russian government.were using those to influence the campaign. this is where social media and hacking had come together for this influence. this is where that indictment fits really well with that february one, which was also of great detail. it shoots down alternative theories about the dnc breach. if you remember, the conspiracies about seth rich. maybe this came from alternative locations. it pushes back on media personalities who have levered these conspiracies as well. it's important to note that putin has consistently used the answer, it was not of, you have no proof of it, show us. this is an indictment, and there's a whole lot of proof in here. and so when we look to monday, whenever president trump is going in with president putin, he cannot accept that answer anymore that it was patriotic russians. it was clearly putin's russians that were doing his business. >> matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department. as clint just pointed out, this was hard evidence, alleged. does this

it was 13 russians, three russian companies. the line from the white house was this. they say there was no connection then announced whatsoever between that indictment and the trump campaign and that nothing that mueller and rosenstein had put forth then affected the vote count. that is the exact same line that the white house is using today. for example, lindsey walters, part of the press shop, put out this statement in reaction to this. she said "today's charges includes no allegations of alleged hacking affected the result. this is consistent with what we've been saying all along." they dusted off that statement from february. as for democrats, they're starting to say the president should not meet with vladimir putin because of this. they drew an immediate straight line between what rosenstein announced today and the meeting in finland on monday. here's mark warner, the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee. listen here. >> there should be no one-on-one meeting between this president and mr. putin. there needs to be other americans in the room. >> chuck

both were controlled by the russian gru.ing documents directly to the public, the defendants transferred stolen documents to another organization that is not identified by name in the indictment, and they used that organization as a pass through to release the documents. they discussed the timing of the release in an attempt to enhance the impact on the election. in an effort to conceal their connections to russia, the defendants used a network of computers around the world, and they paid for it using cryptocurrencies. the conspirators corresponded with several americans during the course of the conspiracy through the internet. there's no allegation in this indictment that the americans knew they were corresponding with russian intelligence officers. in a second related conspiracy, russian gru officers hacked the website of a state election board and stole information about 500,000 voters. they also hacked into computers of a company that supplied software used to verify voter registration information. they targeted state an

but this is a russian-made car. it was almost like a russian spaceship.g an object of great pride. given they're going to have within to one meeting and there will nobody there, i almost wonder whether they should be -- given it's in finland they probably should be meeting in a sauna. >> previous summits have had sauna breaks. >> this stands in my mind as entertainment. >> finland is known for saunas. they're everywhere. hotel rooms have saunas. >> the next one they do in moscow. >> even an the president here, they convert aid ship container into a sauna. >> have they. >> anton, president trump sent a tweet a few moments ago in which he blamed the bad relations of the current state of bad relations of the u.s. and russia, blamed on the u.s. this is president trump on the u.s. and on the investigation into the russian cyber attack. not actually blaming it on the cyber attack but the u.s. investigation. how is that any different from what russians are saying? >> it is in tweet form what we see on russian state television every night and what we hear from pu

by inviting the russian foreign minster and russian ambassador with no notice and no u.s. media and no limit on his willingness to disclose the code word intelligence. there was no explicable reason for any of those things unless you were willing to believe the worst. and honestly, who wants to believe the worst? you don't want to reckon with it or think too hard about the worst casey is nario. what should we do as citizens if the worst case is true? for everything that we have been through as a country, for every trial and challenge and intrigue and embarrassment and scandal as we have been through as a nation, we haven't ever had to reckon with the possibility that someone ascended to the presidency of the united states to serve the interests of other country rather than our own. what's the directive to that? how do you remedy that? these are no longer hypothetical questions. this is where we are and i recognize it sounds nuts to say it even now, even tonight. there is a reason there is a national freak out happening right now over what the president just did in public.

rejected by mccain and hurt the russians. get a clear signal from candidate trump today, they waste no time in trying to provide that help. i think going into this meeting, within the next 24 hours, trump can't contain his admiration for putin but more than that, trump views putin as his ben factor. putin intervened, russian military intelligence officers were not acting on their own. putin intervened to help trump and trump is nothing if not grateful for that help. >> we'll take a quick break. when we come back, more questions for you about the summit and what is at stake. tomorrow including your call for the summit to be scrapped all together. stay with us. add the activia 2 week probiotic challenge to your healthy routine and see how activia yogurt with its billions of live and active probiotics may help support your digestive health so you can take on your day. start the activia probiotic challenge today. it works or it's free! here's something you should know. there's a serious virus out there that 1 in 30 boomers has, y

