but some of us make somethinge make sommuch more. dinner. mom would be proud. with blue apron, any night is a chance to see what cooking can do. how many layers are there to russia s goal of sowing discord in the united states? moscow is continuing to deny any involvement with interfering in our democracy. the kremlin spokesperson says the indictment involves russian citizens, not the government and quote, there are no indications that the russian state could have any involvement in this and there can t be. as we reported earlier, president trump devoted much of his twitter time to the topic of
basis and from the different kinds of reporting, leaks and interviews that have come out, there were goals and strategies, a list of here are the topics you will talk about today. like your job. you discuss what you are covering and better have the story done when they ask you for it. except their work was to disrupt and influence americans. how did they know the language and cultural references so well to be able to get americans to follow them? that s one of the mysteries, how they were able to sort of mind-jack our culture so well. the best guess is they have been studying it for years. it s an international cosmopolitan people. what was the goal? was it pro-trump, anti-hillary clinton? sowing discord, getting people to the polls or getting them to stay home? the answer is all of the above. they wanted to do that. they came in on every side of the political discourse. they made fake personas for basically every kind of sub
united states is somehow compromised? evan, jump in here. there s a clarion call for the white house to do more, at the very least, to acknowledge what we know, that russia did play this role, sowing discord within the u.s. political landscape. what s your prescription for what the white house should do and what s your sense of why the white house hasn t done more? what the white house needs to do is implement the sanctions passed overwhelmingly and in a bipartisan manner in congress. they simply need to do that. we cannot effectively thwart these attacks, we have to deter them. some day we may get to the point where we can thwart them. we have to deter them. that s the most efficient way. we have to get beyond in the country this idea, this hope, starting place of looking at the president as a traditional president and expecting him to do traditional presidential things. this is a president who has some reason why he won t implement sanctions.
goal of sowing discord into the u.s. system. there is no allegation that any american knowingly participated in the operation. no allegation that the defendant s actions affected the outcome of the election. let s bring in dan and a columnist kim. dan, the volume of this indictment is the level of detail about the extent of the russian operation to show discord. tremendous amount of detail. hundreds of operatives in the united states using her social media and websites. millions of dollars being spent. let s go through the timeline. it is very telling. this began in early 2014. they were up and running and doing it through 2014 and 2015 into the campaign through the
our 2016 lx yet the president himself remains unmoved. his reaction today was to focus on his own defense, deny his own collaboration in this assault. he s incapable of considering the country s defense. as to the assault on the home front, he s also unable to perform. he remains protective of the as. this serves as a guarantee on the a. reporter:-15 s future. why not purchase the weapon that is as in many states as easy to buy as it is to shoot. with an american commander refusing to defend his country, what stops vladimir putin from engaging again this election year in what the online thugs pulled off in 2016? two years ago russians supported donald trump for president and disparaged hillary clinton. as the mueller indictment cites, they created bogus internet postings, posed online as american political activists and fraudulently purchased advertisements all with the strategic goal of sowing discord