university of pennsylvania, kathleen hall jamison joins us now. also with us staff writer for the atlantic, covering national security and the intelligence natasha bertran and staff writer for the new yorker . there s a new piece entitled was there a connection between a russia bank and the trump campaign. a lot of questions to get answered this morning and professor jamison, i would like to start with you. the conclusion that your book makes draws a little bit more of a direct line. how do you get there finally. i know it s hard to answer on the air, but give it a try. three ways. troll, imposters, hacking on social media. and the possible influence of russia disinformation, james comey s decision on october 28th to let the public know that he
that four month period. it s not 100% clear, but i think i took the story as far as it go. i think somebody with subpoena power is required to get to the bottom of it. but it s very unusual. professor jamison, we ve had lots of information on what the russians did and how they were behind things in cyber space. but we can t connect the influence of the russians actually swayed the election. have produced cause and effect in your book. they were doing all of these things and you can measure the material difference it made in the final vote? not with certainty. i can create a strong case it was probable. enough tr oll content aligned with trump s objectives that reached enough people. 126 million reached with facebook content alone. that could have made the difference. the hacking is the strongest case. changed the media agenda.
all right. dexter, thank you very much. kathleen hall jamison, thank you. the new book cyber war is out now. natasha bertrand thank you. back in 2017 saudi arabia s leadership was purging political rivals of the crown prince, president trump tweeted quote i have great confidence in the king and the crown prince of saudi arabia. they know exactly what they are doing. soech those they are harshly treated have been milking their country for years. we ll look at that through the lens of the purported murder of the washington post columnist jamal khashoggi at the express order of the saudi leader. and moments going steve mnuchkin was asked on cnbc if he still planned to attend next month s economic conference in riyadh. currently as i understand it you are scheduled to go.
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