, it was russian officials tied to the russian military and tied to russian military intelligence that activity. and, of course, both we're understanding the individuals, but who they're tied to and actions that they took is the best way in helping us to prepare to prevent that nefarious activity in the future. neil: but a lot of it would involve getting our hands on these guys and talking to them, right? these members of the gru, i guess they're the e e give rent of the russian federal intelligence agency. it means finding out how they did it and who was involved maybe with them on it. good luck on that, right? >> yeah. i mean, that obviously won't happen, but the fact that we've been able to find out their names, the departments that they've worked in, this is obviously a very thorough investigation that has to stand up in a court of law, and there's also based on this activity, it sends a potential deterrent signal that future activity will be found out by the u.s. government and the people involved will be held accountable. and, of course, those people won't be in a court of law, b

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>> certainly the extent and duration and intensity of the russian effort, the russian government's effortke sure donald trump and not hillary clinton became president of the united states. i mean, this effort was really extraordinary and it answers a lot of questions, but it raises one and doesn't resolve it, which is whether there was any come poli complicity or collusion with the trump campaign. it doesn't accuse them, but doesn't exonerate them, either. that is still open. >> the 12 officers that clearly worked for the russian government, everybody believes they would not have done this unless putin, himself, authorized them to do it. how significant is the detail we learned? >> this really isn't new information. the obama administration said the highest levels of the russian government directed this. the intelligence community assessment is really clear on the point. they say with high confidence, they were involved. i don't think there's good faith reason to doubt. to the extent there's question, this is robert mueller saying, i am prepared to prove in court, beyond a reasonable doub

she's a russian citizen.an officials have met with her in jail since her arrest. the russian foreign minister has reportedly complained about her arrest to secretary of state mike pompeo. the russian embassy has started a free narrmaria butina social a campaign. i know this isn't necessarily specific to her case, but i don't understand how these things work. will they be able to get her out of jail? what's the impact of the russian government having a role and assisting in her case? >> you want to take that one? >> so i can start. it's standard to have consular notification under the vienna convention. so that's normal. it doesn't mean that they have an outsized role. it doesn't mean that they're getting her out of jail. she'll have separate representation as her criminal defense attorney. but the russian government is notified as a matter of course, just like any government would be notified when one of their nationals was arrested here in the united states. >> so they will be able to have access to her to a

the russian state tv have a symbol, a hand with a russian flag and a hand with the u.s. flag joining hands and obviously saying, look, this is a stepp g steppingstone of better relations which they think is going on and then analysts and politicians in russia flat-out praising president trump for some of the things he's said. i want to listen to a senior lawmaker said shortly after the summit was over. listen. >> translator: trump, the whole time he's been around, never said that word that would be offensive to russia, president putin and the relations. i'm sure trump found common ground with putin and grateful to putin in many ways for the position he takes. >> grateful. that's a senior lawmaker in russia and president putin actually, wolf, he come out and given an interview with russian state tv, the first channel in russia saying good meetings with president trump, president trump is a very skilled individual and someone who's willing to listen so you can see the happiness in moscow right now. >> julie is with us, as well. what are you hearing from inside the trump ad

russians hacked. so, i would say -- >> do you think roger is that stupid? >> i think roger is conspiratorial, yes. i think roger, alex jones and that whole -- >> that defense that you're sharing, and i appreciate -- >> this is all i know. >> i understand, you're explaining what you've learned. and it makes you interesting.fi. you are explaining your understanding. that suggests that roger stone is stupid or a novice. we have dealt with him. he strikes me as neither of those things. >> roger is someone who does not trust the government sometimes, and has seen disinformation put out. i disagree with him. it was clear to me that putin did this. putin is not my friend. i think putin is not an ally. by the way, the president should confront putin about this publicly in his press conference about this. >> you think donald trump should do that. do you think he will do that? >> i would hope so. i don't know. >> evelyn? >> well, you know where i stand. if the president meets with putin, which i think is a horr

