but the response has not been. the russians are good at weaponizing social media. we know how effective they are. our response so far, recognizing it s ongoing has been to on the republican side launch another attack against who? the intelligence community. the fbi, the justice department. other countries have responded this in a much different way. to hold the social media platforms accountable for their public responsibility. we re simply not doing this, as a result the russians efforts will be ongoing. they continue with the purpose of helping president trump. i want to put in perspective
november was a big month. november was the leadup to the election. either way, no matter what part of november this happened in, it doesn t bode well, it looks like it s more about personal interest and personal gain for this president to be or president-elect to have over the good of the country. thank you all very much. could be the best defense he s going to be able to come up with is, i didn t think there was anyway i was going to win, so i kept up trying to get the tower the whole time. i don t know. more questions about rudy giuliani s defense strategy. when he was mayor, he was so tough on crime. now as trump s attorney, some crimes are no longer crimes. it s not a crime, george. paying $130,000 to stormy whatever and paying 100 to the other one is not a crime. two explosive reports used every major social media outlet
read this document go online. they release a document like this, remember. we ll get more information clearly as the day goes on. thanks for watching, erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next, james comey lashing out, accusing the president of the united states of being a liar and attacking the rule of law. the former fbi director shaping republican republicans for not standing up to trump. breaking news, the dow plunging more than 500 points again. the market is right now on track for the worst december since the great depression. all the way back to 1931. is it fair to blame trump or not? let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. comey lashing out at trump and
bearing to what he said in the past. i take great solace in knowing that you realize how much trouble you re in, how impossible it will be to escape american justice. i m relieved you ll never have the opportunity to run for public office again. is that they re trying to stand up for the rule of law. is this risking muddying the waters? it could. i think he s been a little more aggressive. as we look at director clapper and director comey? this is the way i ve seen it. they weren t out making money building buildings on wall street, they were serving the nation, these institutions that they love. as they look at what s happening now the commander in chief systematically undermine the rule of law and justice and the
actually got along with russia? wouldn t that be good? isn t that a bad thing. like putin, putin called me brilliant, i like it. we would like you to disavow that statement. i said, you think i m going to disavow that statement, are you crazy? i would treat vladimir putin firmly, there s nothing i can think of that i d rather do, than have russia friendly as opposed to the way they are right now. those three things happened after michael cohen said discussions were over, but now in the interim, before rudy giuliani is opening the door to those discussions being over. why would rudy giuliani do this unless harry is right, and he knows something pretty damning is going to come on the time line? well, we also know that the russians were upping their game and they re trying to deal with our election process during the same time period that he s now expanded outword. with rudy, you never know if