writer at 538, perry. people will hear that report and say, the deputy campaign chair had contact with russian intelligence. is that what s significant here a? is it b, more proof that robert mueller has deep knowledge of what s going on here, c, rick gates is cooperating, maybe that s the importance here or maybe d none of the above. or all of the above. we first of all have a case where lying has been uncovered throughout this investigation. when it came to manafort and gates and their past ties with russians, it had always been in the past, when we worked in the ukraine, before we started working with the trump organization and the trump campaign. fast forward to this news overnight, working with the former gru officer, russian military intelligence and by the way, he still had contact with current russian military intelligence, took place during the 2016 campaign. that s putting these two gentlemen high up the ladder in the trump campaign right there
what are you hearing on that front? yeah. that is just additional detail that confirms the plat line we knew was true all along. what happened after we began to discover what the russians were doing, they tried to cover their tracks, putting out this idea of trying to pivot off a hacker that did hack into american systems, who is now in a romanian jail. what they were trying to do is cover their tracks. but the russians didn t do it. now we know based upon the daily beast article that this individual was in fact, a gru officer, and it was part of the overall russian operation. we ll have to leave it there. appreciate your insight. thank you, sir. thank you. all right. so we have breaking news. it s from france. there is a terror standoff at a supermarket in the south of
did he resign or was he fired? that was the question today about donald trump s lead criminal defense lawyer, john dowd. we could also ask did he resign because he knew he was going to be fired and it doesn t make any difference. in trump world everyone is on the verge of being fired all the time. and if they pull the trigger on themselves first, what difference does that make? but on the day that the president lost his lead criminal defense lawyer, the investigation of russian interference in our election has taken a new and important return. the daily beast reports, the loan hacker who took credit for providing wikileaks with stolen e-mails from the democratic national committee was, in fact, an officer in russia s military intelligence directate. he left a digital change that let investigators identify him as a particular gru officer
he left a digital change that let investigators identify him as a particular gru officer working out of headquarters in moscow. robert mueller has taken over the probe into guccifer and brought the fbi agents who worked to track the persona onto his team. at least one associate communicated directly with guccifer 2.0. roger stone admitted last march he had been in touch with guccifer 2.0. we re joined next for this new report about the contact between roger stone and the russian agent. for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough.
senate the other day to pull the united states fully out of a war that has killed 10,000 yemeni civilians, and the people that are now being installed in the national security cabinet may be proposing to get the united states even more deeply involved in that conflict. i want to ask you about another piece of news, and i don t know if you have seen this. but it strikes me as important. it s a piece in the daily beast that basically says that guccifer 2.0, which was this sort of online persona that was sort of shopping leaks around for a while, and i think assumed to be a third party or cut-out who was in touch with military intelligence was a gru officer. that just a straight up gru officer was guccifer 2.0, who was interacting with roger stone and others in direct contact with the trump campaign. i haven t seen that report. i haven t seen that report. i m sure that will be part and parcel of mueller s review. but listen, we have known for a very long time that the potential th