made. and i want to get your response not only to the tact that the biden administration is taking but to what putin is saying back, this is what he said, deny any involvement in the ransomware attack. there hasn t been any malicious russian activity whatsoever. i heard something about the meat plant. it s sheer nonsense. we understand it s just ridiculous, a pipeline? absurd. typical putin, i assume. yes, joy, there s an element of trolling in all of these comments putin gives. look, first of all, given russia s own sophistication in the cyber domain, the idea that they wouldn t necessarily be witting of what people were doing in their borders or have the capacity to stop it, i don t think anybody should believe that. and the reality is if you stack all of this up, cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, there s basically a asymmetric warfare raging from russia into the united states that s been
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be. we didn t even know if that person, if there was such a person, was aware and witting of the fact that they were being manipulated by the foreign power. so you have to go into that investigation very quietly, very discreetly to figure out where the national security threat might be. second criticism. too thin. you didn t know anything. you re worried about the russians doing what they always do. then you find out about a guy talking to somebody in a bar. right. and, boom, you open a case. too thin. didn t have enough. not too thin, and here s why. the russian activity had been well established for months and months, even years, right? so we knew what they were doing. now we find out from an absolutely reliable source, the friendly foreign government, that an individual in the campaign had foreknowledge, may have had foreknowledge of this cyberattack, of this weaponization of the material about candidate clinton. that is a very, very concerning thing. that tells us that this
politically, there may be some value from sitting it out, just complaining that it s not fair and continuing to maintain that talking point. yeah. we heard a lot of that last night. the president held a rally in florida. we heard a lot of the it s not fair, and we ll talk about that later. but ned, i want to go back to the fact that the president was told about the whistle-blower complaint before releasing the aid. this timeline thing. you know, on one hand, you have two conflicting stories here, the story that it was a quid pro quo. on the other hand, oh, we were with holding it because we were concerned about corruption or we wanted to get more people to put money other countries to put money toward ukraine. when you have that we ll call it a he said, she said the timeline becomes critical, right? well, the timeline is critical, chris. and i think we had a critical piece of information confirmed last night, since we now know that the president was, in fact, witting of the w
the 2020 lelections in the u.s.? translator: i ll tell you a secret, we will definitely intervene, it s a secret, everybody will laugh, so we ll go big, but don t tell anyone, please. vladimir putin mocking the u.s., clearly enjoying the damage he caused in the 2016 campaign. president trump absolves russia of blame against all advice and undermines the ukraine president s ability to push back against russian influence. in her extraordinary new book, blowout, rachel maddow unraffles the web of the oil and gas industry s influence from its origins in the 19th century to the fracking revolution in oklahoma and other states. the bp blowout of the book s title. and putin s expanding global influence despite his weakening domestic economy. now with the witting or