some russians can avoid the u.s. or london or any other international airports and hope it goes away. but mueller could be talking to people closer to the u.s. or in the u.s., if those people are covering their tracks, now they're on notice because this indictment of foreigners is not coming in a vacuum. it comes with a former trump aide rick gates looking to join michael flynn to cooperate with mueller, it comes after robert mueller took paul manafort back to court for getting busted for trying to talk to a ukrainian about a new pr campaign, as mueller releases the guilty plea of this mysterious californian for fraud connected to the case and as we emphasized in our reporting, mueller obtained that ple two weeks ago. only he knows all the reasons why he's releasing it today. bob mueller is releasing all of this to show a timeline. from what russians did early on researching how to do this in 2014 to escalating in june, 2016 and then of course, it was july 2016 the next month when trump said this -- >> russia, if you

it's russians. it's been tweeting at us and trying to influence us with thousands and thousands of followers for years. >> well, one of the issues that came through to me at the justice department is that the deputy attorney general made the point of operations in the future. you know from earlier this week, all of the intelligence officials made the case there's evidence that the russians are targeting the mid-term elections. what we heard today is not in a vacuum. but the russians played a long game, they are chess players and they also see this as an inexpensive way to create chaos and discord within the system and undermine the democratic process. i asked the deputy attorney general what the chances were of these russians being brought to the united states for prosecution. here it's his answer. >> no communication with the russians about this. we'll follow the ordinary process of seeking cooperation and extradition. >> in my experience, an indictment like this has two functions. it puts out in t

it came in a federal grand jury indictment of 13 russians and three russian companies. according to the mueller indictment, at defendants' operations included supporting the presidential campaign of then candidate donald j. trump and disparaging hillary clinton. among the charges, conspiracy to defraud the united states, the indictment provides a comprehensive blueprint of that conspiracy, detailing exactly how the russians conducted information warfare against this country starting back in 2014. those methods were described today by the justice department official who oversees the special counsel's probe. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> the defendants allegedly kunged what they called information warfare against the united states. they used stolen or fictitious american identities, fraudulent bank accounts and false identification documents. the defendants posed as politically and socially active americans. advocating for and against particular candidates. they established social media pages and groups to communicate with unwitting americans. the russians al

russians were behind it all. creating content designed to pit americans against one another. >> do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> now capitol hill wants answers. >> the political ad was paid for by rubles. isn't that red flag? how could that happen? >> almost all of the propaganda found so far traces back to the internet research agency. investigators say it was financed by a company owned by this man, a russian oligarch, a wealthy businessman and part of putin's inner circle. >> they hired people that had a quote ta working in 12 hour shifts. >> there was an entire english language department specifically designed to insert messages, social media posts in the united states. they were required to watch house of cards to better understand american politics. >> in two weeks' time you will be heading to the ballot box to decide what kind of country you want to live in. >> the idea was to mas ka raid themselves as americans. >> they understood that black lives matter ads sh

and who's not a russian by. you know i don't want to you know. i don't know this and he goes. yeah like. the problem is i was. going to do it for you. we also spoke to christian munch you're a lawyer political activist. candidate he believes that the move goes against one of america's quirks values freedom of speech form like twitter facebook or instagram these are forms where people have the ability of expressing their freedom of speech and their opinions i think that that's the point of these social media sites so if they begin to censor people just because they're coming under pressure then you know what's going to come next i think that this country has been characterized as always for the protection of freedom of speech regardless of what you think and as long as the message that you're portraying is not racially offensive or sexually offensive and you know other ways possible then you can not censor the opinion of a person simply because they go against you or simply because you disagree with them. on the

not well accepted by the russians. the russian liberals came to power, they did not feel defeated, they did not feel that they were going to be taught by somebody. somebody will define their interest. if you want to be a democratic nation that was in your interest. you have to do that. even if you at that time feel it distasteful. very quickly to hear them talking about the piece -- very quickly.s one of my lessons to putin and whoever is president of the don't use the is word partnership when you don't mean it. partnership, then the agenda has to be defined by both , what is happening in the 1990's -- that is what the russians complained about. the agenda of was defined by the united states. when the russians were willing to cooperate on that agenda, it was a very successful cooperation. on nato expansion. be careful with the word partnership. also be careful with very close personal association and building up this partnership as the only person. three russia as a country that is trying to become democratic. isn when

