at least to date they vice president seen that kind of interference. did it sound to you like the fbi is currently pursuing specific investigations? that was frankly the biggest news from this press conference, because the fbi director christopher wray revealed something he hasn t revealed before. that is that there are current investigations involving all of the fbi s more than 50 field offices around the country. doesn t mean you have investigations in each district but that the field offices are involved looking at what they call foreign influence nexus. that would include individual trying to influence the campaign like with maria buttina who has been arrested and charges. the funneling of foreign money into the campaign which is not only illegal but raises hard questions about governments such as russia trying to influence this campaign. also tonight cnn has learned that the special counsel robert mueller has been trying to arrange an interview with a
and confusing to cover and we have to have the time to unpack them, we have to have the time to keep asking these basic questions. we need to keep asking president trump do you realize that the russians are still interfering, they re doing it now. we have to keep asking the questions. but we saw someone cross a line about that this tweak. take a look at this, from emily singer from the website mike, she tweeted out a picture saying that s maria buttina in the background in the oval office with trump. a bombshell, except it wasn t true. it wasn t buttina in the background, it was an nsc staffer. but think then, the damage was done, sanders said it was a case of media hysteria, what singer needed at that moment was an
maria buttina. and doesn t constitute espionage. she is clearly an agent of the government. and doing things to influence the outcome of elections. and we need to protect ourselves and not doing that. we are following that well. jill wine-banks and jonathan chait. thank you. i want to play this for you. this is what he told lester. did you watch and what your reactions were to vladimir putin denials. well i didn t watch it live. i was in a meeting actually with some of my foreign counterparts, some of our closest foreign parters in the intelligence community. but i certainly saw it
welcome tonight. david let s start with you. this indictment, this action against this woman is not actually part of the mueller investigation, but sure is spicy, what do you make of it? it shows this was another way the kremlin that russian intelligence might have been trying to penetrate american politics. they are very savvy. they got this woman, maria buttina and her boss to burrow their way into the nra and other conservative groups where they would meet republican officials and politicians and try to use those connections to broker a meeti meeting putin. as a strong indication of how
intended, go where the big guns are. leaders throughout the conservative movement, people like david keen who was president of the nra and head of the conservative political action conference. bringing him to moscow, courting him, wining and dining him. all over this shared affection for guns. how these people are lifetime members of the nra? they created a phony one in russia to make friends, alliances with the u.s. nra. so sophisticated, and well thought out. it has gone on for years and goes for this guy torshin and today we learned that mariia