senate intelligence committee has found that russia was behind a social media does information campaign designed to influence the 2016 presidential election the committee report outlines how social media platforms were used to sow division and spread fake news in an effort to get donald trump elected well u.s. intelligence chiefs trace the accounts to the internet research agency that's a russian organization widely believed to be directed by the kremlin it echoes filings of the mother report which led to the indictment of twal russian nationals linked to the internet research agency roslyn jordan has more from washington d.c. . the report from the senate intelligence committee is part 2 of its investigation into illegal foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election as many people already know it was the internet research agency run by a man with very close ties to the kremlin that was behind the massive social media manipulation that was designed one to destroy political support for hillary clinton the democratic nominee to to build political support for donald trump the repub

you know, i don't think senator burr, a republican who chairs the senate intelligence committee has come to the conclusions that russia definitely interfered, i don't think he's someone who's trying to help the democrats in any kind of political way. but he and the lanking member, senator warner have come to the same conclusion about russian interferen interference. >> also ran the elections program for the pugh charitable trust, now the cofounder and executive director for innovation and research. we'll go to carol in norwich, new york, independent line. >> caller: i'm afraid you guys stole my thunder. i was going to ask a follow-up about the woman from chicago who was about to go out to hear president trump speak. but she was very specific that there was something like 300 illegal immigrants that voted in chicago. my question was, what is the evidence that illegal immigrants do, in fact, vote and whether they do or do not have any impact on the elections? >> i think you talked about that a moment ago. question on text from lou. please ask mr. becker which he believes affected the 2016

the us senate intelligence committee has found russia was behind a social media dissin from a shin campaign designed to influence the 2016 presidential election the committee report outlines how social media platforms were used to so division and spread fake news in an effort to get donald trump elected. protesters have clashed with security forces in ecuador's capital as the country grapples with a 6th day of anti austerity demonstrations thousands of indigenous people have converged on quito barricading roads and tires angry the government has scrapped 40 year old fuel subsidies and those were his headlines on al jazeera this is europe is next. al-jazeera states with every single. him up it's a moment of this now he can. use in something and yet invent a box of us from the bottom up.

senate committees about documents related to the state department and ukraine. the inspector general wants to brief several committees, including the senate intelligence committee. we'll be joined by a member of the senate intelligence committee, senator kamala harris, who is now a candidate for president of the united states. she also serves on the senate judiciary committee with republican senator chuck grassley who picked sides today in the battle between donald trump and the whistleblower, and it will surprise you whose side senator grassley is on. but it is not so surprising for people who know senator grassley and who have worked with him in the senate. we will consider why donald trump has not yet attacked chuck grassley for chuck grassley's very strong defense today of the whistleblower. and at the end of the hour, we will be joined by american journalism's highest authority on impeachment. elizabeth true is now covering her third impeachment proceeding of the president of the united states. she is a washington congresswoman for the new yorker. elizabeth true wrote the book about that process which remains the highest standard in impeachment reporting. w

senate committees about documents related to the state department and the ukraine. the inspector general wants to brief several committees including the senate intelligence committee. we'll be joined by senator kamala harris who is now a candidate for president of the united states. she serves in the senate judiciary committee chuck grassley who picked sides and it will surprise you whose side senator grassley is on. it is not so surprising. we will consider why donald trump has not yet attacked chuck grassley for chuck grassley's very strong defense today of the whistleblower. and at the end of the hour, we will be joined by american journalism's highest authority on impeachment. elizabeth drew is now covering her third impeachment proceeding of the president of the united states. she is a washington congresswoman for the new yorker. elizabeth drew wrote the book about that process which remains the highest standard in impeachment reporting. washington journal reporting watergate and richard nixon's downfall. elizabeth's drew's reporting has always been mandatory reading for me, and i can assure you her op-ed speech in the "new york times" has been treated as manda

