Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

James Baker, the FBI's former lawyer joins me in 2016 he helped launch the investigation into Russian

attacks on the US election but Donald Trump says he was part of an attempted

coup against his presidency and in the run-up to Europe's parliamentary election this week,

is Russia behind the rise of fringe parties,

sewing discord and distrust.

I talk to the Pulitzer Prize Prize winning historian Anne Applebaum.

Plus, it was a tragic day in the New York Times Newsroom when media journalist David Carr collapsed and died in 2015. Now his daughter Erin Lee Carr

shares her story of love, loss and addiction. Thank you. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour in London. In the run up to

major elections here in Europe and the United States, it's clear that Russia's

assault on Western democracy continues.

In a moment we'll look at this week's European parliamentary elections, where Russia's

disinformation campaign echoes the techniques it used in America in 2016. But first we take an

inside look back at the FBI's actions then. As the Bureau was rocked by the very

first evidence of what the Mueller report ultimately called

Russia's sweeping and systemic interference on behalf of Donald Trump.

At that time, James Baker was General Counsel of the FBI and a close associate of its then

director James Komi. He says it would have been a dereliction of duty not

to investigate Russia's incursions into the campaign.

Now Baker though is the target of attacks by President Trump

who's accusing him of trying to overthrow his administration from within.

James Baker left the FBI in 2018. He now lectures at the Harvard Law School

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