. >> wikileaks. >> wikileaks. >> wikileaks. >> this just came out. this just came out. wikileaks. i love wikileaks. >> the hillary clinton documents released today by wikileaks. >> exposed by wikileaks. >> we all talk about wikileaks. >> they're got it all down, folks. wikileaks. >> the president promoted wikileaks and their release of stolen democratic and clinton documents more than 150 times on the campaign trail in the run up to his election. it became clear that those materials that wikileaks was releasing is stuff that was hacked by russia. but wikileaks denied he had anything to do with russia. they are basically one in the same. according to him, he just plucked the stolen documents out of the ether and there have been clear assertions from the intelligence agencies and robert mueller's report and definitive denials from wikileaks that they had anything to do with russia. we never had a clear narrative detail about how russia and wikileaks did it. how russia funneled all this stuff to wikileaks to be released in the campaign to such important

terrible instincts. >> wikileaks, this wikileaks is unbelievable. >> the u.s.ent decided to get involved, according to a u.s. official and documents obtained by cnn. warning ecuador stop assange or there will be consequences. just three weeks before the election, ecuador cut assange off. no more phones, internet or guests. shortly after, the embassy relented on guest restrictions and at 1:00 a.m. on october 19th, the security materials obtained by cnn show two wikileaks staffers showed up and took away about 100 hard drives. security guards wanted to examine the hard drives, but they couldn't. the wikileaks personnel were on that special list of people not to be searched. one of the ecuadorian ambassadors who worked at the embassy during assange's stay told cnn he was never pressured to give assange special treatment but this past april, assange's world came crashing down. the asylum, his life blood was taken away by ecuador's new president, citing his participation in u.s. election meddling. british police carried him out of the embassy. and the u.s. justice d

i love wikileaks. staffers criticizing clinton's terrible instincts. >> wikileaks.s wikileaks is unbelievable. >> the u.s. government decided to get involved, according to a u.s. official and documents obtained by cnn, warning ecuador, stop assange or there will be consequences. ecuador cut assange off three weeks before the election, no more phones, guests. at 1:00 a.m. on october 19th, security materials obtained by cnn show two wikileak staffers showed up and took away about 100 hard drives. security guards wanted to examine the hard drives but couldn't. they were on the special list of people not to be searched. during assange's stay, one staffer says he was never pressured to give assange special treatment but this past april, assange's world came crashing down. the asylum, his lifeblood was take anne way by ecuador's new president, citing his participation in the interference of the u.s. election. assange maintains his innocence. right on cue, russia came to assange's defense, accusing the u.s. of violating his rights, saying the hand of democracy squeezes the

wikileaks. i love wikileaks. donald trump, october 10, 2016. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. s it tells you the inner heart. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. donald trump, october 31st, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks, donald trump, november 4th, 2016. do any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not sure. i would say -- >> how do you react to it? >> it's problematic is an under statement in terms of what it displays in terms of giving some, i don't know, hope or boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> problematic is an under statement. could maybe be the theme of the day today. robert mueller said the president's encouragement and praise and promotion of the way rugs were releasing the information they had hacked and stolen to help his campaign, robert mueller said that was a boost to illegal activity and problematic to see the least. immediately after that show stopping moment in the hearing, robert mueller went on to suggest that other interactions between the trump campaign and people associated with the president and the russians

, wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> transcripts of clinton's paid speeches to wall street staffers criticizingstinc instincts. >> wikileaks is unbelievable. >> the u.s. government decided it warned ecuador stop assange or there will be consequences. three weeks before the election, ecuador cut assange off. no more phone, internet or guests. shortly they relented and at 1:00 a.m. on october 19th, the security materials show two wikileaks staffers showed up and took away about 100 hard drives. security guards wanted to examine the hard drives but they couldn't. the wikileaks personnel were on that specialist of people not to be searched. one of the ecuador ambassadors that worked at the embassy during the stay said he was never pressured by his government to give assange special treatment but this past april, assange's world came crashing down. the asylum, his life blood was taken away by ecuador's new president siting his participation in the u.s. election meddling. british police department unsealed secret charges. instead it was for publishing classified materials in 2010. russia came to assa