to conceal russian origins. when it was all over, according to the indictment, they took steps to erase their digital trail, one defendant writing in a september 2017 e-mail to a family member, can the we had a slight crisis here at work. the fbi busted our activity. not a joke. so i got preoccupied with covering tracks together with colleagues." further wrote, "i created all these pictures and posts. the americans believed that it was written by their people." now, the indictment today only concerns russian information operations. it does not even touch on the criminal theft of documents in the dnc or the clinton campaign or the question of potential collusion with the trump campaign which almost certainly means there are more shoes left to drop. the president of course, already declared victory today tweeting "russia started their anti-u.s. campaign in 2014 long before i announced i would run for president. the results of the election were not impacted. the trump campaign did nothing wrong, no collusion." whil

i don't go with the russians. >> that group was russian. >> i have nothing to do with the russians. >> apparently you did. >> no. >> reporter: even though the indictment says the russians organized the rally, ms. goldfarb says she never communicated with any russians, and no one at any of her events were anything but americans for trump. the russians pretending to be trump organizers also reached out to harry miller in boynton beach, florida, paying him to build a cage large enough to hold an actress depicting clinton in prison uniform. he did just that. appearing at rallies. friday, miller, who now lives in pennsylvania, tweeted, "this is the cage the russians paid for." by phone he says he learned about his unwitting involvement from the fbi. now believes it was russians who called him on the phone, paid him between $500 to $1,000 to build his cage. >> how could you be embarrassed? they had that beautiful website. very supportive of the candidate. there was nothing, nothing at all, to lend you to think that it's anything other than people trying to support a candidate. >> reporter:

and the russian twitter bots and the russian fake facebook groups and russian fake online personas designed to look american. and that were designed to make our discourse more toxic and extreme and polarizing than it already is. and frankly, they were designed to boost donald trump's chances in the election and to weaken hillary clinton. there's been -- you've been hearing this story. details of the story for the past year. because there's been a bunk ch really good journalism about the russian efforts in the past year. but that was just one prong of the three-prong attack. they attacked the russian system and targeted the public. against the other two prongs of that attack, they're breaking into the dnc, breaking into the voter rolls. who would have thought that the first part of this three-prong attack to actually result in real criminal charges against russians wouldn't be hacking into the democratic party. wouldn't be hacking into state voter rolls. it would be this third prong, the stuff they did to try to influence public opinion online. i at least would not have predicted if there we

did play a role on friday thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies were indicted for meddling in the presidential campaign quotes russia says there is no evidence to support that but the u.s. special counsel robert muller says an attempt was made to sway public opinion and to promote republican donald trump's campaign ahead of his democratic rival hillary clinton did it have an impact on the election result trump has tweeted it did not we'll find out what i guess think in a moment but first rose jordan with this report. the munich security conference often focuses on weapons of mass destruction regional war and the threat from rogue nations and groups but at this year's meeting the conflict is between russia and the us which is now and died thirteen russian citizens for allegedly interfering in the two thousand and sixteen presidential race the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov called the indictments irrelevant. so until we hear the facts everything else is just blather the indictment says otherwise the defendants allegedly were promoting donald trump's candidacy and unde

>> those were legitimate. >> those were russians. >> they were not russians. i don't go with the russians. come on give me a break. >> i have nothing with the russians. >> apparently you did. >> no. >> even though the indictment says the russians organized the rally, ms. goldfarb says she never communicated with any russians and no one at any of her events were anything about americans for trump. the russians pretending to be trump organizers reached out to this man in florida, paying him to build a cage holding a an actress depicting clinton in prison uniform. miller tweeted this is the cage the russians paid for. by phone he says he learned about his unwitting involvement from the fbi. and now believes it was russians who called him on the phone, paid in between $500, to $1,000 to build the cage. >> they have the beautiful website, very supportive of the candidate. there was nothing -- nothing at all to lend to you think that it's anything other than people trying to support a candidate. >> the russians weren't just recruiting unwitting trump supporters. as

or with russian, to try to end the russian sanctions exactly what chip is accusing trump of wanting to do. >> it really is the theater of the observed. i think the american people are quite frankly getting tired of it. it's more than a year, they haven't been able to come up with any solid piece of evidence. there are still five open investigations, you've got senate intel, senate judiciary, house judiciary, house intel, the inspector general, and i really think the biggest event, if you will, in terms of releasing of documents and the perspective will be that inspector general report which i think would happen in the next 60 days. >> i have to ask you about the whole issues were guarding florida and there is an fbi issue, they did drop the ball, they did admit that they dropped the ball, and there are questions now as to whether all of their energy spent investigating russia detracted from their focus, what you think? >> you think first of all we should blame the shooter as the number one issue. it is disgusting and disappointing that the fbi didn't follow through not on one but tw

