Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bolder balderson is better on crime and taxes and ordinary issues and the question is whether the trump base will respond to that a oppose to the more personality consult that surrounds trump as an individual. If the numbers froze right now, if the democrats even with an l in this race still have won because it went from double digit down to Single Digits as least as of todays polling. Well, they will definitely spin it as a win. And you could argue that the fact that they are narrowing the gap so dramatically on a race on the seat that has been held by a republican for decades is a big deal. There are lots of other races like that actually more favorable to democrats across the country come november, they only need 23 seats in order to flip the house. So they would probably take this feeling confident, take this game plan to some of these other races. Republican base or certain portions of republican voters, he h
actual hacking attempts on at least one u.s. senator. in this case i think what s interesting is indeed how these groups are interacting. in the past we have seen them perhaps russian groups draw out real world american protesters, but in this case they were teaming up with actual genuine american groups and activists who didn t realize they were in the hands essentially of a foreign actor. in the case of the unite the right counterprotest for this white nationalist protest next week in d.c., the activists on the left who were planning to counterprotest this event are real people, i met some of them, and they did not realize their groups had teamed up with essentially with a foreign group. elizabeth, one of the points that has been made is facebook is moving forward to be more open about what they were doing. before they were not even admitting that they had a specialized group, if you will, a task force, right, going after this stuff and now they re being very open about it, putti
coordinated in-authentic behavior including posts like this would be uruld b one urgin attend an event against fascism and another advertising a group with a job calling itself resisters and pushing for a stop against the trump regime. other accounts targeted african-americans with names like black elevation. facebook says it cannot identify the source but that it is similar to russia s efforts around the 2016 election. joining us now, from the washington post, she s been closely following the story for us. and also will sumner, tech and internet reporter for the daily beast. elizabeth, one might start how big of a threat is it that they are identifying? is it more or less than what we saw in 2016? i think it is less, but we re only seeing the tip of the iceberg right now. and what is really fascinating about this one is you can see the real world tentacles and the
starting to happen. they were basically absent during the 2016 election. but it raises the question who is responsible for this, private companies or law enforcement. ten seconds to you, will. i think they re working together more but at the same time i think there s a very confusing message coming out of the trump administration in terms of how much they re going to do about this so it remains to be seen. elizabeth, will, great conversation. appreciate it. thank you. thanks for having us. t-shirts at a prominent museum sold for $20 and all about false news. what the hubbub was all about that came to an end today. when i touch you like this
way facebook is charging head first into free speech issues. facebook said that they were going to take down these accounts because of this real world rally that was going to come up next week and they were worried about the harm that this clash could cause. however, during the last year of this group resistors being active, they actually planned several rallies that actually took place. so you see that the real world tentacles, hundreds of people showing up and being boosted by russian influence infiltrating progressive and left-wing movements, that is growing. that is a different part of the conversation than we had last go-round. you re saying the reality of the unreal or the digital in this case here. so, will, from what you ve learned also, as you heard from elizabe elizabeth, less than what it was in 2016. what s your view on that and what might be seen as remarkable about these recent efforts? sure. again, it is less than in 2016 from what we ve seen so far. we have no idea