senator grassley revealed the central intelligence agency hat in fact, been monitoring the communications of whistleblowers both with the ic ig and members of congress. frankly i have been rather shocked by the house no senate intelligence committee have gone to battle stations over that because it's that kind of illegal domestic surveillance of house and senate intelligence committees were created over 40 years ago to prevent. this has this is not been a topf conversation for censorship or senator burr, chairman of the senate intelligence. >> host: president trump tweeted a couple days ago about the whistleblower, the so-called whistleblower before knowing i i was going to release the exact transcript stated michael what you couldn't present was crazy, frightening and completely lacking in substance related to national security. this is a very big lie. read the transcript. >> guest: i don't recall the whistleblower using that phraseology. what we do know so far on the basis of the testimony that has so far been given in the snippets of testimony we have so far from state department and other officials involved, is that the substance of the allegations were valid. that's what mr. maguire of of te intelligence committee inspector

of the 1st sentences in the report in the summary says quote the committee which is the senate intelligence committee the committee's ability to identify russian activity on social media platforms was limited so here they had mitt to pay sick leave they have no idea no way of identifying which groups are russian or not even though the whole report says that the russians are behind it all always great to get your take on the program down in the gallons executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity thank you. around is no warning turkey against a military operation in northeastern syria calling for on to respect syria's sovereignty to iran joins a chorus of concern voices which also includes european officials turkey has reportedly already conducted. artillery strikes in northeastern syria according to local media it comes hours after washington announced it was pulling its troops out of the area has also been deploying military hardware along its border with syria now monday video emerged apparently showing american military vehicles leaving 2 of its side posts until recently w

the senate intelligence committee's recent report confirmed this tactic assessing information acquired by the committee of intelligence oversight social media company, the special counsel's investigative findings and research by the commercial cybersecurity companies helped to carry out another vector of attack on the 2018 election, the dissemination of hacked material. one of the ways that the g.r.u. was able to amplify its ability was by collaborating with wikileaks. the special counsel found that in order to expand the interference in the 2018 presidential election, they transferred many of the documents they stole from the democratic national committee and the chairman of the clinton campaign to wikileaks. it must be noted that the special counsel has established that the organization wikileaks was not just acting as an unwitting stooge for the russians. wikileaks had a role in the amplification of these information warfare operations. the special counsel's indictment from july of 2018 stated that g.r.u. officers posing as a fake persona gucifer2.0 discussed the release of the docu

guest: this comes largely from what the senate intelligence committee included. course, in 2016 we are at a high point of social media use. their news siloing consumption with people that they only agreed with. for the kindy ripe of divisiveness that russia there's also6 and substantial evidence that russia specifically wanted to help donald trump's campaign and hurt secretary clinton's campaign. host: is among your concern that , just thennovation mere threat of tampering with elections keeps a voter turnout down? guest: that is a huge concern, and i think there is good evidence that that is exactly what russia and our other adversaries want. they want citizens of our democracy and other democracies to lose confidence that their votes matter, that their votes count. the more that citizens of democracy lose faith in the democracy, the more autocracies like russia can fill the vacuum and we are seeing that now. host: we are talking about election security particularly in 2020. we welcome your calls and comments. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for d

senate intelligence committee has found russia was behind a social media distance from ation campaign designed to influence the 2016 presidential election the committee report outlines how social media platforms were used to so division and spread fake news in an effort to get donald trump elected u.s. intelligence chiefs trace the accounts to the internet research agency a russian organization widely believed to be directed by the kremlin it echoes findings in the miller report which led to the indictment of 12 russian nationals linked to the ira. still to come on al-jazeera the promise of jobs to stop widespread protests now iraqis are demanding the government follows through with its plan. freshman not in jail and straight back to the streets we speak to one u.k. climate activist undeterred by the police response to extinction rebellion. still got some rather lively showers around central parts of the mediterranean sea this area cloud here just pushing across greece heading across see a channel that will help help to make its way a little further east which as we go on through the

intelligence committee under the chairmanship of mike rodgers and the ranking member operated on a bipartisan basis which made them in the eyes of intelligence committee i could say more credible. >> the way the senate intelligence committee is right now. >> well much like the senate appears to be now. operating on a bipartisan basis and that is hugely important for the development of and sustainment of trust. >> a committee source, a source on the house intelligence committee tells us that chairman schiff has not yet been briefed even now even as we expect president trump any minute to come out and talk about this. that seems surprising? >> not to me. and i'll tell you why. the dysfunction. you can't have that much dysfunction in that committee. it is now leading an impeachment inquiry which to me is not the business of an intelligence committee. there are very important work and oversight that needs to happen. and in the osama bin laden raid, and if they reached out, if it went wrong there was a significant price to pay. this was in another country and had to cross the border into that country, getting by early was smart and important and they did that. and in this particular case it doesn't have

