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In washington when they released this 37page indictment. The charges with against 13 russian nationals. Three russian organizations for allegedly defrauding the United States but specifically the illegal use of social media to interfere in the election and in this particular case to support the candidacy of donald trump and to disparage Hillary Clinton. One of the key things we learned today that this operation really predates the confirmation of either of the leading candidates in the president ial election. It began in 2014 which is when it was seeded in st. Petersburg, russia by an individual who is closely aligned with the russian president. But then it really kicked off and picked up steam in mid 2016 when they took about 5 dozen people and specifically tasked them with the russian interference in our election. Heres the Deputy Attorney general from earlier today. There is no allegation in this indictment that any american was a knowing participant. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election. I have read the indictment twice now. Its important to note that anyone who is conducted to the Trump Campaign is unidentified in the indictment. They are referred to simply as members, volunteers, or supporters of the trump pain. Since that announcement today, the president has put out a tweet and it reads in part russia started their antiu. S. Campaign in 2014, long before i announced that i would run for president. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump Campaign did nothing wrong. No collusion. The Deputy Attorney general made clear today that at least on this digital piece they found the russian interference but they did not find any american was willingly cooperating with the russians to amplify that effort. But the Deputy Attorney general was silent on other outstanding issues that may remain in the russia case, kimberly. Kimberly all right, catherine. Thank you so much. Youre welcome. Kimberly tremendous developments today and in a way unexpected that this was going to come out today. Quite revealing and a number of people indicted. What is your take away . Dana couple of things. While there are lots of leaks in other parts of the government, the bob mueller investigation, it pretty is air tight. Like nobody knew it was coming. In fact, when the press conference was announced, it was happening at 1 15. Pretty much nobody knew what it was about. Some people speculated that Rod Rosenstein was going to resign, obviously that didnt happen and actually todays development probably ensures that Rod Rosenstein is not in any danger of being fired any time soon. I think it also proves that mitt romney was right. Remember in the campaign when he said to president obama that the russians were geopolitical enemy and obama dismissed it turns out that in 2014, this is when all of this started. We do know that everybody has been saying that the russians try to do this all the time. Kimberly sure. Dana its possible that maybe the Obama Administration was monitoring it in 2014 and didnt think it was that big of deal. It certainly ramps up. As juan has said before, there is frustration on behalf of the democrats that the president seemed to not have done more at the time. I think its a solid indictment. I also think that it proves that russian meddling was not a hoax. And so because the global threat hearing that happened this week there was a focus on this about what is happening in 2018, hopefully now and the president says in his Statement Today or the press secretarys statement that this is a time for everybody to Work Together to figure out a way to push back against the russians. Also, for those of you twitter box in st. Petersburg tweeting my during the election, i could say it but i wont. I wont. But it really it was a horrible thing to go through. All of anybody who was. Kimberly targeted. Dana part of the campaign or reporting on the campaign considered influential was absolutely bombarded by these jerks. Kimberly now they have gotten to the bottom of it. There has been expeditious justifiable with these indictments. Greg, i want to talk to you a second with the president coming out right away with his own communication strategy in terms of tweeting about it and putting the postmark back to 2014 saying, look, this does not invalidate the authenticity, legitimacy of my campaign, my election as United States president. And this predated anything as it relates to my campaign. Gregg interesting to see how the goal post are being moved. The people celebrating, this pretending that meddling is collusion is being dishonest. Anybody who says this is proof of anything beyond meddling is lying. Look, russians meddling is their baseball. Thats their past time. As somebody. Apple pie and meddling. Gregg as somebody married to a russian i know thats the case. She happens to be in moscow right now. I dont know if thats the coincidence. Kimberly she is getting a quickie divorce. Gregg here is the deal. They coordinated rallies to support trump. They coordinated rallies to protest trump. So there is like that weird character in a soap opera thats trying to like break up a married couple and sew discord among them and make their lives ruined. We know this is what they do. They are the globes trolls. We have to be very stoke abouvery stoicabout this stuff. Screaming at each other about whether the russians did this and were we involved or were we colluding . They were winning. This what is the poll point. Thats why they supported trump and thats why they supported the protesters. Thats why they go after you. And thats why they start putting out emails this way. Kimberly thats what they do. They have been doing it forever. Gregg remember rocky and bull winkle who were the villains natasha and boris. We knew this when they were kids. When we allow them to separate us, that was a problem. Its a problem we cant do to them because they only have a single ideology which is being russian. Dana they dont really have elections. Jesse 99. 