Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Trump tower meeting between allegedly his son and some russians and some other folks. And it is true that parts of that investigation have blossomed into whole new areas, such as the manafort trial, which has nothing at all to do with the original russia investigation. In fact its one of the bases that manafort asked the judge to throw that case out, that it exceeded the power of the Special Counsel. So its hard to say what exactly Kristin Davis has information about, because the scope of this investigation is so broad. Just to give a little better sense pulling back the curtain from my conversations in my day job working over at the white house, in a series of conversations i had late this week with sources close to the president , they all tell me that the president s frustration specifically as it relates to paul manafort, remember that specific case he attacked as a hoax on twitter earlier this week, is in the
maybe from the left too. and it just shows what a tremendously complicated problem this is that we still haven t gotten our hands around. even facebook s response may have been too far in the other direction. and with only a few months to go until the midterms, there are a lot of potential accounts out there that could be forming as we speak and it s hard to know what you can trust when you re reading your own social media. the distinction between wanting to speak freely and maybe hide your identity so you don t feel afraid to say what you really want to say but how do you keep fake people and state-sponsored manipulation campaigns out of that without absolute knowledge of who s posting what, there s a trade-off there that doesn t have a good answer without downsides along the way. all of this as we heard from national security officials yesterday saying our democracy is in the crosshairs. charlie savage, thank you very much. coming up, we want to talk a little bit more about t