i do want to ask you about this very blunt conclusion from your counterpart committee in the senate, the intelligence committee in the senate, which is run by the republicans, led by senator richard burr, that it was definitely russia, it was a big deal of a campaign, it was directed by the kremlin, and they were trying to elect trump. i wonder if you feel like that is going to have a knock-on effect for any of the impeachment proceedings you guys are pursuing or anything else that you're confronting right now when it comes to bill barr and the justice department and the white house? >> yeah, i think it reinforces the fact that, you know, for -- since 2016, america has been resolute in its determination that we not let what happened in 2016 happen again. and that's, i think, part of the reason why i think american public sentiment is so in favor of this impeachment inquiry right now, because the allegations at issue are that the trump administration is trying to get a foreign power to meddle in our democracy again. and this time in 2020. and so, i think it just reinforced why this impeachment inquiry

senate intelligence committee has published a new reports on alleged russian interference in the 2016 presidential election it claims a group called the internet research agency attempts to use social media to swing the vote in donald trump's favor and so distrust and prosy foreigner from zuck details the senate intelligence committee they report that the agents of the russian internet research agency or ira quote sought to influence the 2016 us presidential election by harming hillary clinton's chances of success supporting donald trump at the direction of the kremlin now the senate panel cited the quote close ties of the ira's director to russian president vladimir putin as quote evidence of. significant kremlin support authorization and direction of the ira's operations and goals now the senate intel committee writes that the dissent from ation put out on social media sites like facebook twitter instagram and you tube was part of a broader sophisticated and ongoing information warfare campaign designed to sow discord in american politics and society and this activity increased afte

the senate intelligence committee they report that the agents of the russian internet research agency or ira quote sought to influence the 2016 us presidential election by harming hillary clinton's chances of success supporting donald trump at the direction of the kremlin now the senate panel cited the quote close ties of the ira's director to russian president vladimir putin as quote evidence of significant kremlin support authorization and direction of the ira's operations and goals now the senate intel committee writes that the dissent from ation put out on social media sites like facebook twitter instagram and you tube was part of a broader sophisticated and ongoing information warfare campaign designed to sow discord in american politics and society and this activity increased after election day back and 2016 the report found that dozen from asian put out by the ira targeted specifically african-americans more than any other age group or demographic to exploit some hot button issues and even convince some people to sign petitions well earlier this year former special counsel for

now the us senate intelligence committee has found that russia was behind a social media disinflation campaign designed to influence the 2016 presidential election the committee report outlines how social media platforms were used to so diversion and spread fake news in an effort to get donald trump and acted u.s. intelligence chiefs trace the accounts to the internet research agency that is a russian organization widely believed to be directed by the kremlin and it echoes findings in the report torch led to the indictment of 12 russian nationals linked to the ira russell and jordan has more from washington d.c. . the report from the senate intelligence committee is part 2 of its investigation into illegal foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election as many people already know it was the internet research agency run by a man with very close ties to the kremlin that was behind the massive social media manipulation that was designed one to destroy political support for hillary clinton the democratic nominee to to build political support for donald trump the republican nominee

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we don't know, but i want to show a comment from sator mark warner, vice chairman the senate intelligence committeentel is wrapping investigation that found nothing remotely justifying this. he said mr. barr, referng to pae attorney general investigation, jize key international intelligence partnerships. he needs to come before congress and explain himself. how much ds this matter that this has become a criminalbe p . mark: it does matter, starting with the mark warner point. an ocean ofoiling, rancid partisanship, the senate intelligence committee has been an island of collegiality and cooperation. so i don't know if he is speakinglfust for hims ranking democrat of the committee, or with the quiescence of senator burr, the chairman, i don't kn. but it is certainly serious. you have toome t the conclusion that in bill barr, donald trump finally got the attorney general he wanted. jeff sessions didn't deliver for hire jeff sessionsed himself. bill baris at taxpayer expense, hurtling around thefr glob australia to italy in pursuit of information to somehow rationalize, justify, that donald trump didn

