but islam surely plays major role in this election and both candidates try to get more votes by. showing they are. mr. true sir mr michael so i mean this is from his first adventure candidates he left mr problems should be ended with no other choice other than seeking support from radical islamic groups. i only used to us both of the candidates has very moderate religious fuz. very secular political tradition when mr joey due to won the last election he still to this cabinet with women and and radical islamic groups that calls for sharia law to replace into democracy and the same goes to probably comes from very christian here then what has happened in five years of drug or doubles rule that political islam is placed as an important role
rogue prosecutor, rogue operator, really salacious terrible ideas about bob mueller and, again, you know, this is what we ve heard from donald trump over the last many months. we obviously know about what happened during the 2016 campaign, them targeting african-americans, trying to suppress the african-american vote, also the trump campaign doing the same thing. so the kind of you know, there is this idea of whether or not there was a collusion or conspiracy theory. there certainly was they were in synch certainly, the trump campaign and russia and now with this mueller probe they re certainly speaking the same language in terms of trying to undermine mueller. here is one example. this is what might have appeared on your instagram or on your facebook feed or in twitter and so it says. russia special counsel mueller worked with radical islamic groups to purge anti-terrorism training material offensive to
suppressing the african-american vote, which is largely democratic, helping jill stein, who was a spoiler for hillary clinton. and now attacking robert mueller. all of these separate efforts are completely aligned with donald trump s interests, often word for word, and it s what russia has been doing covertly. it is extraordinary. i see the clues planted in conservative media. where the russian trolls got their ideas, abbie, for exactly the sweet-spot, exactly how they knew what would appeal to people on twitter, i mean, there are things that i heard years earlier about robert mueller on fox news that they seize on, that now we know. here s one example. this is where they claim that robert mueller is the russia special counsel. he worked with radical islamic groups. i remember that being a talking point on fox and friends in
interference were crack pot conspiracies. check out this one posted on instagram. it claims mueller once worked with radical islamic groups. it makes mueller the latest target of this russian disinformation campaign. we also learn this week that operatives from moscow tried to manipulate african-american voters through 30 separate facebook pages that brought in more than a million followers. add that to ten youtube channels, too. now the naacp is returning a donation from facebook and calling for a boycott of the platform today. joining me now, russian information warfare expert molly mccue, and naacp president derrick johnson. thanks to both of you for being on. molly, let me start with you here in washington. your reaction to russia s broader strategy and what it says to you they went after robert mueller, went after the special counsel after donald trump got elected? i think it s clear that as the two reports that came out from the senate intelligence committee yesterday made clea
nuclear option, not enough to stop the gorsuch confirmation. bret: peter, thank you paired what do you think, do you think senate republicans were forced to choose the nuclear option? let me know on twitter at @bretbaier. use the hashtag #specialreport. on facebook at facebook.com/bretbaiersr. we will have complete coverage of the debate this week. russian investigators have identified a 22-year-old man born in kyrgyzstan as the suicide bomber between yesterday subway attack in st. petersburg. 14 people were killed and almost 50 still hospitalized at this hour. authorities say the suspect was linked to radical islamic groups. they say his dna was on a second bomb that was deactivated. they have not said whether the bomber was included in the death toll. it is being called one of the worst slaughters in the six-year syrian civil war. dozens are dead from what is believed to be a chemical weapons attack in rebel held territory.