comfort in the fact this indictment didn t speak to the issue of whether there were discussions, knowledge, witting, tuft between the trump organization and the delegation from russia, the trump tower meeting or elsewhere. i would not take any comfort there because as you point out bob mueller has many, many cards to play in this game. that s exactly a topic we re going to take on later in the hour. why what was not said today is almost more important. we re so obliged to you starting us off after this eventful day. and coming up, the denial and what was conspicuously absent in the washington response today. and late area, what mueller s charges reveal about american intelligence at work. the home team, a former u.s. intelligence committee member who wrote the book on russian
government to steal information about the u.s. political process. malcolm nance is a former naval intelligence officer and msnbc contributor and he wrote the plot to hack america about russ russia s meddling in the 2016 electi election. putin puts russia as the number one super power in the world even though it is economically on par with italy, but to do it, you can use soft power or use what we call the hybrid warfare which is a melange of the political warfare and propaganda and ununiformed special operations, and everything short of war to disable your enemy, and in the case of the united states the easiest thing to disable is democracy, because russia does not believe in democracy. six days after the washington post s first story on russian hacking, christopher steel sent his first report to fusion gps.
tape. this coming in the last few seconds. nbc news has just became aware of a video capturing donald trump making vulgar comments about women back in 2005. when you re a star they let you do it. you can do anything. then 30 minutes after that, wikileaks appeared to counter punch with the release of e-mails hacked from the personal account of clinton campaign chairman john podesta. this is another hack, a hacking organization that has alleged ties to the russians. in the middle of that wild news cycle in october, investigative reporter david corn of the left leaning mother jones magazine got wind of something big, something unprecedented, if it was true. his sources told him that russia had something on trump, and the details were written down in a series of secret documents. i was told about the memos in great detail. david corn discovered who wrote the memos. a former british intelligence officer named christopher
in democracy. six days after the washington post s first story on russian hacking, christopher steele sent his first report to fusion gps. it was the very first page of the very first memo that set the tone for all of the memos and for all of the controversy that followed. steele wrote on that first page, quote, the russian regime has been cultivating supporting, and assisting trump for at least five years. aim endorsed by putin has been to encourage splits and dmiftion western alliance. according to steele s unnamed source, trump s inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the kremlin. but there was also something else. steele went on to say that russia had enough embarrassing material on the now republican presidential candidate to be able to blackmail him if they so wished. steele s memo asserted that some of russia s alleged embarrassing
it s clear that from the beginning when donald trumps with running for president that he wanted to have a change in relations with russia. now some people believe there is nefarious reasons there and collusion. whether you believe that or he felt it was a bad policy, it s something he s wanted to do for some time. the statements he made abroad, either interpretation, that what the president might have been saying is that he was saying that he believes that vladimir putin believes there was no russian meddling is remarkable. either way, it contradicts what america s intel agency said. if you remember the intel report, the unclassified report into russian hacking, they assess with high confidence that putin himself direct the the russian hacks. so it s a contradiction on what the intel agencies have told donald trump.