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government of -- >> absolutely, the government of vladimir putin was behind the hacks of -- >> of john podesta's e-mail. of john -- >> also in europe. >> you know what -- look and say i know they did -- >> and i think that ronald reagan would be -- >> ronald reagan. >> as you're carrying water for the kremlin. >> you're a sitting member of congress and you can't say -- >> you're going to have to move your show to russian television. >> tucker: so to this day, even the most basic, the most elemental questions about the claims in this russia story remain unanswered. we've upended our entire foreign policy and put americans in prison all on the basis of charges that no one has been willing to prove. the conspiracy hawks seem totally impervious to shame or reason. they wouldn't engage. they just threw slurs. they felt no need to demonstrate any of it was true. >> at what point do you draw the line and not accuse the president without any evidence? >> he's betrayed or country. i don't say that lightly. >> betraying the country, by the way, we want evidence before you say that, but you said an agent o

. >> a memo which was stolen from the e-mails of clinton campaign chairman john podesta and made publiceaks raises questions. >> stone would deny any wrongdoing as well as any direct communication with assange. >> did you have any knowledge of any kind about john podesta's hacked e-mails? >> no, absolutely not. i had no notice by the content source of the exact disclosure time of the wikileaks disclosures. >> and just a week before the mid-term elections a bizarre turn of events. reports surfaced of a suspected plot to discredit mueller. >> breaking news unlike anything we've seen this year. the fbi is now probing a credible plot to frame bob mueller. >> women were allegedly offered money to make false accusations of sexual impropriety against the special counsel. >> i think the overall take away is there are some people who must be deeply, deeply concerned about what robert mueller is finding and what he has to say in order to engage in such a juvenile caper to seek to discredit him. >> then on november 26th mueller announced paul manafort has breached his deal by lying to the special

john podesta, your initial reactions to this, this mueller report as capsulized, we should point out, in this brief memo from william barr. >> well, look, it's hard to know from reading a four-page memo from william barr what this report actually finds. we do know that has been stated in your show that the russians did commit crimes in the united states. 26 russian nationals were indicted by mr. mueller. we knew there were over a hundred contacts between the trump campaign and agents of the russian government. we know that there were more than 28 meetings between the trump campaign and russian operatives. we don't know why mr. mueller reached the conclusion that he did not have enough evidence to form a criminal conspiracy, but we should know what his reasoning was about that, and i think it's important that the democrats on capitol hill press ahead to ask for the full release of this report and so the american people can form a judgement about what actual he occurred 2016 and what -- what involvement the officials of the trump campaign had with respect to that. >> it occurs to me if

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someone to hell agents some some real clout you know someone who the people trust and joining us now john podesta foley care of hillary clinton's presidential campaign. the center for american progress that's the other side of this although. i like a guy like you like to have a good talk to him i thought he was in the witness protection program. now we finally know i don't rest and just wait outside imus n.b.c. and then gather. this is the guy who proved a lie. his emails literally prove to the corruption of hillary's campaign they also showed the election rigging by the d.n.c. he should be relegated to the dustbin of history reserved for boneheads like the guy who tried to fly by jumping off a cliff with cardboard wig. milli vanilli you know you. i would sooner want to learn what milli vanilli thought about the ball or report. ok. before i wrap this up let's give the mad hatter one more chance while we're on the subject of ideal versus real while we're on the subject of pie in the sky. or real world circumstances oh my god. she's going to do it she's she's going to say i'm sorry i've lost touch

a new american century that sold us the iraq war also mike morrell former acting cia director john podesta former chairman of hillary clinton's presidential campaign and jake sullivan former national security adviser to vice president joe biden so in the alliance of neo cons and centrist and former intelligence officials funded by the u.s. government through a temper tantrum to get c.n.n. to encourage facebook to censor us that's creepy as for me my palestine video and he said you gotta stop letting me speak my mind this c.n.n. report was deep though showing up at the homes of people who work with us contacting contractors we work with to collect dirt classy stuff and their investigation it was a quick google not the pentagon paper if you don't believe us buzz we did an exposé three years ago revealing what was pretty much widely known and again google but c.n.n. still got us i mean as much as i'd like to say we did a ton of digging on this if you were to you know start googling these pages you could quickly sort of work it back to see so what did we do wrong they violate a rule to faceboo

