interference intelligence operation for the russian go government in 2016. he ran all the social media stuff that targeted our election to try to swing it toward trump. he has since tried to turn his own indictment in that case to the advantage of the russian government by using the u.s. court system to try to extract sensitive national security information from the government and from the investigation of the special counsel. well, this afternoon, a u.s. federal judge, a trump appointee brushed that effort way back with a public dressing down and a public humiliation of the american lawyer who was trying to carry out that effort and make a public spectacle of it at the same time. depending on what happens next here, it looks like that lawyer is maybe out and that may indicate even weirder turns to come in this case. this is already one of the weirder story lines in the whole russia scandal, in the whole