campaign and the dnc simply was not true. >> that's right, jake. the thing that the deputy attorney general kept stressing is that there's no proof here that any americans knew that they were talking to or interacting with russian intelligence agents. he also stressed that he briefed the president. it was important for the president to

well joe nothing here is a former communications director for the democratic national committee he's joining us now from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for joining us on al-jazeera so hard line from supporters are very unlikely to be change their minds over this and some republicans may well be very vocal as we're hearing about it when it will come when it comes to taking some action about it that's a different matter how can democrats galvanize support and turn this to their advantage yeah i think it's a little bit too early to tell but it's been interesting because democrats have been reluctant to talk too much about the russia issue for fear that voters who might go either way in the upcoming midterms will see them as obsessed with donald trump or obsessed with the twenty sixteen election rather than focused on their concerns but i think this was really changed the conversation it was shocking in all of the decades donald trump has been in public life we've never seen the kind of body language that we saw from him coming out of his meeting with vladimir putin so browbe

of these e—mail hacks came out right before the democratic national convention and led to the resignation of the head of the democratic national committee the first couple of days because they detailed some of days because they detailed some of the conflict within the dnc and bernie sanders, one at that democratic presidential candidates. also thejohn podesta e—mails, those had a lot of internal details about the campaign, some of hillary clinton's speech excerpts, democratic strategy, larger democratic strategy, larger democratic strategies throughout the country, details on individual candidates running. all this was pushed out into public domain by russians alleged in this indictment, and that while there was no direct connection to any americans and no americans whether in the trunk campaign or elsewhere knowingly communicated with these russians, knowing that they were russian nationals —— trump campaign, there we re nationals —— trump campaign, there were contacts between them and americans and there were several not listed by name, but several individuals they said disseminated this information. so, as i said this was an indictme

it showed the democratic national committee and clinton campaign funded the dirty, discredited dossier, a major component of the fisa warrant, if not its very foundation. congressman matt gates weighing in today. >> there is a serious problem with the fbi presenting to the fisa court an application for a search warrant against a united states citizen and then followed by three renewals when they were basing it on a very flawed document, the so-called steele dossier has negative been verified. lou: that of course, bob goodlatte, chairman of the house judiciary committee. "judicial watch" has been at the forefront of getting the fbi to release the fisa warrant. chris farrell, director of investigations and research for "judicial watch" joins us no. chris, good to have you here. congratulations to you, to "judicial watch," for the important work that always do for the country, but in this specific instance we're deeply appreciative because it goes to the very heart of what we have been talking about on this broadcast from the insipient point of the trump administration. >> thanks, lou. wh

presidential election, specifically the effort was to hack into the systems of the democratic nationality committeeillary clinton, get information, and distribute that information to affect the election. it charges a sophisticated assault on the united states election by russian military officers working in their official capacities as government officials, presumably with the okay of russian president vladimir putin. an operation national security officials say could not have happened without his approval. let's begin with cnn's shimon

but these are russian intelligence operatives who are charged with hacking the democratic national committeen-up to the 2016 election. >> and andrea, these are russian officials who actually attacked the democratic national committee in 2016. it puts enormous pressure on president trump to raise this issue directly with the kgb spymaster vladimir putin in helsinki on monday. if he doesn't, you could make the charge the president is not defending our country from this type of russian attack. >> even earlier today, at the news conference at chequers with theresa may, he was asked by kristen welker whether he had played into the hands of america's oldest adversary, and he reacted angrily, calling it fake news and saying he was stronger than ever coming out of nato. you were a nato ambassador. >> yes. andrea, i must say, you and i have seen a lot of summits. no american president has ever had such a chaotic, disputatious trip to europe as president trump has had. he's attacked angela merkel, theresa may, nato, the european union. he's gone after all of our allies. yet no criticism of our adversa

