to maximize impact on the election? i would have to refer you to a report on that question. page 36. i quote, the release of the documents were designed in time to interfere with the 2016 u.s. presidential election. mr. mueller, which residential candidate was russia s hacking and dumping operation designed to benefit? hillary clinton or donald trump? mr. trump. mr. mueller, is it possible that this sweeping and systematic effort by russia actually had an effect on outcome of the presidential election? those issues have been investigated by other entities. 126 million facebook impressions, fake rallies, attacks on hillary clinton s health. would you rule out that it might have had some effect on the election? i m not going to speculate. mr. mueller, your report describes a third avenue of attempted russian interference. that is the numerous links and contacts between the trump campaign and individuals tied to the russian government. is that correct?
speak of this attack on our democracy, as you said, involve two operations. first, a social media disinformation campaign. this was a targeted campaign to spread false information on places like twitter and facebook. is that correct? because that s correct. facebook estimated prereport of the russian fake images reached 126 million people. is that correct? i believe that is the sum we recorded. director, who did the russian social media campaign ultimately intended benefit? hillary clinton or donald trump? donald trump. the second operation i can say donald trump him but there were instances where hillary clinton was subject to much the same behavior. the second was a scheme, will be called the hack and dump to steal and release hundreds of thousands of emails from the democratic party and the clinton campaign. is that a fair summary? that is. did your investigations find that the releases of the hacked emails were strategically timed
that will be foundational as well as the fact that mueller was emphatic in his early statement he was operating under that olc guidance. you cannot indict a sitting president. before the antics get too fired up on the other side of the aisle, there is a coordinated strategy among the democrats to use their five minute increments to establish those building blocks and then from there you layer on a lot of the facts. that will take two different directions. some of the democrats think there s potentially some opportunity for movement even though a lot of opinions have hardened out there. they think a lot of this information that will be coming out in volume one will be shocking to the american people including for instance the back that 126 million americans were served content by the ira and the russians. things that all of you and i have read but only 3% of the
collusion, he was measuring criminal conspiracy. and he outlines 12 different instances of potential obstruction. the last building block of the foundation, steve, is that they want to make it clear to everyone that mueller is emphatic that he was operating under that guidance that he could not indict a sitting president. they want that to be made clear and then build the facts out from that, especially when it comes to volume 1, they say they want the american people onto know. for instance, 100 different contacts that the trump campaign very much invited the help of the russians, that they used the help of the russians in the form of wikileaks, that the russian military reached 126 million americans with disinformation and with information meant to stoke tensions, and then move onto the obstruction portion of the testimony as well. that is the general template.
and you think that would be enough to stimulate a national call for impeachment? i think it could. we certainly saw during the watergate hearings that when the hearings started, when the evidence started being put forward, the american public wasn t there, but as they learned what was really going on in the white house, they came to that conclusion themselves. the real opportunity here, chris, is not necessarily on the obstruction side. i have to disagree just a little bit because we ve seen the numbers on impeachment notched down to about 20% now, the public. a lot of the democrats who i talk to privately acknowledge that those numbers are unlikely to move dramatically. this is part of a much longer evolution. but the real opportunity here is to get out in front of the american people and make it so difficult for the republicans to not be cooperating with them when it comes to russian interference. how will pelosi look about after all this? points through 126 million america