there is nothing -- >> too many russians right now, we don't want the get any more russians? -- why -- why would you be concerned about the investigation going on? because as you say, it hasn't indicated anybody in the trump campaign, but it has netted -- it has named, you know, more than a dozen russians so far. isn't that a good thing? and shouldn't that continue so we get to the bottom of what happened in the attack on this country? how else will we get to the bottom of the attack on our country? >> but here's anderson, where i'm going to have to agree more with mayor giuliani and disagree with where you're maybe trying to go here is i think some on the political left and some of the president's detractors want this to keep going until they hopefully find something that maybe gets at president trump directly. >> i'm sure there are people on the left -- there is no doubt people on the left who want that, but what they want doesn't really matter. isn't it if it's bearing fruit and actually naming russians and there may be more russian, shouldn't somebody be investigating tho

those fictions came out at the russian hack of the e-mails and they were spread by russian bots. not incidentally by the way the same russian bots that were found in brexit and worked on ukraine and the same russian bots the support the german far right. this is not all just philosophically strategic one-story. it's technically one story which brings me to the u.s. most of the book, the whole book in some sense is the russia story but i'm trying to tell in a way that makes sense of it all. what i'd like to do in last five minutes is a big disagreement about russia in the country in general. where on the one side folks say we shouldn't talk about russia because there are deeper problems in america. on the other side people say we have to talk russia because russia by litter our sovereignty and chose our president. what i want to suggest is in a way of doing is right and that we have to be able to bring those two points together. on one hand, of course russian interviewed very substantially. they chose who the republican nominee is good to be wonderful repugnance at any notion that

he denied being a russian agent. president trump tweeting the documents further prove the justice department and fbi misled the courts and ending the tweet saying witch hunt rigged, a scam. so with more nbc news white house correspondent kelly o'donnell and washington correspondent charlie salvage ad emily. you broke this release on the fisa documents. why are they being released now and how unprecedented is this? >> you might remember back in february there was a big fight between republicans and democrats on the house intelligence committee and republicans said the fact that the fbi got that warrant against a former trump campaign aid was abusing authority and they said no, you're misaract torizin eiz. part of that president trump declassified the existence of these wiretap applications and that allowed a number of news organizations including "the new york times" to go after them in court under the freedom of information act. no fisa information, this say special wiretapping for terri terrori terrorism, not ordina

goes on to describe the lattimer posner the russian american t.v. personality as quote a propagandist who worked in the dissin from ation department of the soviet k.g.b. now lattimer posner has spoken up and said he never had any contact with the k.g.b. and did not work with the k.g.b. it's also interesting to note that a court. into the f.b.i. affidavit she was communicating with government officials in russia over twitter which is not exactly a secure private communication mechanism not the kind of thing one would use of they were engaging in some kind of high tech intense espionage activities so a lot of questions are being asked but at this moment she is facing those charges and she was a rang monday. attorney made a statement denying she is an agent he also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but for some reason the office showed no interest in even speaking to. meanwhile the russian embassy in washington says is not being granted any access to. the materials and cold case have also been sealed the embassy s

he does not have to know that the russians -- that gucifer was a russian agent to have criminal liability for these cases. what's alleged in this case is illegal access, hacking to a computer and stealing information worth more than $5,000. that is irregardless whether the person is roam yanen russian or whomever ever. the fact i participates is criminal liability. >> okay. >> very interestingly is i think the $5,000 allegation -- there is also another charge of receiving stolen property worth over $5,000 that a lot of the people could be liable for as well. >> liam brennan, liz holstman thank you for weighing in. i appreciate that. >>> copping up next we talk about the timing of the indictment announcement and what that could mean for the tone of monday's meeting between the president and vladimir putin. (vo) why are subaru outback owners always smiling? because they've chosen the industry leader. subaru outback holds its value better than any other vehicle in its class, according to alg. better than rav4. better than grand cherokee. better than edge. make every adventure a happy one wit

or done by russian forces.elieve, the dutch have been investigating and believe it because so many dutch citizens were killed on that malaysian flight. that's one of the things you look at putin and the russians, and there's such a long list of, let's call it what it is, crimes exited by the putin regime. to see the president of the united states embrace the regime is appalling. i was listening to some of the earlier commentary and thinking a lot of trump supporters are enjoying this. they voted for him because they wanted him to disrupt things. so he goes to the g7, to nato, to all of the different meetings and it is as if he was going into a poker game where everybody thought they knew the rules and he says, we're going to play 52 pickup. i'm going to throw everything up in the air. oh, i have an ice. that's the way he approaches things. it may work well with his base, it may work very well for his own ego, but it is an absolute disaster for american relations with countries all over the world. >> thanks to c

