even at that point in the campaign, russia was kind of an issue. i mean, we already know that donald trump, jr. had experience before, as you pointed out. he was kind of wary of what the russians do when they get into negotiations, et cetera. i think it s totally legitimate to say why didn t a red flag go up at that point? you add to that the fact that they obviously were interested in getting something, as the russians would call it, on hillary clinton. so those two are worrisome and notable things. also, look at some of her clients. one of her clients, as was pointed out in the piece that kind of set this up, one of her clients was involved in real estate using real estate, reportedly, and he settled on this, but to launder money. so this is i think there are a lot of very important aspects of this that really are very unclear and should be clarified. yeah. again, all we know from the new york times reporting and now donald trump s revised statement. jill dougherty, thanks, s
cyber security initiative. how is moscow reacting? the kremlin spokesman was asked about this. and he kind of said, well, it s not entirely clear that this cyber security working group or unit that president trump and president putin both discussed on friday, it s not clear that it s been cancelled. he said no promises had been made to establish it, but there s no question that the two top diplomats who accompanied the two presidents in that two-hour and 15 minute long meeting came out with three things. they were a regional cease fire in syria. appointing a u.s. envoy to deal with the war in ukraine that russia is implicated in and this kind of working group that wasn t clearly defined. secretary tillerson said it would probably include people from the state department and the national security advisor. later president trump tweeted that it would be an inpenetrable
are not new to this discussion. we hosted the president of the united states here at stanford university and our cyber security initiative to think about these things last year. he s not going to launch into a major cyber war with 34 days left in his administration, that does not sound like him. number two, he s not going to in my view think about this longer term thing and we ll be in something that starts now that would trickle into the trump administration. instead therefore, i think he has to do what he has a power to do which is to release as much information as possible. every time we keep talking, have you noticed, people still use that dependent clause. if it were the russians then, well, we have to take away that dependant clause if it were the
everything there is to know about you. elizabeth pran joins us with more. the national security agency or nsa is building the utah data center. a million square foot if as aility 11 football fields under construction south of new york city. th it will support the cyber security initiative which is the federal government against cyber threat. let s go ahead and get to why we are talking about it. in a bombshell article interviews a whistleblower claiming they have software that quotes eves drops on domestic phone calls on web searchs and social media outlets target addresses and phone conversations. the nsa is building the country s biggest spy center. in congressional hearings days ago director general sander took the issue head on. el specifically addressed the accusations in the articles
referring to the suggestion from the president that part of what he and putin talked about was to work together on a cyber security initiative. the russians and the u.s. working together. that s head scratching for many who wonder how you would partner with an entity that you believe was hacking the u.s. system at the same time the u.s. of course has its own espionage in the cyber realm. how would a partnership like this work? there s some real doubts about that we heard voiced by both republicans and democrats today. the white house has said that could be a constructive way of moving forward and getting russia to stop doing what it s doing in russian elections that are happening in europe and certainly the 2018 election for the u.s. next year. alex. and kelly, will you look ahead for us and tell us what s on the president s docket this week? well, one of the things that might surprise people is he just came back last night from his poland and germany trip. the g-20. he ll be leavi