governor on september 13th. the tense encounter bringing back memories of the hillary versus bernie dynamic for the democratic party. david lee miller has more. the debate was fraught with disagreement, even before it got underway. one controversy was room temperature. governor cue owe governor cuomo wanted it colder than his opponent nixon. when it began, things heated up and fast. can you stop interrupting? can you stop lying? as soon as you do. nixon trailing in the polls, come from behind winners such as new york congressional candidate and self-declared socialist alexandria ocasio cortez and florida gubernatorial candidate have fuelled uncertainty around the race. cuomo spent much of his time attacking president trump, a strategy to win support from the left. today you have to fight donald trump who is the main risk to the state of new york. he is trying to change the rights and values of new yorkers
the russians also recruited and paid real americans to engage in political activities for political campaigns and stage political rallies. the defendants and their con conspirators pretended to be grassroots activists. a cording to the indictment, the americans did not know they were communicating with russians. after the election, the defendants allegedly staged rallies to support the president-elect, while simultaneously staging rallies to protest his election. for example, the defendants organized one rally to support the president elect and another rally to oppose him. both in new york on the same day. on september 13th of 2017, soon after the news media reported that the special counsel s office was investigating evidence that russian operatives had used social media to interfere with the 2016 election, one defendant allegedly wrote, quote, we had a slight crisis here at work.
political activities, promote political campaigns and stage political rallies. the defendants and their co-conspirators pretended to be. the americans did not know they were communicating with russians. after the election, the defendants allegedly staged rallies to support the president-elect while simultaneously staging rallies to protest his election. for example, the defendants organized one rally to support the president-elect and another to oppose him, both in new york on the same day. on september 13th, 2017, soon after the news media reported the special counsel s office was investigating evidence that russian operatives used social media to interfere with the 2016 election, one defendant allegedly wrote, quote, we had a slight crisis here at work. the fbi busted our activity.
ay subset of those she didn t delete, which means that it s somewhat unsurprising there were no smoking guns or bombshells in them. there was some interesting tid bits and details and so on. we found out more about the relationship with sid blumenthal but by and large this is what you would expect, chris. it s as i say, part of a part. i want to pick up on sidney blumenthal there were some interesting e-mails that came out and most involved sidney a clinton political operative, so controversial that the clinton obama white house banned clinton from hiring him as an aide in her state department. on september 13th 2012 two days after benghazi blumen thal sent clinton an e-mail making these points the attack had been led by an sar al sharia and
delete, which means that it s somewhat unsurprising there were no smoking guns or bombshells in them. there was some interesting tid bits and details and so on. we found out more about the relationship with sid blumenthal but by and large this is what you would expect, chris. it s as i say, part of a part. i want to pick up on sidney blumenthal there were some interesting e-mails that came out and most involved sidney a clinton political operative, so controversial that the clinton obama white house banned clinton from hiring him as an aide in her state department. on september 13th 2012 two days after benghazi blumen thal sent clinton an e-mail making these points the attack had been led by an sar al sharia and said we should get this around