russian flag absent from pyong chan will fly again. in total the band lost in less than three months but the i.o.c. has moved on surprisingly welcomed by russians and in fact committee. none the less than yours to assure that issue today's decision of the i.o.c. is one of the most important for us because the russian olympic committee is once again completely reinstated in its rights and is now a completely full fledged member of the olympic family. the speech before it was revelations from this man gregory rowe chen calls that it helped lead to the ban the former moscow director of the whistle on a state backed plot to cheat doping tests at the twenty fourteen sochi games as a result clean athletes from russia were only allowed to take part in chang under the olympic flag the red white and blue kept family out of sight. and of those two of them including alexander crucial the failed drug tests while in south korea the i.o.c. agreed on sunday to lift the ban if no of the athletes tested positive didn't and russia's reinstatement was co

. >> rod rosenstein has announced charges have been filed against 13 russian nationals and three russian companies for interfering with u.s. political system including the 2016 presidential election. this is ten minutes. >> it afternoon. the grand jury in the district of columbia returned an indictment presented by the special counsel's office. charges 13 russian nationals and three russian companies for committing federal crimes will seek interfere in the united states political system, including the 2016 presidential election. they conducted information warfare against the united states. with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general. according to the allegations, 12 of the defendants worked at various times for company called internet research agency, llc. it's based in st. petersburg. the other defendant funded the conspiracy through companies known as concorde management inc. consulting llc, concord catering and others. the conspiracy was part of a larger operation called project lock dog. it included components, some involving

russian system because it's no secret that. many components of influence power economy capacity russia is much weaker than the united states but it can be compensated by by some. what i'm asking you about is the propensity of the of russia to produce these ad hoc actions what you're saying is that as the russian state sometimes outsourcing is that but i think also what many foreigners don't understand is this call which the russian system allows for personal and sometimes even eleven and malevolent initiative yeah absolutely that's what i wanted to say that sometimes it is the case that. the state is using it but in many other cases this is a strange mixture of private initiative commercial initiative sometimes there are people with some political use. they they do it the maybe believe the russian state but it's not a developmental answer to see that the russian state the kremlin may cheer upon without actually the kremlin for asking the kremlin first absolutely and to believe that mr putin. controls. with what is happening in

second goal for russian athletes at the winter olympics. finals but i.o.c. chiefs tell the full olympic squad they won't be allowed to march under the national flag at the closing ceremony in a couple of hours from now. the u.n. security council calls for a thirty day ceasefire in syria to allow for urgent humanitarian assistance to reach civilians in the hardest hit parts of the country. plus among the big stories covered here this past week germany's leading tabloid published. undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only to realize it was a hoax. my parents told me. now i cannot my father disprove. the stories of people who suffered japan's post world war two sterilization program following the discovery of the shocking procedures they were subjected to. look at the past seven days biggest stories as reported right here and also today's developments as well and what a way to round off the olympics first off russia's athletes have won the second gold medal at the winter olympics in south korea a couple of hours ago the men's ice ho

the campaign, the russians. everything shifted to the next chapter, delegitimize the american presidency which is of course also playing into the hands of the russians. the media then became a pawn in this russian chess. >> juan: emails that were being covered were hillary's emails. >> greg: i was at the table, juan, saying we had a responsibility not to cover these. >> juan: but today you are saying the press was a pawn and i am thinking the press, especially "the new york times," they were all over hillary clinton on the basis of the russian -- >> greg: jesse is falling asleep. >> jesse: the american media got duped and they unwittingly keyword colluded with the russians. you know who wittingly colluded? hillary. you know who else, adam schiff. to put this in perspective, this rally had tens of thousands of people. this was an anti-trump sponsor rally by the russians. the others sponsored russian rallies, dozens showed up. this was the biggest thing they did and it was anti-trump. >> greg: school shooting surv

the closing ceremony of the winter games in south korea but it better news in the past few minutes russian athletes have managed to secure a second gold in the men's ice hockey final. also this hour the u.n. security council calls for a thirty day ceasefire in syria to allow for urgent humanitarian assistance to reach civilians in the hardest hit parts of the country. was among the big stories covered here this past week germany's leading tabloid publishes what it's thought was undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only to realise that it was a hoax and. my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have babies my father is forced to sign documents by my teacher and welfare of this is r.t. here's the stories of people who suffered under japan's supposed world war two sterilization program following the discovery of records detail in the shocking procedures that they were subject. with you would ask the h.q. in moscow sunday was just turned ten am and it's just turned four pm in south korea as well in the past a few minutes russia's athletes have jus

