thermometer. not going to see much at all. cold up there, alisyn. you re enjoying this. mocking minneapolis. laughing. you re deriving some sort of strange pleasure from this, but i get it. they want to play in it, they re going to get it. you re right. if they demand living there they get the cold as they say. thank you, chad. the russian government carried out a top down coordinated election interference campaign in 2016. that s according to a multitude of intel agencies. but, you re hearing some u.s. lawmakers now trying to blame or also blame ukraine. it s the latest example of russia disinformation magnified by the president and now some prominent republicans. cnn s senior political analyst john avalon joins us. ted cruz one surprises me. he was a critical thinker i think, once, but he is waving the shiny object over here while all of our hello is this sort of a sesame
now, i have on the air previously expressed envy and jealousy for peter carr because that seems like a great job if you re the spokesman for the special counsel s office, your job is to never say anything, right? the special counsel s office almost never makes public comments. i mean, we did a little survey of this tonight, at least as quickly as we could. we could only come up with three previous instances in the entirety of the mueller investigation in which peter carr has spoken on the record to a reporter about what s going on in the investigation. the first one was april of last year. mcclatchy had published a story saying that the mueller team had evidence that michael cohen had, in fact, traveled to prague, which would appear to buttress an allegation in the christopher steele dossier that cohen had gone to prague to meet with russians about the election interference campaign. cohen has denied that that happened, but mcclatchy published this piece in april saying that mueller ha
previous instances in the entirety of the mueller investigation in which peter carr has spoken on the record to a reporter about what s going on in the investigation. the first one was april of last year. mcclatchy had published a story saying that the mueller team had evidence that michael cohen had, in fact, travelled to prague, which would appear to buttress an allegation in the christopher steele dossier that cohen had gone to prague to meet with russians about the election interference campaign. cohen has denied that that happened but mcclatchy published this piece in april saying that mueller had evidence that it did happen. after that report, we got a very at that point i think unprecedented statement from the spokesman for the special counsel. not directly disputing the mcclatchy story but giving a sort of general warning to the press that there had been lots of inaccuracies out there and every journalist should be very careful about their sourcing. many stories about our in