about the american side of this equation. you re talking about the trump campaign and how they used it. there is no way that the russians knew how to use this material, knew when to release it, knew what the significance of it would be in various parts on a political level. no way, no how. that s a question that hangs over this particularly and there s a quoted moment where they re explaining to the gru officer, wikileaks is, we should get this out before the convention because then she s going to have the nomination. so if we can move along on that. oh, yeah, that makes sense. there s also something you ve marcy, you ve been covering closely which is the board of elections. this has been adjacent to the main story of the podesta hacks and dnc hacks because those are things we publicly saw. but we ve gotten a lot of information that they were sort of knocking on the doors, messing with the systems of various state boards of elections and we have this. in and around july 2016, kovalev
lighting this. what do you make of that? it shows that he believed the scope of the investigation is broad enough to cover both collusion and the payments to ukraine. manafort argue look you can t go after the conclusion stuff in the proceeding. he s wrong about that. let s talk about vanderzwan who just walked into court, he s in there for his sentencing. what is the significance of his first sentencing? you heard ken, maybe this is a message from mueller saying do not lie to us. you see through the glass today, that s vanderzwan this morning getting through the detectors. he didn t just lie to the prosecutors, he deleted evidence. what s more interesting is he was asked to communicate by incrypted channels with this gru officer. so, vanderzwan maybe not a problem himself, but gates is.
attorney and former staffer for the house intelligence and armed services committee. mark, talk to us about how significant is this filing. we ve got people watching who probably read a headline on their devices and who have just gotten home from work, especially if they rely on the new york city subway system, they re just getting home from work. update them on what they need to know on this story. i think the significance is that you have a senior trump campaign adviser in the final weeks of the campaign who s having these communications with an associate who is, as mueller has said today, an active member of russian intelligence service, has active ties to the service, and who gates himself said he knew was a former gru officer. if you step back and you say, what s the cosmic significance? it just shows once again that the trump campaign was having these contacts with not only the
attorney and former staffer for the house intelligence and armed services committee. mark, talk to us about how significant is this filing. we ve got people watching who probably read a headline on their devices and who have just gotten home from work, especially if they rely on the new york city subway system, they re just getting home from work. update them on what they need to know on this story. i think the significance is that you have a senior trump campaign adviser in the final weeks of the campaign who s having these communications with an associate who is, as mueller has said today, an active member of russian intelligence service, has active ties to the service, and who gates himself said he knew was a former gru officer. if you step back and you say, what s the cosmic significance? it just shows once again that the trump campaign was having these contacts with not only the
new york city subway system, they re just getting home from work. update them on what they need to know on this story. i think the significance is that you have a senior trump campaign adviser in the final weeks of the campaign who s having these communications with an associate who is, as mueller has said today, an active member of russian intelligence service, has active ties to the service, and who gates himself said he knew was a former gru officer. if you step back and you say, what s the cosmic significance? it just shows once again that the trump campaign was having these contacts with not only the russian government, with russians, but with people who were affiliated with the russian intelligence services. we don t know yet too much of the substance of the calls between gates and this individual, the man named konstantin kilimnik.