the fbi and robert mueller have indicted 25 into thefor hacking private property of the democratic national committeeof the democratic congressional committee and of the chairman of the hillary clinton campaign. that is theft. that is conspiracy to break american law and then to use that information in a offense against hillary clinton. i can understand why the president is concerned that the legitimacy of his election is in doubt. that is not the question. the question is how is this president going to protect -- kevin: do you think the legitimacy of the election is in doubt? rep. garamendi: i do not think that is a question we can answer. we do know that the russians from thesitive data and thes of the dnc, hillary clinton campaign. we know they use that information to try to influence the campaign. their spot campaign was deeply involved in corrupted americans into believing the charges that were being put out by the russian trolls was accurate. shery: congressman, in this summit we have not seen anything substantial when it comes to deals, nothing on crimea or the iran nuclear deal. how much reli

government says that russian meddled by hacking into the democratic national committee e-mail server and revealing e-mails that show that the democratic party leadership. violated its own rules and regulations to make sure that hillary clinton would win the nomination now if that's true and it's being described as a parallel or or synonymous with what happened on nine eleven or pearl harbor why did the f b i why did the f.b.i. not subpoena and take control of that server to carry out a forensic investigation why did it allow crowd strike a third party that had its own self-interest in its own political bias against russia why did they take their word that in fact the democratic party server was hacked by the russians that on its face would make anyone skeptical but again if you're in a religious situation you don't need proof you only take things as an article of faith and so if the f.b.i. says we have a high degree of confidence without giving any evidence that russia did this without any evidence if you're in a religious mode you say i believe i believe because i believe because i'm

indicted a dozen russian military intelligence officers for hacking the clinton campaign and democratic national committee>> he aims to diminish the appeal of the western democratic model and attempts to undermine america's moral authority. his actions are designed not to challenge our arms at this point but to undercut and compromise our belief in our ideals. >>> we have new details about a 2016 crash that left two girls dead in petaluma. their mother pleaded no contest to gross vehicular manslaughter in the case. she was high on meth when she lost control of her car and plunged into the river. she survived the crash with only minor injuries but her 7 and 9-year-old daughters were killed. she did not have a driver's license and there were no child safety seats in the car. police arrested her in 2017 more than a year after the crash. her sentencing is august 7. >>> new at 10:00 p.m. a dog that disappeared from his home three years ago has now been reunited with its owner after it was found in antioch. >> this is what happened. a police officer on routine traffic stop yesterday morning all of a sudden noti

tom perez, the chairman of the democratic national committee joins me now. what do you think of the president's comments on immigration in europe? >> unfortunately, chris, they're not surprising. the most important things we export in the united states is values of inclusion and opportunity for everyone. america is at its best when we're all in this together, when we don't have the politics of fear and division, and fear and division have been the currency of this president. there's this global virus of natiism going on right now, he's stoking that virus, and we -- that's why i'm helping so hard to help elect democrats because when democrats are in charge, that's when we put hope on the ballot, that's when we export those values of inclusion and opportunity that have always made america great. >> do you think the president -- there's two ways of viewing the president and republican policy on immigration. one is they don't like illegal immigration, unauthorized immigration because it's breaking the law. the other, they don't like immigration, they think immig

military intelligence officers, they hacked the presidential campaign of hillary clinton, the democratic national committee, the democratic congressional campaign committee, which works to elect democrats to congress, and they used that information, the hacked information, they used it under the names d.c. leaks and guccifer 2.0 and through another entity as well. the specific details in this indictment are really amazing. i know you haven't read the entire document, but it's very impressive the way they re-created step by step by step, john, what happened to you and others. >> yeah, i think, wolf, that we've known the general outlines of this from intelligence reports going back to right after the election and indeed from the letter that intelligence the community issued even in advance of the election that the russians who are up to no good here, and we've known the general outline, but this is quite specific. they've done the forensics, and obviously they believe they have the proof to prove the charges against these actors. you know, the president likes to describe mueller's operation as a witch hunt.

