russia meddled in the 2016 election, we will speak to the prize-winning russian-american journalist masha gessen about her new article "the fundamental uncertrtainty of muellerer's rua indictments." >> i think h.r. mcmaster is correct in saying there is incontrovertibible evidence of russian meddling, but to call it bold and sophisticated and to thahathat we now know index lee had an influence on the outcome ofof the election is absurd. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the head of the national rifle association, or nra, wayne lapierre has broken his silence after last week's florida school shooting that left 17 people dead and sparked a student-led national conversation on gun legislation. on thursday, lapierre attacked his opponents as communist sympathizers hell-bent on undermining individual freedoms. >> the elites don't care, not one wit, about america's schooll system and school children. if they truly cared, what they would do is they would protect them. for them, it is not a safety issue, it is a pol

russia meddled in the 2016 election, we will speak to the prize-winning russian-american journalist masha gessen about her new article "the fundamental

un-american and the other side responsible and i want to read this quote from a new yorker piece by mark masha gessen and the headline was the fundamental uncertainty of my. always russia indictments in that she looks at the american people the one just pointing to and she says while most people believe themselves to have a solid grip on reality they imagine their compatriots to be gullible and chronically misinformed this in turn means that we no longer have a sense of shared reality a common imagination that underlies political life in a society with a strong sense of shared reality a bunch of sub literate tweets and ridiculous ads will be nothing but a curiosity even the fact that russians put money into organizing rallies and demonstrations across the political spectrum would be absurd surely they didn't force people to join these rallies sincerely held beliefs brought people to the rallies that it makes no difference to the broader political life whether someone paid for an actress to take part this notion that. you know the otherness of the other side of the political spectrum here is it's just

un-american and see other side responsible and i want to read this quote from a new yorker piece by mark masha gessen and the headline was the fundamental uncertainty of the. always russia indictments in that she looks at the american people the one just pointing to and she says while most people believe themselves to have a solid grip on reality they imagine their compatriots to be gullible and chronically misinformed this in turn means that we no longer have a sense of shared reality a common imagination that underlies political life in a society with a strong sense of shared reality a bunch of sub literate tweets and ridiculous ads will be nothing but a curiosity even the fact that russians put money into organizing rallies and demonstrations across the political spectrum would be absurd surely they didn't force people to join these rallies sincerely held beliefs brought people to the rallies that it makes no difference to the broader political life whether someone paid for an actress to take part this notion that. you know the otherness of the other side of the political spectrum here is it's jus

i read a fascinating article last week in "the new yorker," masha gessen who we've had on this show andre critic of vladimir putin, and has no reason to whitewash what happened last year, show wrote that the plan to meddle in american elections was not sophisticated and bold, she says the plan was as bold as keying a neighbor's car under the cover of night. she threw a couple of buckets of very cold water on the idea that the russians were sophisticated in meddling in our elections. i don't know if you read the article. >> yes. >> okay, so you read the article. what's your response? >> i think it comes down to two things. sophisticated in its breadth. you're talking about multiple elements of the russian government. you're talking about multiple elements of even russian society trying to do the influence. but any one part isn't that sophisticat sophisticated. buying ads on facebook is not sophisticated. sending people to trump tower for a meeting is not that sophisticated. from my perspective, we were watching them do influence from my house, on a laptop. it can't be that sophisticated

un-american and see other side responsible and i want to read this quote from a new yorker piece by mark masha gessen and the headline was the fundamental uncertainty of my. always russia indictments in that she looks at the american people the one just pointing to and she says while most people believe themselves to have a solid grip on reality they imagine their compatriots to be gullible and chronically misinformed this in turn means that we no longer have a sense of shared reality a common imagination that underlies political life in a society with a strong sense of shared reality a bunch of sub literate tweets and ridiculous ads will be nothing but a curiosity even the fact that russians put money into organizing rallies and demonstrations across the political spectrum would be absurd surely they didn't force people to join these rallies sincerely held beliefs brought people to the rallies that it makes no difference to the broader political life whether someone paid for an actress to take part this notion that. you know the otherness of the other side of the political spectrum here is it's just

russia meddled in the 2016 election, we will speak to the prize-winning russian-american journalist masha gessen about her new article "the fundamental