we ve got it, we ve got it, it comes out tomorrow, but we ve got it here is how it starts. miley deputy, robert crews, army resolved in urgent phone call from the top of the u.s. services department. the midterm elections were less than two months ago weighing. house and senate, but the next two years of the trump investigations. he spoke with eduardo callahan, a high-level trump political appointees at the justice department his message to cause army was then ambiguous. it was time for me, jeffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and lifelong republican, time for me to take one for the home team. it came into my office, closed the door, quote, you re not going to believe the conversation i had without callahan, he said. before sharing the details of the top leadership at doj wanted me to bring criminal charges against gregory craig, a private attorney who had lunched bennett council. they wanted me to bring those charges before election day i
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it is now under way. the director of national intelligence said in a recent speech that the warning lights are blinking red and the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. and here we see the incursions coming. russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this year s 2018 midterms. reports one of the targets is missouri democratic senator claire mccaskill. so highway donald trump doubts much of this is even occurring, his pentagon chief does say there are secret actions now underway to combat it. what is the government doing to halt russian interference in the next elections? yeah, i m not at liberty to explain what we re doing in that regard. just rest assured there are actions under way to protect our elections or to exposeness
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trump got updates on the whole of government approach his administration is implementing to safeguard our nation s elections. the president has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation state or other malicious actors. that kind of paper statement is a contrast to trump s actual words in helsinki where trump sided with the russian president over his own intelligence agencies on the question of whether russia interfered in the u.s. election. that was the press conference where putin brought back an idea these two leaders had apparently talked about, a joint u.s./russian cyber security group to investigate russian election meddling. sort of like having el chapo join up with the dea to fight drug trafficking. now this quite absurd plan to team up with the only country whose own agents have been charged for 2016 interference first came up you may remember all the way last summer when trump wrote that he and putin discuss
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