> the mueller investigation indicting 12 russian intelligence officers for hacking the democratic national committee, read the indictment at c-span.org. our schedule looks like this on our companion network c-span2 late they are afternoon, director of national intelligence dan koets joins a discussion on russian election interference, cyber security, schy in a and north crewa, hosted by the hudson institute live at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. and this morning, president trump and british prime minister theresa may held a news conference at the prime minister's country home. we'll show you the entire 50-minute news conference coming up tonight on c-span. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable and sat -- or satellite provider. >> treasury secretary steven mnuchin testified yesterday before the house fina

why was the fbi told to leave the office of the democratic national committee? with that being said, all i can do is ask the question. my people came to me. dan coats came to me and others said they think it's russia. i have president putin and he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> the president also holding both countries responsible when asked if russia is to blame for anything. the joint news conference met with condemnation that was swift, broad and unrelenting from voices in the president's corner. >> the top at the dredge report. newt gingrich said this was the most serious mistake of the president's presidency and must be corrected immediately. sean hannity did not speak to the president and many at that news network did speak up. >> trump clearly should not have created any semblance of moral equivocacy and assurances of vladimir putin. >> this is the time for the president to look putin in the eye and said you will be punished for what you did in 2016. >> he didn't. >> that's what made it disgusting. t

intelligence officers are so intricately involved in hacking of the system, you know, the democratic national committee, the democratic congressional committee, you know, just in this massive cyber attack, it makes you wonder, i wonder who directed that attack and i wonder how high that official was. it comes right back to putin, in my view. and so, i really would believe that any notion of some type of witch hunt or this is nonsense, that has to be refuted. >> national security experts say this could not have gone on without putin's approval. so, with that said, daniel, when we look ahead to monday's meeting, if president trump does not very boldly and aggressively confront president putin on this, can this meeting be even -- can it be called or characterized as successful, or would it be a failure at that point? >> yeah, you have to remember the meeting with kim jong-un in singapore, where the first few hours of coverage of that meeting was pretty positive. things seemed to be going well. and yet, we saw in the letter that kim sent a few days ago, no mention of denuclearization. and so, if trump just

meddling he president trump turned it back again on the hillary on hillary clinton and the democratic national committee saying that they got hacked i think people are very surprised to hear that very surprised to see the lack of support from president trump for the intelligence community and the claims that are being made in the united states on issues that are very important to the europeans crimea on ukraine president trump did not speak about crimea did not reiterate u.s. policy that crimea is an exception by russia was illegal in fact it was only president putin who spoke about that saying that. referendum was held in crimea and they decided to join the russian federation and president tom didn't put up any protest for that so i think that europeans think it maybe it could have been worse they were expecting maybe more lambasted from the podium and there wasn't a whole lot of that so i mean on the whole perhaps europe is a bit relieved that it didn't hear more of the same kind of things that were said at the nato summit last week let's talk a little bit more about that terry you know i mean this su

why was the fbi told to leave the office of the democratic national committee? with that being said, all i can do is ask the question. my people came to me. dan coats came to me and others said they think it's russia. i have president putin and he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> the president also holding both countries responsible when asked if russia is to blame for anything. the joint news conference met with condemnation that was swift, broad and unrelenting from voices in the president's corner. >> dozens of republicans spoke out against the comments. among the strongest is from john mccain. he called the conference one of the most disgraceful performan e performances of an american president in recent memory. it is clear the helsinki summit was a tragic mistake. >> the top at the dredge report. newt gingrich said this was the most serious mistake of the president's presidency and must be corrected immediately. more of the same on fox news. sean hannity spoke to the president and did not bring up the in

source or maybe eighteen or maybe that one or maybe your family or maybe predicted in the democratic national committee to be predicted to be america's democracy that way it is will only make the let me go to be good at what i did i will not do you know what i mean well i mean i mean if there was anything rigged in the two thousand and sixteen election talk to bertie sanders about it all right daniel let me get a go to you will be finishing up this one part of the program go ahead. i would say that this will continue of course our tension and russia phobia there's a refusal from the foundation of this to accept russia as the soviet union down to even the language they don't talk today about president trump and putin being like medvedev and obama and bush and putin and it's all in the terms of kennedy and nixon and these grand soviet meetings the world cup is another way of i mean how dare we say that you guys are in the twenty first century the second part of it being you know on the summit like kate said the press conference could happen or not and this would have ended up in the same level of tension

