occasions, so said the republican senate intel committee. the trump campaign publicly undermined the at attribution of the leak campaign to russia and was indifferent as to whether it was wikileaks and they were furthering a russian interference effort, so sayeth the republican senate intel committee report on russian threats to american democracy. so, david, in the words of aristotle, anybody suggesting that this russian thing was a hoax, they re just spreading horse [ bleep ]. that s all they re doing. i want to rewind the tape of where you put the emphasis. when you said grave counterintelligence threat, you put the emphasis on grave. the emphasis also needs to be on the word counterintelligence. one of the things that did go wrong, and i wrote this article in 2017 and i ve said it
governments. the committee could not determine if papadopoulos informed anyone in the trump campaign with any of the information, though the committee finds it plausible he did not do so. the meeting with russians offering dirt on hillary clinton, this is what the intel committee, the republican intel committee with marco rubio as a chairman wrote, the committee assesses that at least two participants in the june 9th, 2016 meeting had significant connections to the russian government, including the russian intelligence services. russia and the trump campaign s communications with wiki leaks, they sought to obtain advanced information about wiki leak s planned releases through roger stone at their direction. stone took action to gain inside knowledge for the campaign and shared the purported knowledge directly with trump and senior campaign officials on multiple
president have in common is a philosophy that you deny everything. that only suckers and losers admit to anything. if you deny, it did not happen. i testified fully and truthfully to the house intelligence committee and turned over the wiki leaks direct message exchanges. laura: how did you get in touch with them? by going to direct messages. based on the context and the timing it was 6 weeks after wiki leak all right published the dnc disclosures. so collusion is impossible. they are benign. i turned them over to the committee. laura: intel has it. the senate intelligence committee will have it. laura: you wanted to testify
you had the then candidate, now president of the united states out there publicly not just benefitting from the russian operation. we have to remember, this is a crucial point, actively encouraging it, encouraging it in july when he encouraged them to hack hillary clinton s e-mails and where he was talking about the wiki leak hacks constantly. this is a president who called it a hoax after the election and continues to call this investigation a witch hunt. hae is been actively promoting the russian interference in the election for now over a year and a half. so for him to, the statement he made today was a bit of a climbdown where he has to admit there was some intervention but he continues to make claims that aren t back up by facts. his claim he was vindicated today. there s nothing in this indictment that vindicates him, nothing that rosenstein said that vindicates him. what we saw today was the first step of a charge. there could be multiple actors charged in the months to come.