b c can't you have someone on with someone hell agents some something as found john podesta for care of hillary clinton's presidential campaign. for the center for american progress that's the other side of this although. i like a guy like you like to have a good talk to him i thought he was in the witness protection program. now we finally know how to rest and just wait outside imus n.b.c. and then gather. this is the guy who groove like his e-mails literally prove to the corruption of hillary's campaign they also showed the elect. by the d.n.c. he should be religated law by jumping off a cliff with cardboard wig. milli vanilli you know you. i would sooner want to learn what milli vanilli thought about the dollar report. of the mad hatter one more chance while we're on the subject of ideal versus real while we're on the subject of pie in the sky. or real world circumstances oh my god . she's going to do it she's she's going to say i'm sorry i've lost touch with the real world i'm sorry i brought you a lunatic fringe theory for two straight years i'm sorry that while i was doing that

on connecticut out really like john podesta would go hang out there this rich lobbyist he's like the cartoon character of a lobbyist hovercraft and leader goes between davos and lake tahoe and like a few other resorts never touches his feet and fly over country and a guy goes in there who's like hepped up on these pizza gate conspiracies he drives up from north carolina he goes up there with a k forty seven or a ar fifteen and walks in there and fires a shot into the floor and the worst nightmare right after donald trump selection of . elite liberals is fulfilled so it's kind of easy to understand their hysteria when actually people are acting out the conspiracists but why does that happen because studies have shown that americans are uniquely conspiracy theories they believe in conspiracies we've seen that crossing the country how many ghosts and we encounter their ghost and every town is haunted are we just a haunted by our past like what is you know the common people of america are some of the most conspired against people in the world and they are conspired against by elites the

massive document dump from wikileaks of what appears to be hacked e-mails from clinton's campaign, john podesta'sail account. >> according to his indictment, he received a message from the campaign official saying well-done. >> since 2016, roger stone denied speaking directly with julian assange. >> there is no suggestion or any court documents that roger stone was directly in touch with assange. >> stone may have had direct dealings with julian assange. that's not mutually exclusive. the central question whether the russians conspire with trump or with his campaign or officials on that campaign interfere in our election. >> stone has joined the growing list of trump's associates. george papadopoulos, a foreign policy of the campaign convicted o f lying to the fbi. he met with russian intelligence officers who told him the russians had hillary clinton's missing e-mails. >> we don't know who in the trump campaign he informed, he claimed he did not remember who he shared with. he once told me robert mueller knows. >> the clues came out in a recent filings by paul manafort's attorney. >> manafort sh

gol was the biggest spender in washington last year and while we're in the house that john podesta built, mark zuckerberg they weren't sending e-mails to the clinton campaign, and questions of soft capture. if your opinion, both to the secretary and the senator, has the 2013 decision to close the investigation google's unilateral conduct aged well? and should the ftc reopen that investigation. >> you know, i would like to see an investigation. we have talked about this. certainly you don't want to stop things back in the year 2013 when you've seen changes and seen changes across the world in how they are looking at the activities of the google and the other social media platforms. so i don't think that was our witness, right? is that right? how that all works, who the witnesses were at the hearing. yeah, okay, they're going, no, no, that's mark now. and, but in any case, there will be a ripe for asking questions about this this afternoon and i thank you for your work as you know, yelp has been out there on the cutting edge, trying to to get in the market and understand the issue of what

