page, hillary for prison. and then it was trump is not my president rally. i went there! i went outside of that. it was right outside of trump tower. you know activists, the greenwich village type. they were chanting. it would have been unbelievable. you could have won me over if i knew then that this was apparently sponsored according to the indictment, by the russians. how can he saw americanized math does it surprise you at all? is this right up their alley? yeah, i m sorry to say the russians are failures on a lot of things. you know, their courage is their business. their business is corruption. when it comes espionage they really good in their ability to understanding us. they have an exceptional number of intelligence serving the country collecting on what makes us tick as people. they know what divides us. and really that was the key point from the indictment.
named in this indictment. it s hard to believe that president putin did not know what was going on and in fact the underlying message of the indictment is the president almost had to know what was going on, president putin that is. it certainly is what do you think will be the impact on the american psyche as we go into the midterms and as we move further in elections knowing the russians will continue to try to medd meddle? i would hope that americans who are normally skeptical of what they see and hear not only from the media but from ads and the other things the russians tried to do to sway this election would just be sensible and be skeptical. we ve got to always challenge the information we hear. we all do our best to bring the american as journalists the right information, sometimes we don t get it right, but americans need to exercise extreme caution now about groups that portray themselves as pro
politically and socially active americans. advocating for and against particular candidates. they established social media pages and groups to communicate with unwitting americans. eric: but will they ever face justice? doug burns joins us now former federal prosecutor and david bruno defense attorney and former prosecutor and trial attorney. welcome to you both. thank you. eric: what are you chances you think that we re going to see any of these russians actually in handcuffs? it depends on a couple of factors. if they have the appetite, the willingness to simply remain in russia, then they will never face justice here, and the reason for that is there s no extradition treaty between the united states and russia. there s no legal vehicle or mechanism for getting them before the u.s. courts. next little baby step if they travel to a country that does not have extradition similarly with the united states, then they will also probably be fine. okay? but if they travel to a country th
you should expect him to change his tune. i also think it would go get the narrative that he has created this entire time. it will create a rift between us and russia which is the exact opposite of what he wants to do before he came president. before the dog would like to ask, do you have any indications as to the timeline of the broader fbi probe as this information is coming out? i think we can certainly expect it will not be wrapping up anytime soon despite what the legal counsel will say or what the president believes himself. the latest indictment shows that it is not slowing down. there are many more people in his indictment and the indictment include specific allegations that americans knowingly colluded with russia. it does not mean that there is a door closed for future indictments for that. alexi mccammond, thank you. thank you.
democracy if you do not that there s some wisdom in the president wanting to use this as evidence that there was no collusion? i think what i would certainly focus on is the white house statement from siera santos or others from donald trump saying how they will adjust the issue of election meddling moving forward. especially with mike pompeo just said that he is almost certain that there will be some sort of meddling in the midterm elections. which are just a few months away. is a good point. because we have not heard what they might do and what the agencies are supposed to be protecting our elections from meddling or planning. do you think we will hear more about how the intelligence activities might work to counter this type of meddling? i think we have to. we ve heard things and how we are trying to prevent domestic meddling. folks in the us, we have heard about them hacking our elections but it is not addressing the larger issue of foreign entities. not only since we have th