go on to the bill. one of the major sticking points right now is the question of transit funding. you argue that transit systems have already received billions of extra dollars in pandemic relief fund that is not even spent yet and more funding is not necessary. there are a growing number of democrats who are threatening to withhold support of this compromise if the additional funds are removed from it. if these cuts you want aren t included, will that cost your vote? so, jake, first of all, that s a gross mischar mischaracterization of my position. i know it s been propulgated by my democratic colleagues. okay, please elaborate. okay. so the federal government historically in recent years have given $13 billion per year to transit. over the 12 months ending in march, the federal government didn t give just 13. because of all the supplemental bills we passed, the federal
now. he called putin a worthy adversary. what do you make of putin weighing in on the maga insurrection on the side of the insurrectionists? doesn t seem surprising, but what do you make of him going out of his way to do that? well, i don t think there s anything surprising in that at all. there s been a putin that s always been something of a troll that likes to insert himself in american politics. let s not forget if you look at the russian disinformation campaigns and interventions in our politics, it s often to fuel the kind of conspiracy theories that led to that insurrection. they ve been a party to this kind of information ecosystem that has propulgated conspiracy theory. on the other hand of the equation, joe biden very deliberately wanting to moot with our allies before he sits down with vladimir putin. just as he s working to fortify american democracy where there s a lot more work to do, there s work to be done to try to unify our g7 partners, part of the
conspiracy theory itself is russian propaganda. some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, ukraine did. this is a fictional narrative that is being perpetrated and propulgated by the russian security services themselves. that s right. russian propaganda. i wrote a book about russian interference and other aggression the shadow war, how many digital fingerprints tied the act to russia, well-known to u.s. intelligence, as a former top nsa official told me the russians didn t even try tri-to hide. nicole roths hadh a very personal encounter with crowdstrike, which helped to trace that russian hack and joins me now. great to have you on, nicole. you cover these stories very closely. tell us about crowdstrike and
some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, ukraine did. this is a fictional narrative that is being perpetrated and propulgated by the russian security services themselves. the new york times reports that american intelligence officials informed senators and their aides in recent weeks that russia had engaged in a years long campaign to essentially frame ukraine as responsible for moscow s own hacking of the 2016 election. joining me now to talk about this, and much more, ranking democrat of the homeland security committee. what do you make, sir, of your republican colleagues and the continuation, as we just played there, that some of them continue to believe that ukraine was responsible for hacking or meddling in our 2016 elections? well, it s remarkable to hear
inviting foreign interference into our elections. withholding military aid, after our congress voted to approve $400 million to fight off russian aggression in ukraine, harming not only ukraine s national security but american national security. so i think there s a strong case for all three of those articles. republicans have spent a ton of time justifying the president s actions by saying he was absolutely right to be suspicious of ukraine, but i want to share with what dr. fiona hill said about that very point yesterday. some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, ukraine did. this is a fictional narrative that is being perpetrated and propulgated by russian services themselves. i would ask that you please not promote falsehoods that so clearly advance russian.