while we're in the house that john podesta built, mark zuckerberg were not spending campaign memos to the clinton campaign before the election, eric schmidt was. my question is, do you think -- in your opinion, has the 2013 decision to close the investigation to google's unilateral conduct aged well and should the ftc reopen that investigation? >> well, you know, i would like to see an investigation. we have talked about this. certainly you don't want to stop things back in the year 2013 when you've seen changes and you've seen changes across the world in how they are looking at the activities of the google and the other social media platforms. i don't think that was our witness? is that right? how do did that work? they're going, no, no says mark. but in any case, there will be a ripe for asking questions about this this afternoon and i thank you for your work as you know yelp is been out there on the cutting-edge trying to getting into the market and understands the issue of what it's like every day and this is one example. we have so many companies, i think people think this is ant

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rather than something directly dealing with julian assange and the hillary clint clinton's and john podesta. until we see the indictment, we won't know whether it is the same. it would indicate to us this is an investigation that stretches back much further. >> one other thing, this is adam schiff on "meet the press" this weekend talking about robert mueller. >> if indeed mr. mueller decides not to issue that subpoena or figure out how to get the president in front of that grand jury, is that going to be a mistake considering we have so many questions about whose testimonies should you believe, michael cohen or donald trump? >> yes, it is a mistake. i have said along that i don't think mueller should rely on w n written answers. here you need to be able to ask questions in realtime. >> so chuck was asking him if mueller needed to see the president in person. >> right. >> and adam shichiff says yes, did. >> i do agree as a lawyer of 33 years, it is a huge difference of getting written answers verses in person. it is not going to happen. >> what does it say the strength or weakness of this ca

away for that but this is much broader but the same story is showing a couple other democrats, john podestaer investigation for violation. >> democrats are floating the idea they may attempt to make him our investigation look more balanced. >> a little bit. it will be draining the swamp, doj doing it, not the president but if you are liberal, conservative, if you're breaking the statute, concealing this information, preventing doj from properly implementing the statute he should be prosecuted. that means gregory craig gets in trouble. >> we all think the law should be fair and equal regardless of party or ideology. thank you. is it time to lower the voting age to 16? >> it is important to capture kids when they are in high school and interested in all of this. shannon: the associated press fact checks beta overcome what he got really wrong about climate change and alexandria ocasio cortez gets help from spongebob squarepants to push the green new deal. get-together, especially after being diagnosed last year with advanced non-small cell lung cancer. (avo) another tru story with keytruda. (d

part of the problem in the last election with john podesta's e-mails being hacked there is evidence russian trolls were working on behalf of bernie sanders. his campaign has denied that and bristled at those acquisitions. nbc news about helping gabbard's campaign and what are we doing to make sure they're safe and secure and not able to be tampered with. >> that's a huge priority for us. one of the first things we did was build a cybersecurity team top flight. our chief cyber officer was the chief cyber officer at yahoo!. he uncovered a russian hack shortly after he got there. we are working day in and day out with all of the campaigns. let's face it. what they did worked in 2016. there's no accountability for this president. >> are the campaigns cooperating with you? >> absolutely. we had a meeting as recently as last week. bob lord is our chief security officer and he met with all the campaigns. here's my philosophy about our role as relates to cybersecurity. we are a public utility. we are providing help to every campaign so they understand how they can make sure their data is cyber secu

in the 2016 election who was called in to testify, hillary clinton's former campaign chairman john podesta's exceptional and i think the question is why. perhaps mr. mueller will be asked that question by the judiciary committee, why he thought he could complete his report without being -- submit to questions by the special counsel, but right now all we know is that he did have heavily lawyered answers submitted for the record. >> that's the guy that was hacked, of course. veteran journalist bob woodward detailed why john dowd thought his client, that would be the president, his testimony was a bad idea in bob's book "fear." woodward writes between a meeting between the lawyer and one of the deputies dowd said, the fact is i don't want him looking like an idiot. i'm not going to sit there and let him look like an idiot. you publish that transcript because everything leaks and the guys overseas are going to say, i told you he was an idiot. why are we dealing with that idiot. unbelievable. what are we dealing with that idiot for? john, i understand mueller replied. it would have been a bad i

