documents on offer. are the russians involved in this scheme still active? it would appear so. let me read to you a key line that i found fascinating, is that the mueller team says that the sensitive discovery identifies uncharged individuals and entities the government believes are continuing to engage in operations that interfere with lawful u.s. government functions like those activities charged in the indictment. clearly, there are names there are still people that are associated with this company, with the russians that were indicted and charged, that are still under investigation and that are still participating in this disinformation campaign, the fake news and really, ultimately, still conducting an influence operation. obviously perfect what we heard yesterday, there s a lot of concern heading into 2020. the very people that are named in this indictment that are part of this could still very much be active in doing this. no letdown on the part of the russians. they are c
about cyber security as a growing challenge, then actually not placing personnel on the white house that are working on those issues. can you put it finally in perspective for me? dan coats is saying that the warning lights are flashing again with regard to russian interference. how under threat is the mid-term election? so i think the mid-term elections are a top threat target. the way that we would talk about that is, it is a target for cyber-enabled activity. i think that you ve seen actions on both ends of that leading in to the mid-terms. so just last week it was reported that certain e-mails were being potentially hacked in to for key candidates, as well as the action that facebook took yesterday which would be an influence operation. so i think that you do have the clear telltale signs that both of those activities are occurring in the lead-up to the 2018 mid-terms, and that it is a
confident they will and i pressed him, i fed is this turns out to be false, these assertions, your career is over, you re done, you won t be serving your client well, this will be a catastrophe and he said he understood that which gave me the sense he had access to or had seen something or told something he had a high degree of confidence that it would be verified and that it was quickly by the new york times and other news outlets so he has the same questions we all have which is there are two sides of these transactions. one is what are the sources and victor vekselberg is the most high profile one because it brings the collusion questions into play but there s big american corporations and foreign corporations paying michael cohen for in what looks like an influence operation. and then there s the question of what happened to that money. there s a lot of money that flowed into that account. a lot of money flowed out and we see stories about michael cohen being in financial duress,
kushner. last fall, in november 2017, jared went along on the president s trip to china. after they all came home, in december 2017, u.s. intelligence officials briefed wider circle of trump, saying that a member of the president s family was being targeted by an influence operation. jared kushner still works at the white house. can t fire someone from the job of son-in-law, right? but he reportedly no longer has access to classified information. and now apart from turning up at places like last night s state dinner, mr. kushner has been playing a much lower profile. well, now, new scoop. fresh off winning a pulitzer prize last week for his reporting on weinstein stwoharv ronan pharaoh has a new book out, which has a whole bunch of scoops in it. the one that rings like a bell
their founder, marina butina. aleksander torshin hired marina butina, who won a political contest put on by the kremlin. she comes from a hunting background, very comfortable with guns. she won a regional political competition, sort of caught the eye of aleksander torshin. she founded the group right to bear arms which turned into a russian clone in moscow of the nra, so promoting a sort of second amendment in russia, all kinds of advances in gun rights, which they ve had very sort of modest success. but this effort was part of the you know, influence operation, essentially, to capture the attention of the nra. and this interchange between her group, and she and torshin and the nra sending delegations back and forth between the nra consequenti