breaking news in the russi probe probe. the justice department announced todayhat he -- it has indicted 13 russian nationals for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election. >> the defendantsonducted what they called information warfare against the united states sith theted goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates e political system in general. robert: president trump responded to thewindictments a tweet. he wrote, russia started their anti-u.s. campaign in 2014, long before i announced that i would run for president. the results of the election wer not impacted. the trump campaign did nothing wron no collusion. joining me now with more on the indiets is michael crowley, who covers national securement for politico and a friend of "washington week." michael, the indictmentcces the defendants of using social media platforms and fake american personas to meddle in the election. specifically to support president trump'sca aign and damage other candidates. what's the instance of these indiets and of -- signif

after carter page was an arbitrary thing,his is auy who had been targeted before and was traveling to russi again during the campaign. >> the trump campaign administration sought to push themselves away from carter page and interesting that he wld become this person. one to molly's point, warrant was extended. they had to go back and get multiple renewals, so it wasn't just this one time to convince these judges. judges tend to go along, but you still have to justify this. >> it is a surveillance request. you have t justify. robert: rosenstein is under fire from the right today. are there efforts to protect mueller inside congress, protect rosenstein a protect the russian process? d ocrats and some republicans have been talking out legislation that would protect mueller and make sureth rosenstein couldn't be fired and the leadership in the house and the senate, ryan and mcconnell have said they do not think it is necessary and do not think the president is going to come after mueller. but obviously there are questions on this, right.to d his answer, what about rod rosenstein, he sou figure

on this saying the way the page warrant was haned raises broader questions of how they handled the russi investigation from the start and that's a perspective shared by the president. but that conclusion has been contested by repub acans democrats and the f.b.i. the memo isn't jusabout carte page. the memo also indicates that actions taken by former trump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos triggered the probe. he is now cooperating. in the middle of this political stor leaders of the justice department, because named in the memo is rod rosenstein aointed by the president and oversees mueller's investigation. his approval of that page warrant has made himge a t of the president's political allies who calle on rosenstein to step down. hisuprters say the president is looking to discredit the ssian investigation and using the memo as a weapon to discredit the man and protect hi >> rosenstein is a target for a couple of reasons. it's because of this warrant and is the man standing between trump and mueller. lrtrumpdy tried to fire mueller once and was prevented t from doing s

ew that it was the russi military that was behind the cyberattack last yea malicious attack in ukraine that had global consequences. a lot to talk -- a lot of talk about doing something, but what do youense will be done? ms. freeland: i think we have th understand tha cyberspace, both when it comes to disinformation and disruption, is not -- that is very real, and we all need to be prepared. countries like ukraine and the balt republics have experienced a lot asl. w maybe in the frontlines. but ill thinkf us have to be ande of the vulnerability we have to really be serious about defending our democracies. lyse: and what do youigee, as the fo minister of canada -- what do you see as the top security threat facing canada and the world? ms. freeland: i thinktoorth sewe are focused on venezuela. ukraine has to be -- continues to be a significant issue. you brought up t broader cyber threat. threats both to the front line countries, but let's not forget the threat to our democracies. hee alw oudemocracies to be undermined we will have lost. -?e: lo ms. freeland: from several cuts, from disi

s di miao denies the russie out to help him. >> ( translated ): our role as a party and as a countrys to have excellent relations with russia and other countries. >> reporter: the five star movement has never run italy's national government, so it's hard to know what its polies would look likin practice. but in 2016, it scored a major victory when its candidate was elected mayor of rome. and if the italian capital is any prelude, say critics, the results haven't been promising. a growing chorus of romans has accused the party of letting the city fall into ruins. the bad kind. streets and parks edutinely fiith garbage. for the ancient romans, the tiber river is what made the eternal city, a thriving city. but for modernome, it's become an unofficial dump site. many people blame the current administration of rome, which is governed by the five star movement. >> ( translated ): practically the entire city has realized that they didn't care about anything but grabbing poweas >> reporter:miliano tonelli is an italian journalist, and a co-founder of the popular blog roma fa schifo. translat

. >> all i want to point out is the russi the russia -- you don't like the democrats to incriminate but -- this happened. it's not about what we're conching. >> your covering that collusion happened and we've now known that gates has been investigated until 2014. things haven't shown any collusion happened. >> we have reported that donald trump, jr. took a meeting at trump tower when promised dirt on hillary clinton from the russians. >> can i just add one thing to bring it back to this gates plea, this is road that could lead back to russia. remember gates had a relationship with that lawyer. remember the dutch lawyer who was indicted and made a deal earlier in the week who was working for the ukrainian government, particularly the russian supported president of the ukrainian government. that's a road back in the direction of russia. now, manafort was fired when that president was thrown out, and they started then shopping for other international clients. were those clients russian clients? was manafort's relationship with the trump campaign used to communicate with those russian frien

