new knowledge in 2017, investigators began unearthing the russian social media campaign on facebook and twitter, which they mostly used. then this happened. the ira shifted much of its activity to instagram and said the most prolific activities are specifically targeting black american communities and appear to have focus on black audience and recruiting black americans as, quote, assets. amazing. and this went on for as long as it has. drew griffin, thank you very much on those reports. meantime, all of that, as the man who once led the fbi s investigation into russian interference is back up on capitol hill for his latest face-off against lawmakers. we re talking about james comey. he is wrapping up around 2:00 with the judicial and oversight committees after a grilling ten days ago on a whole range of topics, including the fbi s handling of hillary clinton s e-mail case. manu ra swrchlt u is up on the
representatives, 235 of them have to go back to their districts and they have to answer questions and what they don t have to answer, they don t want to have t answer questions about the allegations that donald trump tweets out every morning at around 7:00, 7:30 a.m. that is a very important point. let s bring in our coverage and manu ra who asked that question who made so much news. it is significant that it s from the house speaker and so significant that it s from paul ryan who doesn t tend to at least publicly, vocally disagree with the president. he has on tariffs, but not on a lot of other things. do you think that it is, that ryan was getting pressure as mark suggests from other republicans running saying you have to tamp this down? it seems that way. he s seen how much criticism that gowdy has gotten from republicans including rudy giuliani, questioning what trey gowdy is saying that the fbi did
out front tonight, a cnn exclusive. a revealing reveal under new skrooutny by investigators. te mail detailed an effort to arrange a meeting between top trump officials and russian president vladimir putin during the campaign. multiple sources say that the e-mail was sent from rick dearborn, now trump s dep any chief of staff. it was sent around the time of the june 2016 trump tower meeting. and russians offering damaging information on hillary clinton. dearborn was a top campaign aid at the time. manu ra manu raju broke this story. investigators have unearthed this e-mail from this top trump aid that references previously unreported efforts to arrange a meeting between trump officials