>>> YOU’RE WATCHING MSNBC. >>> BOB MUELLER’S DEPARTING
REMARKS ON THE RUSSIA PROBE
AGREE NOT ONLY TO THE
IMPEACHMENT DEBATE, BUT WE WANTS
TO MAKE SOMETHING CLEAR, A
WARNING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN
THE ELECTION AND WHAT COULD
HAPPEN AGAIN.
HAPPEN AGAIN. >> RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS
WHO WERE PART OF THE RUSSIAN
MILITARY LAUNCHED A CONCERTED
ATTACK ON OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM.
THE RELEASES WERE DESIGNED AND
TIMED TO INTERFERE WITH OUR
ELECTION AND TO DAMAGE A
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. >> EXPERTS WARNING TRUMP’S
ADMINISTRATION NOT DOING ENOUGH
TO PREPARE FOR THIS IN THE NEXT
ELECTION.
ELECTION. TRUMP’S OWN CHIEF OF STAFF
WARNED THE HOMELAND SECURITY
CHIEF TO AVOID BRINGING UP
ELECTION INTERFERENCE BECAUSE IT
MIGHT ANGER THE PRESIDENT.
I’M JOINED BY THE FORMER U.S. AM
BAR DOS
BAR DOS -- AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA.
YOU MAY BE ONE OF THE MOST
VISIBLE FORMER UNITED STATES
AMBASSADORS TO RUSSIA BECAUSE OF
HOW CENTRAL THIS HAS BEEN, SIR.
SO BIG PICTURE, WHAT DID YOU SEE
AS IMPORTANT IN MUELLER’S
EMPHASIS IN PUTIN’S ACTIVITIES
DURING THAT PRESS CONFERENCE?
>> I’M GLAD HE REMINDED THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE OF THE FACT THAT
WE WERE ATTACKED BY VLADIMIR
PUTIN AND HIS AGENTS AND HIS
PROXIES AND HIS MILITARY
INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS.
INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS. I WOULD GO FURTHER TO SAY AND TO
REMIND YOUR VIEWERS THAT THE
MUELLER REPORT ONLY TALKED ABOUT
SOME ASPECTS OF WHAT THE
RUSSIANS DID BECAUSE HE WAS
FOCUSSED ON CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
BUT IN ADDITION TO STEALING DATA
FROM THE DNC, FROM JOHN PODESTA
AND PUSHBLISHING IT IN A WAY TO
HURT HILLARY CLINTON, THEY ALSO
HAD A BIG EFFORT WITH
DISINFORMATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
AND THEN ANOTHER PIECE THAT THE
MUELLER REPORT DIDN’T TALK ABOUT
IS THEY HAD CONVENTIONAL MEDIA.
RUSSIA TODAY, SPUTNIK ON YOUTUBE
AND OTHER PLATFORMS TRYING TO
INFLUENCE THE COURSE OF THIS
OUTCOME.
OUTCOME. THAT IS A BIG DEAL.
I’M GLAD HE REMINDED PEOPLE OF
IT.
IT. >> THIS SHOULD BE THE LEAST
POLITICAL AND PARTISAN OF ANY OF
THIS.
THIS. EVEN UNDERSTANDS THERE IS
POLITICS ON BOTH SIDES WHEN YOU
INVESTIGATE A PRESIDENT.
WE JUST SHOWED SOME OF THAT IN
THE SHOW.
THE SHOW. BUT THIS IS ABOUT A FOREIGN
ADVERSARY.
ADVERSARY. YET, EVEN HERE, THERE ARE
EXPERTS WHO SAY THAT MR. BARR
SEEMED TO DOWN PLAY THAT IN A
POLITICAL WAY AS COMPARED TO
MUELLER WHO WAS THE ONE DOING
THE FACT FINDING.
TAKE A LOOK.
>> THE CENTRAL ALLEGATION OF OUR
INDICTMENTS, THAT THERE WERE
MULTIPLE SYSTEMIC EFFORTS TO
INTERFERE IN OUR ELECTION AND
THAT ALLEGATION DESERVING THE
ATTENTION OF EVERY AMERICAN.
>> DURING CAMPAIGN, FOREIGN
GOVERNMENTS MAKE -- AND FOREIGN
CITIZENS FREQUENTLY MAKE A LOT
OF ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT DIFFERENT
CAMPAIGNS.
CAMPAIGNS. >> THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
OBVIOUSLY HAS A KEY NATIONAL
SECURITY ROLE AND NOW HAS NEW
CLASSIFICATION AUTHORITIES.
CLASSIFICATION AUTHORITIES. WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE WAY HE
PUT THRIT?IT THERE?
>> HE’S COMPLETELY DOWN PLAYING
WHAT HAPPENED.
WHAT HAPPENED. IT IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT
THING THAT HAPPENED.
AND BY BEING SO NONCHALANT ABOUT
IT, HE’S NOT IDENTIFYING THE
NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT.
I’M GLAD YOU MENTION THAT.
IT IS NOT A REPUBLICAN THREAT.
IT IS NOT A DEMOCRATIC THREAT.
IT’S A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT.
AND WHAT’S TROUBLING ABOUT IT IS
THAT WE HAVEN’T DONE MUCH TO
PROTECT US IN 2020.
AND I JUST WANT TO REMIND, YOU
KNOW, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND
EVERYBODY ELSE WHY ARE THEY
ASSUMING THAT THE NEXT FOREIGN
ADVERSARIES ARE GOING TO BE ON
THE SIDE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP?
WHAT ABOUT THE IRANIANS?
FACEBOOK JUST TOOK DOWN A BUNCH
OF STUFF THE IRANIANS DID.
DO WE THINK THEY WILL BE
WEIGHING IN IN FAVOR OF
PRESIDENT TRUMP?
PRESIDENT TRUMP? THIS IS A NATIONAL SECURITY
ISSUE.
ISSUE. WE HAVE TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT IT
BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTORAL CYCLE.
>> RIGHT.
>> RIGHT. AND HE’S HELD THE POST.
HE’S BEEN IN THE ROOM, THE FBI
DIRECTOR AND HIS ONE AND ONLY