or any russian did russian nationals or people who speak russian or people in the russian government but there was no evidence that any of this affected the election whatsoever isn't that fascinating and if it didn't affect the election what's the point of this thing stay with us here on on to international latest news headlines coming up and i just have a half an hour's time so you know. when you don't. see the teacher that is why to get a court to do. what they need not through only ten space. let alone. said. time to know that it is best to let a. few speak french. let . them send them to new. busy cut down troops to take. away your policies and as a way to practice is the precious oppressive measures being deployed against the palestinian people everywhere the said letter colonialism the theft of land and the many many. you know there's a stating things that the army does of doing of course the gun calls the. uprising . and is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos i'm in built it was dismissive to do it living for you if you belie

that i was somehow working for russia part of the russian bots that were. sending out negative information during the election so well for some time now twitter has been helping the u.s. government catch these magical russian bots who somehow manage to sway elections and they've detected a massive number of them let's look back at a project veritas investigation for an idea on how they judge who's a russian and who's not a rush right. you know i don't want to you know. i don't know this and he goes. yeah like. the problem is i was. going to do it for you. when we spoke with christian munch a lawyer political activist congressional candidate he believes that the move goes against one of america's core values freedom of speech form like twitter facebook or instagram these are forms where people have the ability of expressing their freedom of speech and their opinions i think that that's the point of these social media sites so if they begin to censor people just because they're coming under pressure then you know what's going to come next i think that this co

she's been looking into the role of russian bots, russian trolls as well. specifically focused on what we've seen in the aftermath of the shooting in florida. this carries over from that as well. we heard tom winter just a moment ago describing the hash tags that were used. the groups that were invoked on twitter, on social media. help us understand how all of this works, jo. the way these bots are able to be as insidious as they have been. >> david, we've been covering the i.r.a. and its actions in the lead-up to the election for two years now. what we're seeing is very much the details of how exactly they carried this out. what you need to know, starting on page 14 of this indictment, some of the most interesting details of how they carried this out. they employed a day shift and a night shift. and instructed these 13 individuals and their associates to make posts in accordance with the appropriate u.s. time zone. so this wasn't just targeted by hash tag or region. we're also talking about time of day when people are on their phones scrolling through twit

the indictment charges 13 russian nationals and three russian companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the united states's political system including the 2016 presidential election. the defendants allegedly conduct what had they call information warfare against the united states. with the state goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general. caller: this is an example of what they were talking about all along that the main problem in merica is mostly race. as long as we got these racial problems in this country, we're always going to have people melding in our elections. it's a disgrace that we've been born these many years. i remember when i was in the first resurrection of the consciousness of black people and i remember the hardest thing for us to do would be to convince other people from across the water when i come back from vietnams the hard ething for us to do would be to convince international people -- this was when malcolm and martin was trying to do. now with facebook and social media, let me tell you somet

(hype russian music) - [gfoeller] russians view them as countrymen. they don't really believe in the dissolution of the soviet union. certainly... (laughs) ethnic balks in the baltic states don't see it that way. (ominous music) - [narrator] in 2008, war broke out between russia and georgia. that five day war foreshadowed russia's annexation of crimea in 2014. - [nikolayenko] putin decided to take action and stop georgia's close cooperation with nato and the european union. so they decided to advance and create turmoil in the former soviet republic. - the west was basically looking at its shoes as he conducted this invasion, and he mistakenly assumed that he could do the same thing in eastern ukraine. and there he was surprised by ukrainian resistance. - [narrator] in another proxy war, russian troops and syria are defending president bashar al-assad. (explosion) - we had over the decades thousands of jihadists from the broader middle east including syria fighting in chechnya against russia. so for russia, the outcome of the syrian civil war is as muc

chang twenty ting if you ask i guess most of the russian athletes would they rather see russian national flags at the closing ceremony or would they want to have their national men's ice hockey team win the first gold in twenty six years i guess most would still choose the second option and that is exactly what happened inside the canning ice arena the russians won four two three against germany it was really a gripping final and i'll tell you what the olympic athlete sorry the olympic anthem was played instead of the russian anthem but guess what the winners and the fans were singing instead that is the russian national anthem that was really something worth watching as the different music was playing but these people were clearly screaming something else something else out there this was o.e. ours second gold at these games the first one was won by the fifteen year old figure skater alina and i can tell you what these winter games were really somewhat winter games of hope for the russians because some of the top experienced more older athletes had to sit out at home but still despite t