organization one being wikileaks. the indictment continues, quote, stone thereafter told the trump campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by wikileaks. so in short, the indictment alleges that stone was asked by the trump campaign to get information about more wikileaks releases and that stone, in fact, did tell the trump campaign about potential future releases, correct? >> yes, ma'am, but i see you're quoting from the indictment. even though the indictment is a public document, i feel uncomfortable discussing anything having to do with the stone prosecution. >> right. the indictment is of record. we pulled it off of the -- i'm reading straight from it. turning back to the president's answers to your questions then on this very subject, the president denied ever discussing future wikileaks releases with stone and denied knowing whether anyone else in his campaign had those discussions with stone. if you had learned that other witnesses, putting aside the president, if other witnesses had lied t

. >> if we could put up slide six, this just came out, wikileaks, i love wikileaks, donald trump, october 10th, 2016. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you got to read it. donald trump, october 12th, 2016. this wikileaks is a like a treasure drove. donald trump, october 21st, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks, donald trump, november 4th, 2016. do any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not certain i would s say -- >> how do you react to them? >> well -- it's probably problematic is an understatement, in terms of whether it displays, in terms of giving some -- i don't know, hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> problematic is an understatement. could be the theme of the day. robert mueller saying the president's encouragement, his praise, his promotion of the way russians were releasing the information they had hacked and stolen to help his campaign, robert mueller saying today that that was a boost to illegal activity. and problematic, to say the least. and immediately after that sort of showstopping moment

organization one being wikileaks. the indictment continues, quote, stone told the campaign about releases of damaging material by wikileaks. so in short, the indictment alleges that stone was asked by the trump campaign to get information about more wikileaks releases and that stone, in fact, did tell the trump campaign about potential future releases. correct? >> yes, ma'am. but i see according to from the indictment and even though the indictment is a public document, i feel uncomfortable discussing anything having to do with the stone prosecution. >> right. the indictment is of record and we pulled it off of the -- i'm reading straight from it. well, turning back to the president's answers to your questions then. on this very subject, the president ever discussing releases with stone. and denied whether anyone on his campaign had those conversations with stone. if you had learned that other witnesses putting aside the president, if other witnesses had lied to your investigators in response to specific questions. wh

, wikileaks.ld trump november 4, 2016. y of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not sure i would say -- >> reporter: how do u react? well, it's probably -- problematic is an understatement in terms of the waitspl ded, in terms of giving some, i don't know, hope or some boost to what is and shou illegal activity. >> woodruff: so clearly, garrt graff, an attempt here to get the former special cosel to look at the president's praising what wikileaks was doing, which was al information that had been stolen from hillary clinton. >> i think this is a close as we got today to a raw,l persona opinion from robert mueller. in most all another ines, pretty monosyl00labic,imes he told people to go back to the report. this is a moment where his own personal feelings about how troubled he was about the president's behavior in the 2016 campaign. >> woodruff: david r troubled but not enough to go beyond that and say the president -- >> not only not e it does not incriminate at all. let me say for the r

i love wikileaks. donald trump. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. you have to read it. october 12th, 2016. this wiki leaks is like a treasure trove. donald trump october 31st, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks. woe any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >>. >> i'm not certain i would say. >> how do you react to those? >> it's problematic is an under statement in terms of what it displays in terms of giving some hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> page 59, donald trump junior had direct communications with wikileaks during the campaign period. on october 3rd, 2016, wikileaks cenned another message to trump junior, asking you guys to have a link to clinton. julian assange responded to that, he had already done so. this behavior at the very least disturbing? >> disturbing and also subject to investigation. >> could it be described as aide and comfort to a hostile service, sir? >> i wouldn't characterize it with any specificity. >> i yield the balance to the chairman, please. >> i'm not sure i can make good use of 27 seconds, but

