98% of what they did is the tradecraft, there is trade craft associated with analytics and that was properly followed.e but just on that one piece about putin s alleged preference for trump, that was not supported. tucker: i ve never been clear on the underlyingen questions that undergird all of this which is the hacking of the dnc servers and of john podesta s gmail account, and i o asked the ranking democrat adam schiff about thisis and could not get a straight answer. are we positive that the russian government was behind stealing that data? as positive as you can be under circumstances where attribution is very difficult, but i am comfortable believing that the russian government was behind the hackers that did alle of this. whether the entities were doingh it were done on behalf of the russian government if not on behalf of or directly by, so i am comfortable making statement.ov again, attribution is very difficult in the cyber world.. tucker: will this convince anyone?
democrats of what is true, sounds like a political statement? 98% of what they did is the tradecraft, there is trade craft associated with analytics and that was followed. but just on that one piece about putin s alleged preference for trump was not supported. tucker: i ve never been clear on the underlying questions of all of this which is the hacking of the dnc servers and of john podesta as gmail account, and i asked the ranking democrat adam schiff about this and could not get a straight answer. are we positive that the russian government was behind stealing that data? about as positive as you can be where it is very difficult, but i am comfortable believing that the russian government was behind the hackers that did all of this. whether the entities were doing it word done about half of the russian government not on behalf, so i am comfortable making statement. again, attribution is very
intelligence community say, yes, that they had hacked the dnc e-mails. we ve seen public statements to that effect, but this is the first time we ve seen pure factual evidence, really methodically put in where people are being charged with a crime of conspiring to defraud the united states. so that, to me, is in order to prove there was anyone who conspired with the russians, we have to improve the russians were engaged in this behavior, and this indictment is really just an astounding statement of that behavior. phil, as a former fbi and cia official, just the tradecraft involved in this, the amount of effort put in, although at relatively low cost, i think about $1 million a month, from a russian standpoint, do you think they saw this as a successful operation? successful? this is brilliant. starting in 2014, a foreign intelligence entity was so successful with hundreds of people and maybe tens of millions of dollars, that they not only placed ads on facebook, they participated
coming? he wouldn t need to indicate that here, but that s the one question i have as well. they do keep talking about in this indictment. to josh s point, raising questions about possible other ones. just, that the granularity, the specificity in the whole indictment and the tradecraft involved, but just as significant is watching rod rosenstein, who trump has been firing off missives to his assistant, saying we have to find a way, even in the last two weeks, to get rid of rosenstein. we have to bury the mueller investigation. today this investigation is in place, and it is going to be almost impossible, i think we can say, for trump to make it go away. so there s that additional significance to these seismic events today. and also it s very much about the dereliction of duty by the president of the united states,
the russians actually influencing the election? and so we ve seen the intelligence community say, yes, that they had hacked the dnc e-mails. we ve seen public statements to that effect, but this is the first time we ve seen pure factual evidence, really methodically put in where people are being charged with a crime of conspiring to defraud the united states. so that, to me, is in order to prove there was anyone who conspired with the russians, we have to improve the russians were engaged in this behavior, and this indictment is really just an astounding statement of that behavior. phil, as a former fbi and cia official, just the tradecraft involved in this, the amount of effort put in, although at relatively low cost, i think about $1 million a month, from a russian standpoint, do you think they saw this as a successful operation? successful? this is brilliant. starting in 2014, a foreign intelligence entity was so successful with hundreds of people and maybe tens of millions of