That the president has been acid wously denying for more than a year now, that there was a in fact a major russian operation to interfere in the 2016 u. S. Election. And, you know, the Intelligence Community has been saying for a year now that they have high confidence that that is the case. And here you have the u. S. Department of justice and a grant Ju Grand Jury saying they can prove that beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, using admissible evidence. And that, you know, is a Rod Rosenstein today was extremely careful not to offend the president and make sure that no americans were witting participants in this plot. But that is a remarkable factual repudiation of the entire
he was very careful to stay within what is alleged in the indictment. But he did make a point on several occasions of saying that no americans are accused of participation in this. And i do think that was probably aimed at the president in a fashion that allows the president at least until such a time as
organization behind them than they did in 2016. i m sure the crowd was happy to see you, again, katy. yes, their boasting of that. annie and i were at the briefing the other day that the campaign held and it is striking how much more professional the organization is this time around and the group from 2015, 2016. they believe they have a much better data collection operation and boasting about the number of volunteers they will have and they will compete in 17 states. although to be fair, a lot of those to play defense texas, arizona and they are also leaning in on impeachment. senior officials at that briefing made this argument and we heard it from the president himself today in the oval office saying that since impeachment started the fund-raising numbers have gone up and he believes the poll numbers have gone up. looking at the polls, harder argument to make. his approval rating has held steady in certain states. and the campaign went one step further and they say, according to t
federal effort is into, but please repeat the point you made earlier in this hour, about how robust, what you have learn it about the u.s., we ll call it counter spying for civilians, the sizable data mining operation, data collection operation we went back at the russians with. to tell you the truth, it was more human intelligence than data. if you read the indictment, and jill mentioned this a little earlier, it s very clear there s somebody who worked on the inside and named the names of everyone in this organization right down to their administrative remarks to when they were hired, when they did what, and this only involved about 90 ling wiuists and their management team to go at one of the many troll farms that russians are running. i think what you re seeing in
feet. the president is now asking the pentagon to have plans in place for an orderly withdrawal by the end of the year. the white house is reportedly considering four options for restructuring the controversial phone surveillance program. one of the choices is scrapping the program all together. also, transferring the data collection operation to the phone companies or the fbi. the interim government has disbanded the riot police used in deadly confrontations with protestors. if they can ever locate yanukovych. for now, they have no jurisdiction over the ukraine. good news, new this morning, childhood obesity down 43 b% in the last decade. it focuses on 2 and 5 years of age. officials can t tell you exactly
good day, i m andrea mitchell in washingtonnd we re learning new details about the top-secret program code named prism. which allowed the national security agency and the fbi to tap directly into computer servers of nine leading internet companies. monitoring internet traffic and collecting data in real-time. the washington post obtained these slides used as part of a secret intelligence presentation to explain the program. intelligence officials are reeling after all of these leaks which have revealed some of the most sensitive secrets in the counterterror data-collection operation. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins us with more. and i think you also have breaking news. let me start with the fact that the federal authorities tell us they have made an arrest in the series of letters that were mailed to the president, to the new york mayor, michael bloomberg and to the mayor s office of the mayors against illegal guns here in washington, d.c. they ve arrested a woma