momentum going to be criticism and no matter. i agree with mollie that it should be taken seriously. to say they broke with the intelligence community s assessment john: they were trying to sow chaos. they were until trump actually won. if you look at the tweets and the social media. almost all of this is the general washington consensus at this point. that s not true. we are still in the midst of this complete russia hysteria. saturday night live is making fun of the idea but we still have a special prosecutor. how is any of that not true about this? what s being said is that trump is a trader.
vice-president. one person present later told me no one understands that at the white house, we weren t briefed about the fbi s investigations. we had no information on collusion. all we saw was what the russians were doing. the fbi puts anything about americans in a lockbox. so, someone who has worked at the fbi, does this seem plausible to you? it does. you know, there would have been conversations, i imagine, in the intelligence channels either through the dni or the fbi director themselves with the national security council that likely would have gotten to the oval office that included what the russians were doing in a whole bunch of places. remember, the collusion piece is one thing. what the russians were doing is using old tactics that they had been participating in since the 1970s and 80s and 90s, even the 60s and the race riots they were trying to sow chaos, but they didn t have the internet. they re getting better. in 2014 we saw this real change in them where they could
close to sidney blumenthal, but i suspect these guys were picking up information that was being put out there by the same russian operatives who are doing the same thing they been doing for generations, which is trying to sow chaos, disinformation the u.s. this is nothing new. we have lost our ability to assess this. release at all. release the dossier, shearer dossier come in the transcript before the fisa court. get it all out there and see what happens. eric: we are out of time. the american people want to say this to make a judgment of their own. mike baker, always good to see you. thank you for your service to our country. thank you. arthel: vice president pants have a close encounter with the sister of kim jong un at the winter olympics after a stern message to the north korean
bots, those cyber creature who s saturate the internet automatically with a particular point of view endorses by the russians were among the real endorsers of the idea of releasing that memo which was, of course, targeted on tarnishing the investigation of russia s interference. there are so many subtle ways in which they are and i suspect this is what secretary tillerson was referring to, there are so many subtle ways in which they continue to work to influence our politics and sow chaos that it s extremely important that we doll something about it. what worries you more, the subtle ways they influence our political systems through chaos or the potential penetration of voting booths? that s a weird question to ask. what should we be thinking about? not at all. your question i straighillustra nature of the problem. the problem requires what i would call an all of government response across the board in a
of course, targeted on tarnishing the investigation of russia s interference. there are so many subtle ways in which they are and i suspect this is what secretary tillerson was referring to, there are so many subtle ways in which they continue to work to influence our politics and sow chaos that it s extremely important that we doll something about it. what worries you more, the subtle ways they influence our political systems through chaos or the potential penetration of voting booths? that s a weird question to ask. what should we be thinking about? not at all. your question i illustrates the nature of the problem. the problem requires what i would call an all of government response across the board in a kind of almost manhattan project way. in other words, we have to worry about the most overt signs of penetration, for example, i would recommend certain states