people, nor to the russian government and the russian military, et cetera. the russians will only stop their meddling. remember, they're still meddling. they will only stop it today if our president is firm. >> evelyn farkas with the we will bury you reference. >> quickly. >> quickly and then i'll play something. >> this shows why the special counsel affects and releasing this indictment today was selective. i don't know why they had to do it. i love this indictment from the point of view that we're holding the russians accountable and i hope these people never enter the united states. this is our president of the united states. >> hold on. let me push you on that. there's nothing new. there's nothing new about the doj going after spies when they operate here. it goes through. the president was briefed in advance. you're not alleging anything wrong with that process. >> i don't think the president could have delayed this. what happened if the president or his white house said -- >> why would you want to delay this? why would you want to be tough when the fac

he became a partner in a law firm that was later destroyed i russian law enforcement -- by russian law enforcement authorities. and ourto new york city campaigns for free market and civic freedoms in russia. seniors is a resident fellow at the eurasia pacific council. chairman of the advisory council in warsaw and is a scientific council. he is a prolific author of 14 books. reporter michelle is a who has broken numerous stories on russian interference efforts in the u.s. and this man previously -- thank you very much for attending. >> thank you. good afternoon. i have personal experience with .he uk's case [indiscernible] more aboute to speak which me and the , here weo left russia are protected by the united states but still the ,nternational legal corporation there is an agreement in place which basically allows things like interrogations and searches. so if one country, russia, requests the american federal government agency to interrogate someone, it has to be done. was described by the treaty. it is what it is. fbi officers came to my home and asked me questions because russia wa

he's twice charged individual russians by name with election meddling. 13 russians and three russian compies accused of a disinformation campaign on social media. a california man pleaded guilty to helping them get u.s. bank accounts. and in the latest charges, ru ian intelligence officers are accused of hacking into ngmpaign computers and lea stolen e-mails to embarrass the democrats. an operation prosecutors say has a clear connection to the russian government. >> the defendants worked for two units of the main intelligence directorate of the russian staff known as the gru. >> reporter: still unanswered - did americlp the russians meddle in the campaign? three former trump campaign officials and advisers pleaded guilty to other charges. michael flynn for lying to the fbi about hisit conversations the russian ambassador during the transition. george papadopoulos. former campaign foreign policy adviser for lying about his contact with russians during the campaign. and richard gates, former deputy trump campaign manager for lying federal agents about hi loheying work on behalf of t ru

now today according to the russian government, there was some new plan agreed to on syria and the russian military is ready to get to work on it. with our military. okay. how will we find out what that plan is? if not from i guess translator who was the only other american sitting there while president trump and president putin had their little time together yesterday? in the wake of national security crisis caused by the president's performance yesterday, democrats suggested that one they know they could do was increase the funding in the states for the mid terms. the director of national intelligence on friday, dan coates, gave a speech in which he said the warning lights are blinking read the way they were on 9/11. it is literally under attack. they are consistent, meant to undermine america's democracy. the warning signs are there. in the face of those warnings, even from the president's own appointed national intelligence director, the trump white house two months ago did fire the top cyber security official at the national security council. as "the new york times" reported, when the

because everybody there speaks russian. you any indication that at some point he might recognize russia's annexation of crimea, lift sanctions, or move to bring russia back into the g7, now the g8, all of which happens as a result of the annexation of crimea. >> i would like to make a correction. the joining of crimea is not an annexation. the democratic governance referendum and the people in crimea went for a referendum and voted for joining russia. if that is an even exation, what is democracy, then. secondly, we are aware of president trump's posture that crimea is part of ukraine. he told me this today. i responded with the word pretty much similar to what i said to you. and i think we should leave the discussion of that. chris: we are running out of time anyway. let's move on. last year defense secretary mattis said that russia is the greatest threat, russia is the greatest threat to the united states, and he since made it clear an even greater threat than terrorism. in march you introduced a new generation of russian

