That the president has been acid wously denying for more than a year now, that there was a in fact a major russian operation to interfere in the 2016 u. S. Election. And, you know, the Intelligence Community has been saying for a year now that they have high confidence that that is the case. And here you have the u. S. Department of justice and a grant Ju Grand Jury saying they can prove that beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, using admissible evidence. And that, you know, is a Rod Rosenstein today was extremely careful not to offend the president and make sure that no americans were witting participants in this plot. But that is a remarkable factual repudiation of the entire
he was very careful to stay within what is alleged in the indictment. But he did make a point on several occasions of saying that no americans are accused of participation in this. And i do think that was probably aimed at the president in a fashion that allows the president at least until such a time as
back to the story at hand, as the front door is closed and the aircraft gets ready to taxi. ken delaney, our intelligence and national security reporter has been doing nothing but reading and rereading this document. ken, what should we know about that you have been able to see and tease out of this? well, i will get to that in a second, brian, i just wanted to make one point about the president s reaction to all of there, we have been talking about the political reaction, but also there s the geopolitical reaction. this is a covert action by the russian government to the united states. they didn t link it to the russian government because they didn t want to go into court and try to prove that. but this was a russian intelligence operation, with budget of a million dollars a month. they did things like hire actors for rallierallies, in addition
ads like sunday matinees, all the same kind of trickery. so do special interest groups. remember harry and louise, the fictional couple in the fight over health care reform? first they were against it, and then a decade later, when someone else was paying them, they were for it. the question is, why all the spoon feeding? there is a real version of the truth. and we re all living it. let s talk about it now with former communications director anita dunn and gop strategist ed rollins as well. does everybody just do this? is it all kind of fake? some of it is. i wouldn t say everything. the best commercials are head on. a candidate, if you ve a good candidate who can articulate a message, delivering his own message is the most powerful part of it. you ve run a lot of campaigns, why hire actors? why not just have real people? it s important to know this wasn t done by the campaign, this was done by the national republican senate committee, they re running campaigns all over the plac
here they are in a campaign ad for david vitter. exact same people. before you get too outraged, you should know democrats do it too, using bicycle us real people, all the same kind of trickery. so do special interest groups. remember harry and louise, the fictional couple in the fight over health care reform? first they were against it, and then a decade later, when someone else was paying them, they were for it. the question is, why all the spoon feeding? there is a real version of the truth. and we re all living it. let s talk about it now with former communications director anita done and ed rollins as well. does everybody just do this? is it all kind of fake? some of it is. i wouldn t say everything. the best commercials are head on. a candidate, if you have a good candidate who can articulate a message, delivering his own message is the most powerful part of it. you ve run a lot of campaigns, why hire actors? why not just have real people? it s important to know this wasn t
before you get too outraged, you should know democrats do it too, using bogus real people, casting ads like sunday matinees, all the same kind of trickery. so do special interest groups. remember harry and louise, the fictional couple in the fight over health care reform? first they were against it, and then a decade later, when someone else was paying them, they were for it. the question is, why all the spoon feeding? there is a real version of the truth. and we re all living it. let s talk about it now with former communications director anita dunn and gop strategist ed rollins as well. does everybody just do this? is it all kind of fake? some of it is. i wouldn t say everything. the best commercials are head on. a candidate, if you have a good candidate who can articulate a message, delivering his own message is the most powerful part of it. you ve run a lot of campaigns, why hire actors? why not just have real people? it s important to know this wasn t done by the campaign, t