believe the special counsel's investigation, perhaps you would believe the republican-led senate intelligence committee, which just within the past two weeks produced a bipartisan report affirming wholeheartedly without reservation the intelligence community's conclusion that russia attacked our election in 2016 and actually doubling down, becoming more emphatically than the intelligence community did on the specific fact russia was intervening in our election to help the trump campaign. that is undisputed as a matter of fact. nevertheless, this attorney general under this president is now seeking to turn it into a criminal act that somebody investigated that. and it's one thing for them to say they're reviewing it. it's another thing for them to be planning to bring criminal charges against law enforcement and intelligence officials who did their job of recognizing that russia was interfering in our election to help a specific candidate and checking out whether or not that candidate's campaign was in on it. this is the justice department investigating itself, potentially bringing criminal charges agai

senator grassley revealed the central intelligence agency had been monitoring the --tinued acacia and communications of whistleblowers , and i have been shocked that neither the house or senate intelligence committee have gone to battle stations over that, because it is that kind of illegal domestic surveillance that laws were created over 40 years ago to prevent. this has not been a conversation for senator schiff or chairman burr. host: president trump, let me show the viewers what he had to say -- the so-called whistleblower, the call was crazy, frightening, completely lacking in substance, this is a big lie. read the transcript. guest: i don't recall the whistleblower using that phraseology. basise know so far on the of testimony that has so far been given, and the snippets that we have so far from state department and other officials, is that the substance of the allegations were valid. founds what mr. maguire when he evaluated the complaint several months ago. i understand the president's frustration. he feels like this is supposed to be a generalized court proceeding. impeachments do not fall into that category. of concerns about how house democrats have been handling this. host: samuel is

senate intelligence committee has found that russia was behind essential media to see information campaign designed to influence the 2016 presidential election the committee report outlines how social media platforms were used to say a division and to spread fake news in an effort to get donald trump elected u.s. intelligence chase trace the accounts to the internet research agency that's a russian organization widely believed to be directed by the kremlin it echoes findings of the report which led to the indictment of 12 russian nationals linked to the internet research agency. now an aide to turkey is president has told the reuters news agency that a military intervention against the kurdish led syrian democratic forces all the s.d.f. in northern syria is about to begin turkish troops gathering near the syrian border in preparation for an offensive against the kurdish led s.d.f. it follows a preemptive strike by ankara which targeted the syrian iraqi border in an attempt to cut supply lines kurdish forces of warned any military escalation in syria could lead to the return of eisel and ca

senator, please stay with us across the break and what we come back, i'll ask about the senate intelligence committeen report. i don't think people realize how bipartisan senate committee is that you released yesterday specifics about the russian interference and the election, new specifics including the way the russians specifically targeted black voters and their disinformation. we'll do that across this commercial break. please stay with us, senator. >> will do. thank you. seeing what people ld in the attic. well, saving on homeowners insurance with geico's help was pretty fun too. ahhhh, it's a tiny dancer. they left a ton of stuff up here. welp, enjoy your house. nope. no thank you. geico could help you save on homeowners and renters insurance. geico could help you save on homeowners i wanted more that's why i've got the power of 1 2 3 medicines with trelegy. the only fda-approved 3-in-1 copd treatment. ♪ trelegy. the power of 1-2-3. ♪ trelegy 1-2-3 trelegy. with trelegy and the power of 1 2 3, i'm breathing better. trelegy works 3 ways to open airways, keep them open and reduce inflammation for

senator, please stay with us across the break and what we come back, i'll ask about the senate intelligence committee bipartisan report. i don't think people realize how bipartisan senate committee is that you released yesterday specifics about the russian interference and the election, new stpecifics including the wa the russians specifically targeted black voters and their disinformation. we'll do that across this commercial break. please stay with us, senator. >> will do. thank you. with us, senator. >> will do thank you. ug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. and now we need to get back to work. [ applause and band playing ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ aleve it. with aleve pm. pain happens. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid. and the 12-hour pain relieving strength of aleve. so...magic mornings happen. there's a better choice. aleve pm. i wanted more that's why i've got the power of 1 2 3 medicines with trelegy. the only fda-approved 3-in