9 of the vote was rigged. Gregg we are plagued by team sport politics that divides on every issue and they know that. They know how to pick the teams and have them go at each other just like a soap opera villain. I almost admire it. Kimberly you almost do. I really appreciate the reference natasha and boris. What do you make from the communications piece from the president and press secretary . Jesse he said there is no collusion. It doesnt look like there is any whiting collusion and that was very specific. For people saying there may have been collusion in the indictment, i read the indictment, it was a little boring. Not very sexy. At the end it said. Kimberly thats what the dossier is for. [laughter] dana you like that one . Jesse russians emailed a Trump Campaign official three times offering locations in florida to have a rally. It does not even mention if the Trump Campaign official emailed back. So, thats all you have. They communicated unwittingly. It could have been oneway communication. Im not going to say there was no collusion yet. There is still no evidence of collusion according to this indictment. What they did was basically information warfare. They set up a bunch of bots. Only in the tens of millions of dollars. Not that expensive. They buy a bunch of ads on facebook. And when you think of how sophisticated it was, it wasnt that sophisticated. It was rudimentary. They would hire a person to dress up like hillary, put a little blonde wig on and wear a prison jumpsuit and stand at a trump rally. So when i was id ask one of these people do you want to do an enter she said yes. And now i understand why. Gregg that really happened . Jesse she was paid. To your point, too. Kimberly youre going to be called to testify. Way to go. Jesse this was protrump for a while and probernie sanders for a while and antihillary and then it became antitrump after the election. So the point was to sow discord and that was effective. I would say the democrats are helping the russians sow discord because of the dossier. Because of the constant accusations of treason. And if you boil it all up, i would say dossier and these crazy allegations and the billion dollars hillary spent on advertising and the biased Mainstream Media propaganda was much more influential than a few hundred twitter bots and few silly rallies held in new york city after the election. Kimberly all right, juan, let me guess, you see it differently. Juan i do. I think we have a situation where we dont know the end jest jess i agree. Juan still midstream in terms of what mueller is doing. Jesse i agree. Juan i would say as we heard from Rod Rosenstein there is no direct evidence of any complicity by any person in the Trump Campaign. We dont know they said at times, for example, you had people in the Trump Campaign who would retweet a lot of the efforts that were being made by the russians. But, again, unknowingly. Had people suggesting to them target these swing states go. After virginia. Look at colorado, et cetera. Again, maybe not knowing that you are dealing with russians who are interfering. The big point that i would register here as the take away is that President Trump has said repeatedly that this is fake news. This is a fraud. There was no russian interference in this election. Well now we know. They are definitely the Intelligence Community has said it. Robert mueller has said it we have got an indictment. There was russian interference in the 2016 election. He is referring to collusion. Juan no. Can have your meddling, thats what he is saying. You know what he meant. He said i wasnt involved. I wasnt involved. I had nothing to do with this. I won fair and square. Thats what he is saying. The fact that russians helped us win is a hoax is what he is saying. Juan thats not true. Russians did help him win. No, no. That did not effect the outcome of the election, juan. Gregg they didnt say that. Juan russians were promoting propaganda gregg it didnt effect the election. Juan it did. The way we talk. Gregg broadening the word effect. Juan they are behind the hacking of Hillary Clintons campaign and john podesta spreading of rumors that gets picked up by Mainstream Media that followed the business of her email and all that. Thats all amplified by what the russians were doing. But on a fun level, i disagree with you, jesse, i think it is a fun 37page read, because they got you talk about dressing up like hillary, put her in a cage, lock her up. I think thats pretty hilarious. Then they got this thing about if you are awoke black personal, clinton is satan and we cant vote for the lesser of two devils. And they have also big supporters of jill stein is who i think might be in some trouble herself. I think when you look at the way that they approach our election and us as an american people, they think that we are kind of dumb cuffs. Greg greg the reason is, juan, they dont have the vulnerabilities that we have. There is no way we can do this. Now, we can go mess with ukraine and do things like that and by the way we do do those things. So they look at us and they go i have a feeling they look at what they are doing as defensive maneuvers finding out things to protect them which is