Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Putin meeting all around us in that setting. But they are also hearing the president in very few words undercut the investigation. The president also hit some other big topics like the border wall and of course smacking the media. Heres some of the highlights. Were fixing walls all over the border. And were going to start to get very nasty over the world. Anything i want, they want to oppose. I just figured out how to do the wall. Ill say, i dont want to build the wall and theyll insist on building it. I just figured that out right now. They can make anything bad. Because they are the fake, fake disgusting news. So fake, fake disgusting was a sort of updated iteration. There was cheering and jeering at us in the work area that is
the president getting funding for the wall. Remember, a Republicanled Congress has not supported the president in funding such an endeavor. Joining me to discuss, matt miller, an Msnbc Na
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. We havent seen that in a while. So unlike this white house really. Any chance well get answers to any of these big russiagate stories making headlines today . Well, we got plenty of questions on those topics. Its likely Sarah Sanders, particularly as it relates to the personal opinions on the mueller investigation, whether he will do an interview that she will kick that over to his outside counsel, Rudy Giuliani who has spoken to nbc news in the last several hours. Giving us a sense of where things stand. Effectively saying there was a letter from muellers team to the legal team representing the president. And there will be some narrows of the course of the topics, but they will still focus on collusion and obstruction of justice. I think it was last in may when he said it, walking on the south lawn that hes open to talking about all of this with robert mueller. That new reporting for the new york times, insisting
be doing what they re individually doing. for someone to be the center of connect all the spokes. congressional republicans just turned down $250 million yes, they did. in funding for protecting the elections. correctamundo. can the national security team have any impact in protecting our elections, not just with the government turning down funding to do so, but with the president not being on the same page? they can t really marshal the entire government. they can do the functional things. they can help election security systems around the country buttress themselves around cyberattacks. they can do things to help campaigns buttress themselves against cyber a tacks. they can work with social media companies to take down, you know, russian social media bots and trolls who are out pushing this information. but the response to russian interference needs to be not just kind of the technical aspect the government does but also marshalling the american people. you have to co
of fbi expertise who were talking counterintelligence, cyber, criminal and even counter terrorism, designed to root out and respond to foreign influence operations. for their part, our adversaries influence operation have encompassed a wide range of activities. just like we have a multidisciplinary response, that s because the threat is multidisciplinary. just a few examples of some of the things we ve seen over the past, targeting u.s. officials and other u.s. persons through traditional intelligence trade craft, criminal efforts to suppress voting, provide illegal campaign financing. cyber a tacks against voting infrastructure along with computer intrusions targeting elected officials and others and a whole slew of other kinds of influence, like both overtly and covertly manipulating news story, spreading disinformation, leveraging economic resources and escalating divisive issues.