it's in american interests to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive . welcome across the uk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real news. you can argue before going to the break you want to finish up but we have i mean seriously in syria this is the whole situation is escalating so quickly we've had at least one israeli jet shot down write it most recent hours we've had israeli syrian pro syrian government arab tribes in east syria attacked by the united states and over one hundred of them killed there's rumors about whether russian security contractors were killed as well that's that's unconfirmed as of yet we had . one or possibly two turkish helicopter shot down over africa. by kurdish forces that are resisting the turkish invasion of syria there and we have a russian fighter that w

full of the russians and syrians up five russians killed this is what the russian foreign labor contractors concept here is going to see if the united states doesn't use a cave to me blackwater and the contractors so that western media try to make out to be a huge revelation like something that didn't. wants to hide if anyone is going to read it army or something like that things like that alex you know one of the things is that you know one we keep tabs on in this program is what's going on in ukraine and unfortunately i think we're going to be talking a lot about ukraine you're. looking at syria looking at ukraine it in its totality it looks like american policy is use pure spite you know it's they their regime change in and ukraine getting work out the way they want it because they lost crimea or they have a frozen conflict against warm every once in a while when even the heart and then we have syria where they lost again it's ok and you have been ok i mean. me i would call that mature foreign policy because i think that it is in america's best interests it's its foreign policy but i thi

who helped the russians do that? >> jeremy, there are so many critics waiting to bounce on every word alleged and spoken in this case. why a 37-page indictment ounce every word alleged and spoken in this case. why a 37-page indictmenpounce o every word alleged and spoken in this case. why a 37-page indictment today -- mueller, of course, knows what's coming and we don't -- that names russians with difficult to pronounce names who will probably, let's be honest, never see the interior of a u.s. courtroom? >> well, that means exactly, brian, that those individuals may not be brought to justice, i think you're right about that. but it does show that bob mueller is focused clearly on the legal elements of conspiracy to violate federal election law and foreign agent registration law. if you read the 37-page indictment, there are a couple paragraphs in there that struck me. he lays out the standard for the violations of the law, and then what i think we'll see him turn to next is which individuals inside the trump organiza

did play a role on friday thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies were indicted for meddling in the presidential campaign quotes russia says there is no evidence to support that but the u.s. special counsel robert muller says an attempt was made to sway public opinion and to promote republican donald trump's campaign ahead of his democratic rival hillary clinton did it have an impact on the election result trump has tweeted it did not we'll find out what i guess think in a moment but first rose jordan with this report. the munich security conference often focuses on weapons of mass destruction regional war and the threat from rogue nations and groups but at this year's meeting the conflict is between russia and the us which has now and died thirteen russian citizens for allegedly interfering in the two thousand and sixteen presidential race the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov called the indictments irrelevant. so until we hear the facts everything else is just the indictment says otherwise the defendants allegedly were promoting donald trump's candidacy and undermining

take a look. >> there has been no collusion between the trump campaign and russians or trump and russians. no collusion. but bottom line, they also there is no collusion. there is no collusion.e there was absolutely no collusion. everybody knows it.us >> let's put it this way. there is absolutely no collusion. that has been proven. there is absolutely no collusion. i didn't make a phone call to russia.. i have nothing to do with russia. everybody knows that. what has been shown is no collusion. no collusion. there is beenn absolutely -- there's been absolutely no collusion. >> sean: s the president also tweeted this weekend... then he added... think about it. the president is right. for over a year, russia has in fact been laughing at us. democrats, the media have been playing right into putin's hands by creating chaos and political discord, just what they wanted. frankly it's working better than russia could have dreamed of. that is what this russian effort was about, causing chaos, political unrest in this country. the "washington examiner"'s byron york will join us later tonight. he is

