Day strategy. very critical of the white house. he s resigned his position. the former foreign secretary, boris johnson, who may become britain s next prime minister, admitted that during a tv interview, he didn t or didn t appear to back didn t appear to back the british ambassador. that was a contributory factor. boris johnson said he was misrepresented to the foreign ambassador. they said this is a breach of the secret side. they are investigating. they don t see the hand of a government in the form of a computer hack. however, they did advise editors of newspapers and publications, not to run with this story. within 24 hours, backing away and saying this wasn t an effort of police stopping the media to
So you gave corporations this tax cut. they may or may not give their employees a bonus, a raise. and there s pain being felt all over the places. finally, you remember last year equifax experienced the biggest computer hack in history, compromising more than 140 million americans. this week the company announced an additional 2.4 million americans had their names and driver s license information stolen in that same hack, racking up a new total of 147.9 million people affected. it bears reminding that the new look consumer financial protection bureau led by mick mulvaney has scaled back its investigation into the blunder. equifax is not scot-free yet. the company said it s under investigation by every state attorney general in the country. hopefully they ll get something done if the federal government won t do it for you. that is it for velshi & ruhle this weekend. you can get us both together every weekday at 11:00 a.m. you can find me at 9:00 a.m.
Contacting one gucifer 2.0. then a week later, it shows up in wikileaks. and june 20th, right before the democratic national convention, it s all over the place. the october 7th moment to me seems key. right? because you ve got the washington post publishes this story that s widely considered devastating for the trump campaign. and then four hours later wikileaks publishes the first tranche of podesta e-mails. from an investigative standpoint i d imagine you d want to know what phone conversations or e-mails there were that day. mueller s team or the house intelligence committee, 100% what they re interesting going to try to understand is we have evidence from the u.s. intelligence agencies that the russian government was involved in the computer hack. the question is what do the
Traditional idea of a boiler room in a presidential campaign, except it s the russians running the boiler room. remember that there s sort of a number of different crimes to be looked at here. one is the computer hack, how that evidence comes out the intrusion is clearly a crime yeah. but the other it could be a crime by the campaign if the campaign is involved in releasing those e-mails. after the fact. exactly. that s potential one area. the other area are election laws which say, a foreign government cannot be involved in a u.s. election. if there s any indication the trump campaign was working with a foreign government like russia and it could be through assange, through roger, you would try to find that link. then that is also a potential crime. that strikes me as the key question here. you ve got this sort of you ve got the links in the chain, the campaign talks to roger stone, roger stone talks to credico, credico talks to julian assange, we know they re talkin
he s using julian assange to provide help to the trurchl campaign. what they are doing you think there s criminal exposure? absolutely. what they re doing is the traditional idea of a boiler room in a presidential campaign, except it s the russians running the boiler room. remember that there s sort of a number of different crimes to be looked at here. one is the computer hack, how that evidence comes out the intrusion is clearly a crime yeah. a crime by the campaign if the campaign is involved in releasing those e-mails. after the fact. exactly. that s potential one area. the other area are election laws which say, a foreign government cannot be involved in a u.s. election. if there s any indication the trump campaign was working with a foreign government like russia and it could be through assange, through roger, you would try to find that link. then that is also a potential crime. that strikes me as the key question here. you ve got this sort of you ve got the