. >> reporter: today white house press secretary sarah sanders continued to insist that russi russia's did not affect president trump's election. >> the president hasn't said that russia didn't meddle. it didn't have and i pack and it certainly was that with help from the trump campaign. >> reporter: the plea hearing comes on the heels of another round of indictments from the mueller team. last thursday 13 russian individuals and three russian companies were charged with meddling in the 2016 campaign. as for he work for prominent wall street law firm during the time period that's now in question. though he was fired from that firm last year. the company saying it's now fully cooperating with the investigation. in washington, gillian turner, fox 29 news. >>> today a group of undocumented young folks stopped in philadelphia as part of their 15 days walk from new york to washington, d.c. it's called the walk to stay home. the our dream coalition launched the walk to call for an extension of the deferred action for childhood rivals or dak casm the program is set to expire next month. >> it

stuff it mad beyond the steele dossier that gave them suspicions about carter page and his ties to the russi russians. and if you read the transcript that was released yesterday of the house intelligence committee meeting earlier this week, there is references to a human source overseas, there is references to signals intelligence picked up by the nsa. that stuff is highly classified. the justice department and the fbi would have had valid reasons to object to that being released. so we shouldn't necessarily sort of assume that this was being done for political reasons. the problem was the original decision to release the first republican memo which the fbi's issue was not that it was revealing classified information, is that it was incomplete and misleading because they knew you couldn't include all this other stuff that was highly classified. so we're left with, you know, more confusion, you know, i'm with your mother on this, i mean it is a muddled situation. and, you know, even those immersed in it are no more educated about what the basis for that fisa warrant was in an we were before a

remember the special counsel secured guilty please from george papadopoulos who admitted to meeting with russiered dirt about hillary clinton and told them they hacked her email counts or email accounts close to clinton, and remember the special counsel secured a guilty plea from michael flynn the former national security advisor. we don't know yet what these people have told thi prosecution team about contacts with russians but certainly rick gates was inolved andt with some of these people and other subjects of the ongoi investigation. so he's going to be an important ess for someg wi of the other crob rarities already in robert mueller's stable and could have e-mails or other evidence useful to the special counsel team and they're keeping that close to theest now. >> sreenivasan: reports later this afternoon questioned jared kushner's security clearances. is this a ripple effect of the investigation we're lkin about? >> well, there is a lot of speculation the specol counsel isking closely into kushner's financial dealings as well. we don't know if it's connected eport of "the washingto post

tucker: huge percentage of what you hear on tvs these days centers on the payrolls opayrollperilsof russi the democratic party and our pr party have been telling us for nor are more than a year. is this true? let's play a game and you decide. we will describe actions by a hostile foreign power and you guess whether it's russia or china. get a pen. ready? first, the fbi director said this country uses students and professors at american universities as spies. this problem is so widespread that almost every fbi field office is dealing with it russia, nope. china? china has 350,000 students in the u.s. some of whom apparently are intelligence agents. next question, this question reportedly hacked the office of personnel management, giving it access to millions of federal personnel records which allows its spy agent to locate espionage target. this country hacked the fdic and other agencies. russia? no. china. a company from this country has effectively taken over an entire u.s. territory. bloomberg reported last week how a massive state sponsored gambling runs the island of sigh pan which us

stunned by how much information is already available to show that pretty conclue zisively that the russi were behind the intervention in the 2016 election and even before the indictment today, i thought one of the most remarkable stories that came out recently that has gotten very little attention in the united states was published in the dutch press a few weeks ago about how dutch intelligence had realtime eyes, realtime access to what the russian hackers were doing and passing that onto the nsa in realtime. and the story, which has been mentioned in the united states but hasn't gotten much attention shows that they actually took control of the security cameras inside the russian offices where they were doing the hack and able to match faces of the people in the hack in that room where they were doing the hack against russian intelligence officers. so that's the kind of level of detail that we now believe the united states has because of liaison with european intelligence and other things and one of the other stories that kale ocame out recently is case in moscow where a hacker who had

receiving nigel wrong a close ally of donald trump and it's so cool africa's have close links with russi. as the ecuadorean embassy in london where he's been hiding for over five years. it's not clear whether the songs has ever had direct ties to russia. about his agenda and that's of the crown in. have often overlaps. the islamic solitary grounded then is to stay in french police custody until his possible trial on charges of right. recessions he's writing to within a denied the allegations and to start to see one of his accusers federation. this still possible case would go to trial depending on the strength of evidence. and french prosecutors according to the so called isis landlord to be jailed for four years instead of six javad been those. refuge due to of the p penetrationf the twenty fifteen paris attacks he argues he did not know that and with terrorists prosecutors now his believe that story they say he's guilty of collaborating with criminal. but not with terrorists all streep was christmas on trial. prosecutors are asking for shorter than expected sentences both water and i w