to the state of florida from alabama there were some protests against december twenty sixth and mcclatchy news has kind of looked into the d.n.i. report and determined that actually it was because r.t.d. covered that and they mention r t but because there were some russian trolls they say on twitter that inflamed the protests the florida people themselves have no agency they do selves couldn't possibly ever think that well i don't want to pipeline. it outside my house no forget that obviously stupid people like dog floridians don't have agency just look at the news any all the news of the weird comes from florida but russia's hidden hand in the florida pipeline protests was extensive according to sources familiar with the operations at least eight russian accounts most tied to the farm known as the internet research agency sent at least sixteen social media messages excoriating the savile trail pipeline or retreating messages from one of his most prominent opponents a frequent guest on r t the tweets were sent to a total of more than forty thousand followers as well as anyone else who saw

we don't question it that's not journalism by the way that is by definition propaganda propaganda mcclatchy newspapers do you cop to be a propagandist continue please go look at the go use google and search for yourself they'll say like us authorities say r t supported trump. u.s. authorities say they all the material is fully available freely available on you tube you can go watch all the hours of footage leading up to the us elections and see whether or not yourself you could determine that is true though nobody nobody ever challenges that really shows is it because you're too for getting lazy when you're just a shoot marilyn and trans fats and worry about what jenna tell you is appropriate for your can tell him transition into something that maybe you'll regret in five minutes just look at the facts ok so we're going to look at some stories because you and i have been covering fracking for a long time but we've been covering it because we cover markets finance and scandal we cover of finance the stupidity of financing something that loses money and we're going to cover some of those from

order to set up our headlines we're going to cover because according to member consider this this is mcclatchy they've won pulitzer isn't there like illegitimate you know a legitimate news source here so you must abide by their what they say the social media propaganda was part of a broad kremlin campaign to disrupt the booming american energy industry which seemingly overnight has emerged as a threat to russia's global dominance u.s. authorities say notice that phrase they often use in the progress of so-called progressive media whenever they talk about these so-called russian bots and trolls they always say u.s. authorities say even though this statement this assertion is easily any journalist could set could go investigate use google research the stuff and make their own determination they get out of. having to basically sully their own reputation this is higher price i think that i thort him because this is what i was remembering the us authorities say phrase yes that's the key phrase yes so mcclatchy newspapers a set of setting out a journalist to go discover the truth and do journalism t

any to kumar is with mcclatchy newspaper -- and nita kumar is with mcclatchy newspaper that we have a call on the line for republicans. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i like the cia nominee. i have never really heard of her, but i think she has got a lot of moxie. i do not understand the hubbub about waterboarding. i believe the cia needs to do what it needs to do to protect our country. i do not understand why it is so bad, waterboarding, when our enemies are beheading people they do not like. tools a needs to use all necessary to stop our enemies because if we do not protect our flag, promise you both, promise the person on here mediating all of this, another flag will fly above our capital if we do not allow our government full parameter to go after our enemies for everything they're going after us for. if any of the other countries had our arsenal, they would use it against us. host: erik wasson, take us through the waterboarding debate in congress, the torture debate. guest: there is a debate within the military, in the army recommends against torture. jim ma

to the state of florida from alabama there were some protests against december twenty sixth and mcclatchy news has kind of looked into the d.n.i. report and determined that actually it was because r.t.d. covered that and they mention r t but because there were some russian trolls they say on twitter that inflamed the protests the florida people themselves have no agency they themselves couldn't possibly ever think that well i don't want to pipeline. outside my house no forget that obviously stupid people like dog floridians don't have agency just look at the news any all the news of the weird comes from florida but russia's hidden hand in the florida pipeline protests was extensive according to sources familiar with the operations at least eight russian accounts most tied to the farm known as the internet research agency sent at least sixteen social media messages excoriating the savile trail pipeline or retreating messages from one of his most prominent opponents a frequent guest on r t the tweets were sent to a total of more than forty thousand followers as well as anyone else who saw t

