Russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 president ial election. According to the allegations in the indictment, the defendants worked for two units of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the russian general staff known as the gru. The units engaged in active Cyber Operations to interfere in the 2016 president ial election. The conspirators corresponded with several americans during the course of the conspiracy through the internet. There is no allegation in this indictment that the americans knew they were corresponding with russian Intelligence Officers. The indictments place the blame for the 2016 election meddling squarely on the shoulders of the russian state, not as donald trump has previously alleged, china, a 400 pound man, or, quote, other people in other countries. According to rosenstein, the president was briefed earlier this week that the indictments were coming, but trump and his white house have offered no condemnation of russia, putin
Indictment presented by the special counsels office. The indictment charges 12 Russian Military officers by name for conspireing to interfere with the 2016 president ial election. According to the allegations in the indictment, the defendants worked for two units of the main intelligence director rat of the russian general staff known as the gru. The units engaged in active Cyber Operations to interfere in the 2016 president ial election. The conspirators corresponded with several americans during the course of the conspiracy through the internet. Theres no allegation in this indictment that the americans knew they were corresponding with russian Intelligence Officers. The indictments place the blame for the 2016 election meddling squarely on the shoulders of the russian state. Not as donald trump has previously alleged, china, a 400pound man or other people in other countries. According to rosen tine, the president was briefed earlier this week that the indicts were coming but trump a
And is raising some new ethics concerns. And in less than 25 hours, we will know how big the next democratic debate stage will be. Well take a deep dive into what will be a do or die moment in the president ial race. The 11th hour on a tuesday night starts right now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams, who has the night off. Day 950 of the trump administration. And the president is furiously battling the perception of a white house with no strategy and no direction. Trump made no public appearances today, but we did hear from him quite a bit on social media as he jumped from one topic to another on his twitter feed, underscoring what the Los Angeles Times describes as quote the scattershot focus that defines his stream of consciousness presidency. Among the things on trumps mind, quote i have gotten to know president ball sin narrow well in our dealings with brazil, hes working very hard on the amazon fires i
Obviously. I think it shows from an investigative standpoint how quickly Law Enforcement responds. You have they trying to locate him. When you go into these investigations, you look at them, hoping the person this is a missing child case and not a murder. So they bring all resources to bear. As you mentioned. It appears the case cause solved by forensic data off the cell foles. Question dont know if it was Text Messages or maybe more technical in nature as far as the geographical location where the parents had actually traveled. Thats what well have to wait and see in the documents. What is also just stunning here, and again you look at the charges of murder, but also they multiple charges of battery as well, which signals bodily harm. Obviously its just terrible to think about if theres any silver lining, you had Law Enforcement trying to get an answer to the xhurcht, and now well see what the courts do with the parents. Wrapped in plastic in some town in illinois, and the department
Core of it. His explanations as to why he did this strike and when he did it or didnt do it, dont add up. So lets start with the when. Because this depends on which trump you believed. Here is how President Trump recounted the situation about the strike in an interview this afternoon. You never gave a final order. No, no, but we had something ready to go subject to my approval. And they came in about a hoff hour before said sir were about ready to go. I want. Planes in the air. Were about ready to go. No but they would have been pretty soon. And things would have happened to a point where you wouldnt turn back oh or current turn back. Okay with that is after a tweet this morning where the president quote we were cocked and loaded to retaliate last night on three different sites ten minutes before the strike i stopped it. Well time really matters here when you talk about killing people. Half an hour before, no planes in the air or 10 minutes before, cocked and loaded. Take your pick. So