>> the russians? i don't care if they were involved or not, that to me is the least important thing. >> but they were involved with you. did you guys know that? >> they weren't involved with us, just make sure you report it correctly, that you know -- >> you guys were involved with being patriotic, right? >> very patriotic. >> being patriotic helped organize these activities that you posted on your own facebook account. >> those were legitimate. >> those were russians. >> they were not russians. i don't go with the russians. come on, give -- >> that group was russian. >> i have nothing to do with the russians. >> well apparently you did. >> no. >> reporter: even though the indictment says the russians organized the rally, ms. goldfarb said she never communicated with any russians and no one at her events were anything about americans for trump. the russians pretending to be trump organizers also reached out to harry miller in boynton beach paying him to build a page. he did just that. appearing at ral

three russian companies. there is no evidence of change to the outcome in terms of the number tally or any explicit argument that the outcome was changed. as you heard john podesta say, if you are influenced of the election, it is unnotable if that affected the outcome. that goes right at the heart of what the president coiled at. he also talks about on twitter very sad that the fbi missed all the signals sent out by the florida's school shooter. this is not acceptable. they are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion, there is no collusion, get back to the basics and make us all proud. it is probably always notable when it is the president to do it in the subject matter of this tragedy and raising the issue of why he's conflating of everybody suffering here in florida. at the same time sort of expected because he's willing to criticize even parts of his own government and we have seen this play out again and again. he has found some things in this particular indictment that sort of worked to

chief robert mueller who's investigating that claim last week indicted thirteen russians and three russian organizations but did the campaign participate in the election meddling and should the u.s. really be lecturing russia on undermining foreign elections given how many governments the cia has undermined and even toppled this week's headline from critic former top spy and twenty eight year veteran of the cia and its clandestine service john cypher. john thanks for joining me on up front the latest indictments from the special counsel's investigation into the twenty sixteen presidential election in the u.s. accuses russian nationals and organizations of having allegedly meddled in the election are you of the view as many people seem to be in the u.s. these days that the trump campaign colluded with russia and was involved in that meddling were interesting my view is this this indictment sets a foundation upon which the legal community the justice department and the and the more investigation will then look for coconspirators. that were tied with this. you know the the russians when they

to conceal russian origins. when it was over, they took steps to erase their digital trail, one defendant writing in an e-mail to a family member, we had a slight crisis here at work. the fbi busted our activity. not a joke. so i got preoccupied with covering tracks together with the colleagues. further wrote, i created all these pictures and posts. the americans believed it was written by their people. now, the indictment today only concerns russian information operations. it does not even touch on the criminal theft of documents from the dnc or the clinton campaign or the question of potential collusion with the trump campaign which almost certainly means there are more shoes left to drop. the president of course, already declared victory today tweeting russia started their anti-u.s. campaign in 2014 long of i announced i would run for president. the results of the election were not impacted. the trump campaign did nothing wrong, no collusion. mueller makes no determination whether the russian efforts affected

the russians backed trump to help trump. and the russians backed sanders at the convention to hurt clinton. in other words, to help trump. the campaign behavior is also different. sanders' staff not accused of meeting with russians to get opo, and bernie sanders didn't respond to any of this news by brazenly acting putin for helping hack his opponent's e-mails. when it came to her state department e-mails, sanders even agreed that was a distraction. >> the american people are sick and tires of hearing about your damn e-mails. >> so, let me state clearly, there is no equivalence there. period. but it is worth pressing. both the candidates that russia boosted in this operation, and it is worth questioning how all of us are going to deal with this ongoing weaponized information. i think it's a mistake to view this dilemma only through a partisan lens, as settling scores from an old primary or as a distraction from the larger issue of donald trump's current russia relationship. when north korea attacks sony over that film "the i

'cause just listen to how he trolled the u.s. - [speaking russian] - [speaking russian] [laughter] - yeah. trump is an open person. that's exactly what we're worried about. remember the last time he spoke to the russians? he accidentally spilled israeli state secrets. that's what he does. like, right now, the best we can hope for is that trump is so full of bs that he's too unreliable to be spied on, you know? because we know he'll say anything to make himself look cool. you know, putin will be like, so, donald, how many nuclear submarines do you have now? and trump will be like, let me tell you, vlad, we have literally millions of submarines. no, no, donald. no. no, donald, no. that can't be right number. i've heard we might have a submarine under this very dinner party right now. unbelievable. i'm starting to miss hillary, oh, my god, this-- [traditional russian music] for more on the russian effort to influence american discourse, we're joined now by our senior american correspondent, michael kosta, everybody. [cheers and applause] michael-- michael, as an american, are you worrie

attack played out and of the russians buying online ads to influence the election and the russian twitter bots and facebook groups and persona designed to look american and polarizing as it is and frankly, they were designed to most -- boost donald trump's chances in the election and to weaken hillary clinton. there has been -- you've been hearing this story for the past year because there is a bunch of really good journalism about those russian efforts in the past year. but that was just one prong of the three-prong attack. they attacked the election system and targeted the public. against the other two prongs of that attack they are breaking into the dnc, breaking into the voter rolls. you know, who would have thought the first part of this three-prong attack to result in real criminal charges against russians wouldn't be hacking into the democratic party, wouldn't be hacking into state rolls, it would be this third prong, the stuff they did to try to influence public opinion online. i, at least, would not have predicted if there were going to be russian criminal charges here. criminal