wikileaks. i love wikileaks. donald trump, october 10, 2016. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you've got to read it. donald trump, october 12, 2016. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. donald trump, october 21, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks. donald trump, november 4th, 2016. would any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not certain i would say -- >> how do you react to that? >> well, it's probably -- problematic is an understatement in terms of what it displays in terms of giving some, i don't know, hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> volume one, page 59. donald trump jr. had direct electronic communications with wikileaks during the campaign period. on october 3rd, 2016, wikileaks sent another direct message to trump jr. asking you guys to help disseminate a link alleging candidate clinton had advocated a drone to attack julian assange. trump jr. responded that, quote, he had already done so. same question. this behavior at the very least disturbing? your reaction? >> disturbing and also

he praised wikileaks for what wikileaks was doing. campgn plas their press strategy around the hacking and disclosure of e-mails and, apart from helping trump win, people in his orbit, his campaign, had a financial motive including himself, manafort, trump, and when investigated, they lied abmit it. so that not equal conspiracy under the law for a prosecution, but it's a who lot of links, it's a whole lot of unethical and un-american and undemocratic behavior. >> woodruff: and thank you for correcting me. i was referring to not finding him guilty but charging him one way or the other, which wasth the purview of what he was doing. john carlin, there were al parts of his testimony that gave us an understanding of how frustrating it was for him, that he never was able to sit down p wisident trump, that that just didn't happen, despite more athear of trying to get the white house to agree to this. >> yeah, he really did walk through that in a detail i a series of exchanges, and in that exchange explain tt in some ways that made the invest

i love wikileaks, october 10, 2016, donald trump. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you gotta read it. donald trump october 12, 2016, this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. donald trump, i love weyeding those wikileaks. do any of those quotes disturb you, director? >> i'm not certain i would say -- >> how do you react to that? >> it's problematic, is an under statement, in terms of the way it's displayed and giving some, i don't know, hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> volume 1, page 59, donald trump jr. had direct communications with wikileaks during the campaign period. october 3, 2016, wikileaks sent another direct message to trump jr., asking guys to help disseminate a link alleging candidate clinton advocated a drone to attack julian assange. trump jr. responded back, quote, he had already done so. then question, this behavior, at the very least, disturb you? >> disturbing. also subject to investigation. >> could it be described as aiding cop fort to a hostile intelligence service, sir? >> i wouldn't

let's roll that tape. >> this just came out, wikileaks, i love wikileaks, donald trump october 10th, 2016. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievab unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart, you got to read it, donald trump october 12th, 2016. this wikileaks is like a treasure drove, donald trump, october 31st, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks. donald trump, november 4th, 2016. would any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not certain i would say -- >> how do you react to it? >> well, it's problematic is an understatement. >> problematic is an understatement. john dean, the -- problematic is an understatement is him characterizing a political opinion that is not contained in this report. >> that's correct. he also as you recall prefaced it by making clear that the secretary of state, former cia director had called wikileaks a hostile foreign entity, so that the audience understood exactly what was being referred to that trump was giving blessings to, so i think that even made it a tougher question. quigley was very good in this setting. >> james, what did you make o

wikileaks. i love wikileaks. donald trump, october 10, 2016. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you've got to read it. donald trump, october 12, 2016. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. donald trump, october 21, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks. donald trump, november 4th, 2016. would any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not certain i would say -- >> how do you react to that? >> well, it's probably -- problematic is an understatement in terms of what it displays in terms of giving some, i don't know, hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> volume one, page 59. donald trump jr. had direct electronic communications with wikileaks during the campaign period. on october 3rd, 2016, wikileaks sent another direct message to trump jr. asking you guys to help disseminate a link alleging candidate clinton had advocated a drone to attack julian assange. trump jr. responded that, quote, he had already done so. same question. this behavior at the very least disturbing? your reaction? >> disturbing and also

this just came out wikileaks i love wikileaks. donald trump october 10, 2016. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you have to read it. october 12, 2016. this wikileaks is like a treasure-trove. october 31. 2016. i love reading those wikileaks. november 4, 2016. do those disturb you? >> i'm not sure i would say -- >> how to you react? >> it's a problem. under statement in terms of whether -- in terms of giving some i don't know hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> it sure is a problem. and the fact is remember, facts first. the trump justice department just filed 17 new criminal charges against wikileaks founder. including espionage. mueller faced tough questions today from congressman about why he didn't subpoena the president. i'll talk to the congressmen in a few minutes. listen to this. >> why didn't you subpoena the president? >> we negotiated from with him for over a year. what you eluded to lays out our expectations as a result of those negotiations. but finally, we were almost towards the entd o