robert: when you saye, peo where's chairman richardurr of north t carolina from senate intelligence committee a senator lamar alexander of tennessee. carl: they've been on recess. robert: and they've been quiet. heere are carl: i think they are still not ere. i think what you'll hearrom a lot of senate republicans like a lamarnder, who people are looking to to say, he's not again, maybe they'll do ruit. gi think they'll say this w unappropriate, it's not impeachable, the democrats are rushing ahead. impeachmact before.en here things tend to take on a life of their own. margaret: i think it's teresting to see the talking points. the person speakin person asking the question as corey gardner just did there becae if you hear the case made, maybe you have toddress the point of the question, inead of frame this alls paisan, which allows you to tune out the substance of what is described. so there's not actually a conversaon about what the president has done or said and as you heard, the preside t, eden this week,rmon eveen h tugh the republican talking point had been it wasasa joke. robe: the repu

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jayapal, noted earlier the senate intelligence committee report of russian interference in 2016 election states, disinformation campaign are not just manipulate one platform. the information moves across various platforms or a cyber attack threatens multiple companies. network security and data integrity. must be gritter cooperation with the tech sector in between the tech sector own government address these issues we sauted that facebook removed a network of russian backed accounts posted as locals coming into political issues in swing states. praising president trump and attacking former vice president joe biden. ms. garcia: this is a familiar threat we saw in 2016 and appears to be repeating as we approach 2020. the report rereference recommends formalized mechanisms for collaboration that facilitate content sharing among social media flat forms to defend against foreign disinformation as occurred with violent extremist content. y question is to mr. masterson and ms. floris. have your organizations create add task force to coordinate cooperation between government and the tech sector

, telling only lindsey graham, who played golf with the president on saturday, and the senate intelligence committeean remember in advance of what was going to happen. raymond berg. richard burr. sorry. >> bill: john roberts from northline. california congresswoman katie hill announcing her resignation over a sex scandal. democrat freshman step down after nude photos of her were published online without her consent. she says she doesn't want anyone else to go through what she has recently experienced. >> i have before, i will stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. there's one thing i know for sure. i will not allow my experience to scare off other young women or girls from running for office. for the sake of all of us, we cannot let that happen. >> bill: yesterday the congresswoman tweeting this to every girl and woman, to everyone who believes in this fight, this is not over." chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live in our west coast newsroom where i'm certain this is getting a lot of headlines today. >> certainly is. congresswoman katie hill was a rising star in the party and the

to show for all ofs, this is a comment from senator mark warner who is vic chair of the senate intelligence committeeup a threee bipartisan investigation, we have found nothing remotely justifying this. he said will barr's investigation has already jeopardized see international intelligence partnerships. he needs to come before congresi and exhimself. how much does this matter that this has become a criminal probe? >> i think it does matter starting with the mark warner point.oc in aan of roiling, rancid partisanip, the senate intelligence committee has been an island of collegiality andio cooper so i don't know if he is speaking just for himself as the ranking democrat and coe chair of that committee, withe th acquiescence of senator burr, nthe chairman, i don'tw, but it certainly is serious. you have to come to the conclusion, judiny, tha bill bar, donald trump final got the attorney general he wanted. jeff sessions didn't deliver for him. jeff sessions reced himself. hurling around the globe from australia to flit pursuit of informion to somehow rationalize, justify that donald trump didn't lose i

and why are the findings of the nation's 17 intelligence agencies and the republican-led senate intelligence committee not enough for the trump administration? >>> falling in line. republicans escalate their assault on the house impeachment inquiry, trying to slow down the pace after two weeks of damaging testimony. >>> plus going home. thousands gathering in baltimore this hour, including two former presidents, for a final farewell to congressman elijah cummings. the man that speaker of the house nancy pelosi called "our north star." ♪ >>> and good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell and we're keeping a close eye of course on congressman cummings' funeral service in baltimore. we'll take you there when president clinton begins his remarks followed by president obama. >>> but we begin in washington where the justice department is pursuing a criminal investigation into the origins of the mueller probe. for two years president trump has been calling this a witch hunt and a hoax. even though russia's attack on the 2016 campaign to help mr. trump's election was unanimously accepted by u.s. intelligence age

