skilled at exploiting the seams among u.s. authorities, laws, and values, responding to the russian disinformation campaign does not fall squarely in the province of any single u.s. agency and they generally do not have visibility into the information that flows across social media platforms. american respect for the free exchange of ideas as enshrined in the first amendment has made to easier for outsiders to infiltrate national political conversations, especially in the online world where it is simple to obscure identities and locations. matt miller, what do you do? it s tough. in that case, you need to have an all-out effort by the government addressing all three fronts. the potential hacks of election systems, the social media influence, and attempts to hack candidates and release their information to the public. with respect to the social media aspect, the one piece you can do other than prevention is for the government to come out with a
and cannot have or say on their platforms. so that s one of the challenges they face. matt, jump in on this. what are you thinking? i think ellen is exactly right. look, the social media companies have a responsibilities for policing what s on their platform. they need to do what they can to find content that is being put into their systems by foreign governments, in this case mostly the russian government, and get it off their networks. the fbi has a responsibility to find out those attacks are attributed to, to take the information and find out if they can confirm it s the fbi and work with the intelligence agencies and ultimately the policy makers, the president, to hold them accountable. the fbi has a law enforcement function. they can t be the ones out looking at every piece of content that s on social media. so i think it comes back to two things. one, you have to get this content off of the networks and have leadership from the top down to convince the american people not to
president, the press secretary and the national security advisor call it a witch hunt and call for the investigation to be shut down as the president did yesterday. they do not square. you will never convince the american people to take it seriously when the president doesn t. it is confusing because it was a couple of weeks ago that kirstjen nielsen was on stage in aspen telling one of our own reporters she didn t believe russia was still interfering in the election. now she has done an about face on that. peter alexander, is matt miller right? is this what changed? is this why we saw those natural security and intelligence heads today? i was moderating that panel with kirstjen nielsen where we had that conversation. it took a lot of follow-up questions before she finally said, yes, i agree with the intelligence assessment. what struck me here today and this was an announced briefing, but an unannounced series of guests, obviously. they brought out this sort of american national s
matched and i can t imagine almost any scenario in which sean hannity gets forced out while donald trump remains in office. a great shame for many fine journalists who work at the network. we won t paint the network with a broad brush. tom winter, thank you for your reporting. matt miller, thank you for your analysis. joyce is stuck with us a little while longer. when we come back donald trump takes on the man he fired because he didn t like the way he was running the russia investigation. jim comey firing back in a set of explosive interviews. reupping the central question at the heart of the mueller investigation. does russia have something on donald trump?
journal in just the last hour, hannity simply explained, quote, we ve been friends a long time. i have sought legal advice from michael. with us to make sense of how the president s fixer s fate is now inextricably linked to his own, we re joined by some of our favorite guests. outside the new york courthouse, tom winter, kristen welker following developments from the white house, former chief spokesman from the justice department matt miller and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney. both matt and joyce msnbc analysts. tom, let s start with you and the dramatic twists and turns which i heard from two friends at fox news, shocked them there in their workplace. but sean hannity now playing a role in this cohen legal drama. so, nicole, this all came up because earlier today michael cohen in a legal filing through his attorneys said that he s represented two clients three clients, rather, in the past two