what a lot of people do, not condoning it the interesting thing to me is i grew up in the 70s. I remember how cold warriors were so mocked by the left academy achetheacademia. It is so refreshing to see all these democrats come out saying how evil this evil empire is. Its a little too late. Jesse i would like to add to that because under obamas watch you had russia invade ukraine. Set up military bases and prop up assad when they gassed their own people. They shipped weapons and antiaircraft missiles to iran. Obama didnt do that much. He wasnt that tough on russia. And all of a sudden from 2014 until 2017, a few hundred russians, with maybe 10 to 20 million, shed a little diswarfare retweeted a bunch of propaganda. Now all of a sudden therein are indictments four years later and everyone is crying like its a new cold war. I just feel like when we really needed the democrats to help republicans fight the cold war, they were nowhere to be found. But the minute you start. Kimberly they mocked romney. Jesse with hillary. Then its like have you got to fight these guys. Kimberly nevertheless, there will be a geopolitical fallout and also in areas like syria. Gregg wait until i get home. Kimberly my money is on you, greg. 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The fbi could have possibly prevented weapons Deadly School attack. Shocking admission from the bureau. It failed to act on a tip received just last month from a person close to accused florida gunman nikolas cruz. More now from phil keating live from the scene in parkland, phil. Hi, jesse, new information minutes ago from the Broward County sheriff specifically about the accused mass murderer that many flags, warning flags were up long before weapons afternoons terror inside that high school. And the fbi special agent in charge down here also addressing todays stunning admission that todays preeminent Law Enforcement Agency Completely dropped the ball with prior warnings. Sheriff scott israel says many clues were out there just in this county alone about 19yearold nikolas cruz. We have uncovered at the browards Sheriffs Office that we have had approximately 24 service last four years regarding the killer. Every one of these calls to service will be looked at and scrutinized. In washington fbi director Christopher Wray acknowledging publicly today that on january 5th, last month, the fbi was told by a person close to shooting suspect cruz about his erratic behavior, love of guns and specific potential to carry out a school shooting. The Fbis Miami Field Office should have received that information up the chain of command as a potential threat to life. To follow up and investigate. It did not happen. Five weeks later, 17 students and teachers are now dead. And former student 19yearold nikolas cruz is charged with 17 counts of first degree murder. Fbi director Christopher Wray apologizing, quote we have spoken with victims and families and deeply regret the additional pain this causes all those affected by this horrific tragedy. And republican governor rick scott up in tallahassee who was at the School Wednesday within hours of the massacre quickly sent out this very terse statement. The fbis failure to Action Action against this killer is unacceptable. 17 innocent people are dead and acknowledging a mistake isnt going to cut it. The fbi director needs to resign. Also getting word from the sun sentinel who interviewed the School Superintendent robert runcie, that the crime scene, the three story behind me which is known as the freshman building and most of their classes are there thats why so many of these victims were just 14 years old, they will never have to return to that building, any of the survivors. It is going to be demolished. Back to you. Thank you, phil. All right, kimberly, this makes me so upset. We know the full responsibility is on the shooter. At the same time, if you get a call into the field office in miami and you know the person is a close person not a random person and goes through the list, has a weapon, motivated to possibly shoot up a school. Disturbing behavior on social media, and you dont act, what could possibly be the explanation for not following up . Kimberly you know, i dont know. Im sure they are going to lay awake at night upset and tormented over it this is why we have the fbi to follow up on details like, this to follow up on leads to, you know, chase them down to prevent this type of thing from happening. Its not like this is something that is unfamiliar to us in terms of school shootings. And people usually do indicate and show some signs and make some overtures whether through communications, social media or otherwise, or do something where they tell somebody what they are about to do. So there is opportunities to be able to try to prevent Something Like this from happening. And when you think about it, like this should have been chased down. They should have and could have done better in a situation like this. Because quite frankly all the elements were there the statements, the intention, the ability to carry it out. The specifics of it in terms of being, you know, school shooter, somebody who was coming from a troubled background. People who had said that they were making complaints and saying this was a disturbed individual. So this is a particular case that should have gotten the focus and attention, obviously. Jesse what kind of accountability would you like to see here at the fbi, juan . Juan you have to look at the protocols how to handle these situations so in the future you dont have a repeat. Im a littl

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