president right now sending his attorney general around the world to try to debunk what the senate intelligence committeebipartisan basis does. bowl --undisputed indisputable except the donald trump and rudy giuliani and if you've rudy giuliani's friends. we should be getting help from the federal government to protect the integrity of the wii is state and local governments. should -- she was given the heisman. don't bring it up, the president said. report, onemueller of the indictments. to russians were attempting hack into state and local systems. stuff created we have built a robust infrastructure. we know it was an arms race. we are continuing to work with partners. one of them is not the federal government. >> including fundraising efforts and the democratic presidential debate. >> the d.c. circuit judge court fcc's --s upheld the possible next steps by congress. this is an hour. >> will come to this, host by the congressional caucus academy in conjunction with the caucus itself.

senate intelligence committee has found russia was behind a social media disinflation campaign designed to influence the 2016 presidential election the committee report outlines how social media platforms are used to so division and spread fake news in an effort to get don't trump elected. ecuador's government says it's open to international mediation through the un or the catholic church as the country grapples with a 6 day event he austerity protests well in 500 people have been arrested since demonstrations began protesters are angry that the government has scrapped for 2 year old fuel subsidies i could go as president has temporarily moved the government away from quito the center of the protests to the coastal city of kiev. there are the top stories stay with us if you can al-jazeera world is coming up next life and. on the 10th of may 28th the wife of a libyan politician one time lawyers held up an historic document a letter of apology from the british prime minister the u.k. lost its way when i got mixed up in the rendition of an innocent pregnant woman and an anti kadafi disside

senate intelligence committee has found russia was behind a social media disinform ation campaign designed to influence the 2016 presidential election the committee report outlines how social media platforms were used to sow division and spread fake news in an effort to get donald trump elected u.s. intelligence chiefs traced the accounts to the internet research agency a russian organization widely believed to be directed by the kremlin with echo's findings in the miller report which led to the indictment of 12 russian nationals linked to the ira al jazeera source in jordan joins us live now from washington d.c. said rowles did we learn anything new in this report. well i think there was a lot of information that was already out in the media that many people knew about this disinform ation campaign that was waged during the 2016 election and this report from the intelligence committee on the senate side did confirm that the efforts of the internet research agency didn't start as early as 2014 although it did note that descent from ation efforts coming from moscow date back to the early 19

most recently, the report by the republican-led senate intelligence committee suggest as many as four counties may have been successfully attacked. apparently no systems for access, only the registration rules, but whatever the number infected, we've got to learn the lessons and guard against the vulnerabilities before next year's elections in florida clearly worked on its need to improve the auditing procedures, but we cannot do that alone. certain breaches were not immediately detected. what signs should election officials look for, what should they be trained to look for on election day to ensure there are no attacks and how are you working with state officials to train them to detect such signs? >> thank you for the question, sir. it starts long before election day. you may be looking for those signs and i will talk about our activity there, but there are indicators that election officials are aware of and can be attuned to. but to our information sharing and analysis center targeting election infrastructure and the state of florida was the first state to deploy this across all co

a report this month was released by the senate intelligence committee on russian interference with our elections and it said the russian government use geographic targeting features to reach audiences in specific locations and in 25 percent of the ads purchased were targeted down to state or city or university level in michigan and wisconsin they were targeted with advertisements overwhelmingly focused on the subject of police brutality to move populations in one direction or another. if a campaign made its information such as polling data are readily available to a foreign government and then used it to target the voters through social media is that something the department of justice would investigate? or is there a law that would allow or stimulate an investigation spent there are two parts i don't know if campaign finance of the statutes would apply with respect to national security statutes i am familiar with a focus if an american is acting as an agent of a foreign government under the direction or control of the foreign government. in that example it is the reverse of that if th

