we are back with more of our breaking news coverage of this new york times report tonight saying that headlined from the start trump has muddied a clear message, that putin interfered. the new york times is reporting tonight that president trump has known since he was president-elect trump, on january 6th, 2017, that vladimir putin personally ordered the russian attack on our election and ordered it to sway the outcome of the election in favor of donald trump. the evidence according to the new york times report tonight the evidence included texts from russian military officers and information gleaned from a top secret source close to mr. putin who had described to the cia how the kremlin planned to execute its campaign of hacking and disinformation.
conclusion there is some pathology at work here because of course, he would have said yes the russians did it. i acknowledge the russians did it but nonetheless, i don t believe it was determinative in the impact on the election, even if it were, i deplour. the problem for our country is that means the president of the united states will not, cannot, isn t capable of accepting the russians interfered, that the russians are likely to interfere again and he has a responsibility to the country to do something to protect our sells in the next election, and this just isn t happening. congressman, this seems tonight s news seems to put more pressure on an idea advanced by some democratic senators that the interpreter present in the room with president trump and president putin should reveal her notes of that meeting and tell congress in testimony
that russia interfered in the election that russia interfered in the election with the intention of helping donald trump that they had a basis for saying that. and we could have also assumed that their basis for saying that was something that they appropriately shared with the president elect. but seeing in black and white in this new york times story the nature of that information, the detailed nature of that information, adding to it the kind of granular information that we got in the indictment there, it really does cause you to engage in a kind of thought experiment. what would a normal, responsible, emotionally stable, intellectually honest president-elect and now president do if he discovered that this kind of interference had been done to aid his election? he would express horror and outrage. he would insist on getting to the bottom of this. donald trump, for whatever
tonight that the president was briefed and real specifics how vladimir putin specifically ordered the invasion, the attack on our election and that donald trump has known this for a couple of weeks before he was inaugurated. lawrence, i m permitted to comment specifically on what the president was briefed and given the briefing but i can say this, as a member of the gang of eight, i was kept abreast of what the russians were doing in realtime during the election. i continued to get briefings after the election during the period in which donald trump was in the president elect and not just the gang of eight members, the candidate, the major presidential candidates will get a briefing on certain intelligence. when they become the president elect, they will be given specific intelligence and when they become president, the briefings will continue.
weekend. your dni dan coats said that america s digital infrastructure is at a critical point right now, similar to what it was like in some ways before 9/11 that we re susceptible to a large-scale attack. do you agree with that? i don t know if i agree with that. i have to look. i don t know if i agree with that. joining us now matt miller, ruth marcus and eugene robinson. they are all msnbc contributors. and gen, i want to start with you. the game is up. saying that on january 6th, 2017, the president was shown texts and e-mails from russian military officers gleaned from a top secret source close to vladimir putin showing the vladimir putin had personally ordered the attack on our election process in order to sway the election. yeah. for the winner of the vladimir putin showing the vladimir putin had personally ordered the attack on our election process in order to sway the election.