that's in american interest to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive. in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's long debt. studying so hard it requires. going through humiliation to enter an elite society. and parching to dance sometimes quite literally. want other true colors of universities in the us. i think. i am. i. in the stories that shaped the week just gone with twenty eight hundred winter games kicked off in south korea russia. just hours before the opening ceremony as their appeals against a doping related ban were rejected. airstrikes by the us led coalition hit syrian pro-government forces reportedly killing nearly one hundred people the pentagon claims it was carried out to defend an american backed group. and british m.p.'s jet out to washington to haul the biggest social media firms over th

and who's not a russian. you know i want to. i. was . like. the problem is the fault of the. outdoors is that you of course. let's delve a little bit deeper into the issue no with mike riley coeditor of b s news mike you're always welcome to the program could have you there has been no official statement from twitter but from this from perhaps what you've seen in the past do you believe there is something going on here are they adopting a blanket ban on specific content. no i really doubt it the reason being is because the twitter has maybe three hundred three hundred thirty million active users and only three and a half thousand members of staff so it's really unlikely that those members of staff are going to go through possibly one hundred thousand twitter accounts and determine whether they are right wing or conservative accounts or whether they're bots or not so this is all being done by an algorithm and all of us see these things aren't perfect but it's reasonably straightforward certainly for human bein

2016 election is showing some of his cards tonight. 13 russian nationals and three russian companies have been charged in an elaborate plot through social media and the internet to damage the american political system. the indictment says some of that activity was assisted -- aimed at assisting the trump presidential campaign. however, the president is once again declaring that the finding shows there was no collusion between his campaign and the russians. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is at the justice department tonight with details. good evening, catherine. >> well, thank you, mike. the news conference here at main justice was called with just 45 minutes notice. the indictment is powerful new evidence of a russian plot but does not name any american co-conspirators. >> the defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare against the united states. >> with direct oversight of the russia special counsel probe rod rosenstein said 13 russian nationals and three russian organizations were charged with, quote: conspiracy to defraud the united sta

attack played out and the russians buying online ads to influence the election and the russian twitter bots and facebook groups and persona designed to look american and polarizing as it is and frankly, they were designed to most donald trump's chances in the election and to weaken hillary clinton. there has been -- you've been hearing this story for the past year because there is a bunch of really good journalism about those russian efforts in the past year. but that was just one pong of the three-prong attack. they attacked the election system and targeted the public. against the other two prongs of that attack they are breaking into the dnc, breaking into the voter roles. you know, who would have thought the first part of this three-prong attack to result in real criminal charges against russians wouldn't be hacking into the democratic party, wouldn't be hacking into state voter roles, it would be this third prong, the stuff they did to try to influence public opinion online. i at least would not have predicted if there were going to be russian criminal charges here. criminal charge

and who's not a russian by. you know i don't want to you know. i don't know this and he goes. yeah like. the problem is. that you're a christian man chair a lawyer and political activist believes that the move goes against a free speech form like twitter facebook or instagram these are forms where people have the ability of expressing their freedom of speech and their opinions i think that that's the point of these social media sites so if they begin to censor people just because they're coming under pressure then you know what's going to come next i think that this country has been characterized as always for the protection of freedom of speech regardless of what you think and as long as the message that you're portraying is not racially offensive or sexually offensive and you know other ways possible then you can not censor the opinion of a person simply because they go against you or simply because you disagree with them staying with them meddling accusations in new york times article has listed the many case

of 13 russians and three russian companies for interfering in the 2016 u.s. election. one of the russians indicted last week by the justice department, russian billionaire yevgeny prigozhin, who owns the internet research agency, the russian troll farm that was involved in the russian election meddling, his nickname is reportedly putin's cook. he is also believed to control the russian mercenaries who attacked u.s. troops and their allies in syria this month. i asked masha to talk more about him. the russian state in the russian government is a mafia state comes so the easiest way to think about it is it is a klan with the patriarch in the middle who nominally owns what does not make a whole lot of difference because -- so they created this troll farm. someone -- it had to be a private company. someone has to nominally own it. there's very little doubt it is getting funding from the kremlin. so it is in fact the klan. we do know a fair not about how that company functioned. again, there is been great russian reporting on what they were doing. a lot of that re