and russian nuclear weapons. top officials have accused russia of violating the inf treaty in europe. that arms control agreement stated neither side could deploy short or intermediate range ground-based nuclear or conventional missiles like the one you see there. the vice chairman of the joint chiefs here testified in march of last year that russian was threatening all u.s. forces in europe with these land-based cruise missiles that they have deployed. they're posing a direct threat to nato no mention by the president today. >> dana: thanks, dana. we'll learn more from behind the scenes. amazing moments at today's news conference. vladimir putin sending a message to the president with a soccer ball saying "the ball is in your court." >> i had to reiterate things i said several times, including in our personal contact that the russian state has never interfered and not going to interfere in internal american affairs including election process. >> dana: antron is here with "the washington post." glad you can be wi

an if president trump says he misspoke about russian election interference while standing next to russiann, do republican lawmakers take him at his word? here is some of what we've heard so far from capitol hill. >> oh, i think it's a big step forward when anybody in public life or anybody in private life admits they made a mistake. it's good to confess it and say you're sorry. >> well, he said he misspoke. i know that's something that human beings do occasionally. >> i think, you know, people understand that it was a painful experience for him. just for what it's worth, look, i'm glad. >> i'm just glad he clarified it. i can't read his intentions or what he meant to say at the time. suffice it to say that for me as a policy maker, what really matters is what we do moving forward. >> let's bring in msnbc's garrett haake on capitol hill. he's been talking to lawmakers all day. garrett, what are they saying about this latest denial from the white house? >> katy, you look back at those interviews, they were conducted throughout the course of the day as the white house story seemed to weave b

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there is a lot to discuss with the russians. a habit when we talk about this of just out of politeness maybe or old-fashionedness is what would a normal president say to vladimir putin in these circumstances. we have to also think about this, president trump is not there just to speak for america. he's there as a participant, maybe even a guilty participant. >> senator john mccain said today if president trump is not prepared to hold putin accountable, the summit should not move forward. of course the white house said the summit is still on absolutely. but we will possibly never know what the president says to vladimir putin about this because he wants the meeting to be one-on-one. >> we won't know. the president wants it to go on and i think it's very unlikely that he will make the case he ought to make on this, pressing the russians. i think it is right to call for him not to go. but he is going to follow through. one of the problems with that is by doing the summit, he's giving something to putin. he's saying i embrace you. i

a russian w.b. . and a russian mob stuff. show you how. long the crimean bridge was built. witnessed the construction moving you need to transport. that will help out of crimea. most of those you won't go for more familiar with it a bit but. right we're all set to start in five guys this year has a signal. that it's not going to talk about. just me right after the mars explorers one movie but if they're looking. for new rock. to say last week. you. know the answer to your welcome to sophie and tell i'm sophie shevardnadze and today i woke up lots to talk about in our program and our guest is . the rock that. it. gets. us. greetings and salutation. turncoat traitor treason those were the accusations being thrown around the washington d.c. political news echo chamber on monday in the aftermath of the summit between u.s. president donald trump and russian president vladimir putin from the. former head of the cia john brennan exclaiming on twitter that quote donald trump's press conference performance in helsinki rises to and exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanor

what russian activities do you consider evil?> ambassador huntsman: trying to influence other elections, not only our own, but those in europe, tampering with the brexit boat, funding nefarious political movements within europe. the list goes on and on and on. when the president looks at the totality of the russian relationship, this is one piece of it, addressing their malign activity in their election meddling. but there's a whole lot more that is part of our relationship that has to be discussed too. we can't turn our back to what has happened. we have to learn from it, be informed and smart going forward. but i think is the president approaches he's looking at arms control, probably the most important issue we have here is not proliferation. they are 90% of the world's nuclear weapons. you have syria, north korea, ukraine and a lot of bilateral issues. >> chris: i'm going to get into a few of those issues in a moment, but just generally speaking, what does president trump want from putin at the summit in terms of changes in s

the russian nation the russian sports now of course all over for the russians croats solo they face england in the semifinal in england i feel haven't really had to get out of second or third gear that not really been challenged to the point where you. crikey they're going to lose it's going to be knocked out of plays some beautiful football again some favorites in argentina among them this is going to be quite an interesting game in that i think so i think in the we'll go into that feeling very confident we've been saying all along since in the last to belgium in the group stage and came second that they on the so-called easiest side of the draw by you know seeing how it shapes up they played colombia it went to penalties it was difficult but really they deserved to go the route they're doing certainly for the jags they won on penalties and then they beat sweden yesterday with those goals one the one and then you have you and then after that you look at it and you say well they play a team again a croatia team who are probably better technically but maybe drug dealing with fitness