with an assault rifle because conspiracy theorists claimed that hillary clinton and john podesta ranex ring in the basement. seriously. and it made national news when vice president mike pence tweeted and then soon deleted a photo showing him with a police officer who wore a patch with the letter "q." but what is it? simply put, it's kind of a conspiracy theory, a conspiracy theory fan fiction, if you will, that started and is based on anonymous postings on an internet message board in which someone or in reality many someones posting as "q" falsely claim that the world is run by a satanic cabal of elites led by barack obama, hillary clinton and the deep state. and that donald trump with the help from secret allies, including special counsel robert mueller, will expose and defeat this deep state. now where have we heard that term before? >> the crazy attempt by the democrat party and the fake news media right back there -- and the deep state. to overturn the results of the 2016 election have failed. >> so why are we talking about it tonight? well, because supporters of qanon were out

you might remember john podesta accidentally granted russian hackers to his e-mail via a spoofed linkcratic presidential candidate says it's important, she think, to make every vote count and here's what two other 2020 presidential candidates think of that plan. >> would you support getting rid of the electoral college? >> absolutely. it's got to go. >> if i were starting to scratch, absolutely i wouldn't have the electoral college system. i'm as mad as anyone about what happened last election that secretary clinton got more votes and isn't our president, bii just think it's not going to change. >> an interesting debate. why? why do the democrats want to talk about this? >> it's -- i'm -- it's being talked about among democratic activists. this is the big issue whether it's this and whether it's talking about backing the supreme court. it's something that's sort of bubbling up and all of these candidates are trying to grab on to something to give them the distinction that they sort of speak for the left grassroots. >> yeah. i find the nature of the base willing to be more aggressive a

so, you know, this is the spear fishing attack on john podesta. this is fancy bear and cozy bear, the two different russian intelligence groups that were conducting the attack and how they did it. i mean, what this technical report that we've now had unsealed out of that lawsuit, what it suggests is that at least in the part of the dossier, christopher steele was right. as "the new york times" sums it up tonight, quote, a report by a former fbi cyber expert unsealed in a federal court in miami finds evidence that suggests russian agents used by the guy who sued buzzfeed, mr. gubarev to start their hacking operation in 2016. the reported suggestions of a link between mr. gubarev and russian hacking is likely to spur new demands for renewed investigations. it has long been fascinating to me that republicans and the trump white house have focused on christopher steele and the steele dossier as if it is embarrassing or bad somehow that that document and his work might in any way have been a predicate for the larger russia investigation and ultimately

. >> john podesta brother had consulting firm wasn't he working with why you crain in terms of tryingher part a lot of people don't remember, clinton campaign that had full-time reformer at why you crepe employee in washington what does that employee have to do with american election could open up entire new narrative. >> you reported in the past more collusion on the democrats' side than in fact and i said that with my interview with john podesta two years ago. >> james freeman "the wall street journal" i am wondering if you talk about accountability, i am wondering do we know at this point maybe some i go reports are going to tell us do we know who senior official was approving the initial investigation approving the -- the fisa effort? we had jim comey saying he didn't remember anything did not even know how such investigations happen do we actually know from from documentation who ultimately started this thing. maria: and it was based on no predicate? >> getting that? >> we know we had evidence free surveillance of the by federal government of the campaign of party out of power. m

