e-mails. . they message him to say, this has just come out. and in that, he asks donald trump jr. to tweet the link to searchable clinton stories. there s many stories the press are missing. very little pickup by the dishonest media. incredible information provided by wikileaks. you have donald trump jr. getting this information, and donald trump himself sends that out. could that be a coincidence? no. i think we re seeing a pattern that includes conversations with the president. there s word coming in through donald jr., goes up the chain to the president. i think the president has known a lot about these conversations for a long time, that contradict the whom notion that he s put
this morning, new evidence that social media platforms were used by groups linked to russia during the 2016 election. a fake campaign called blacktivist. this as twitter representatives told investigators on the hill they took action on 200 accounts after determined they were linked to russia and sought to interfere in american politics. a source ac nomgds the matter some of the twitter accounts promoted anti-hillary clinton stories. our senior media reporter dylan byers has the details. first of all, talk about this blackvist do i have it right? yes. is that what it s called? that s right. what was the purpose there? well, the purpose was
ert. test. in happening now, no power, no running water, puerto rico is struggling a week after hurricane maria laid waste to the u.s. territory. with more than two dozen hospitals still inoperable, is the humanitarian crisis about to get much worse? many communities remain cut off to the relief supplies that are reaching the island. i ll talk to president trump s homeland security adviser at this hour about the government s response. delete your account. twitter officials talked to congressional investigators about russian election meddling, revealing they closed some 200 accounts that stoked hot button issues like race and immigration and pushed anti-hillary clinton stories. why is one top senator calling
we see one and then one and then one. there is enough of these isolated incidents that it does seem to be an issue for the trump campaign. and i think, again, it goes back to what dominates the news on any given day. if it were not for other stories, maybe more focus on this issue. look, there s no real good that can come out of even the analysis. you know, is there a risk to be in a demagogue? yes. you stoke everybody s anger. and the irony and the sad part is that that all right movement is real. it s real within his own campaign. that s true. but much bigger are all these middle class and working class families who need a voice. who feel so desperately underrepresented that they will forgive trump s obvious failures because they re desperate for a voice in a system they believe has forgotten them long ago. that s the tragedy. that s the big story of this election. that s why some journalists, including myself, missed the trump phenomenon. did not see it coming earlier
about? fahrenthold from washington post basically came out with the inside of a doughnut hole that the guy has been showing up at things, pretending to be a don ter a donor and he wasn t. you won t hear about it and many people say, why should i? fair analysis. i think both stories matter and i m glad fahrenthold is on it. it did come up on the sunday shows. it is getting a lot less attention. trump managed to do extreme things on clinton stories in the past, too. always what is the big lead and you re going to get massive coverage of that. let s talk about what s going on at trump rallies. it s unprecedented, really. well, it was those left-wing agstarts. no, this is not anybody who was provoked. these are people who are his supporters who are by what is