the democratic national committee and the democratic congressional campaign committee. the move comes days before president trump is set to meet with russian president vladimir putin. joining us now is former -- thank you for your time. we heard from deputy the title -- attorney general rosenstein that they do reserve judgment, however, the timing of this announcement is pretty jesting. said there was no intentionality to the timing, that it was just when the case was done. i think it is important to note that rosenstein said they had briefed the president on this. a couple days before his meeting with putin. if i had to guess, his train of thought is you cannot have a president going to meet with the leader of a foreign adversary without knowing this information. clearly, trump has been in denial. he denied the russians had anything to do with the hacking. not so. any president needs to be equipped with full information before he goes into a high-stakes meeting. mr. rosenstein emphasizing there was no evidence americans had knowingly tried to help russians. this was qu

supreme court nominee bread kavanaugh has barely walked away before the democratic national committee issuing a statement saying he belongs nowhere near the supreme court. clearly the battle is on. three red state democratic senators were invited to the supreme announcement. joe donnelly of indiana joe mention of west virginia and heidi north camp of north dakota all three declined the invitation, saying they wanted to first meet the nominee and discuss their judicial philosophy. all three senators are in very tight races in states that president trump want andth republicans and conservative groups are president bushing them to vote yes, on kavanaugh, or risk having re-election bids undermined. liberals on the other hand are demanding senate minority leader chuck schumer trying to strong-arm them into opposing trump nominee all three voted to confirm kneel gorush. but chad burgeon reported he told him he could vote either way. it is worth watching alabama senator doug jones, who is not yet a senator when gorush was confirmed and not up for re-election, but he is a conservative democra

unveiling new bombshell revelations on how the russians allegedly hacked the democratic national committee and the hillary clinto campaign. >>> and we come on the air this afteivoon with team coverage of two major stories in the nation's capital >> we'll get to the breaking indictment of 12 russians in the mueller probe in a moment, but first a water warning that impacts thousands of people who live in andork in the district. >>> officials say a large ulportion of the city s't drink the water without boiling it first. >> now this map behind us tells the story. anyone who i fallsthe high light blue area that stretches across the city from brooklan to columbia heights and parts of georgetown is affected by. >> news 1 is working for you covering every angle of this story, answering your health questions and explaining how residents have been impacted. had's we start with new mark segraves live outside of the palisades reck center with more on how thishappened. >> reporter: good afternoon. this is one of the many spray at is closed. normally water would be pouring down and kid going down the s

they seem to be unwitting with a foreign entity. >> in addition to going after the democratic national committeedemocratic committee, they make it clear the russians went after specific voting systems throughout the united states that are clearly vulnerable to hacking. they say that half a million, 500,000 american citizens have very sensitive voter data information stolen. what is congress doing to fix that? >> well, that's actually a bill i worked on, it's a bipartisan bill we released months and months ago. we had a meeting last week. it's something we have worked on for months and months with multiple others. we believe we should cooperate with the federal governments and states in their election systems to stay secure. elections are a state responsibility and part of the strength of our system. there's a diversity of systems. if any one entity is vulnerable, the entire election system is. >> go ahead, finish your thought. >> we have to have more communication, better security and make sure when we find out a threat is happening, we are working with those states to work with that threat. >>

2020 offers his vision for america picks interviewed by donna brazile for much of the democratic national committee. this this is a weekly program wh with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> host: congressman john delaney, the author of the new book "the right answer." congressman, you wrote this book at a time when our country is very divided. what motivated you to spell out not just the challenges but also some of the solutions? >> guest: personal it's great

elections and now robert mueller on friday i dieted 112 more russians for hacking the democratic national committeeoing to have any impact? >> well, i think, what he wans -- what you're alluding to, legitimacy in the world stage. that's why the demotion of russia to g7 was such a blow. i think perfectly legitimate thing to kick them out. paul: trump says they should be back. >> right. i think that president trump's policy to russia is actually stronger than what president trump's says he is sometimes. the part that i really worry about is crimea where he seems to be saying, we will acknowledge -- it's up with -- acknowledged but that would be really ebb -- endorsing, international criminality to take this. i think the signal to putin would be a terrible one there and it would be bad for ukraine. >> be terrible that he can invade another country like you said georgia and mold -- maldova as well. >> what does trump want out of putin of ukraine? what does a deal mean? >> for trump unfortunately it might mean defacto recognition that that was an obama mistake -- paul: crimea was. >> let's have come kin