the stolen e-mails from john po podesta. the survey data is she qualified? n calls his counter part at the sfb in russia, they say you have knocked it off, but later in august that didn't work, and then john brennan gets so concerned that he alerts congress. there was a "new york times" report about that. he was so concerned about russia's election meddling, it starting urgent briefings. some were securing phone lines while on their summer break. when you look at this all together, the e-mails get hacked. donald trump calls for more e-mails to get hacked. they mirror wikileaks, and the ahead of the cia is calling top lawmakers saying we really need to focus on that top, and what did the campaign or the president know then and whether or not russia was taking orders from him or vice versa. >> those are big questions, but you're right, there is a coordinate, a massive campaign from the russians, and maybe it had the impact in the margins and this election was won in the margins. >> that is true, hopefully we will find out whatever mueller comes up with. ambassa

part of the problem in the last election with john podesta's e-mails being hacked there is evidence russianolls were working on behalf of bernie sanders. his campaign has denied that and bristled at those acquisitions. nbc news about helping gabbard's campaign and what are we doing to make sure they're safe and secure and not able to be tampered with. >> that's a huge priority for us. one of the first things we did was build a cybersecurity team top flight. our chief cyber officer was the chief cyber officer at yahoo!. he uncovered a russian hack shortly after he got there. we are working day in and day out with all of the campaigns. let's face it. what they did worked in 2016. there's no accountability for this president. >> are the campaigns cooperating with you? >> absolutely. we had a meeting as recently as last week. bob lord is our chief security officer and he met with all the campaigns. here's my philosophy about our role as relates to cybersecurity. we are a public utility. we are providing help to every campaign so they understand how they can make sure their data is cyber secure.

instead of paul manafort it was john podesta. jake sullivan instead of mike flynn, same facts.p, and would the articles of impeachment have already been drafted? >> no, because the republicans would be making the same political calculus that the democrats are right now, that overreaching into impeachment would actually benefit the other side. but would they be having conversations that was critical of those people? of course they would. this is what i was talking about in my answer to joe before. this goes back to the mid-90s and to the political tone that was set by both the clintons in the white house, the way they conducted themselves, and by, you know, newt gingrich and the new congress that came in and we have not gotten out of that mode in the 20 years since. and so, yes, you know there's gambling in this establishment, yes. but democrats are being partisan about their criticisms of the president. even when their criticisms are valid. they amp them up in a partisan way. the same way the republicans did it with barack obama. the same way the democrats did it with george w.

podesta, cbs news. >> stamper's longtime sailing coach is among nine college coaches charged in this game. john vandemoer pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and was fired. his attorney claims he did not pop it pocket the money. >> as a prosecutor said, the sailing program bought new boats and hired a new assistant coach. it did benefit his program but it did not benefit him personally. >> this statement says, the alleged behavior runs completely counter to our values. we have no evidence the alleged conduct involves anyone else here or associated with any other team. >> some of the most prominent parents are from the bay area. these 13 bay area parents cheated to get into universities allegedly like yale and usc. among them, man well and recovers, the ceo and founder of hercules capital. investigators say he and his wife paid a $23,000 bribe to get a cooperating witness to sit by their daughter during the sats and give her the answers. this proprietor of this company paid $50,000 doing the same. todd blake and his executive retail wife diane will be accused of paying bribes to get her daughter

podesta here in new york. thank you, laura. >>> president trump is facing more criticism for his continued attacks against late arizona senator john mccain. mr. trump spoke out about the vietnam war p.o.w. at an army tank plant in ohio yesterday. and now more fellow republicans are speaking out against the president as his dispute with mccain grows more bitter. major garrett reports. >>> i've never liked him much. hasn't been for me. >> reporter: in ohio, president trump tried to explain the inexplicable -- a running feud with revered republican senator john mccain who has been dead for seven months. >> mccain didn't get the job done for our great vets. >> reporter: as if to justify the attacks that have rankled top republicans, mr. trump repeatedly faulted mccain on policy. >> the other thing is we're in a war in the middle east that mccain pushed so hard. when he finally had the chance to do it, he voted against repeal and replace. >> reporter: and this -- >> i gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted which as president i had to approve. i don't care about this, i didn't get thank you. >> reporter: mccain's daughter meghan, a