not, and it s just not a legal defense to rely on patently unreasonable advice. somebody says oh yeah, they just change the law, you can go rob that 7-eleven, it s fine. and you go and do it, even if you might believe that, it s unreasonable to belief and it s not illegal defense. if that is defense, that i was advised that there was election fraud, he was told repeatedly there wasn t, there was never any actual fact to back that up. you can t just listen selectively for what you want to hear and then rely upon that. as a legal defense to the serious crimes like obstruction of official proceeding. i don t know exactly if that s what we ll end up happening when we get, if we get to indictment, but it certainly seems like that statement suggests or on advice of counsel is what we re gonna hear. andrew weissmann, on the data on trump s lawyers are meeting with jack smith s team
suggests or on advice of counsel is what we re gonna hear. andrew weissmann, on the data on trump s lawyers are meeting with jack smith s team in fulton county, georgia, around the courthouse today, they were setting up some crowd control barriers for what could be happening there very soon. in the normal course of things, what would have happened in today s discussion between don trump s criminal defense lawyers and jack smith s team, considering the possibility of indictments involving january six? sure, well, having done these meetings, tmi notice has held these meetings as well, this is the opportunity that you give two defense council to say, please tell me any and all factual legal arguments that you have as to why we shouldn t
sending encouraging signs to he kept rejecting, you know, any fact of russian interference throughout the elections. he had many opportunities, during the debates, or his interviews, to denounce vladimir putin and to reject all accusations of putin helping him. you know, he, which was quite unusual for trump, who flip-flopped on many issues, except one. it was very consistent throughout the whole campaign, and, you know, as president-elect, for if not praising putin, but definitely defending putin s record, and denying any involvement of kgb in the process. we saw that wikileaks served as a kgb branch, had been dumping all this data on hillary, on dnc, while collecting data on trump and republicans. and as i predicted six months ago, they would collect this data to sort of have something on them, in case if trump won. the book is winter is coming. garry, thank you so much. thank you for being with us. in the next hour of 360, more
of motivations including that just simply undermining the u.s. democratic systems. now, this is the kind of thing that the russians have been doing in other countries. right now in germany, for instance, which has an election coming up, anderson. and the cia s allegedly developed new information in recent weeks. do we know what that was? we don t know exactly what it was, but we know that even before the election, the cia was ready to make this assessment that russia was trying to help trump. we re told they gained some new information from some of their sources and there s evidence that investigators have found, anderson, an army of fake social media accounts that posted negative stories about hillary clinton also had ties to russia. now, there s still a lot of investigative work to do, a lot of this is circumstantial evidence. we expect that congress will do some of these investigations as well. but democrats want a special committee like the ones that republicans used to investi
russian. probably in other languages, but i don t read them. now, we can also see the pattern. in many european companies, we have warnings from intelligence communities, like in germany, sweden, and in many other places, about russians trying to undermine the democratic properties and to steal secret documents from prospective governments. it hasn t just been targeting the united states. no, no, no, it s across europe, and that s why if you undermine cia and fbi agent, you should also, you know, undermine reports from intelligence communities across europe. obviously, putin wanted trump to be elected, and in russia, because russian domestic propaganda has been presenting trump as someone who would change dramatically the relations, bashing obama for centuries and expecting trump to leave sanctions and build personal relations with putin. i think putin could also sense that trump would essentially be an agent, someone who could make