and have hired workers to flight fake news, but for more, i begin bloomberg political reporter sahil kapuregan tom giles. speak with lawmakers on a long, what is their level of concern about meddling going into these midterm elections as a primary kickoff? sahil: no election meddling is an just something that happened in 2016 and might happen, we note already is happening to the extent there are shown on's and trolls online were tried to take advantage of divisions in the political conversation and try to amplify them and excite passions on both sides. the government has been slow to respond to this and is essentially outsourcing. you played clips of executives from companies like google and mark zuckerberg at facebook, talking about their platforms being exploited. to them it is a pr problem and it is not their jobs necessarily work about election meddling. their job is to worry about the bottom light and shareholders and it is the government to root out election meddling and preserve the integrity of this. they have been slow to do it. would argue with that, else say it is google, facebo

sahil kapur, national political reporter for bloomberg, and mara gay, a member of "the new york timesl board. let's talk first about john kelly before we get to the subject matter. it's been pointed out ad infinitum tonight on cable that all of the previous kellys had come from agrarian island with, you know, as much school learning as any of the folks who preceded us here. people who know kelly know he's been a hard liner on immigration. was the difference today people just hearing him say it? >> i mean one thing about kelly that progressives especially had thought he was going to be a moderating force on issues like immigration, and that certainly has not been the case. my reporting tells me he's of a kindred spirit of hard-liners and he worked to scuttle the daca deal that president trump was originally open to, to keep these young undocumented people in the country here. i think kelly has had a hard line past on this, and he continues to do that starting with dhs and right now some of the things he said, though, don't bear out in the data. immigrants, second-generation immigrants

and sahil kapur national reporter for bloomberg politics.elling ice cream or the local ford dealership, the guy that really shouldn't be on television, but he owns the company so he does the ads. i thought that was the strangest ad. i don't know if he is going to win in west virginia. >> look, the whole thing is really strange. if you're too trumpy for trump, who are you? what are you? china people. >> he is trying to clean up -- >> china people. it's crazy. this is a three-way race. >> they're all close to 20. >> exactly. anything can happen in a three-way race. >> one person is surging, elena. i used to try to pick them all the time. where they stood before the election and who was surging. it was real simple. and this guy is surging and they're close which suggests he might well win the nomination to go against joe manchin. >> he has momentum. >> but manchin would beat him, wouldn't he? hi, woe be in a better position than any of the other candidates. >> so why interest republicans doing what i think the democrats are poised to do sometim

we tern to sahil kapur of block berg news. good morning. >> good morning. >> we leerning at&t and novartis were actually contacted back in november and december of the last year by the special counsel's office. what does that have do with the russia prescribe and are we surprised mueller is in on this so early? >> it's not surprising but it is striking that the shell company run by cohen received a half a million dollar payment by oligarch victor vekselberg. why did he pay that and what did he get out of it. >> do you think that will change what we get out of the russia probe? we're one year from when this already started. >> it already has. we only found out about this now. the question is how long has he followed the money trail? he's reportedly already questioned vekselberg about this payment. we don't know what he's learned. i think that's going to determine where it goes. >> let's turn to north korea. president said he would meet with kim jong-un on june 12th, in singapore. how big are the stakes here? >> enormous. absolu