That delay, that gap is it really interesting. Because we know this isnt the only information that american intelligence had about possible russian attempts to influence the election. So there it were other channels coming in at the same time. Also highlights the degree to which the fbi was put in an almost impossible position later in the campaign. We know they had this information or some of this information. We knew there was the Ongoing Investigation into Hillary Clintons emails. You have the fbi essentially meant to it be a nonpolitical organization in possession of damming fascinating pieces of evidence, if not smoking guns, in either case, trying to decide how to play it, how aggressively to pursue their investigation and what political risks there are for a nonpartisan Law Enforcement agency to be perceived as putting its fingers on the scale if any of this nfrngs came out in the last few weeks. Again, another piece, not the full picture, but justins to provide context for hous
raging at their tv again. it s not people acting together or political organization. and if you were allowed to run for president he would actually be able to parlay all of this anti-corruption rage into politics. i want to ask you about the trepidation, i assume president vladimir putin feels about his c candidacy. you look at him for 81% approval rating according to the polling. what does he fear here given that? why not let him run, illusion of an open and fair election? that s a great question. because you think he is going to dictate the numbers anyway. even the relationship between sort of the number of votes cast tan the result that is are announced is murky at best. and there is plenty of evidence of falsification. but i think they perceive the election as a stress point for the regime. so the fear is not rational. just as the fear of protests in