we never met with russians. oh, well, we did meet with russians.ith russians about this. well, e-mails show this. et cetera. do those matter over time? in this investigation, because this president has been misleading on a whole host of things and yet has not faced any real consequences for it. >> yeah. well, i mean the consequences may come when mr. mueller reports. in terms of the politics, i think that there's a lot of the country that's tuned this out. there's been a steady, you know, cascade of stories about this. but when you hear interviews with his supporters and look at the polling, they feel like he's being, you know -- they buy his side of the argument that he is the victim of a witch hunt and so on. so i don't think that he has suffered political consequences as yet but the real issue is what mueller comes up with it and as we sit here today, surely he knows more about this and where this investigation is going than anybody here. >> no question. >> except maybe you, jim. you may know more about it. most of us. >> i will say, no. that is

be russians there and russians should do the questioning.o you believe on that deal itself that putin has any intention of allowing those russians, some of whom, of course, are senior members of the russian military with direct ties to putin himself, to be interviewed by american investigators? >> the whole thing is a big sham from top to bottom. so there was the same story when alexander litvinenko was killed in london with pollulutonium. they allowed the british police to come to question the alleged killer, but when push came to shove and the british police wanted to have him prosecuted, vladimir putin raised his hand and said, we don't allow the extradition of our nationals. so it's of no value whatsoever for anybody from u.s. law enforcement to go to russia to allow the russians to interrogate these people when they're never going to be brought to justice in the united states. this is just putin playing games with trump and sort of playing games with the american public as well. then throwing my name into the hopper to make it even more

with a suspected russian intelligence agent operating out of the russian embassy in d.c. prosecutors say this, quote, due to international law and treaty restrictions, law enforcement would be prevented from stopping miss butina from entering the russian embassy. under such circumstances a passport would not be necessary for maria butina to depart the united states even with the most restrictive measures, for example, house arrest, electronic monitoring, any agreement to forfeit property or a retained passport or a third party custodian. even with a full combination confident most restrictive measures, the defendant need only seek refuge in a diplomatic facility well before pretrial services would ever be alerted let alone be able to respond. she could leave the facility, and law enforcement could not stop her or have recourse of remedy in the event miss butina decided to seek safe harbor in a diplomatic facility. saying you let her out of here, judge, she will go to the embassy and we will never see her in a coup again. this is interesting. at the hearing today, the pros

which actually becomes russian signals ok said they were not haven't at all that there was any russian involvement president obama himself so that there was no tampering there thirteen votes or that in fact the integrity of the election let's be honest the u.s. and russia tamper and each other's politics and intervene all the time so to call out this particular election because of its can lenience to hillary clinton is a bit a bit short sighted to some graphing me to contribute to thank you for your time thank you. and meantime while trump was commenting on the u.s. intelligence services the lights in the room went off the president had his own explanation for that. buried for faith in our intelligence agencies webster just turned off the way that most of the intelligence are. very good it's ok there's ok. behind the us media speculation of whether donald trump is actually a russian agent or not the hell think you summits didn't fact see some impressive diplomacy one of the issues where the leaders seem to have common ground with syria and russia's defense ministry says it's ready to i

have been russian agents themselves. now you've going to haiven them door into your computer. that's one of the systems rosenstein was talking about earlier today. the other thing he was talking about was the possibility that either this way or another way, because you can do it through a computer, that what was sent in was initially some version of malware. we hear this word a lot. in this case what malware with a do is sit on your computer and start automatically collecting all sorts of information. addresses that you were using all the time to send information to, your contact list, your passwords when you signed in. it could grab screen shots when you wrote things. then it could spread out through your network, imitating you and collecting even more information. in that case you would be talking about a version that would be some sort of an automatic system or doxing. all of this, again, would link back to the kremlin. these are the two key ways we heard about today, either tricking people into sending their informat

he would have served the russian president with these indictments, would have demanded the 12 russiane officers or better yet would have canceled this conference and would have ratcheted up the tensions to their appropriate level. the united states was attacked. the united states remains under attack, and now we have a president who's ready to give russia whatever they want. and he just doesn't believe what he sees before his own eyes. >> are you surprised that we engage in a time worn procedure of naming and shaming in this document? is there any pay back for that? because we name all the russians. >> no. this is the bad point about this, there's going to be no consequences for these russian intelligence officers. they, in fact, the last group of russians we caught here, including ana chapman, the illegals who were spies living in the united states in deep cover, they were promoted and heroes in russia. she actually is putin's favorite spy. i think these guys will be reassigned within the cybersecurity world. and to a certain extent they'll have a level of notoriety. but for us, they