let me play that exchange you had with mueller. >> this just came out, wikileaks, i love wikileaks. donald trump, october 10th, 2016, this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable, it tells you the inner heart. you gotta read it. donald trump, october 12th, 2016, this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. donald trump, october 31, 2016, boy, i love reading those wikileaks. donald trump, november 4th, 2016, would any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not certain i would say -- >> how do you react to them? >> well, it is probably -- it is problematic is an understatement. >> mueller went on to say, congratulatio congressman he was worried that encouragement could give hope or boost to what is and should be illegal activity. what did you make of that response from the former special counsel? >> it was nice to see him open up. i think he was a little reserved in the rest of this hearing. i think all of this is important to remember, it is also on the heels of my reminding him that pompeo called wikileaks a hostile intel agency. so we have to remember they're dangerous and they're a

wikileak. i love wikileak. this is a whole big fat hoax. >> it is not a hoax. >> it is a total witch hunt. >> it is not a witch hunt. >> there was no obstruction. if you read the report, you'll see that. >> the report did not conclude he did not commit obstruction of justice, is that correct? >> that is correct. >> it is a complete and total exoneration. >> did you exonerate the president? >> no. >> good morning, mika, i was hearing about how republicans were extatic yesterday. i guess that bar is so low. russia interfered with your democracy and mine. the second thing we learned was that donald trump and his campaign team happily welcomed that, aggressively welcomed it. they were grateful for it. we also learned that when federal agents tried to investigate this, that one member of the trump team after another member of the trump team lied about those contacts. then we learned from robert mueller that donald trump, the president of the united states lied about the russians trying to infiltrate. even lies when

efforts to release information that wikileaks was in possession of stolen data and that more of thatreleased by wikileaks. >> but then as page 58 of the report recounts, in early october, audio from the now infamous access hollywood interview with trump was leaked to the media. >> and when you are a star, they like to do it. you can do anything. grab them by the [ bleep ]. do any of that. >> the access hollywood tape comes out of donald trump saying things that i shall not repeat. >> most people i guess that would have been game over. >> about 45 minutes over, john podesta's e-mails were released. >> they selectively leaked day after day the contents of my e-mails and some of the other people on the campaign that had been hacked. it kept the e-mail story alive during october. >> the timing of the dump effectively took attention away from trump's access hollywood embarrassment. >> it shows a clear awareness on the part of the russians that they needed to create a distraction to prevent that from hurting candidate trump. >> although the report presents insufficient evidence of a crimin

. >> wikileaks. i love wikileaks. this wikileaks is unbelievable. wikileaks is fascinating.is like a treasure trove. >> quote, beginning in june 2016, forecast to senior campaign officials that wikileaks would release information damaging to clinton. wikileaks's first release came in july 2016, around the same time candidate trump announced he hoped russia would recover e-mails described as missing from a private server used by clinton when she was secretary of state. he later said he was speaking sarcastically. to be fair, this comes as close to exoneration of the president as anything else in the report. >> and you can expect that the republicans when they have the opportunity to question mueller, as they of course will, they will repeatedly go to this subject and say you did not find any criminal conspiracy involving the russians and the trump campaign. and they have every right to do that. so can you expect that when they have their turn to ask questions, that will be a major focus. >> and i want to read part of the report that kind of leaves the door open basically that

i love wikileaks, donald trump, october 10th, 2016. this wikileaks stuff unbelievable.inner heart. you got to read it, donald trump. october 12th, 2016. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove, donald trump 31st, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks, donald trump, november 4th, 2016. would any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> um, i'm not sure, and i would say -- >> how do you react? >> well, it's probably -- problematic is an understatement in terms of what it displays in terms of giving some, uh, i don't know, hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> boost illegal activity if donald trump has a brand that might be it. joyce vance, we also learned today that the next interference effort will not look like the last one. that was almost exactly three years ago that donald trump made those statements about wikileaks. what's your sense for what the next attack might look like? we heard a little bit of that conversation start today. >> we did hear that. and we heard this what i thought was mueller really sounding the alarm. to him it

