americans can rest assured that our banking system is safe. did the government s actions actually make the system healthier? i ll ask democratic senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts.ollides plus, close encounters a russian fighter jet collides with a u.s. drone over the black sea. we know the intercept was intentional. we know the aggressive behavior was intentional. vladimir putin gets ready to welcome chinese president xi jinping at what could be a pivotal moment for the war while the top 2024 candidates no longer see supporting ukraine as a vital security interest. the greatest threat to western civilization today is not russia it s probably more than anything else ourselves. is the party ronald reagan now embracing isolationism i ll ask republican mike rounds of south dakota and a call for protest. former president donald trump claims he will be arrested and calls on his supporters to protest as he faces the possibility of an indictment in new york city
protesters to the manhattan courthouse next week do you think that s appropriate behavior to begin with, let me make it to begin with, let me make it clear, there s a diff clear, there s a difference between the former president and what he did on january 6th as the president of the united states and his call for support at the capitol versus an individual person today asking people to show up to protest if he is indicted and recognizing, i m assuming, you re talking about the possibility of indictment, which has not yet happened and we don t know what the indictment would be, and we re making assumptions - ask those same ques it might be better to ask those same questions later on. are you concerned that this only adds to distrust? it s almost like he s fomenting the distrust. yeah, look, i don t know if he s fomenting distrust or not, but clearly, we don t know
these reports. ken, i want do go back to this targeted of african-americans. there s some i want to read from your reporting. the russians set up 30 facebook pages targeting the black community the researches found and 10 youtube channels with 571 videos related to police violence against african-americans. what was the intent? it appears, ali, voter suppression, fomenting distrust in the system, whether clinton or trump is elected the police will still kill african-americans and clinton doesn t care much about that. very sophisticated effort. it appears to have played some role if suppressiof suppressing. they knew which swing states to target including states that clinton didn t know she was vulnerable in like wisconsin,
georgetown professor marc jacobson says was aimed at attacking the u.s. democratic system. what the russians are doing by fomenting distrust for the american government, and by also trying to organize rallies is what you do when you want to destroy a country from within. these are war-like acts. these are acts designed to destroy the united states. a cnn investigation shows russia s propaganda attack on the u.s. went beyond using fake accounts and ads on facebook and twitter. cnn tracked multiple accounts from don t shoot us across the internet. a website that boasted 300,000 followers. a youtube channel with videos of police brutality. a tumblr account. most surprising, a post announcing a contest on pokemon go when it was at its most popular, directing gamers to visit locations where alleged police brutality took place. all part of a kremlin-connected campaign of misinformation that