From New York Times on Michael Barbarrow, this is The Daily.

Today, the Special Council's charges against 13 Russians reveal a sophisticated plot

to turn Americans against one another and deepen the country's divisions.

The president's reaction to those charges shows that that plot is still working.

It's Monday, February 19.

Good afternoon.

A grand jury in the District of Columbia today returned an indictment presented by the Special Council's office.

The indictment charges 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for committing federal crimes

while seeking to interfere in the United States political system, including the 2016 presidential election.

The defendants allegedly conducted what they called 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 of the indictment.

Matt, we're both looking at an ad that was posted on Facebook and it's literally a picture of

Satan and Jesus arm-rustling and they're staring each other down ferociously

and Satan is saying, if I win, Clinton wins and Jesus is saying not if I can help it.

And this ad then encourages, whoever looking at it, to quote, press like to help Jesus win.

So what are we looking at?

We were looking at this really bizarre, kind of like Marvel universe twisted cartoon.

I mean, who come on?

If you have to choose, are you going to root for Satan or are you going to root for Jesus and the arm wrestling match?

Matt Apuzzo covers national security for the times.

And what we're also looking at is a piece of Russian propaganda purchased by Russian operatives to try to tip the 2016 election.

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