the president was pretty reliant on wikileaks in the final month. >> right. >> i love wikileaks and wikileaksbut not a hoax. look -- >> i don't know if he was meaning -- >> i don't know what he meant. involvement with the wikileaks. >> it was a hoax. donald trump is very good at turning things into a referendum on himself and speaks in these absolute terms and i think that's what he was doing there. look, again, his folks feel pretty good about today. i think garrett is right what robert mueller cares more about is preserving the institutions of democracy. that's what he said in his only other public statement on this. he was very clear that, you know, there was interference here. it is going to p haen aga g tin he was clear it's not just russians but he's clearly concerned americans are not as alert to that as they should be and frankly that congress is not sounding the alarm the way they could. >> the president is not personally engaged. >> the president is -- has said almost nothing about this throughout his presidency. he has at times conceded it was russia at times appeared to minimize i

organization one being wikileaks. the indictment continues, quote, stone told the trump campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by wikileaks. in short the indictment alleges that stone was asked by the trump campaign to get information about more wikileaks releases and that stone in fact did tell the trump campaign about potential future releases, correct? >> yes, ma'am. i see you're quoting from the indictment. the indictment is a public document, but i feel uncomfortable talking about it. >> the indictment is of record. >> i understand that. >> i'm reading straight from it. turning back to the president's answers to your questions, the president denied ever discussing future wikileaks releases with stone and denied knowing whether anyone else on his campaign had those discussions. if you learned that other witnesses, putting aside the president, other witnesses lied to your investigators in response to specific questions, whether in writing or in an interview, could they be charged with false s

wikileak. i love wikileak.s not a witch hunt. >> there was no obstruction. if you read the report, you'll see that. >> the report did not conclude he did not commit obstruction of justice, is that correct? >> that is correct. >> it is a complete and total exoneration. >> did you exonerate the president? >> no. >> good morning, mika, i was hearing about how republicans

organization one being wikileaks. the indictment continues, quote, stone thereafter told the campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by wikileaks. so in short, the indictment a little that stone was asked by the trump campaign to get information about more wikileaks releases, and that stone, in fact, did tell the trump campaign about potential future releases, correct? >> yes, ma'am. even though the indictment is a public document, i feel uncomfortable discussing anything having to do with the stone prosecution. >> right. the indictment is of record and we pulled it -- i read straight from it. turning back to the president's answers to your questions then on this very subject, the president denied ever discussing future wikileaks releases with stone and denied knowing whether anyone else on his campaign had those discussions with stone. if you had learned that other witnesses put in sight of the president, if other witnesses had lied to investigators in response to specific questions, whether he

>> that you found gates and cohen to be credible in their statements about wikileaks? >> those are areas i'm not going to discuss. >> okay. that the president was credible? >> i can't answer that question. >> director mueller, isn't it fair to say that the president's written answers were not only inadequate and incomplete because he didn't answer many of your questions, but where he did, his answers showed that he wasn't always being truthful? >> i would say... generally. >> generally. director mueller, it's one thing for the president to lie to the american people about investigation, falsely claiming you found no collusion and no obstruction, but it's something else altogether for him to get away with not answering your questions and lying about them. and as a former law enforcement officer of almost 30 years, i find that a disgrace to our criminal justice system. thank you so much. i yield back to the chairman. >> thank you ma'am. >> mr. murthy. >> director mueller. thank you for your devoted service to your country. earlier today, you describe your report as detai

this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. boy i love reading the wikileaks. donald trump november 4th, 2016. do any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not certain i would say. >> how do you react to that? >> well, it's probably -- problematic is an understatement in terms of whether it displays in terms of giving some hope or boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> problematic is an understatement. he said it was wrong. but then there was another side to mueller. a witness who time and time again seemed to not be a star tripping over himself and key findings which is exactly what republicans were hoping for. >> in the cloakial context, known public context collusion and conspiracy are essentially synonymous terms, correct? >> no. >> in that page 180 of volume one of your report, it says as defined in legal dictionaries collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy as that crime is set forth in general conspiracy statute 18 usc 371. you said you coast your words carefully are you contradicting your report right now? >> not when i r

