just trolling. but they did hack the state voter databases. there were definitely different legs, there was the hacking, there was the disinformation, there were the agents of influence. certainly i would say the trolling, that aspect of it was a massive, massive part of the operation. in july, quinnipiac university took a poll, it asked people does the russian government have compromising information on trump, 51% said yes, 35% said no. again, that 35% represents a base that won t be shattered even if, as donald trump says, he shoots someone on fifth avenue. jack, you ve come to the same conclusion, when someone told an vert that they ve got donald trump over a barrel, you seemed to agree with that. yeah, and i think that everybody focuses on the sex tapes, which i think to an extent is appropriate. i think there is a lot of smoke there. but i think that we can be simpler than that. what they know he has done, they
there were definitely different legs, there was the hacking, there was the disinformation, there were the agents of influence. certainly i would say the trolling, that aspect of it was a massive, massive part of the operation. in july, quinnipiac university took a poll, it asked people does the russian government have compromising information on trump, 51% said yes, 35% said no. again, that 35% represents a base that won t be shattered even if, as donald trump says, he shoots someone on fifth avenue. jack, you ve come to the same conclusion, when someone told an vert that they ve got donald trump over a barrel, you seemed to agree with that. yeah, and i think that everybody focuses on the sex tapes, which i think to an extent is appropriate. i think there is a lot of smoke there. but i think that we can be simpler than that. what they know he has done, they know he was committed financial impropriety. because he lives in a rule of law country and they don t, they have him over a ba
will to not only promote its view directly but to fracture countries societies and weakening political systems, spreading animosity between social groups and political actions keeps those nations from posing a coherent challenge to russia and its oligarchic elite. that s an interesting thesis, that this is work to break up others, weaken others so that by reference, russia remains strong. and jack s right, there are decades of soviet and then russian active measures. when the kgb was doing this, a lot of times they really took aim at divisions in american society, how to make america seem more racist during the civil rights struggle when southern whites were beating up blacks. they would look for these points of wedge issues and try to figure out how to get in there
to embarrass america across the world. we saw with the social media campaign, facebook ads, groups, phony tweets and russian bots, a lot of what they did was not directly aimed at the election. some of it was, but a lot of the was simply fueling divisions that already exist in our society. it s part of their asymmetrical warfare strategy against us. jack, in the movie you show election machines and things like that. but people come on our air and say, prove to me that one vote was changed. your argument is bigger than that, it s not the ballot box, it s the minds that were changed because of influence by russians. it s a multifaceted attack, that s the most important thing to remember. it wasn t just one intelligence operation that was let loose in america. it was several. and some of them have been going on for over a decade beforehand and then turned towards this. so a lot of it was absolutely
view directly but to fracture countries societies and weakening political systems, spreading animosity between social groups and political actions keeps those nations from posing a coherent challenge to russia and its oligarchic elite. that s an interesting thesis, that this is work to break up others, weaken others so that by reference, russia remains strong. and jack s right, there are decades of soviet and then russian active measures. when the kgb was doing this, a lot of times they really took aim at divisions in american society, how to make america seem more racist during the civil rights struggle when southern whites were beating up blacks. they would look for these points of wedge issues and try to figure out how to get in there to embarrass america across the world.