Reporter. She is the coauthor of our exclusive nbc news report from just last night on Robert Mueller asking witnesses if trump knew with these hacked democratic emails before they were released. Also back with us, jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. And we welcome back to the program, cynthia alneya, a federal prosecutor and a Justice Department veteran. Welcome to you all. Carol, about tonights story, what is its central impact the your view . Well, as you mentioned, this hacking and leaking strategically is the worst part. So this is significant in the sense we knew this was happening. But if mueller decides to move forward with an indictment, to me the key question is whether or not there are any americans that are tied to this. Its one thing for him to indict russians who will probably never be extradited and come over and
stand trial in the United States. Its an entirely different ball game if there are americans named or unnamed should he decide to do an
reporter. she is the co-author of our exclusive nbc news report from just last night on robert mueller asking witnesses if trump knew with these hacked democratic e-mails before they were released. also back with us, jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. and we welcome back to the program, cynthia alneya, a federal prosecutor and a justice department veteran. welcome to you all. carol, about tonight s story, what is its central impact the your view? well, as you mentioned, this hacking and leaking strategically is the worst part. so this is significant in the sense we knew this was happening. but if mueller decides to move forward with an indictment, to me the key question is whether or not there are any americans that are tied to this. it s one thing for him to indict russians who will probably never be extradited and come over and
happened in the open, in the clear. it was an open source activity. and therefore can be discussed. this hacking was really the work of russian intelligence agencies we know that. it s a lot more sensitive, a lot more dicey to reveal. cynthia, how does knowing robert mueller as you do change the lens through which you view this? i guess it is another way of saying, how does he look at all this from his world view? he s fundamentally a marine. and i think he looks at it through a patriotic lens. that the president is not doing anything about the russian intervention in our election and he is going to tell the american people story. people that story. and he s going to the find out what happened. and pretty much anyone involved is going to be sorry. if anybody is involved, they ought to go see bob mueller or move to russia because otherwise they re going to end up in jail. that says a lot. we keep talking about the bots,