this just came out, wikileaks, i love wikileaks, donald trump, october 2016.his wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart, you've got to read it, donald trump, october 12, 2016. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove, october -- donald trump, october 16, 2016. i love reading wikileaks, donald trump, 2016. quotes disturb you? >> i am not certain i would say -- >> how do you react? >> problematic is an understatement in terms of what givinglays, in terms of what ise or boost to and should be illegal activities. >> volume one, page 59, donald trump jr. direct -- had direct indications with wikileaks during the campaign. on october 3, 2016, wikileaks sent a direct message to trump junior asking you guys to disseminate -- trump junior responded to that quote, they had already done so. this behavior at the very least is disturbing? >> it is certainly subject to investigation. ascould it be described aiding comfort to a hostile intelligence service? >> i would not categorize it with any specific. -- with any specificity. about-- with us to talk w

wikileaks is like a treasure trove, donald trump october 31st, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks. donald trump, november 4th, 2016. how do you react to that? >> well, it's probably -- problematic is an understatement. >> for weeks democrats argued that having mueller testify on camera would bring his dry, 448 page report to life. instead, there was an awful lot of this. >> i direct you to the report. i rely on the report. i send you back to the report. i am not going to get into that. i can't get into discussions on that. i can't get into it. >> mueller deferred or declined to answer questions 206 times. that performance had president trump declaring victory. >> i think robert mueller did a horrible job, both today and with respect to the investigation. the democrats lost so big today. their party is in shambles right now. they are a mess. this was a devastating day for the democrats. >> inside politics anchor john king explains why trump was so confident. >> i think he's happy today because you do not have that viral movie trailer moment of ro

on page 45, mueller documents how, in early july of 2016, wikileaks contacted the russians privatelyn twier saying, "if you have anything hillary-related, we want it in fee next two days pble." and then, on july 22, three days before the democratic national convention began, wikileaks released more than 20,000 emails another stolen documents. it was a clear attempt to embarrass clinton and weaken her candidacy. desjardins: timing is a constant theme in this report. the week after the democratic convention, mueller writes, candidate trump made this t.controversial statem president trump: russia, if you're listening, fhope you're able d the 30,000 emails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. desjardins: now, president trump has repeatedly insisted this was a joke. but mueller writes, within five hours of candidate trump saying those words, the gru targeted clinton's personal office for the rst time. notably, mueller found no evidence that the campaign knew that russians would respon but the report showed for the first time how soon russians acte

. >> this just came out, wikileaks, i love wikileaks. donald trump, october 10th, 2016. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you gotta read it. donald trump, october 12th, 2016. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove, donald trump, october 31, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks, donald trump, november 4th, 2016. would any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not certain i would say -- >> how do you react to them? >> well, it is problematic is an understatement. >> problematic is an understatement. as sara murray reports, democrats are claiming today's testimony only bolsters their case for impeachment proceedings to begin while republicans are saying they learned nothing new, case closed. >> reporter: prize witness on the stand -- >> do you swear or affirm -- >> reporter: democrats tried to drive home president trump's alleged misconduct. >> the report did not conclude that he did not commit obstruction of justice? is that correct? >> that is correct. >> and what about total exoneration

there are wikileaks of documents and emails. what are reporters, citizens confronting on thisrf inence issue broadly speaking as we head into 2020? >> yeah. i think that was one of e messages that mueller had that you know, not just c we as citizens, maybe we in the wdia have not yet fully come to grih the lessons of 2016 and what we're going to doa next time e there's undoubtedly going to be a next time that stolen material appears online that can be helpful to one party or the sorry. you know, every day we still see fake viral memes pop up online and get spread like wildfire before they're shut down. so i think we're just very much at the beginning of confronting this problem as a society. we haven't figured it out yet. robert: what was our take swa on mr. mueller's testimony about wikileaks? >> yeah. i thought that was one of the most striking moments ofimis tey because he had tried hard not to enter the partisan fray and he had this one moment where he was asked what he thought of the statements that president trump had made