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feinstein told mcclatchy's d.c.ureau her position changed after having conversations with constituents, especially those with younger children who have benefited from medical marijuana. feinstein says she is open to considering federal protection for state legalized marijuana. feinstein's change in heart comes as she faces a primary challenge from state senator kevin deleon. a recent pole by the public policy institute of -- poll by the public policy institute of california shows feinstein in the lead by 26 points. >>> today the san francisco department of environment is officially launching a new campaign to make sure you know how o properly get rid of batteries. recycling companies say batteries that were not properly thrown out have started fires at their facilities. so what do you do with them? if you live in a single-family home in san francisco, put your batteries in a sealed, clear plastic bag, and place them on top of your black bin on collection day. if you live in an apartment building, look for an orange

any to kumar is with mcclatchy newspaper -- and nita kumar is with mcclatchy newspaper that we have a call on the line for republicans. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i like the cia nominee. i have never really heard of her, but i think she has got a lot of moxie. i do not understand the hubbub about waterboarding. i believe the cia needs to do what it needs to do to protect our country. i do not understand why it is so bad, waterboarding, when our enemies are beheading people they do not like. tools a needs to use all necessary to stop our enemies because if we do not protect our flag, promise you both, promise the person on here mediating all of this, another flag will fly above our capital if we do not allow our government full parameter to go after our enemies for everything they're going after us for. if any of the other countries had our arsenal, they would use it against us. host: erik wasson, take us through the waterboarding debate in congress, the torture debate. guest: there is a debate within the military, in the army recommends against torture. jim ma

also with us anita kumar, white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspaper. going over the fence after you filed that one. what do you think the biggest fear is at the white house? and obviously how does it feel into the narrative you wrote about? >> well, the fear continues to be michael cohen. and what more are we going to learn about his business arrangements, about what he used that money for, about whether there were other payments to other women that have not been publicly disclosed. and the danger here is that the disclosure of michael avenatti last night depicts a whole business that cohen had that the public didn't know about and that goes directly to the white house. he was quite literally selling his access to and knowledge of president trump and his associates to corporations for millions of dollars. and the white house has not yet come up with an answer of any kind, let alone a satisfactory one to explain why cohen might have been doing that, why the president's personal lawyer was offering those services, and what the president knew about the ar

that's what mcclatchy first reported.s three times what he paid for those properties a few years early and it was way above what their assessed value was at the time. after making millions, michael cohen for some reason borrowed money to make that hush payment to stormy daniels. and we know know art novartis a paid michael cohen. i'm going to pause here to note that that stormy daniels payment was also denied out of the gate at one point. last year cohen was also paid half a million dollars by columbus nova, a company with ties to viktor vekselberg. josh, let me start with you. we've seen the role that michael cohen played in washington, d.c., the relationship he developed and fosters with these companies. i want to get a sense how outside the norm that is. there a lot of firms, a lot of people doing the work that michael cohen did. what's different about his? >> well, it's a little bit different in the sense that you have the president's personal attorney still having that attorney/client relationship with president trum

mcclatchy report is out.anker is among the 17 senior russian government officials recent wily hit by ne sanctions. torshin is also under scrutiny for contactinging the campaign. congressional committees have been looking at torshin's encount tkouncounter at the con. so why did someone linked to the kremg ly kremlin make inroads in the first place in that joining me is company author nd you co-aut. mr. gordon, welcome to the show. so who is aleksandr torshin? >> aleksandr torshin is currently the deputy governor of the central bank of russia. so he is a top russian banker and he is also reputed to be very close to the president putin. and some years ago, torshin became a lifetime member of the national rifle association. >> russia has a ban on gun ownership? >> this is under -- the irony is that putin doesn't want people in russia buying guns. so this is what really i think has drawn a lot of the attention from the intelligence agencies, so why did torshin not only become a lifetime member of the nra, but he a

