appointment order begins, and that is interference in the 2016 presidential election. as alleged by the grand jury in an indictment, russian intelligence officers who are part of the russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system. the indictment alleges that they used sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by the clinton campaign. they stole private information and then released that information through fake online identities and through the organization wikileaks. the releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate. and at the same time as the grand jury alleged in a separate indictment, a private russian entity engaged in a social media operation, where russian citizens posed as americans in
and that is interference with the 2016 presidential election. as alleged by the grand jury in an indictment, russian intelligence officers who were part of the russian military, launched a concerted attack on our political system. the indictment alleges that they used sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by the clinton campaign. they stole private information and then released that information through fake online identities and through the organization, wikileaks. the releases were designed and times to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate. and at the same time as the grand jury alleged in a separate indictment, a private russian entity engaged in a social media operation where russian citizens posed as americans in order to influence an election.
that s been really hard for me. reporter: she has months of rehab ahead, but that hasn t kept her off the campaign trail. hello, everybody. how are you doing? don t mind these guys. reporter: arrington beat sanford in the primary by defending the president. president trump came out and gave a voice to us, the deplorables. i m a deplorable. reporter: she still is even as she s facing a general election. backing the president up on tariffs. president trump wrote a book, i can t remember when the art of the deal was written. he s the master negotiator. i give him a lot of credit. reporter: looking past his personal life. does it bother you that the president is alleged to have an affair with a playboy playmate? honestly, you give me one i don t i m not here to judge anybody. i m not jesus christ. reporter: and dismissing russian meddling. our entire intelligence community essentially said that the russian government intentionally tried to interfere in our election.
affair with a playboy playmate? honestly, you give me one i don t i m not here to judge anybody. i m not jesus christ. reporter: and dismissing russian meddling. our entire intelligence community essentially said that the russian government intentionally tried to interfoointerfere in our election. by hacking and other cyber techniques. do you believe that happened or not? i believe every nation that has the capability tries to do things to each other without a doubt. the i.c. said specifically the russians. you don t think the russians did anything worse or more nefarious than any other nation? i think china was way worse than anything russia could have or did. reporter: defenses that might have worked in the primarytough general election this fall. that was katie arrington and our extended conversation, as you can see, guy, in the wake of what happened, she s as behind
masters of using, you know, cyber terrorism, cyber techniques against the free world and we have count and cannot trust putin dealing with cybersecurity, iran, europe, we simply cannot trust putin. arthel: you said, it s okay that president putin is going to come to the white house sometime this fall, you said that s okay, how can president trump make this right? well, you know, i don t think that putin deserves actually to be coming to the united states but the decision has been made by the white house, it is what it is. do i think that president trump should stand up very aggressively to vladimir putin when putin comes to u.s. soil and putin must understand that the leader of the free world will stand up to russian aggression at every opportunity and so i do hope the president will be making it very, very