. >> this weekend wikileaks released 20,000 e-mails.of which seemed to confirm what a lot of people had suspected. the dnc was playing favorites with hillary clinton over bernie sanders. >> on page 45 of the mueller report, private messages over twitter between wikileaks and russian opera tufs released an interest in the stolen information and causing conflict in the democratic party. >> wikileaks explained we think trump has a 25% chance of winning against hillary so conflict is interesting. >> she was hillary clinton's director of strategic communications at the time of the dnc hack. >> you had outside forces like wikileaks that were trying to perpetuate discord and dysfunction between two people who really should be coming together and unify iing the democratic party. >> the idea that inside the dnc, which is supposed to be neutral, the thumb was on the scale for hillary clinton. >> that's where you got your split between bernie sanders supporter and hillary clinton supporters. and the u.s. news media ate it up. >> the next thing i k

this just came out, wikileaks, i love wikileaks, donald trump. october 1 2016. this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you got toead it, donald trump, october 12, 2016. "this wikileaks is like a treasure-trove," donald trump, october 31, 2016. "boy, i love reading those wikileaks," donald trump, november 4, 2016. wouldny of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'mot n certain i would say -- >> how do you react to that? >> well, it's problematic is an understatement in terms of what it displays, in terms of giving some, i don't know, hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activi. >> volume 1, page 59, donald trump jr. had direct line of communications with wikileaks during the campaign period. on october 32016, wikileaks sent another direct message to trump junior, asking yous guy to help a disseminate ledging candidate clinton had advocated drones to a jackian assange. trump junior responded that, quote, he had already done so. same question. this bavior at the very least, disturbing? your reaction? >>isturbing and

wikileaks. i love wikileaks. donald trump, october 10th, 2016, this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you got to read it, donald trump. october 12th, 2016. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. donald trump, october 31, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks, november 4, 2016. would any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not sure. i would say -- >> how do you react to it? >> well, it is probably -- problematic is an understatement in terms of what it displays in terms of giving some, i don't know, hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> frank figliuzzi, your take. >> so look, let's cut to the chase here. what bob mueller was telling us was essentially this president by aligning himself and encouraging the activity, the cringe conduct of wikileaks was giving them a boost, encouraging them to do what they needed to do. and make no mistake, we have a president that not only has aligned himself with putin and other adversaries, but has publicl

. >>> coming up, documents to show how julian assange orchestrated the wikileaks release from the didampaign in the runup to the 2016 election while held up in the ecuadoren embassy. >>> it was a document that could have changed the course of american presidential history in the runup to the election and spent days upon days releasing hacked emails from the members of the committee and clinton campaign that contained embarrassing details and drew worldwide attention. during that time julian assange was held up in the embassy in london and since then consistently denied any connection with russia in the disclosures. well now in an exclusive investigation, cnn uncovered a raft of the documents outlining and remarkable detail his time in the embassy and how he met with hackers and russian tied to the kremlin. here is alex marquardt with the report. >> in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, ecuador's election turned into a command post. the website's founder julian assange who was living there in political asylum. in stunning new detail, hundreds of security reports,

wikileaks. i love wikileaks. donald trump, october 10th, 2016.aks stuff is unbelievable. it tells you the inner heart. you got to read it. donald trump, october 12th, 2016. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. donald trump, october 31st, 2016. boy, i love reading those wikileaks. donald trump, november 4th, 2016. any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not certain i would say -- >> how do you react to that? >> well, it's problematic is an understatement in terms of whether to display, in terms of giving some i don't know, some hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> so national security adviser flynn lied about discussions with russian ambassador related to sanctions. is that right? >> that's correct. >> michael cohen lied to this committee about trump tower moscow, is that correct? >> yes. >> the president's campaign chairman paul manafort lied about meetings he had with someone with ties to russian intelligence. that correct? >> that's true. >> in your investigation, did you think that this was a singl