we knew that in addition to the democratic national committee the democratic campaign committee was also attacked in 2016 as well. so the russians have a very sophisticated large scale ongoing pervasive influence campaign on american democracy. there's no way vladimir putin should be coming nis fall. and if he does i'm going to be marching in protest along with others against him. >> some in president trump's inner circle are worried right now the helsinki summit will embolden special counsel robert mueller. do you believe president trump's performance with putin strengthened mueller's hand? >> absolutely. i think it makes it harder now for the president to fire mueller or deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. it really makes you wonder what does putin have on trump? and this is not just coming from me. it's coming from republicans. we saw this amazing op-ed "the new york times" who basically said that he's a cia agent and he's seen people being manipulated and he believes the president of the united states is being manipulated by putin. >> will hurd before becoming a congressman was a

remember, some e—mail hacks came out right before the democratic national convention and led to the resignation of the head of the democratic national committees, one of the dnc, and bernie sanders, one of the presidential candidates also, the presidential candidates also, the e—mails had a lot of internal details about the campaign, some of clinton's speech excerpts, a larger democratic strategies, details on individual candidates running, all of this were pushed out into the public domain by questions alleged in this indictment. while there was no direct connection, to any americans whether in the front campaign or elsewhere, knowingly communicated with these questions, knowing they were russian nationals, there were contacts between them and americans and there were several not listed by name but several individuals they said disseminated this information so as i said, this was an indictment of 12 individuals and add onto the 20 plus people who have already been indicted or pled guilty as part of the investigation. and three russian companies. a fairly extensive detailed indictment sheet and this is finally delving into the woods behind th

when we saw the theft of files from the democratic national committee by russia, and russia has yet to be sanctioned for that. that is a problem. we have not drawn a line in the sand, but instead kind of embraced putin as an ally of sort, that is a problem paired with and we do not spend money on vote tabulation security, we endanger our democracy and weaken our country. these are the steps that the government has taken, and they are the wrong steps. >> harris: i don't want to go down the rabbit hole, but the file and computer, has all of that been made, have they been turned over by the dnc? in those democrats that said that they were hacked? >> i know that the dnc is cooperating with all federal investigators, so i do not think that you blame "the new york times," i do not think that you blame the victims of this cyber burglary. i think that you blame russia and a foreign policy that does not punish or deter russia or even insulate our vote tabulation system from further russian attack. >> harris: absolutely russia is a wrongdoer, and meddling might be too soft of a word for what fac

she was a chairman of the democratic national committee. t major target of the russian attack on our democracy. i strongly believe that every individual carried it out. for a should be held accountable chris bedford. serena, what do you make of all of this? >> not only are we a couple days away from the presidents meeting with putin in helsinki, this is is coming on the heels of some loud rolling coming from the president against our allies in great britain. he really needs to step up and confront putin in a real way.her any other country, for that matter to undermine our institution. >> trying to assert themselves in the last election. 2018 midterms just a few months from now. say nothing from the 2020 presidential election. what do you think? >> the indictments we saw earlier this year, another 13 russians, they were interested not just in president donald trump, but also supported ernie sanders. those two candidates, what they really have in common is their distraction to washington candidates and serious longshots i do not know exactly h

that's a question republicans have raised again and again why the democratic national committee never turned over their computer servers to the fbi which was gave itting the hacking. the president did not take the opportunity to condemn russian meddling in the u.s. election. then vladimir putin, even perhaps more astonishing moment was asked directly if the russian government has compromising material on the president of the united states vladimir putin did not take the opportunity there to deny that the russian government does. instead what he said is i heard those rumors but when the president was in moscow back then i didn't even know he was in moscow back then, suggesting unlikely russian intelligence would gather intelligence, compromising material on all the american and foreign business officials who came to moscow for various events over the years casting doubt on the likelihood that the russians have compromising material on the president but at least not in my hearing of the translation at first blush not saying the russian government does not have such material. astonishing

