will use civilians, they ll use oligarchs and others and look for relationships. here the e-mails make quite clear that the russian government had possession of damaging information. they throughout the way the get that to the trump campaign to test whether donald trump wanted this information was to go through people he had done business with. indeed this is a modality the russians use elsewhere. so who had they done business with? they had done with a business known as the russian donald trump who had worked on the miss universe pageant, who had business discussions with the president over having a trump tower in russian. so they go to this oligarch, they go to the son who knows the son of the now president. they find out, yes, there s a deep interest in this. and then they dispatch this advocate for the kremlin.
you know, you have got to remember the system is one system, it s an authoritarian system. everybody is connected to everybody. if the objective has been stated by vladimir putin which was, as we now know, to help trump get elected and to hurt hillary clinton, then they are going to use every instrument, every modality that they can. we have been focused rightly on the hacking and the publication of those e-mails but now we are talking about another strategy, which is to provide the trump campaign with dirt. that was the word used, on hillary clinton and some connections she might have with russians. that s very consistent, in my view, with how the russian government operates. donald trump jr. said he it quickly became apparent there was no meaningful information there. do you believe that s where it stopped? i would love for somebody, maybe the fbi, to interview all the three americans that were in that meeting. interview them right now and
essentially their operating procedures where they will use civilians. they ll use often oligarchs and others. they ll look for relationships. and here, the e-mails, i think, made quite clear that the russian government had possession of damaging information, they thought the way to get that to the trump campaign, to test whether donald trump wanted this information, was to go through people he had done business with. and indeed this is a modality the russians use elsewhere. they had done business with a gentleman known as the russian donald trump, who had worked on the miss universe pageant, who had business discussions with the president over having a tru trump tower in russia. they go to this oligarch. they go to the son who knows the son of the now president. they find out, yes, there is a deep interest in this. and then they dispatch this
one of the things the u.s. says is they ll release what how the russians were hacking us. what s the benefit of doing that? there s a benefit of doing that to let everybody know we re for real. the down side of doing that is that the same time russians will also know what our capabilities where of monitoring what they re doing. so they change that way of doing it because they know we have the ability to watch them operate against us and they and that they know we ve done that. and everybody knows we ve done that. that changes the whole modality of how this cyber defensive war, shall we say is operating. when i was in estonia with the nato cyber command, one thing they said was there were a lot of defensive measures we can take. we re not necessarily going on the offense. going on the offensive can touch off a cyber war and then we re
that was that study. when they went for the shoulder surgery, surgery wasn t beneficial. was not. was not. and holding it in a sling and also pain medication helped them with modality. so the answer is, talk to your doctor, always get a second opinion, have a discussion. when you go to the office, look around and see what goes on. that s how you come to a decision. marc, what do you tell your patients? how do you determine whether or not to do it? it s a changing terrain. the first study out of denmark did the kind of study we like. one group got the surgery, the other didn t. both groups got the weight loss, the diet, the medication, the exercises. they found that the group that got the surgery did better actually. that s pretty revolutionary because, as david mentioned, close to a million people getting these operations. not everyone needs them but maybe more people need it than we thought. but eric we re moving in a direction now where we have less-invasive techniques. with