us n nusri was a radical priest there. and so finsbu rushry is a model that the. and so if this is a deliberate act of terrorism, this mightt be why they would attack the peaceful worshippers or the people around that play, and an attack on the traditional islam that rejects the islamic extremism extremism. and noteworthy building of praise with the background that you are giving us, richard nance. we have no indication that sitter error-related, but we only understand and have confirmed from the london metropolitan police that a vehicle hit some pe des tdestrid there are casualties and one person is arrested. that is the information that we have. jim cavenaugh is still with us. jim, we are showing some of the
people, i will meet with the leaders of the intelligence community next week insider to be updated on the facts of this situation. again, this presidential executive order, naming four operatives involved in placing sanctions on two russian intelligence services. the president also ordering 75 russian intelligence officials out of the united states within 72 hours. joining us now, richard nance. he s the author of the plot to hack america: how putin s cyberattacks and wikileaks tried to steal the 2016 elections. malcolm, good to have you with us. always a pleasure to talk to you. let me first play you a sound bite from december 16th. take a listen to this. i ll get your reaction to it on the back end. our goal conti to be to send a clear message to russia or others not to do this to us, because we can do stuff to you.
he solves. he is impetuous, has a hair trigger kind of temper and all of this. so i m not sure what that s going to do. also, keep in mind that donald trump s whole coalition such as it exists depends on being anti-media. anti-media sentiment is the last glue holding together the kind of republican party or the conservative ideology right now. and so they need a sort of locust of that to go out and talk about fake news and go to rallies because they need their base to think this is a plot against them much like richard nicks on was able to rally people. people didn t like richard nixon because they thought everyone was ganging up on him. richard nance, people say it s the stuff that may have happened between the russians and the trump campaign that were the problem and those defenders came out and said, no, it s the leaks that are the real problem. at this point the leaks that we have seen in the last week having to do with manchester, having to do with other things,