the russians sent forged f.b.i. letters to journalists claiming that jackson was a cls eted homosexual. of course today that would probably get him elected but in 1976, not so helpful. also in 1976 the russians had a spy among top democratic party activist who participated in a three-hour strategy session with governor jerry brown of california, presidential candidate jimmy carter. in 1984, the heritage foundation issued a report, quote, how moscow meddles in the west's elections, unquote. 1984. quote, last year the soviets tried to influence elections in west germany and britain, unquote. heritage reported. quote, this year, it is america's turn. for months, moscow's statements and actions have been aimed at defeating ronald reagan, unquote. methods included manipulation of the peace movement, threatening statements and direct appeals to voters including mass demonstrations. russian meddling was also german , the west chancellor commented, yet, one was used to this sort of thing, unquote. as far as i can tell the r

what is the russian government saying? >> reporter: well, they, as expected, jake, have issued their denial with meddling in the u.s. election. it came this time from the russian foreign ministry and using the language donald trump uses for the mueller investigation and the allegations of collusion with the russians. they said washington is struggling to reanimate old fake news about the alleged russian interference in the election. they went on to say it's a heap of conspiracy, again, a categorical denial. it's a graphic. obviously, the purpose of this bogus story is to spoil the atmosphere of the summit. the forces of the united states and relations between our countries. two years they have been working with outright slander, working to squeeze the most out of the next dummy. use the same language president trump uses and cast it in the same way he does. this is politically motivated, this is fake news, there's no basis for it. it's the work of his political opponent. so, there's been some speculation, this may lead to

grants russian prosecutors similar access to accused u.s. nationals and particularly he mentioned businessman bill browder whose colleagues were accused by put now funneling four hundred million dollars legally earned in russia to hillary clinton's presidential campaign on tuesday the russian prosecutor's office published a list of people ed would like to question the biggest surprise was perhaps michael mcfaul former u.s. ambassador to moscow well there are also several other state department officials as well as u.s. intelligence officers of the list former british and my six agent christopher steele who was behind the end to mr trump while as also wanted for questioning by russia. we needed to do two years afterward mickey mouse that unless we are talking about foreign intelligence officers in particular from the us who shaped the false testimony against the russian national in the case of the us against the present company they also provided assistance in the criminal activities of william browder a businessman convicted by russian court

the russian federation. the criminal complaint goes on to describe what seems to be a russian government supported effort to use alexander and maria to influence the republican party and the united states. using the nra as the russian point of leverage. and it is clear that the political party in question is the republican party. and the gun rights organization is definitely the nra. that's how you have to read it. the fbi retains what they call her project proposal for this spying operation. if you insert the proper announces, it is pretty surprising what she says as of march 2015 she was trying to do. this is her project proposal. the first line reads, project description. diplomacy. it goes on to state that a major political party, the republican party, would likely obtain control over the u.s. government after the 2016 elections. the project proposal says the republican party is traditionally associated with negative and aggressive foreign policy, particularly with regard to russia. however, now with the

president, the witch hunt has produced 12 russian witches, at the highest level of the russian military. this is nothing to be waveded off. this is a very serious allegation. backed up by indictments and lengthy information, including some very classified documents and other sources that the fbi has used and the other intelligence agencies. it is time for this president to stand up for america. it's time for him to put on his big boy pants and push back against russia. russia is not a friend. russia is an enemy. russia has invaded crimea. russia has invaded the ukraine. russia has tried to disrupt the elections in europe. they shulurely disrupted the elections in the united states. it's time for the president of the united states to stand up for america. >> should the president demand the extradition of these 12 military officers? >> absolutely. and the 12 and 13 before. 25 of them in whole. and who knows what will come from this, from other areas. the indictment indicates that there's a whole lot more going on here. we know that the russian gru operatives committed a crime in the unite

