to understand that day by day as the messaging from the campaigns change. how do you change that? let me get real granular. how do you put that in language, american english, so people don t immediately step back and say, that s foreign propaganda. whoever was doing this was audacious. and in terms of agility, understanding the technical environment well enough to say it s not just twitter and facebook, we re transitioning to instagram, which is more of a new generation thing and moving away from facebook. i m stepping back, saying, they weren t trying to change an election, they re trying to change america. and i guess the basic question i have is, are the russians on their own sophisticated enough to know how to do this, or could they only do so with help from americans? do they know all of this stuff already? are they that smart? are they that sophisticated? if i were them running this, and as i watch what i witnessed in the past couple years, i would say, whether it s unwitting
tentacles and attempting to exert influence. i think what is interesting about this is the russians singled out conservative right wing groups, notably the nra, and they certainly understand the death grip that the nra has on many of our politicians. so it makes every bit of sense from their standpoint to try to implant her in an organization like this that would have access and gain information as well as exert influence. was she being used by the russians unwittingly as someone to try to establish these kind of contacts? well, i don t it remains to be seen just how witting she was. i suspect she was she s witting. she is going to plead guilty as part of this guilty plea agreement with federal authorities, the u.s. attorney here in the district of columbia. right, which tells me the federal authorities i think have enough evidence against her that, you know, they could use leverage exert leverage over
captured here from november 16. here s donald trump and vladimir putin. in the background, there s marine la pen. we know that moscow bank funded la pen s political party and parliament is looking into whether russia funded brexit. the twitter trolling machine went into over drive with twitting over and over again with support to brexit. it s funny how some of these alleged nationalist voices end up pushing putin s foreign policy. but the former head of the policy shares a strange reluctance to criticize vladimir putin. he was in contact with wikileaks
malpractice in the age of trump. this is a perfect example. the mainstream media became witting, willing accessories to character assassination. they demonized kavanaugh, corroborating evidence be damned. they drove this constant narrative that guilt should be assumed and presumed. and that an accuser should never even be question, much less doubted. they attacked, at every turn, kavanaugh s temperament, they attacked his yearbook. they attacked his denial. and it was really a shameful example of how the media has become overwhelmed by its own bias. sean: yeah, monica, 48 or 52, i meant. not 49 peered my mouth was off slightly. for me, this is no profile in courage. if there is no corroboration
malpractice in the age of trump. this is a perfect example.le the mainstream media became witting, willing accessories to character assassination. they demonized kavanaugh, corroborating evidence be damned. they drove this constant narrative that guilt should be assumed and presumed. and that an accuser should never even be question, much less doubted. they attacked, at every turn, kavanaugh s temperament. they attacked his yearbook. they attacked his denial. and it was really a shameful example of how the media has become overwhelmed by its own bias. sean: yeah, monica, 48 or 52, i meant. not 49. my math was off slightly. for me, this is no profile in courage. if there is no corroboration t