what is a russian for a german who was the one and only russian goalkeeper fool the golden ball or if. you feel you know him you know i can feel you know. i don't know. i think yeah when did the u.s.s.r. from the national team win the euro nations cup it was like the biggest victory in the history of fresh a national team. that's. how many times the german national team became the world champions. for. forty years it's over in germany east best known for. his mentality is unique as is his life story and football is in his father was a footballer times and the family moved around a lot until it landed in germany as a result ramond speaks german russian english french and understand spanish and turkish. twice for germany but eventually opted to represent russia and now he's the most multicultural player in the. my whole life. i think. i know where my roots are i know where i'm from and i'm half german of russian no matter where i was told him i was talking about almost always saying this and that i'm both so but there was never a possibility like to get a russian passport or something a

that's in american interests to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive . a. clone of welcome to worlds apart for decades russians have both laughed and despair that the inadequacies of their system while also struggling to accept this same kind of criticism from foreign theirs and when russia decided to hold a mirror to their west own imperfections including by setting up this child it turned out that western tolerance to criticism is even more why is it so difficult to communicate pointing out what's wrong with one another well to discuss that i'm now joined by tony cab and a former diplomat and the author of a book called return to moscow well mr cavanaugh it's great to have you in the studio thank you very much for your time and happiest charlie a day thank you very much. now when you say australia in the russian context it conjure

in the russian city of course where the ill fated plane should have landed distraught relatives are grieving the loss of their. broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow recapping week's top stories with a weekly program this is r t international but we start with some tragic news from russia a plane with sixty five passengers and six crew members onboard has crashed outside moscow shortly after takeoff leaving no survivors. we haven't seen him for three months he was working. we want. wasn't where it. was a way to help nephew dislikes or a memory of one to see those so sorry for the daughters it's terribly sad. yes and mind what i'm trying not to my sound as if i didn't. always wanted to be a pilot he loved everything related to flying he was in love with the sky. these are the first images of the crash site that emerged online after the tragedy the footage was apparently shot by locals the plane came down near a village about sixty kilometers southeast of moscow the plane was heading to or skate city close to the russian border with kazakhstan it took off from airport in the russian

a second gold for russian athletes at the winter olympics in a nailbiting men's ice hockey final. be allowed to march. of the closing ceremony at hour from now. the u.n. security council calls for a thirty day ceasefire in syria to allow for urgent humanitarian assistance to civilians in the hardest hit parts of the country. plus among the big stories this past week germany's leading tabloid publishes what it thought was undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only to realize later that it was a hoax. my parents told me don't now i cannot my father does. and he says he is the stories of people who suffered post to sterilization program following the discovery of the shocking procedures that they were subjected to. this is the weekly from bringing you the biggest stories of the past seven days but also first bringing you up to date on today's developments as well first off russia's athletes second gold medal at the winter olympics in south korea a couple of hours ago the men's ice hockey team competing under a neutral banner because of the russian doping s

russian planes. till about a decade ago were problematic thinking about the top of one five falls the top of one of three falls they've largely been phased out now certainly don't see many of them in europe there are many. russian carriers using them now for one as well as being a bit unreliable towards the end they burned a lot of fuel so most of the russian companies now the internal companies they use airburst they use boeing's they use them as this one slightly different is it the russian plane or cranium plane in a n one four eight. it's expose. it is pretty it was up until a few years ago it's produced in the ukraine and also in russia. and then. so it doesn't stop producing things last year. it's not fifty in-service most more in russia anymore they say anything new design yeah it is it is a new design it's you know and then of claim is it comes off. on how modern it is to the western counterparts it is fly by wire aircraft just at the end was this but again we discussed also one of the types

did play a role on friday thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies were indicted for meddling in the presidential campaign quotes russia says there is no evidence to support that but the u.s. special counsel robert muller says an attempt was made to sway public opinion and to promote republican donald trump's campaign ahead of his democratic rival hillary clinton did it have an impact on the election result trump has tweeted it did not we'll find out what i guests think in a moment but first rose jordan with this report. the munich security conference often focuses on weapons of mass destruction regional war and the threat from road nations and groups but at this year's meeting the conflict is between russia and the us which is now and died thirteen russian citizens for allegedly interfering in the two thousand and sixteen presidential race the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov called the indictments irrelevant. so until we hear the facts everything else is just blather the indictment says otherwise the defendants allegedly were promoting donald trump's candidacy and unde