brain scan information involving him was in a memo written by his attorneys and attained by the mcclatchypany. it states that the collegiate mohammed had an mri at guantanamo on january 31st and that the scan showed evidence of head injuries consistent with the physical trauma that was documented in the so-called torture report. that's the executive summary produced by the senate intelligence committee in 2014 that condemned the cia's black side programs saying that collegiate mohammed was water boarded 183 times and subjected to walling where his head was bashed against walls between interrogations. the lawyers also fully acknowledge that the mri scans were badly flawed in that 75% or more of the data was unusable. defense lawyers want the pentagon to pay for another, more complete series of mris. the pentagon has refused saying the lease on the portable mri machine at guantanamo expired. the machine was originally brought into the holding facility to study the brain of the captive in the october 2000 bombing of the uss cole that killed 17 u.s. sailors. the mri of the 9/11 mastermind wou

monday morning, mcclatchy newspaper's white house correspondent and bloomberg's reporter discussed thed. the federal government efforts on job training programs, with the century foundation. and we are live in lincoln, for the next up on the c-span 50 capital store. c-span'so watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. join the discussion. >> monday on landmark cases, a case on capital punishment. in 1976, a convicted armed hiser and murder challenged death sentence. his gaze and for other capital punishment cases where considered. the supreme court ruled against him. our guest to discuss the case is one of the nation's top capital punishment legal scholars and a professor at harvard law school. she is argued against the death penalty in a number of cases. she was also a clerk of legal director of the criminal justice legal foundation, advocating in favor of criminal punishment -- capital punishment and a swifter criminal justice system. he has read numerous briefs before the supreme court. landmark cases, monday at 9:00 eastern on c-span. join the conversation, #land

monday morning, mcclatchy newspaper's white house correspondent and bloomberg's reporter discussed theahead. the federal government efforts on job training programs, with the century foundation. we are like nebraska for the next stop on the 50 capitals to work. -- tour. be sure to watch washington journal. join the discussion. monday on landmark cases, a case on capital punishment. gregg v. georgia. , a convictedg armed robber and murderer challenged his death sentence. his case and other capital punishment cases were considered. the supreme court established stricter guidelines or states wishing to impose the death penalty. our guest, one of the nation's top capital punishment legal scholars and a professor at harvard law school. she has argued against the death penalty in a number of cases. she was a former clerk of thurgood marshall. advocating in favor of capital punishment and the criminal justice system. he has written numerous briefs in death penalty cases before the supreme court. landmark cases, monday at 9:00 eastern on c-span. join the conversation and follow us at c-span. w

nita kumar white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers and joe, author of the appropriately titledclear nightmare securing the world before it's too late." on that note, joe, a lot of the folks -- we've had this conversation, the three of us have on this broadcast. we've been walking around, talking in advance about denuclearizing north korea, and on shows like this, guests like you have said, you know, good luck with that. it's been at great expense. their people are eating dirt so they have the money to afford a nuclear program. the question is, is this a real threat to the summit, or is this just the right flank, the hard liners under kim jong-un making their presence known? >> i believe it's the latter, brian. you know, we are very clear about the politics in our own country and how that affects national security decisions. we sometimes mistakenly think that other states are unitary actors. they are not. even in a dictatorship like north korea, there are factions. there are politics. it's pretty clear that some of the hard line factions in north korea may think that kim has giv

i'm sorry, it was one bad, you know, mcclatchy poll, so it was very stressful to be on the edge of that. because every poll that came out, you are watching. it's like salary cap and football. you are recalculating like now what's my average? they have to find a better way to do that. it really should not be done by polls. it really shouldn't. it creates an inherent disadvantage for you. that being said, when you get on the stage, it's up to you. like, no more crying and complaining. i'm down the left side with the right side, and i'm three away from trump as opposed to being one away from trump, cry me a river. you are running for president. put on your big boy pants and let's go. people say to me all the time, were you nervous in debates, i was never nervous in debates. not once because that was the only time i had my own fate in my own hands. media could not filtered. they could not decide not to cover me and run another hour-long trump speech. it still makes me laugh when jeff zucker complains about tru mp. you made him. three town hall meetings in a day, maybe i would reach 1000 peo