Cyberwar - How Russian Hackers & Trolls Helped Elect a President

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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When Special Counsel Robert Mueller spoke after his nearly two year investigation, he mentioned the Russia attack on our electoral system to start and end his remarks. Katie and Joe sit down with Professor Kathleen Hall Jamison author of Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President Professor Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, the Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, and Program Director of the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands. Professor Jamieson details exactly how and why the Russians cyberwar tipped the election in favor of Donald Trump. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Not letting an unexpected period or a bit of pay dampen your day, that's life-changing.
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0:18.4	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:27.4	Welcome to Words Matter. I'm Katie Barlow.
0:30.8	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:34.0	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:40.2	Words have power and words have consequences.
0:46.2	So Joe, after more than two years we finally get to hear the voice of special counsel Robert
0:52.8	Muller.
0:53.8	You know, White House press secretaries are trained not to answer hypothetical questions,
0:57.8	but since you have achieved former status, I'll ask, how different would the landscape
1:03.6	be, or have been, if Muller had given that exact same statement on March 22nd, the day
1:09.6	he submitted his 448 page report rather than on May 29th?
1:14.4	I'm up two minds on this, and I think I'm going to come down to it is less important
1:18.9	than everybody thinks it is for this reason.
1:22.2	I think the Trump base would have gotten to where they are anyway.
1:28.2	And while I think Democrats were very frustrated with what the Attorney General did and what
1:34.1	he perpetrated on the American public, I think everyone is going to get to the same place
1:39.5	at the end.
1:40.8	This is a contrarian point of view, but I actually think, and we talked about this a couple
1:46.2	weeks ago, that this may hurt Trump's position because it brings more mystery to it.
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