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also the "times" reports that the republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee and his democratice chairman both say standard procedure was followed by the house intel staff in referring the whistle-blower to the i.g. schiff's spokesman says that the congressman never saw any part of the complaint or knew precisely what the whistle-blower was alleging. yet in his news conference today, president trump made this accusation. >> i think it's a scandal that he knew before. i'd go a step further. i think he probably helped write it. he knew long before, and he helped write it too. it's a scam. >> so, again, facts first. the house intel chairman adam schiff did not help write the complaint, and his spokesman says, quote, at no point did the committee review or receive the complaint in advance. in addition, today cnn contacted an attorney for the whistle-blower, who was asked if schiff or anyone connected to the intel committee helped write the complaint. his two-word answer, quote, absolutely not. again, facts first. joining me now, matthew rosenberg, who first broke the story for "the

i mean, the senate intelligence committee led by the republicans, just within the past two weeks, put out their bipartisan or the what russia did in 2016 with social media. according to the republican-led senate intelligence committee, the bottom line was crystal clear. quote, at the direction of the kremlin, the internet research agency in russia sought to influence in 2016 u.s. presidential election by harming hillary clinton's chances of success and supporting donald trump. and how did specifically they did -- did they do that? well, here was their specific play. quote, clinton's candidacy was targeted by both the ira's left and right personas withand both ideological representations were focused on denigrating. the left-leaning accounts focused on denigrating clinton and supporting the candidacy of either bernie sanders or jill stein. and the right-leaning accounts were unvariably opposed to clinton's candidacy. so in 2016, we saw the internet research agency, directed by the kremlin, playing both left-wing and right-wing fake american personas. hitting hillary clinton from the le

the senate reports, there are two that came out from the senate intelligence committee.hey're bipartisan. i think that's important to recognize. there's been a ton of staff work that's gone into them, into a m assembling evidence of russian attack on the united states in the 2016 election. and i think it is such an important context to understand, that there's a mountain of evidence about what the kremlin did in 2016. now, you can argue depending which political party you're in that that either shows direct involvement of the trump campaign or not, but there's no question what the kremlin did, except for the president of the united states. and i think that's the important part of the conspiracy he is trying to prove. yes, he is absolutely focused trying to smear biden. but the more important piece is the fact that he is mobilizing his diplomatic core with the political plans inside it that he can use as resources in this, to go out and prove a conspiracy theory that says russia didn't attack the united states in 2016, it was some ukrainian clinton soros conspiracy, and t

this afternoon, the senate intelligence committee put out a bipartisan report about russia's interference in the 2016 election via a massive social media campaign. quote, harming hillary clinton's chances of success and supporting donald trump. this is a bipartisan senate report that reinforces robert mueller's key findings in a moment where the president and the lawyer is recruiting northern governments to try to distract from the president's efforts to dig up dirt on his possible 2020 opponent. those efforts to interfere in the 2020 election are now the focus on an impeachment inquiry where the evidence continues to mount and public opinion shows possible signs of moving. according to our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, a combined 55% of the country supports the president's either removal from office completely or supports the inquiry. 24% say there is enough evidence right now to remove the president from office. 31% support the impeachment investigation. 39% do not support impeachment. this inquiry has been open for exactly two weeks and there is slightly more appetite to pur

i, you know, i work closely with them in connection with my service on the senate intelligence committeesly do incredible work. and they -- they never really get any credit for it as individuals. if you go to the cia, for example, or go -- you'll see stars on the wall with no names. these are people who serve our country and die for our country who never get personal acknowledgement. and, you know, and honestly, i think that it's really important at this moment to also credit them knowing that you've had donald trump as commander-in-chief, who has spent full time attacking the integrity and the professionalism and sacrifice of those professionals. so i think about it in that regard and thank them for their service and for their dedication and for being, you know, smart and with great sacrifice doing the work they're doing to protect our national security. donald trump that press conference was extraordinary. you woulda think that he was talking about watching and giving commentary on a videogame. he is the commander-in-chief the commander-in-chief of the united states of america has as h

start this question kind of quickly to miss flores, on october 8th just this month 2019, senate intelligence committee published its second volume of the investigation on russia's interference in the 2016 elections and the u.s. government's response to that attack, the report concluded that in october 2017 the counter intelligence division and fbi test an outside contractor to identify russian influence activity on twitter as this explains it suggests quote, fbi either lacked resources or review the work that's not a warning more institutionalize consideration, miss flores, the senate committee's report is concerning, do you believe you have enough resources to investigate and protect our elections? >> thank you for that question, as i've, said we can always use more resources, with that being said we are throwing everything we have against the foreign influence threat, we shifted resources for that very purpose, we continue to engage with all 56 of our field offices to make sure they are tracking the threat as closely as we are. >> so how often are you using outside contractors or are you moving away