claiming the breach of democratic national committee and hillary clinton e-mails had nothing to do with the trump administration. the white house announced today the president and vladimir putin will hold a joint news conference monday in helsinki after their meeting. the president already said he will raise russian interference in the election again. today eight senate democrats wrote a letter to the president urging him not to meet alone with putin and always have other top u.s. officials in any conversations. jose. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you very much. >>> we will hear from kelly again tomorrow as she joins lester holt and our entire team in helsinki to cover the putin/trump summit, full coverage tomorrow on "nightly news." >>> while president trump prepares to meet with vladimir putin, the u.s. army has a major effort to keep the country's defenses on cutting edge. just this week, they announced a new command in austin, texas. the mission, out innovate our enemies to win on the battlefields of the future. nbc's hans nichols got a look at some of the new tech. >> reporter: they lo

the russians are accused of hacking into the computer networks of the democratic national committee and presidential campaign of democratic nominee hillary clinton. >> the defendant work for two units of the main intelligence directorate of the russian general staff known as the gru. the units engage in active cyber operations to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. before today, 20 people and three companies have been charged in the investigation. rosenstein says he briefed president trump earlier this week about the indictments. islamic state has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on an election rally in southwestern pakistan. the

this is how the head of the democratic national committee describes her in this moment. s watch. >> the fourth most powerful democrat in the united states congress, congressman joe crowl crowly, was knocked out by a young woman it, alexandria ocasio-cortez, 28 years old, never ran for office before. she represents the future of our party. she ran a spirited campaign. >> laura: future of our party. she obviously is very young. she thinks basically everything should be free. free college, everybody's guaranteed, dignified health care, i don't know exactly what that is but free, free, free, free. apparently abolished i.c.e. so no crackdown on human smuggling, child sex trafficking. it is wild out there. but she is the future, according to the democratic national committee. >> what they don't understand is what their party has no future. it's over. that is what this campaign that i have started, the walkaway campaign, is proving. people are leaving the left by tens of thousands. my group is growing every day by tens of thousands. it's amazing because it's actually happening o

votes in march 2016n russian intell was burrowing into computers at her campaign and the democratic national committeeueller's prosecutors say targeting more than 300 people. the charges say it was t 1 work officers of russian military intelligence. it's the most detailed accusation yet of russian election meddling announced as president trump was being welcomed by the queen of england. some questioned what's behind the timing just as mr. trump ism preparing tt vladimir putin monday. >>> briefed president trump about the allegations elier this week. the president is fully aware of the department actions today. >> reporter: the charges say in late july the t russiansed for the first time to hack into server in clinton's personal campaign office the same day the president said this. >> irussia, you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> reporter: prosecutors say the russians set up d.c. leaks to release hacked materials falsely claiming it was run by meshamers and the charges leave no doubt it was a conduit the russians used to heighten the tension in the electi

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the democratic national committee, his electoral college victory, this all came up again, jonathan. >> it almost felt like a campaign rally there for a minute. you're right. this is not president trump thinking about the future of the nation necessarily or safeguarding it from future attacks, from russian hackers, for any other down the road election interference. this was him talking about him as he so often does. does not necessarily look at the national gains but the personal view. and he was very on the defensive with our questioning. and made it very clear that as we have seen time and time again from the president and his allies. whenever there's a breakthrough in the special council probe in the russia probe, the graphic, whether it's uranium one or hillary's e-mails, by the week it seems they grab on to some other part of this probe, t tangental at best and try to distract. of course, that much more striking to do it today on foreign soil standing alongside the man the u.s. intelligence agencies believe directed the election meddling. >> it was your questioning today that have

the indictment claims that the military officers leaked e-mails from the democratic national committee and hillary clinton's campaign. trump dismissed it as a rigged witch hunt but promised to ask president putin. >> i will absolutely bring that up. i don't think he will have any, gee, i did it, i did it, you got me. i will absolutely firmly ask the question. and the indictment says that russian operatives tried to hack the e-mails for clinton's campaign on the same day that donald trump called on russia to find hillary clinton's missing e-mails. >>> president trump is in scotland after a two-day visit to britain. there's been massive protests and an interview in the british tabloid "the sun," trump bashes theresa may in that article, and says they are losing their country because of immigration. good evening, jay. >> hey, there, and the only thing that pushed protesters out of the square behind us here, a steady rain earlier in the evening. organizers now saying that 250,000 people were here, and president trump spent the last day of his first official visit here outside the city. >>>

for hacking the computers of the democratic national committee and hillary clinton.