people in congress and his administration know that the president is a clear and present danger. who s mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons. and they do nothing. join us. tell your member of congress that they have a moral responsibility to stop doing what s political and start doing what s right. that was tom steyer, democratic donor of the 2016 election. he used to be known for giving to candidate that is back environmental causes but now his cause is impeaching donald trump and spending $10 million to air that tv ad along with an online petition for trump s impeach. joining us now is tom steyer. cnn reporting, nbc not confirming it yet, but krrn reporting that the first indictment or indictments handed down in the mueller investigation. your thoughts? well, i think that this is a reflection of the kind of lawlessness that is pervaded
what s political and start doing what s right. that was tom steyer, democratic donor of the 2016 election. he used to be known for giving to candidate that is back environmental causes but now his cause is impeaching donald trump and spending $10 million to air that tv ad along with an online petition for trump s impeach. joining us now is tom steyer. cnn reporting, nbc not confirming it yet, but krrn reporting that the first indictment or indictments handed down in the mueller investigation. your thoughts? well, i think that this is a reflection of the kind of lawlessness that is pervaded this administration. and i think that we re going to find out along with everybody else exactly what the charges are but i think the question will be not just what are the first what is the first charge, but where did they lead? who s connected? i think regardless of anything
june 14th last year. the washington post, last summer, the headline, russian government hackers penetrated dnc, that was the first indication we had as a country that something was up in our election that had to do with the russian government. now the date of that first public report ends up being important. that was june 14th, last year. keeping that in mind, there was some interesting reporting earlier this week from the wall street journal, that was about the data firm cambridge analytica. cambridge analytica is now famous as the data firm that worked for the trump campaign. but rebecca ballhouse was first to report that investigators have seen an e-mail in which the head of cambridge analytica says that last june, june 2016, he made an on verture to wikileaks. he offered that cambridge analytica, his firm, would like to help wikileaks, disseminate all of those thousands of documents that had been stolen
randomly taken by some thief, they were taken as part of a russian intelligence operation. when that news broke on june 14th, it was not a subtle thing. it was everywhere. this was that initial report, russian government hackers 3e7b penetrated dnc. that started a lit any of reporting about this. u.s. officials say little doubt russia behind dnc hack. spy agency hacked dnc. fbi investigating possible connection to the linked dnc e-mails. it was everywhere. even if you can t read and sometimes watch the tv news, no matter what kind of tv news you were watching you couldn t help being expoed to this story, even if it s on fox. from the campaign trail the washington post reporting the russian government hacked into
it could take many, many months to get to the bottom of it. but even in if it s a charge against manafort or flynn or someone else, it seems there s so much new news all the time that it seems it would take a team of lawyers a long time to get to the bottom of it. but as i said, mueller does have a reputation of working with urgency and he has a team of 16 top prosecutors so they ve been working days, nights and weekends to get this done. thank you very much. i want to bring in the conversation matthew miller. he s the former spokesperson for the justice department. thank you for being here, i appreciate it. thank you. you heard the discussion i just had with barbara mcquad. you you ve seen the reporting that came out. i need to underscore that nbc has not confirmed this reporting tonight and as of five seconds ago when i last checked with the