for the first time we are getting a clear view of what exactly russian meddling looked like. washington post is reporting that russian operatives tried to among other things exploit hot button and r issues to boost support for donald trump and suppress support for hillary clinton. facebook is about to turn over 3,000 russian related ads to congress. this is a big move. let s get more detail on this. here as well as cnn s media correspondent and host of reliable sources to break it down. first to you. what are you learning about the ads? they aimed at ampifying the social and political divisions in this country and exacerbate the racial tensions by trying to
behind him as well the president s former chief strategist steve bannon stumping for him. when you walk in that voting booth tomorrow, a vote for judge roy moore is a vote for donald j. trump. wrap your mind around that one. pause for dramatic effect. let s go live to kaitlan collins in birmingham for the latest. so is this luther strange versus roy moore or now more like donald trump versus donald trump s base? well, it s really not steve bannon versus the president but steve bannon and these populist conservatives against the more establishment republicans. that s really what s the larger issue that s playing out here which is a fight for the republican party. it almost mirrors the 2016 presidential election where this insurgent candidate is giving the establishment candidate a
for donald trump? i mean what does it mean? you know, i don t think so. it s one of the things that people underestimated the dynamics on the ground. there are always there have been questions about the way that senator strange got the appointment. right or wrong from the embattled governor? yeah. i think that s just kind of stuck in people s crawl and they re being told what to do there, told what to do by the senate leadership fund, and it s just one of those things where a lot of voters just go, you know, look, it s not that i really like this other guy, it s just that i don t like what you guys are trying to tell me to do so i will backlash and vote for the guy that for the lightning rod. right. but scott is trump going to be able to get away with that? if roy moore wins he can say that wasn t a loss for me even though that was my endorsement. i flew down there, held a rally for him, i ve been tweeting up a storm for him and the other guy wins? well, you can certain
devastation and the damage and the response to puerto rico, democratic congresswoman velazquez of new york, she, of course, was the first puerto rican woman elected to the house. hurricane maria made landfall near her hometown. congresswoman, thank you for joining me. thank you for having me. i hope you had a chance to hear president trump s remarks right there where he says that the u.s. territory is literally destroyed. the island was devastated. and also that he ll be heading to puerto rico tuesday. your reaction? well, i m happy to see that the president starts to comprehend the severity of this crisis in puerto rico. it is nice that we hear that he understand that basically the island has been destroyed. and, therefore, the most fundamental duty of the president of the united states is to protect the homeland, that includes puerto rico, and the virgin islands.
were used in tweets to promote the similar divisions that don t have the answers quite yet, but facebook giving lot of area to investigate as part of this going forward. important information coming out. great reporting. thank you very much. we have been hearing about russian medaling for months. this is how this all started. it s taken a lot of twists and turns and what can it mean about the scope and scale? we are seeing what it looks like. robert mueller has the data from facebook and congress is about to get the same information and will see what a propaganda war looks like and what it means to target ads on your facebook page and make you get angry about hillary clinton or get supportive of donald trump. even without mentioning the candidates s names. there is a lot we don t know