posting the e-mails. >> ilove wikileaks. >> prohibit sick an understatement in terms of what it displace in terms of giving some hope or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity >> mueller said his investigation was no witch hunt and that russian acts of mettling through phony social media and the hacked e-mails were real and dangerous. >> would you agree that it was not a hoax that the russians were engaged if trying to impact our election? >> absolutely. that was not a hoax. the indictments we returned against the russians, two different ones, were substantially and in their scope using the scope word again, and i think one of the -- we have underplayed to a certain extent -- >> reporter: mueller said that as the report does though he wanted to interview president trump the special counsel team decided not to put up a fight. >> the expectation was if he did subpoena the president he would fight the subpoena and we would be in the midst of the investigation for a substantial period of time >> reporter: the president did submit answers in writing, though not every question th

i love wikileaks." donald trump, october 10, 2016. "this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable.", i love reading those wikileaks." donald trump november 4th, 2016. would any of those quotes disturb you, mr. director? >> i'm not certain i would say-- >> how do you react to that? >> well, it's probably-- problematic is an understatement in terms of what it displays in terms of giving some-- i don't know-- hope, or some boost to what is and should be illegal activity. >> stephen: thar she blows! ( laughter ) an actual opinion! ( applause ) ready the harpoons, boys! ♪ hooray and up she rises hooray and up she rises hooray ♪ he actually-- he actually dispressed an opinion and it's a big one. remember, "problematic is an understatement" is a pretty scathing indictment from a man whose version of "i love you" is probably "it's safe to say there is some fondness." at that point, the hearing took a strange turn. after four hours of raw partisanship, the united states congress did something really odd. they started to worry about the united states. this concern for country was lead off by

i never received any of the w s wikileaks disclosures.d with assange or wikileaks other than what i already gave to the house intelligence committee. >> laura, he says it's just him showing off, it wasn't based in fact. >> they're essentially saying this was just bravado, he just wanted people to believe he was important. he didn't actually have the strips strings to julian assange or anyone else in wikileaks, he was just trying to have puffery be used to elevate his status among the powerful circle of people which included trump. but the idea that it was merely coincidental that he had information and advanced information on when this would drop, he was able to talk to and be a go-between, and members and senior officials were looking to roger stone to provide information about when the next drop would be, when the next hacked emails would be released, indicating to many people that he wasn't just somebody whose puffery was not at all justified or that he was the broken clock that happens to be right twice a day, ana. so the idea that he

also it doesn't know how the emails made their way to wikileaks.espite having such an invasive window into the operations of russia, mueller can't tell us how the emails got to wikileaks. >> tucker: wait a second. if he can't show how he they got to wikileaks, then how does he know -- i mean, that's essential fact. if you can't know that, then you can't know anything, can you? >> no. i think it shows a real core flaw on his part and he should be question on it when he appears before congress next week. there is -- he suggests that the emails were given to wikileaks committees russian cutouts, alleged russian cutouts, guccifer 2.0 from wikileaks, assange he got those emails from guccifer 2.90 and before he did transferred by guccifer 2.0 which mueller cannot assert. >> tucker: he should be asked about it. the only person asking these questions, hopefully members of congress are watching tonight and will follow your lead on this. aaron mate, thank you very much for coming on. >> thank you. >> tucker: beto o'rourke's presidential bid looks dune. how h

stone discussed future wikileaks email releases with the trump campaign. understanding there is a gag order on the stone case, i will keep my questions restricted to publicly available information. mr. stone's indictment. >> let me say at the outset, i don't mean to disrupt you. but i would like some demarcation of that which is applicable to this but in such a way it doesn't hinder the other prosecution taking place in d.c. >> i'll only be talking about the questions that you asked in writing to the president that relate to mr. stone. >> thank you, ma'am. >> his indictment states the following, quote, stone was contacted by senior trump officials to inquire about future releases of organization one, organization one being wikileaks. indictment continues, quote, stone thereafter told the trump campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by wikileaks. so in short the indictment alleges that stone was asked by the trump campaign to get information about more wikileaks releases and that stone, in fact, did tell the trump campaign about poten