been seen in months. that include one of his top aides. the arrests were carried out by iraqi security forces, reportedly following up on a tip from turkish intelligence. oil prices rising to $74 a barrel today. democrats are quick to blame the president in this tweet. thanks to drums reckless reckless decision to pull out of the iran deal, every day americans are paying more for gas. while the wealthy and big corporations cash in on their tax breaks. bank of america analyst saw different we league. according to a variety of factors including the ongoing collapse and outputs, high likelihood of opec working russia as well as downside risks to iranian crude oil exports. democrats of the house intel committee releasing more than 3500 facebook and instagram ads linked to a russian propaganda operation. right after 13 russians deliver a surprise to special counsel robert mueller. trace gallagher has details. meanwhile congressman devin nunes and trey gowdy get
background checks, especially for people that are having mental illness issues. how is your son doing? excuse me? how is your son? how is he doing? he s sad. he s very sad. he lost five friends and a teacher that he knows, in addition to the rest of the students and the whole community is very affected by this. i felt kind of alone after the airport shooting, and i wish i were still alone. i wish that my community didn t have to experience the stress of this. this is beyond stress. it s heartbreaking. definitely not something you wish everybody else feels the way you do. thank you for joining us. annica dean, survivor of the fort lauderdale airport shooting and her son, a survivor of the douglas stoneman high school shooting. next, we take a deep dive into the other headline we are covering today. mueller s russia indictment. the kremlin says it involves russian citizens, not the government. whose job is it to connect this massive propaganda operation to vladimir putin? the
chinese military hackers who will never see the light of day in a u.s. courtroom. but the point was to send a message. this is criminal conduct. we re filing these charges and it looks like robert mueller has done that here. but you re absolutely right. this is an ongoing problem that i don t think any criminal indictment is going to stop because it s so easy for people to assume false personalities on social media. we see every day, the hamilton 68 is a website that tracks 600 russia-linked accounts and they tell us every day which hash tags are trending by this russian propaganda operation. and over recent days the florida shooting because they re trying to sow division and discord and tweeting on both sides of the gun debate with an aim of essentially destabilizing american politics. and, ken, this is, as we know, it started in ferguson, as far as we know but it s been going on for several years. obviously, peaking in 2016. and continuing since then and
of 17 when they suddenly realized, wait, russia was running a major propaganda operation on it and they just learned that from a little detail that leaks out about some government investigation that we don t know about yet. so two moments of shock and we ll see if there s a third. bob mueller is known for being careful. he doesn t leave a lot of fingerprin fingerprints. no, he does not. you spoke to someone who saw something that made them wonder whether bob mueller was looking at it. explain. i talked to one investigator so facebook announces in july, august, they said, hey, we found these ads, we found this propaganda campaign. and then they kind of minimized the effect it had. and then a security researcher said, let me look into this. let me see if i can find more about it. so he dug into the analytics platform, a guy named jonathan albright who s been an amazing resource mapping what s happened. he digs in and he finds that all the information about the russian propagan
after he leaves the campaign, acknowledges being in contact with the president and during all of this, he s also in touch with russian intelligence. that is through a nonpublic channel and also with wikileaks. at times he said publicly he was in direct communication with julian assange, other times he said through an intermediary. obviously we want to know about those communications. they re taking place at a time when russians are using those two outlets as a way of dumping their stolen documents. mr. stone wasn t willing to answer questions about that intermediary. we ll have to subpoena him unless he changes his mind and decides that, as he promised, he would answer every question. obviously we want to know whether that intermediary was in contact with other people in the trump campaign since wikileaks, obviously, was doing the work of russian propaganda operation. so, congressman, wasn t roger