down the road. i t i think musk is doing the right thing here. james baker said the reason why we re not releasing this information is because of a hacking activity. that s the only exemption in which you can suppress information going outs on twitter. there s no evidence of hacking here. so musk can pound his chest now and say okay, great. we want transparency. we got rid of baker. look at the facts. guess what? in six months from now a year from now, if there s a republican candidate that is facing a potential hurricane or facts adverse to he or she, musk is going to have to step up and do the same there. promote transparency. so the time will tell. but he can t use this as a political ploy just to report just to support republicans. it has to float both ways. i would like to believe that s what he s trying to do. neil: well-put. brian, we ll watch closely.
has direct or ray said, this is rampant fast and we cannot permit this to happen in the international system. mike: can you speak more about the benefits chinese have gotten in terms of what they ve learned from hacking american innovations? yeah, absolutely. direct or ray was really clear about this. china had been spearfishing and hacking at going after all the hard work about american innovation. for example, china says they will unveil a stealth bomber sometime next year. if they do that, guarantee they will have you some information that they had from aerospace companies to try to design this to compete with the u.s. and with our allies. so it s really wrong and is direct or ray says we have to continually work together all of us to deflect the spearfishing and avoid this and not let china do this illegal and unethical hacking activity. of course tells technologies on a big edge the 90s is military has in the
about a contact between russians and some american journalist. that i had not been familiar with, and it will be interesting to tease out who that might be and what went on there. but it is certainly accurate to say, as your question implies, that there is a tremendous amount of smoke indicating that there was some sort of trump campaign knowledge or involvement with this. but criminal cases are not built on smoke. they re built on fire. certainly in this indictment, there is no even allegation, much less proof, that the trump campaign was involved in this hacking activity. if you look at the indictment, paragraphs 43 and 44, i think, are what we re talking about here, which is the description by the prosecutors of the individuals who had communication with guccifer and
for any intelligence service i assume they would have to have local knowledge. just like the u.s. in iraq would have to have it s better to have locals giving information. absolutely. at this point in the campaign we now know that the fbi notified the dnc about the hacking activity that occurred for almost 17 months prior to this meeting in june. so the russians have been gathering book and what they consider to be compromising material on the candidates chlts they have been hacking into the dnc. now they re thinking about how are we going to use the information, how is the best way to influence the campaign. do we have a whiting can we develop a witting partner in the trump campaign to utilize this information. this meeting was key in assessing the prospect for future cultivation. the fact the meeting was not reported, is also hugely significant because the russians would have had to go back and conduct another entire risk
headquarters in moscow doesn t make sense. it would have relied on folks on the ground here in the united states. do you agree with that. whether it s american citizens or russian. or espionage intelligence officials from russia on the ground here that local knowledge would be key. for any intelligence service i assume they would have to have local knowledge. just like the u.s. in iraq would have to have it s better to have locals giving information. absolutely. at this point in the campaign we now know that the fbi notified the dnc about the hacking activity that occurred for almost 17 months prior to this meeting in june. so the russians have been gathering book and what they consider to be compromising material on the candidates chlts they have been hacking into the dnc. now they re thinking about how are we going to use the information, how is the best way to influence the campaign. do we have a whiting can we