a russian w.b. a champion of it. and a russian mob stuff. show you how man won the crimean bridge was built. witness the construction moving you need transport. that will help them out of crimea. while google for more of the rights group. there. are. a lot of welcome to worlds apart from the darkest day in the history of the american presidency to the national trees and there is no shortage of dramatic trends to describe the outrage some of the united states feel in the aftermath of the police in trunk meeting in helsinki regardless of the leader's intentions did the. indeed adding insult to injury and further crippled the russian relationship by driving critics up their wall well to discuss that i'm now joined by graham allison professor at the john f. kennedy school of government at harvard university and former u.s. assistant secretary of defense professor alison it's a great honor talking to you thank you very much for your time. well professor allison as i was following the news out of helsinki i thought that the united states ought to

you're going to hear we guarding this this russian citizen she is called a russian agent what is missed completely is that agent should be referred to as a lobbyist and agent in law in american law means a representative of when american media say agent they think secret agent. i speak in eyes agent you know something nefarious something involving behind the scenes something illegal or something that is other than an agent this particular person was charged with basically being a lobbyist and asons without having registered with the department of justice could more indictments happen absolutely will the media american media clarify what that means absolutely not. hundreds of thousands of people packed into the seans it is a comparison to give a hero's welcome to the victorious world cup squad the winners were taken to the presidential residence where they were greeted by a man run across to the a with the. he said he was thank you both so that was she said i wasn't seeing her so i think the only thing she was right was she was nice i was going. i. was extremely phrase right and she was

to advanced russian interests.uential russian targeted by u.s. sanctions, butina spent the last three years trying to develop relationships with u.s. politicians in order to establish back channel lines of communication. according to the affidavit, these lines could be used by the russian federation to penetrate u.s. national decision-making apparatus to advance the agenda of the russian federation. butina is a whole funder of the russian gun rights group, the right to bear arms, and she cultivated relationships with various special interest groups, including a an array, in order to gain access to politicians. to some degree, she was successful in reaching those in power. she allegedly met with at least several elected officials in 2015 and 2016 to have a camping event in los angeles in july of 2015, she was one of the handful of people who got to asn candidate donald trump a question. >> if you would be there elected to the president, what would be your foreign politics especially in relationship with my country a

up to the russians' fantasie fantasies. >> one of the ways you counter it is by telling the russians for sure. >> one of the ways you counter it is to look to -- i guess, left, if that's where vladimir putin was standing -- and say, hey, you did this. the president didn't say that and you say it's not disinformation because the president believes it. does it concern you? >> i would agree with you 100%. he should have said that. i was thankful that two of your peers in the press were there to ask vladimir putin the hard questions that should have been coming out of our president's mouth. so i would agree with the fact those things should have been rebutted right then and there. it was an opportunity to show that we were strong and tough against a thug like vladimir putin and that opportunity was lost. >> was the president weak next to vladimir putin? >> i think he was. >> on the issue of the election intervention intervention? >> i think on a lot of issues. russian intelligence are hacking into american energy companies because the russians understand that the energy sector in the uni

, the russian federation. she's innocent of the charges brought against her. she's a young student seeking to make her way in america. >> the fbi said she was part of a covert russian campaign to influence american politics. meet williams, nbc news. >> should she worry that her lawyers is readsing off a piece of paper? we don't know. mueller's office did just indict those 12 russian intelligence officers and tonight notably, president trump was asked again, whether he's willing to meet with mueller's team. >> are you more likely to set an interview now? >> my lawyers are working on that. i've always wanted to do an interview, because, look, thaergsz been no kplugs. there's been no talk of russia. there's been no phone call. there's been nothing. i call i would a witch hunt. that's exactly what it is. >> well, let's talk about this. with us to do that former usa attorney joyce advance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. joyce, if this isn't crazy it will do till crazy gets here, as they say. what strike

it was russian. agency that had ties to the kremlin a net worth of thousands of fake american social media accounts and it only took them a few hours to post about the shooting of philandro castille. >> tell your friends and family about our protest. >> the only thing strange ab it, this page is run from st st. petersburg, russia. >> i don't like it at all. for one thing, you are using my son's face. you understand what i'm say something this is my son. god gave him to me, nobody had the right to take him from me. then to take a sad situation an exploit it, you know and for them to use my baby. no. >> the world knows philandro castille's name because of facebook. it's where his girl friend began to shoot live after he was shot. it's where his friends and family turned to organizer after he died. it's where the russian troll group would seek the tragedy. >> you take social issues and you are making a joke out of them. these are things that we stand about truth and justice. that's what this country was