i still intend to do that. bill: can you give us an idea what the conclusion would be? what is it? i can t really tell you. maybe we find something in the next several interviews that are evidence of collusion. i don t think so with what we ve seen but clearly we were asked to look at russian meddling. today once again this administration said we aren t going to let russia meddle in our elections and we ll sanction people. the united states government, the whole of government is taken a tough stand on russia. appreciate your time. my best to you and your wife in winston-salem and all the people in north carolina. richard burr from north carolina on the hill today. thanks. sandra: u.n. report on the war in syria. what we re learning about the number of chemical attacks this year that apparently went unnoticed. bill: a case that gripped the nation in 2002.
diplomat that first sparked some interest in whether there was coordination and/or a conspiracy. you help me purge the word collusion from my vocabulary. but talk about george papadopoulos and who he is in this story of russian meddling in the 2016 election. you know, when he was overseas advertising his affiliation with the trump campaign as a foreign policy advisor, he was approached, not surprisingly, but russian intelligence and asked basically if he was interested, if the campaign was interested in some, quote, dirt on hillary clinton, some opposition research that had been collected through cyberattacks by the russian federation. and he was the first person who brought that to the attention of the trump campaign. so it validated the later effort at trump tower by the russian government delegation to say, we have told you that we have this information. we re going to utilize in this campaign. now we want relief on sanctions and we want to talk about the policy benefit that we re
we do know because of how long the it it took until papadopoulos was sentenced that he gave up everything to mueller, including his assertion that both trump and sessions green lighted the meeting with the russians. i think the sentence does not reflect that, though. it s just a light sentence for what the court sees as a fairly light offense. jeremy bash, george papadopoulos is, i think lots of us cover this remember, maybe not all our viewers, counter investigation into whether or not russia influenced and put their finger on the scale for donald trump. it was his conversation with the diplomat that first sparked some interest in whether there was coordination and/or a conspiracy. you help me purge the word collusion from my vocabulary. but talk about george papadopoulos and who he is in this story of russian meddling in the 2016 election. you know, when he was overseas advertising his
results were negative. after for the they re dismissing cbs, and cnn as niche agenda drivers which ironically is what p.j. media is. just because trump s theory smells of tripe on this basis, it doesn t mean google and others are in the clear. just today the company s ceo was criticized for refusing to testify before the senate intel committee about russian meddling. now, those are serious questions that have a basis in fact. as for this current matter with trump, google says search is not used to set a political agenda, and we don t bias our results toward any political ideology. not good enough for trump, who had a senior adviser announce that your tax dollars will be used to investigate trump s concerns. but i can tell you for free that this whole deal this morning was as much about distraction as it is about discovery of a pernicious practice by google. this is what he does most. he finds something that can
google trump it shows if you look for trump news, it shows mostly negative results. frankly i d be more suspicious if the cache came back mostly positive. the basis for the fox frenzy is a lone article from pj media, a conservative website, but what a headline they put out. 96% of google search results for trump news are from liberal media outlets. but if you read past that, the methodology, meh. the writer typed trump news into google on a bunch of computers and most of the results were negative. as for the nasty bit about the sources, they re dismissing cbs, reuters, and of course cnn as niche agenda drivers, which ironically is what pj media is. so again, just because trump s theory smells of tripe on this basis, it doesn t mean that google and others are in the clear. just today the company s ceo was criticized for refusing to testify before the senate intel committee about russian meddling. now, those are serious questions that have a basis in fact. as for this current matte