there are new developments tonight in the case of a model who claims to have inside information about russian meddling in the 2016 election. our senior correspondent mathew chance is joining us live. she was detained in russia last week, now police have released her. what s the latest? reporter: yeah, they ve released her. she s free. she is certainly not free of security concerns, washington. she was meant to turn up to a news conference today. she failed to do that, leaving us thinking that maybe she was trying to row back a bit on the publicity she created. the publicity put her in the crosshairs of the most powerful figures. no, just before a she came on the air, she appeared once again on social media. it didn t take long for this
was that trump himself was essentially being used by that regime to advance their foreign policy end goals. at the time, it was something that was sort of debated publicly. intelligence community had not released its assessment that the russian government meddled in the 2016 campaign, specifically for the purpose of helping trump win that election. there were people in some corners who thought hillary clinton was going out on a limb by making that accusation. an accusation that, of course, was really significant. now, looking back, the intelligence community has said that their assessment is that the russians were helping trump win. given that mueller has had, you know, an enormous number of indictments, including the former head of trump s campaign, as well as trump s former national security adviser as part of his investigation into russian meddling, and conversations and communications that people link to the kremlin with people at the highest levels of trump s campaign, the comment
them, and that means money meme. when they step behind the walls behind the federal prison in a stressful situation, jim, they are e definitely unified. i hear you, and it is a tough situation for so many. thank you for following the story, vanessa. the steele dossier and over and over again, president trump has called it fake news, but two years since the dossier came into the public eye and much of it, and the allegations have been corroborated. a closer look at some of the dossier s now proven allegations of russian meddling, and also c contacts between the trump campaign and russia. that is right after this. orias, little things can be a big deal. that s why there s otezla. otezla is not a cream. it s a pill that treats moderate to severe plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla,75% clearer skin is achievable. don t use if you re allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if
to reconnect closer to family, to be in a prison closer to their families so they can stay connected, if they want opportunities for help in their drug rehabilitation, all this provides those incentives to go through that and a hopefully have less recidivism. david ignatius, jump in. senator, your committee issued two remarkable reports this week about russian interference in our political life, more detailed than anything that i ve seen. i was curious what you take away from those reports and in particular given that the reports know that a theme of russian disinformation in the u.s. has been to devalue, question the mueller investigation of russian meddling, whether the white house has sometimes fallen into what s basically a russian pr line here. do you worry about that? well, what we have lived with for a long time the american people have seen now in these reports that we put out, these
new details are emerging from a newly released report on russian meddling in the 2016 election and we have learned that russians did not stop after president trump s win. an analysis shows that russian trolls targeted robert mueller after he was named special counsel and a host of other things that you probably read on your social media accounts. joining us now is democratic senator ben carden of maryland. he is a member of the foreign relations committee. the findings of this report are so chilling because it turns out out that the russian interference was so much deeper and insidious than we knew and it s hard to see how any american was i m plun from this. here are some of the things that they tried to inject toxicity into our world, not just the election, they aimed to increase support for julian assange,