comment on who gets picked until the cover is published. it s part of a sort of annual tradition for the president, from lobbying for his inclusion to claiming others said he should be, you know should be or criticizing time for the other people chosen. the president has been talking and tweeting about this for years. so what else is new? so here s a question. could individual 1 be named the person of the year? i want to bring in now brian stelter and elaina plott, the white house correspondent for the atlantic. good evening. good evening. let s see. he last won person of the year 2016. really wanted to win it back-to-back years. it didn t happen. so what is is he going to win? make your case. i think he s the man you think he s going to win? i think it is trump. here s why. the time person of the year marks a moment, where we are as a country and as a society. and like it or not trump is the sun. everything else revolves around him. politics and culture, all of
2016. really wanted to win it back-to-back years. it didn t happen. so what is is he going to win? make your case. i think he s the man you think he s going to win? i think it is trump. here s why. the time and like it or not trump is the sun. everything else revolves around him. politics and culture, all of the above. some people love him, some hate him. some think he s crazy like a fox, others think he s just crazy. you go to dinner party or something people say trump s mentally ill, he s a hero, he s a villain. people are arguing about trump two years in even though the mid-terms swing in the democrat s favor it was all about trump. the reason i might be wrong, though, he did win in 2016. it s only been two years. the difference now is he wouldn t be honored for winning the election. this would be a recognition of
the russian cyberattack of 2016. really have three elements to it. the first was to penetrate the democratic party servers and the e-mail top official of the hillary clinton campaign. the other was to get into state election systems, to their databases. and the third element of this was to inflame or create divisions within the american political culture. they did this with twitter and youtube and probably, most of all, facebook. creating fake pages, fake personas, fake tweets. putin s goal, according to u.s. intelligence agencies was to hurt hillary clinton, help donald trump and provoke conflict without leaving any fingerprints. the documents stolen by wikileaks. blasting russia and vladimir putin. state-sponsored russian hackers. polls now open. the most contentious and controversial presidential campaign is history.
doubtful any kind of online activity could be done without his approval. the russian cyber attack. 2016. really three elements to it. the first was to penetrate the democratic party servers. and the e-mail top official the clinton campaign. the other was to get into state elections systems. to their data base. and the third element of the this was to inflame or create divisions within the american political culture. with twitter and youtube. and probably most of all facebook creating fake pages and fake tweets. putin s goal according to u.s. intelligence agencies was to hurt hillary clinton. help trump. and provoke conflict without leaving any fingerprints.
personally. because of the united states. sanctions and clinton. the russian cyber attack. 2016. really three elements to it. the first was to penetrate the democratic party servers. and the e-mail top official the clinton campaign. the other was to get into state elections systems. to their data base. and the third element of the this was to inflame or create divisions within the american political culture. with twitters and you tube. and probably most of all facebook creating fake pages and fake tweets. putin goal according to u.s. intelligence agencies was to hurt hillary clinton. help trump. and provoke conflict without leaving any fingerprints.