unusual viewpoints, even today, people waiting in line refused to acknowledge that fellow trump supporter might be responsible for the attempted bombings. barack obama, he is and hillary clinton probably sent hers to herself. so you don t think this guy actually sent these bombs to these officialsome. no, probably not. why? they probably had it done. they may have paid him to do it. there s radical people on all sides. there can be people that are problem creators, they create problems like people on the left can create them. people on the alt-right can create them, two-way street. what s your reaction to the fact that a, they caught the guy, but b, he may seem to have some kind of pro-trump sentiment to him. i think that theory is ridiculous, honestly. here with me now, two reporters who know the viewpoints, ben collins and ben
there s radical people on all sides. there can be people that are problem creators, they create problems like people on the left can create them. people on the alt-right can create them, two-way street. what s your reaction to the fact that a, they caught the guy, but b, he may seem to have some kind of pro-trump sentiment to him. i think that theory is ridiculous, honestly. here with me now, two reporters who know the viewpoints, ben collins and ben shrekinger. give me a sense of this digital world this individual was immersed. on facebook he was in lots of trump pro-facebook groups. but it appears he was created probably, he was the only friend of a page called kill george soros. he spent a lot of time on twitter threatening people he
yeah, not clear indeed. mueller s mandate is to investigate russia s attack on the election to help trump win and the related question of whether the trump campaign was aware of and helped in that russian attack. and now the fbi has apparently concluded that this investigation should expand too include the hack of a never trump republican activist during the campaign. what is it about this case, and what don t we know about what the special counsel is working on that made the fbi look at this and say, hey, you know what, this one actually belongs to the special counsel, give it to him. i m desperate to know the answer to that question. joining us now is ben shrekinger, the politico reporter who broke the story and he broke the news about the catfishing scheme in the first place. thank you very much for being here. thanks for having me. let me ask you first, if i got any of that wrong.
similarity in tactics, in terms of what jacobis was hit with. e-mail hacking is something we know the russians engaged in during the campaign. the social media trolling and harassment that she was subjected to, that s been covered by a number of media outlets at this point. but all of that is quite circumstantial, and if there is a smoking gun direct link to russia here, it has yet to emerge. ben, you ve been on this story from the beginning and you ve absolutely got me sort of on the edge of my seat about this, i can t wait to figure out what lies under this latest reporting on this case. really appreciate you being here tonight. call us as soon as you figure it out, okay? absolutely, will do. thank you, ben. we ll be right back. we ll be right back.he d in hard to reach places.